An odd little question

[tcabril]

For my Birthday I was gifted a copy of "Tales of the Gold Monkey" complete series on DVD. I thought this would make for a fun quick campaign idea to use Hero System. I do hope to do a Champions game but that (due to availability of players and time) won't start till the fall and I would love to kick the tires with a filler campaign.

 

Since I am new to the system I was wondering what character point level people would recomend for an Indiana Jones knock off? 100pts? 200pts? This would be a pulp adventure but not too powerful.

 

There really would not be that many powers per se but one could use character points on vehicles or bases.

 

Characters would be primarily adventures and spies.

 

Any thoughts or suggestions? It is, hopefully, something I can work on over my vacation.

 

Thanks much - I love to pick the brains of people who know this system very well.

 

Thanks again!

 

Todd

[JmOz]

Re: An odd little question

 

5th or 6th edition?

 

I would call it at standard heroic so 150 or 175 depending on edition

[tcabril]

Re: An odd little question

 

Sorry about that - this would be Hero System 6th edition.

 

I guess I would have to design the Goose!

[Escafarc]

Re: An odd little question

 

Sorry about that - this would be Hero System 6th edition.

 

I guess I would have to design the Goose!

 

Here's the real world info shouldn't be too hard to stat out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_Goose

[ghost-angel]

Re: An odd little question

 

If you've got a low number of players 175 points is a good number to make sure you've got good coverage of capabilities.

 

If you've got an average number (4-6) then 150 points should easily allow for various archetypes to all exist nicely together for a Pulp game.

[tcabril]

Re: An odd little question

 

Thanks! I love the Goose materials!!

 

I always felt that the Romantic Age of Adventures (i.e. 1930's or so) has been very much underdone as far as role-playing is concerned.

 

Thanks again!

[JmOz]

Re: An odd little question

 

seems to me that hero put out a pdf that had pulp vehicles, willing to bet they have seaplanes in it, 3 or 5 dollars or so probably (all from memory, have not checked facts)

[torchwolf]

Re: An odd little question

 

That would probably be this: Pulp Hero Vehicle Sourcebook, Vol. I, $3 at the Hero Store. The blurb says:

"[...] It includes complete character sheets for every vehicle in Pulp Hero that hasn't already been published in The Ultimate Vehicle or The HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook. So strap yourself in and get ready to ride!"

 

As for seaplanes and flying boats, the Boeing 314 Clipper, Consolidated M-16 Commodore, Martin M-130, Sikorsky S-42, as well as the zeppelin and autogyro are already covered in the Hero System Vehicle Sourcebook and might not appear in the PHVS I pdf, though those have full writeups in the HSVS, and brief stats are listed in the Pulp Hero book.

 

I'd recommend the Pulp Hero book, it outdoes Call of Cthulhu in covering the era and should contain almost everything you'd ever need (writeups are 5th Edition but easy to adapt to 6E using the guidelines in 6E1 20-21, also downloadable freely here. For vehicles, measurements given in inches you just double to get meters).

 

Here's the description and ghost-angel's review: Pulp Hero

 

Hope that'll help you, otherwise go look at the Pulp Hero forum.