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Byakhee
is an investigator generator for the role playing game
Call of Cthulhu. In addition to generating investigators,
it also prints out character sheets and player handouts. |
Features
Main Project
Byakhee SourceForge Project
Byakhee has a new home on Sourceforge... feel free to contribute!
Main
Downloads
Byakhee 3.01(408K)
This comes with the Call of Cthulhu 5.0 rule pack and
investigator sheet, a small NPC investigator sheet and a
telegram handout. It also contains the greater and lesser
spell books from the v5.0 rulebook. Now includes the back of
the sheet too. (Also available as a separate download, below)
This
version should now work with accented characters, such as
"ñ" etc. You
can now send handouts via e-mail from the file menu, and HTML
export has been updated to include Cthulhu 5.5 support.
For portraits, have a look atsilent-movies.com
or the
child film stars gallery
.
MFC 4.2 Runtimes
(594K)
These files are required by Byakhee to run correctly,
although you may already have these .DLL files.
Additional
Character Sheets
To use a character sheet,
unzip it into the same folder where you unzipped Byakhee.
After it has been unzipped, it can be selected from the
drop-down list box on the Byakhee toolbar.
Sheet Back for Call of
Cthulhu (2K)
This is the long-awaited second page of the
standard Call of Cthulhu investigator sheet.
Sheet Back for Delta Green (2K)
Paul Anderson
has created the back of the sheet for Delta Green.
Additional
Rule Packs
To use a rule pack, simply unzip it into the same
folder where you unzipped Byakhee. After it has been unzipped, you should be
able to start using the new rule pack immediately.
Call of Cthulhu 5.5 Rulebook
New skills and a new character
sheet. [UPDATED]
Walker in the Wastes
New skills.
1930's Antarctic Explorer (from Beyond The
Mountains of Madness)
New skills and
occupations.
Delta Green
New skills, occupations, weapons and a new sheet. You may
also want the droid font, below.
1920s Investigator Companion
New skills and occupations.
Dreamlands
New skills, occupations, weapons and a new spellbook.
Loads of Rulebooks
New skills, weapons and loads of occupations.
Additional
Handouts
To use a handout, simply unzip it into the same folder where you
unzipped Byakhee. After it has been unzipped, select "new" from the menu (or
toolbar) and click on the "handout" tab. Select the handout to
create.
Calendar Set 1
Two yearly calendars, one with Sundays highlighted in
red.
(updated to include a fix from Chris Smith).
Newspaper Clippings Set 1
Two newspaper clipping handouts - one wide, one tall.
Additional Scripts
To use a script, simply unzip it into the same folder where you
unzipped Byakhee. After it has been unzipped, select "new" from the menu (or
toolbar) and click on the "script" tab. Select the script to run.
Resistance Roller
This script from Ian Millington calculates the
resistance roll.
Other Language Translations
This section contains handouts and rule packs etc.
that have been translated into other languages, as well as links to web sites
that host tranlsated Byakhee items.
Windfish has
translated the Byakhee executable into Spanish.
Xavier Belanger's page has a few French Translations: http://www.tentacules.net
.
French Translation
of the main Byakhee data files.
Castel has translated most of
Byakhee's core data files into French. You'll still need the main Byakhee zip
file, though.
German Translation of some of the sheets [updated]
Axel Sartorius has translated the front and back of the character sheet,
the NPC sheet and the lesser and greater spell grimoires.
Spanish Translation of Coc5.5.rul
This newer translation includes
support for Byakhee 3's additional features.
Spanish Tranlsation of
coc5.rul
Cirtheru has translated the coc5.rul file into Spanish.
Spanish
Sheet Translations
Jacinto
Quesnel's page has Spanish translations of the main Byakhee
sheets.
Other
Downloads
bykhe20.zip (279K)
The previous version of Byakhee. (version 2.0)
droid.zip (10K)
Droid Font by Ray Larabie. This is almost
like the Delta Green font and the Delta Green rule pack will
use it automatically if it's installed.
itabyak2.zip (180K)
Italian version of the sheets from Byakhee 2.0 by G.M. (you'll also need bykhe20.zip)
byksrc20.zip (422K)
The source code to the previous version of Byakhee.
These files are provided
totally free of charge and is totally unsupported. The author or
site host cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss or
revenue, etc. caused by the use of this software.
Call of Cthulhu is a
registered trade mark of Chaosium Inc.
All images used on the investigator sheet are either © Chaosium
Inc. or © the Delta Green Partnership.
Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The
intellectual property known as Delta Green is ™ and © the
Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The
contents of this document are © David Harvey, excepting those
elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual
property.
If any copyright or trademark messages are incorrect, please let
me know!
The Cool Byakhee logo was created by Tolga Yanasik [home
page]
Byakhee got a
rating of 
from ZDNet.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Q. How do I create my own
rule packs?
A. I had hoped to
produce a more in-depth ByakheeScript programming guide,
but I currently do not have enough spare
time. In the meantime, use the following quick guide:
- .RUL
files contain the skills, weapons and occupations
listings.
- .BSB
files contain lists of spells.
- .LST
files contain a list of options, such as those displayed
in the "Art: " drop-down list
- .BIS
files are ByakheeScript programs which draw the
investigator sheets and add fields. ByakheeScript is very
similar to JavaScript, except that a few features are
missing (and it's a bit buggy :-)
Q. Where is the source code
to Byakhee 3?
A. You can get the source code from SourceForge
Q. Can I translate Byakhee
into another language?
A. It's
easy to translate the sheets, handouts and rule packs - just open
them in a text editor. Feel free to put them on your web site or
whatever once they're done. It's a bit harder to translate the
dialogs and messages in the program itself and is beyond the
scope of this Q & A.
Known
Issues
Byakhee does not function correctly on Windows NT. If the screen
resolution is much below 1024x768, the investigator sheet will
appear much too small (it will print OK, though). To make matters
worse, the cause for this is not known...
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Subject: Review of Hero Games
Call of Cthulhu Creator software
Date: 04/09/99
To: strange-aeons
"I purchased the newly-released CoC
Creator software from Hero Games today, and have been working with it all
evening, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and feelings. The
product is billed as "Complete Character Creation Utility Software". I
paid $25 US, which is list price.
Production values are a bit thin. It
comes packaged in a VCR tape box of the cheapest manufacture I have ever
seen, with a short manual produced in black and white on a photocopier.
Program is on two 2.5" floppies. But production values and packaging are
not really important when one buys software. The proof is in the
program.
The windows interface works well, and
is pretty slick overall. There are some annoying problems which I might
consider bugs, but could also be explained away as just rough finishing or
lack of final testing. The first is that when you "roll the dice" to
create your new character, a window pops up covering the results which
requires you to make several decisions and comittments about the character
BEFORE YOU CAN SEE THE DIE ROLL RESULTS!! I tried three different ways to
get around this problem, but the program is cleverer than me, and
successfully prevented me from moving any of the windows either before or
after the coverup. Then if you want to reroll, you must discard that
character and start over. This is not a stopper, only annoying, but
compares poorly with the slick "reroll" buttons provided on both of my
"freeware" CoC character generator programs. There are a couple of other
annoying limitations, each of which can be worked around with a small
kludge, nothing crucial.
The really nice things about this
program are the extensive lists of equipment, tomes, spells, entities, and
weapons included. When clicked upon, each of them automatically prints out
on the character sheet, with some background information. For the
equipment and weapon lists, the embedded costs automatically subtract from
the money available to the character. This is a cute feature. This program
prints out the "back" of the character sheets as well as the
fronts.
However, once character creation was
complete, and the character sheet was printed out, I found myself
disappointed. The overall appearance of the sheets is inferior to that of
those printed out by Byakhee, and as pointed out before, Byakhee is
freeware.
So, overall, if anyone is interested, I will be happy
to send you my copy of Hero Games' CoC Creator Software
for $15, including shipping anywhere in the US. I'm going
back to Byakhee." - Chick Lewis
Reproduced
with permission
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