[Package Deal] Scouting (Boy Scouts)

[TheQuestionMan]

Greetings Herophiles, I have a idea for radioCHAOS's Post-Apocalyptic Champions Campaign and wanted to know if anyone has ever created such a Package Deal.

Scouting - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts

Boy Scouts of America
http://www.scouting.org/

Girl Scouts of the USA
http://www.girlscouts.org/

Scouts Canada
http://www.scouts.ca/default.asp?cmPageID=81

Boy Scout Commando Corps - Car Wars/GURPS Autoduel
???

Merit Badge Requirements
http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/



More later

QM

P.S.: He is going to be a Eagle (Queen's) Scout (Canadian yah know)

[John Desmarais]

Greetings Herophiles, I have a idea for radioCHAOS's Post-Apocalyptic Champions Campaign and wanted to know if anyone has ever created such a Package Deal.

Are you looking for reality or the romanticized ideal?

[Teflon Billy]

Post your proposal and I will critique.

TB --Eagle Scout, with enough merit badges beyond for 3 silver palms.

[TheQuestionMan]

Post your proposal and I will critique.

TB --Eagle Scout, with enough merit badges beyond for 3 silver palms.
Nice! and I will.

[JakSpade]

And when you're done, you should do one for the Ham Radio Operator.

:D
Jak

[Peregrine]

I'd like to see this as well - how do Merit Badges translate into Hero skills, what are the requirements for each rank, etc. This could have a lot of use for any 20th-21st Century setting (or beyond, if you postulate the Boy Scouts or a decendant thereof continuing to exist in the future). Besides, what better background for a four-color super than Eagle Scout?

[Starwolf]

As an IRL Eagle, Order of the Arrow, and currently ScoutMaster, I would posit that any given merit badge would translate into a Familiarity skill level. So for instance Horsmanship would equal Fam: KS Horses 8- and possibly Fam: Riding 8-, another example would be Camping which would equal Fam: Survival 8-. Most ranks would be window dressing but at the Eagle Rank I could see it as a 1 point perk, as being an Eagle has opened several doors for me as an adult.

[Rapier]

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[John Desmarais]

I'd like to see this as well - how do Merit Badges translate into Hero skills, what are the requirements for each rank, etc. This could have a lot of use for any 20th-21st Century setting (or beyond, if you postulate the Boy Scouts or a decendant thereof continuing to exist in the future). Besides, what better background for a four-color super than Eagle Scout?

Merit Badge requirements: http://www.meritbadge.com/ (we use this site a lot).

This link takes you right to the list (http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/). Badges in bold are Eagle requirements. Click on a badge name to get the requirements for the badge.

From a realistic standpoint, I'd call having earned any merit badge the equivalent of an 8 or less skill roll. For a more idealized (and more "game playable" version) call each one the basis for an 11 or less skill roll.

[Peregrine]

Merit Badge requirements: http://www.meritbadge.com/ (we use this site a lot).

This link takes you right to the list (http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/). Badges in bold are Eagle requirements. Click on a badge name to get the requirements for the badge.

From a realistic standpoint, I'd call having earned any merit badge the equivalent of an 8 or less skill roll. For a more idealized (and more "game playable" version) call each one the basis for an 11 or less skill roll.

Well, that's reassuring - I was thinking the same thing, 8- familiarity for realism, 11- (or CHAR-based) for cinematic.

[TheQuestionMan]

Sooooo... Lots of skills 8- and say some kind of Skill Levels for Scouting???

[Peregrine]

PS: Boy Scout (Everyscout) 11-

[Supreme Serpent]

My memory might be blurring in a home-brewed package, but I *think* there might be a Boy Scout Commando Corps package deal in Autoduel Champions , along with packages for autoduellists, MONDOs, Brotherhood and Paladins members.

[Teflon Billy]

I agree for most part that Merit Badges would at most give a Boy Scout a 8- familiarity.

In general, any Scout who's been in it long enough should get Survival in whatever they're local climate is.

TB

[TheQuestionMan]

Psych Lim: Scout’s Code

Everyman Background Skills (Teenager)

Queen’s (Eagle) Scout Package Deal

Animal Handling (K9s)
Breakfall, 11-
Climbing, 11-
Computer Programming (2pts)
Concealment, 11-
Combat Riding (Mountain Biking???)
Leadership, 11-
Navigation (Land), 11-
Oratory, 11-
Paramedic, 11-
KS (Area): Local Hiking Trails & Camp Grounds, 11-
KS: Emergency Response: First Responder
http://www.tc.gc.ca/canutec/en/guide/guide.htm
http://www.pep.bc.ca/
KS: Knot Tying, 11-
KS: Scouts, 12-
KS: Athletic Sports, 8-
PS: Scout Leader, 12-
Stealth, 11-
Survival (2pts to 4pts)
Tracking, 11-
WF: Clubs, Bows, Small Arms
TF: Canoes, Kayaks, Boats, Sail, Bikes, etc... Gliders

+6pts to 12 pts of Various other skills.



Cheers

QM

[Outsider]

Wow.. by that write up, being an Eagle Scout is 60+ points worth of skills... pretty impressive in a system that says most 'normals' have only an 11- PS and an 11- KS in their own profession, even if they've been at it for 20 or 30 years.

I'd tend more towards the "PS : Boyscout" with maybe up to 5 points of other stuff added for things he was really, really into.

[BigJackBrass]

Not necessarily useful for this thread, but it still amuses me as an unintentional double entendre par excellence:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192802461/qid=1141772406/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-6247177-3316613

[Lethosos]

As an Eagle Scout myself, I also want to point out that one should also have an Urban variant for big-city Boy Scouts. Oh, they do get to go camping and stuff, but their skillset would be shifted towards community involvement and other urban stuff.