Oblivion :: Character Generator

Welcome to the Oblivion-themed character builder for Call of Cthulhu.

Avoid the characteristics, occupations and skills marked with 🔒 for your initial characters.

There are a few new characteristics you should consider:

Intuition. Like it says on the tin.

Your first characters in Oblivion are likely to have fairly high intuition levels, due to their involvement with the Obsidian Order having selected for it.

The campaign will probably ask you to roll for Intuition occasionally. This stat also caps your Spot Hidden and Psychology skills, while at the same time raising their minimum (to half of Intuition). You're welcome.
🔒 Psionics a/k/a psychic ability.

Star Trek has various races with natural psychic abilities, so unlike a normal Call of Cthulhu campaign, player characters can in theory have this trait. However, your first characters in Oblivion are almost surely Cardassian, who have no such abilities, and so you shouldn't mess with this value.

Functionally, Psionics caps skills of the Psionics type, like Telekinesis or Telepathy. These skills are always personal skills and you will need to add them manually. There will be no rolls for the Psionics characteristic itself, though.

A handful of new 'occupations' were added:

Archivist: A record-keeping character.

In the context of the Obsidian Order and the Oblivion campaigns in particular, an Archivist is a keeper of knowledge. Anyone choosing the Archivist role should be willing to regularly interface with the gamemaster outside of sessions and may get homework to read up on gamemaster-supplied materials before a session.
Biologist

Not a special role in Oblivion, just one that your gamemaster wanted as an explicit option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🔒 Elysian Engineer: Build thaumaturgical infrastructure.

A special kind of nerd that has specialised on extropic flows, astral flux, nexus statics, et cetera, with the express intent of building magical machinery or preparing functional rituals.

No one's first character will be this. Anyone choosing the Elysian Engineer role should be willing to regularly interface with the gamemaster outside of sessions and may get homework to read up on gamemaster-supplied materials before a session.
Karmic Ward: Specialise on runic guards.

An engineer/thaumaturge who has studied the basics of the runic wards that protect the party and might be able to extend such defences to friendly entities, or to their belongings.

As a player, you should be willing to pull a lot of bullshit out of your arse if you play a Karmic Ward; if you make something sound sufficiently convincing, the gamemaster will probably let you get away with it.
Linguist

Not a special role in Oblivion, just one that your gamemaster wanted as an explicit option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Prisoner: Meat shield.

A prisoner can fill a role much like D-class personnel in the SCP universe. You've almost surely been given the choice either of dying a horrible death now or making yourself useful on this scouting trip.
Scout

Straight-forward. Your first characters are likely to be scouts.
🔒 Thaumabiologist

A scientist/thaumaturge who specialises in the creatures that live well beyond normal baryonic perception, which might be attracted or repelled by runic wards, which may or may not be a threat to the player characters. Note that this knowledge will likely be generalist - a Thaumabiologist has not seen or catalogued these creatures, they only understand the forces that create, sustain and drive thaumic ecosystems.

No one's first character will be this. Anyone choosing the Thaumabiologist role should be willing to regularly interface with the gamemaster outside of sessions and may get homework to read up on gamemaster-supplied materials before a session.
🔒 Thaumaturge

Not a catch-all profession for thaumaturgical skills. Instead, a thaumaturge specialises on rituals. Honestly, as a player, you probably don't want to do this, unless you enjoy taking NPCs apart for spare parts. In which case, have at it, I suppose.

No one's first character will be this. Anyone choosing the Thaumaturge role should be willing to regularly interface with the gamemaster outside of sessions and may get homework to read up on gamemaster-supplied materials before a session.

New skills:

Athletics

This skill replaces Swim, Throw, Climb and Jump. You probably want to have some of it, but like those four skills it will come with a minimum of 20 points.
🔒 Thaumic Repair

This joins the ranks of Electrical Repair and Mechanical Repair. Someone better know how to fix thaumaturgical infrastructure, after all. Not your first characters, though.
Science (Cybernetics)

A skill on the intersection between engineering and medicine. There's no particular reason for your character to have this, but it seemed relevant for the setting as a whole.
Science (Linguistics)

In the Cardassian Union and beyond, back in your home universe, linguistics is usually not relevant unless you're working on universal translators. That said, while they are a highly reliable piece of technology, they can fail, and a character might want to have some skill in comprehending other languages, not individually, but as a holistic phenomenon that can be studied.
Science (Thaumaturgy)

The technology from U-2739 is a new art to Cardassians. It's unlike anything they've dealt with so far, neither physics nor psionics, but it works in their home universe just the same, that much is already known. The few materials that prior expeditions into U-2739 have returned with, along with the readings from rapidly failing instruments, have yielded interesting insights. Specialists are needed.

Thaumaturgy as a science is a must-have skill for any Karmic Ward, Elysian Engineer, Thaumaturge or Thaumabiologist (although of these, the last in the list is least likely to need detailed insights).

You don't need any of this for any other starting character. If you want to invest in this at all, talk to your gamemaster for some background information.
🔒 Psionics (Precognition)

The ability to peer into the future, to predict fates better than chance, to see what someone will do next.
🔒 Psionics (Retrocognition)

The ability to peer into the past, understand where something or someone comes from, or how something was made.
🔒 Psionics (Telekinesis)

The ability to move, crush, lift, explode or otherwise kinetically manipulate matter with your mind.
🔒 Psionics (Telepathy)

The ability to send or share your thoughts with others. This skill does not give you access to other people's thoughts, though.
🔒 Psionics (ThoughtReading)

The ability to read another creature/person's mind.

Renamed skills (meanings largely unchanged):

Anthropology is now called Foreign Cultures.
Cthulhu Mythos is now just Mythos.
Firearms (Handgun) is now Firearms (Phaser).
Locksmith is now Hacking. It does include non-digital lock-picking, though.
Psychoanalysis is now Counselling.

Removed skills:

Electronics is now considered part of Electrical Repair.

Skill notes:

Credit Rating won't be important in this setting. I left it for backward compatibility.
Library Use is considered equivalent to Computer Use. Accordingly, the minimum of Computer Use is now 20. For the sake of my sanity, I didn't change these in the occupational mappings, but don't pick both.
Navigate now also encompasses stellar navigation.
Science (Physics) and Mechanical Repair cover a lot of sci-fi tropes and are definitely worth getting for a scientist or engineer.