fortunato Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Hi- I'm anew GM to HREO, having discovered it a couple of days ago- it's damn fine! I have been running a home-brew campaign based loosely on Traveller- I was wondering if anyone had a workable conversion of a trave style prior history for character creation? It's something I'm keen to keep in at least some form, so any thought would be most appreciated! PS if there's a central place for HERO traveller resources, a link would be cool! Thanks for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 I'm not sure if theres a central resource, I've written some stuff up and posted it to the boards here... and will eventually post some conversion stuff to my website.... but I want to make sure its ok with the powers that be here at HERO on the conversion stuff to be posted to my site, I can clear it with marc miller if needed also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortunato Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 cool! thanks for the reply:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Because of the nature of the HERO system, you can assign skills from the character history, and not dominate the entire character construction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherSkip Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Pretty much if i am running a background generator I plan on building the characters in the game last. works much better that way. look for Paul Jaques Heroes series for good background generators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 while rummaging some old files, I found some character conversion I wrote up a long time ago Character Conversions: Traveller to Star Hero 2 Primary Stats convert as Traveller Stat +5 Figured Stats are calculated normally Except for Body which is figured as follows Traveller Str+Dex+End then use the following Table Total: 18:10 21:11 24:12 27:13 30:14 33:15 36:16 39:17 42:18 45:19 Ego is players choice Social Standing is a perk for 10+ otherwise ignored. and will vary upon the stat. Characters start 1 with 1 11- knowledge skill per pt of EDU over 6 Characters with and EDU of 9+ get choice of either Scientist or Scholar Characters with SS of 9+ get High Society Other Character Notes: Players get 1 11- contact per term of service TAS is a 10 point Perk Scoutship benefit costs 10 Corsair costs 25 Free Trader costs 5 for 40 years to pay 10 for 30 years to pay 15 for 20 years to pay 20 for 10 years to pay 25 for clear ownership Skill Notes: Traveller Level 1 gives Hero 11- with +1 per level over 1 Exceptions: Weapon Level 1 gives familiarity with weapon or group each level over 1 gives a +1 level Brawling 1 or 2 gives a +1 or +2 in bare handed combat Brawling 3 gives 10 points of Martial Arts manuevers Brawling 4 gives 20 points of Martial Arts Manuevers New Skills: Skill: Stat: Cost: Astrogation INT 3/2 Battle Dress DEX 3/2 Carousing PRE 3/2 Combat Engineering INT 3/2 Engineering INT 3/2 Fleet Tactics INT 3/2 Forward Observer INT 3/2 Gravitics INT 3/2 Naval Architect INT 3/2 Steward INT 3/2 Vacc Suit DEX 3/2 Zero-G Combat DEX 3/2 New Weapon Familiarties Laser Weapons[3] Assault Weapons[2] Combat Rifleman[2] Laser Pistol Shotgun Rifle/ACR/AR Laser Carbine SMG Gauss Rifle Laser SMG AR/Assault Rifle Carbine Laser Rifle High Energy Weapons[3] PGMP series FGMP series Plasma Rifle Ships Weapons[5] Missles Lasers Energy Weapons Ships Screens Spinal Mounts Particle Accelerators Meson Guns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herolover Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 Not HERO, but.... This isn't a HERO Games product or related to HERO system, but if you can find them I do have a resouce. Task Force Games put out a trilogy of books called Central Casting. They had one book for Fantasty, one for modern games, and one for Science-Fictions. Basically they are tables that allow you to randomly generate a chaacter's history for whatever setting you use. They give skill suggestions and, with decent judgement, are pretty good. I don't know if they are still in print though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herolover Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 Actually, I guess they are around here is a link. http://www.task-force-games.com/catalog/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortunato Posted November 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 thanls all, this material is of great help- I'm beavering away on the playe documents, and will post the results! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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