Simeon Steinmetz

Player character in Chalkline's 1439 Call of Cthulhu campaign.

A sapper, artillerist and military engineer. Born in Brandenburg and served the Teutonic Order for ten years. Now in service to the merchant Alain.

• Str 15
• Con 10
• Siz 11
• Int 15
• Pow 10
• Dex 13
• App 11
• Edu 6

• HP: 11
• Damage bonus + 1d4
• Idea: 75%
• Know: 30%
• Luck: 50%
• SAN: 50

Skills Skill Points still to spend: 30

Climb 40% Conceal 25% Craft: Black Powder 40% Dodge 40% First Aid 31% Jump 35% Listen 25% Mechanical Repair 20% Spot Hidden 40% Swim 25% Throw 40%

Crossbow 55% Handgun (Arquebus) 65% Sword 60% Dagger 60%

Ride 35% Artillery (Bombard) 11%

Languages: German 75% French 25% Breton 15% Latin 6%

Equipment

Hosen Shirt Infantry Boots Belt Hood and cope

Blanket, Lightweight Canteen, 0.5l (filled) Oil Lantern Rosary beads Sack, 10 ENC

(Sacks Note: Total ENC = Sack ENC + (Contents ENC/2) Sacks have a carry strap)

125ml Powder Horn

Leather Mug

Charcoal (1 hr.)

Whetstone Pestle & Mortar (ceramic, with which he grinds gunpowder)

Background

Simeon was born in 1410 in the forested Neumark of Brandenburg, which at this time is owned by the Knights Teuton. Although his family were stonemasons and charcoalburners, and being a scrawny lad he was not a natural soldier, this is exactly what he became, so eager were the Knights to prosecute their war against the Poles and the Hanseatic cities.

For ten years he served in that dreary, pitiless war, and it was the making of him. He made good use of what he had learned from his family and learned how to make black powder, how to load cannon and handguns, how to blast in tunnels and at battlements, how to shore up a rampart and to undermine the enemy. It was dirty, noisy work for little reward but he and his fellows fought in the name of Jesus and Mary.

In 1435 the Order was forced into a peace with the Polish crown and many of its mercenary armies discharged. Simeon did not want to return to the Neumark and servitude - war being the only trade he now knew, he and a group of fellow soldiers took ship to the west to France.