Four-Bit Characters (2021)

We created this play aid supplement for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu tabletop role playing game. It features 10 characters based on real historical figures, statted out and ready to use. It is available on DriveThru RPG (at a 20% discount) here. This first volume features

  • Sonia Greene Lovecraft – shopkeeper & writer, married to H.P. Lovecraft
  • Wilfrid Voynich – book dealer & linguist, owner of an occult cipher
  • Bashford Dean – museum curator & armorer, backed by the Metropolitan Museum
  • William “Pussyfoot” Johnson – federal agent & prohibitionist, not afraid of anything
  • Hiram Bingham III – professor & archeologist, popularized Machu Picchu tourism 
  • Mildred Mathias – researcher & botanist, working for the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Bessie Coleman – thrill-seeker & aviator, first African American woman pilot in the US 
  • Richard Halliburton – adventurer & best-selling author of his quests 
  • Ida Tarbell – investigative journalist & activist, prompted the break up of Standard Oil
  • Granville Woods – engineer & inventor, called “The Black Edison”

Each character is extensively researched, with bonus material included for each as well as two custom-designed, period-influenced character sheets for both print and digital use. Each has autocalculating features as well. Also in the volume is an essay on how the Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 can affect player characters plus blank sheets for your own characters.

Reviews

These are amazing, they have their own theme and look great! So happy I picked these up.
-Warren G, verified buyer
I had a great time exploring the characters in this supplement and it opened my eyes to new ways to add history to my Call of Cthulhu games.
-Leslie Horn (Xp Lovecat)