Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition by Roll20

Saul J. said: Found the problem: all of the pre-generated characters have malfunction of "00" on their weapons. Somewhere along the line, this changed so that the malfunction value should be "100". Obviously, any number rolled is going to be greater than "00" and so it always shows as a malfunction. This is in a purchased module called "None More Black" which is part of the "Doors to Darkness" series. The pre-generated characters should be updated so that the malfunction value for all of the weapons that have a value (pretty much all firearms) is changed to read "100" instead of "00". Thanks Saul! Chaosium usually handles the data in the compendium. I'm going to look into whether we can get a quick fix in-house or if we'll need to turn to them to get this sorted.

Saul J. said: Technically, what Chaosium did, and has in module for the pre-generated character is correct. The "00" is the nomenclature that Chaosium uses for 100. What changed is how Roll20 interprets it. Back when I last ran a Call of Cthulhu game, it was fine. But, somewhere in the year or two since then, Roll20 changed how it interprets that "00", probably because of conflict with other changes. So, now, instead of it being interpreted as 100, it's being interpreted as 0.  The items in the Compendium, use 100, not 00 so dropping say a revolver onto a sheet will work just fine (I hope). It's just in the pre-generated characters in a module that pre-dates whatever change Roll20 made that are incorrect. I was not able to find a point in the pdfs where "00" was used to mean "100". The listings in the Keeper's Rulebook and Investigator's handbook both say 100, and the pregen character you provided doesn't mention malfunctions at all in the book. I think this nomenclature was actually a requirement of the original implementation that wasn't converted when we updated malfunctions to be more accurate to the book. I'm making a ticket and this will be resolved with the next update (coming very soon)! Thanks again for the report ^-^

Hey Gang! In preparation for the upcoming release of Cthulhu by Gaslight,  the following changes were just pushed: Charactermancer Updated the Occupation slide of the Charactermancer to show more information about what Compendium expansion the occupation is coming from. Loosened the restrictions on filtering occupation duplicates in the Charactermancer to only filter out duplicates from the free basic rules Updated Skills in the Charactermancer to allow for the new skills, skill names, and base values from Cthulhu by Gaslight Added the ability to define which Setting you are making a character for. The only choices so far are 1920s/Modern or Gaslight Updated spending level and cash handling to match the era specified by Player choices in the Charactermancer (falling back to campaign/sheet settings) Simplified the backstory slide to allow for the prompts from Cthulhu by Gaslight (Gaslight/Custom Occupations only) Added the ability to specify your social class on the occupation slide Fixed some Secondary Characteristics not calculating when the Charactermancer finishes Resolved various occupations not properly registering their skills and skill points Fixed Compendium Page Preview on Skills and Backstory slides Sheet Fixed uncommon skills only showing on Pulp Cthulhu sheets Fixed older pregen characters' weapons so those that have a malfunction threshold of 100 properly say "Malfunction" only on results of 100 (this replaces values of "00" with "100" to match the books, but I also added handling so "00" would be treated as "100." If, for some reason, you really want a weapon to malfunction on every roll, you can still enter a simple "0.") Fixed Sanity Rolls not showing a success message Added the ability to note your character's Social Class, from Cthulhu by Gaslight Added new Cthulhu by Gaslight Skills Added Cthulhu by Gaslight Skill Base Values Added Skill Era Visibility for the following eras: Gaslight, 1920s, Modern, with a default of "Show All." For the time traveling investigators : changing Skill Eras will not hide skills which have a value that differs from the enabled Base Value Updated the settings tab to account for changes for Cthulhu by Gaslight Hidden skills now become visible when you change their value Updated Insanity threshold to calculate the actual threshold instead of the required loss. The old value can still be found at indef_insane_required_loss

Saul J. said: Great changes, Nora!! And, thank you for putting the era settings into the Settings tab so we can set defaults!!  One thing I noticed: the "Uncommon" skills: Animal Handling, Artillery, Demolitions, Diving, Hypnosis, and Read Lips are all 1920s skills but are greyed out when the sheet is set to 1920s era. And one Uncommon skill, that is also a 1920s skill that is still missing from the sheet is Lore, which should be treated like Science and Language - i.e. it is broken up into different sub-skills/areas of knowledge.  Can this please be fixed? Uncommon skills are invisible by default because they are uncommon! The clock just ticked past my end of day, but I'm going to make a note to look into the Lore issue first thing tomorrow.

Saul J. said: To have both the non-era skills and Uncommon skills greyed out in the same way makes it confusing. For example, Electronics is a non-1920s skill but it appears on the sheet greyed out. Or maybe that should move to the "Modern" setting where it belongs? That would resolve the issue too. (See p. 98 of the Investigator book showing that Electronics is a "Modern Era" skill). Thanks, again! I see! The rationale was to keep them available as an option to address use-cases 2 and 4 in your post here , but my (perhaps optimistic) expectation was that the GM would know which uncommon skills needed to be turned on for the characters they were working with. It won't be as simple as just marking the uncommon skills, since I believe at least a couple sourcebooks introduce other uncommon skills for their eras. I can't promise much beyond "I'll give it some thought" for now, but I just tested and confirmed a work-around that seems to address your use-case in the meantime:  If you have the era set to "Show All," then hit the "Toggle All..." button so that all the skills are showing, and finally set the   era  after  you do that, the uncommon skills that should apply remain visible. It's not perfect - I can imagine it might get a bit taxing if you're making more than a handful characters in one sitting - but it works. As for the Lore issue you raised; I've isolated the cause and I've made a ticket that I'll endeavour to get out the door ASAP.

Ralph said: Looks like there was a change made in the character sheet regarding how the value for the indefinite insanity threshold is calculated. Previously it used the current sanity value. I noticed yesterday, that now it takes the max sanity as a base. Anyone else encountered this? What Saul has outlined is correct. If you need the old value for macros for whatever reason, you can find that at  indef_insane_required_loss  

Kim said: This isn't really a character sheet issue or a compendium issue, but a module question: Are there plans to release "Masks of Nyarlathotep "  as a Roll20 VTT module? Chaosium handles their own module conversions. I've passed this question along to them via our partner relations team, but you should also feel free to ask them directly on social media or via their forums  to make sure your wishes are heard!