Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

[BishopofB&W]

And Boats and the Space Shuttle and Helicopters and…

The Hero System Vehicle Sourcebook is very good for genre simulation. It has representative vehicles from each era that has been portrayed in film and comics. Okay, not all eras, but it has sidebars that refer you to write-ups in The Ultimate Vehicle for things like chariots and sedans. Basically, all the cool vehicles from fictions are represented here. The Camaro, the Lamborghini, the F-16, the Mirage, the Mig, the Sherman, Tank, the Panzer, the Bullet Train, and the Humvee are just a few of the real-life vehicles included. It has a couple of small sections for Fantasy Hero and Superhero vehicles. Here you can find the official stats for the battle van that appears on the cover of The Ultimate Vehicle. There’s another set of stats that looks suspiciously like something used by a certain green-skinned nemesis of a certain wall-crawler. The artwork looks very clean with crisp lines and really helps show how much designs have changed over the decades.

 

Is it absolutely necessary for your game? No. (Heresy! Heresy!) You can create any or all of these with just the rules from The Ultimate Vehicle or FRED. But you will likely also have to spend a lot of time researching the vehicles. Since Steve has already done the hard work, I’d recommend buying the book. If you need stats for a Stingray instead of the Camaro, it’s easy to modify the Camaro stats. You can do this for most other vehicle types.

 

I’m impressed with how much is in the book. Like I said, if you saw it in a period movie or a comic book, you’ll find it or something like it in here.

[Steve Long]

Thanx! Glad you like the book. It took a lot of time, research, and effort to write, but now that it's done I'm proud of it.