Please feel free to grab these character sheets and do whatever you like with them (well, except make money). Because these automatic fields default to “0” even when the sheet is blank if you want a purely clean version of the sheet for printing out and filling in by hand, use the version without autocalc The autocalculation on this sheet is limited to automatic fill-in of Idea, Know, Luck and 99-Cthulhu Mythos. two-sided fillable Art Deco character sheet for A4 paper, with no autocalculation.two-sided fillable Art Deco character sheet for A4 paper, with some autocalculation of fields.I revisted the Art Deco character sheet a couple of times later in 2011, mainly just to create a “fillable” version (i.e., a PDF form you can fill in and save) and do a little cosmetic tidy-up. a version of the sheet with thinner borders for Letter paper (avoids cropping at top and bottom on US printers).two-sided Art Deco character sheet for Letter.two-sided Art Deco character sheet for A4 paper.I’ll leave it to you to decide whether these creations do the job of evoking the period.ĭetail of the Art Deco-ish “Call of Cthulhu” logo I designed for the sheetĭetail of the stained-glass window design that I used as the basis for the border design for the character sheet, traced from an original Art-Deco window design:Īnd, here’s the sheet itself, provided in two versions - one for folks who use US Letter sized paper, the other for those who use A4 paper. The two major pieces of “new” art on the sheet are the repeating border pattern - which is based on a design for an Art Deco stained glass window - and a new “Call of Cthulhu” logo that tries to be 1920s-ish in an Art Deco-y kind of way. In making this sheet, I ended up drawing several original drawings / designs, based on samples that I found in period art works (mainly because I couldn’t find the exact thing I wanted in a form I could easily pinch it).
So, here’s my attempt to create a character sheet that incorporates the unique Art Deco style. I’m hoping that’s sort of what most other people think of when they hear the term. But, in the end I decided to just pick the parts of the Art Deco style that appeal to me most … and that’s the more geometrical, pastel-oriented stuff. I looked at a lot of samples of art from this period by way of background research, and collected quite a number of example designs in many different Art Deco-ish styles. I’d have to say that I found it much harder than I initially thought to pin down exactly what defines the Art Deco look … it’s a term that is used to describe a lot of different types of art, architecture and design created in the 20’s and well into the 30’s. Well I thought to myself, who am I to stand in the way of the accumulated voices of the international community of Lovecraftian Roleplayers (well, actually the accumulated voices of the two people who posted on the forum they liked the idea)? So, I thought I’d give it a go. Obviously the predominant artistic movement of that time was Art Deco … so … would it be possible to build an Art-Deco themed sheet for 1920s Cthulhu? Wouldn’t it be cool, they opined, if someone made a similarly themed character sheet for the default (1920s) era of the game. Several folks over on the forums spotted this sheet, said that they liked it … but also put forward an intriguing suggestion. A little while ago I designed an Art Nouveau character sheet for 1890s Call of Cthulhu - you can see it a couple of posts back on this blog.