Has
this ever happened to you?
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"Heights and Weights!
Heights and Weights for my Dark Lord Arioch!!" |
Transitioning to a new edition of
any role playing game is tricky for longtime gamers. Usually new
editions of a game are made to try to make the game appeal to a
broader variety of players. Sometimes, to try to resell the same old
game to longtime players the publisher will incorporate some widely
used house rules and a set of tweaks and call this a new edition.
Coming from BASIC ROLE PLAYING as it did, the original edition of the
game staved rather closely to the BRP/RUNEQUEST 2nd Edition rules and the
five editions of CALL OF CTHULHU that followed it didn't make too
many changes from that. This is uncommon for most tabletop RPGs, and
it has been incredibly handy for CALL OF CTHULHU players for the past
35 years. The fact that someone can pick up a copy of any
supplemental material that has come out for CALL OF CTHULHU since its
inception - in fact ANY BRP-related material at all- and plug it into
their CoC campaign has helped a lot of us a great deal.
This
is one of those plugs, with some of the math done in advance for
those who might be able to use it.
I've
taken the height and weight charts associated with the SIZ attribute
from STORMBRINGER (Chaosium's original BRP game based on Micheal Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone) and adjusted it
accordingly for 7th edition CALL OF CTHULHU's percentage based
attribute stats. All a player or Keeper need do is find their SIZ
stat to the left and, after choosing on a body type for the
Investigator or NPC in question see what height or weight they'd be in both imperial measure and metric.
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