Basic Roleplaying review + Indiana Jones character

[Runeblogger]

Hi!

I've published a review of Basic Roleplaying. 👈🤠  Probably you won't agree with it 100%, but if you find anything I could improve, just tell me please. 🙏

The review includes my character sheet for Indiana Jones (heroic level character), as an example of what you can play with BRP. Have I made any mistakes? 🤔

 

[Mark Mohrfield]

He has no points placed into the swim ability. The pistol,should be heavy rather than medium, IMO.

[Mugen]

It may seem like a good idea to take a well-known fictional character as an example. But, as everybody has his own view on what should be Indiana Jones abilities and how to translate them in BRP terms, you'll never be able to do an adaptation that pleases everyone. Among other things, IJ is an action movie hero, which means he has physical abilities far beyond a normal human being, on top of being a world class archeologist.

[Runeblogger]

You are right, of course. I was just hoping it could a long way to show how flexible the system is.

I'm thinking of letting go some hit points through the superpower increase and spend them in several "Super Skills" more, like: +20% to Swim for a 54%, +20% to Brawl for a 100% and +20% to Whip for a 95%.

Either this, or just apply the "Epic level" to Indiana Jones so he has even more skill points to spend.

[Mugen]

20 hours ago, Runeblogger said:

You are right, of course. I was just hoping it could a long way to show how flexible the system is.

I'm thinking of letting go some hit points through the superpower increase and spend them in several "Super Skills" more, like: +20% to Swim for a 54%, +20% to Brawl for a 100% and +20% to Whip for a 95%.

Either this, or just apply the "Epic level" to Indiana Jones so he has even more skill points to spend.

What I mean is that your attempt at statting IJ will always be good and bad at the same time. He's a character in a game where the system is just "whatever the scenarist wants to work succeeds" and with no written stats. I's not a real person with real word data.

In short : don't do any modification, it's already good enough.

Perhaps calling him "Wyoming Smith", as an example of what an Indiana Jones-type could look like in BRP.

[David Scott]

2 hours ago, Mugen said:

Perhaps calling him "Wyoming Smith", as an example of what an Indiana Jones-type could look like in BRP.

Or Nevada Jones as the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set pregen is called: 

https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/CoC/CHA23158 - Call of Cthulhu Starter Set/CHA23158 - PreGen Characters.pdf

No whip, but easy to add.

[Ravenheart87]

And let's make a female counterpart too called Hannah Montana. Oh wait...

[g33k]

18 hours ago, Ravenheart87 said:

And let's make a female counterpart too called Hannah Montana. Oh wait...

We've already got inherently-female names, so a "Carolina Jones" (Georgia, Dakota, Viginia) could easily roll in. 

[SDLeary]

Then, of course, there is the eternal Montery Jack!

SDLeary

[g33k]

1 minute ago, SDLeary said:

Then, of course, there is the eternal Montery Jack!

Not an archaeologist.

Monterey Jack Sparrow is a notorious (if cheesy) pirate.

[Mark Mohrfield]

Older editions of CoC mentioned an Ohio Jones in the automatic weapons rules example. He should be in the Classic edition reprint.

[sladethesniper]

On 8/2/2023 at 2:11 PM, Mark Mohrfield said:

The pistol,should be heavy rather than medium, IMO.

Yeah, he usually uses a .44 Special. Other calibers he uses are .455 Webly or .45 Colt. He does use 9mm and other calibers on occasion, but he seems to prefer large caliber revolvers.