Super Bad Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) Hello i'm new HQ and am currently converting the savage worlds setting of Tropicana (clive cussler, miami vice, burn notice inspired setting on a fictional island). I'm amazed at how easy it is to convert some of my favorite crunchy rpg games. Listed is a quick character creation guideline and some pregen characters. I feel like im going in the right direction with this, what do yall think? Background Occupation Training Keyword/ Organization Department Keyword/Current Occupation Training Keyword/Cultural Keyword/Physical Keyword/Social Keyword/Mental Keyword/Relationship Keyword/Resources Wealth Gear Keyword/ 2Flaws Raul Garcia Retired San Jose Vice Cop -Narcotics-Negotiation-Human Trafficking / Hawaiian Shirt Soul/Josefino/Tough as Nails/Devilishly Handsome/I've got friends in low places/Startup P.I. Agency/Mountain of Debt/Alcoholic Billy Smith Ex Navy Seal Chief Petty Officer- Surveillance- Sniper- Survival/Foreigner (American)/Failure is not an option/Well-Mannered/Extremely Wealthy Sugar Mama/Cat Like Reflexes/Storage Unit Filled With Guns/Short Fuse/My Brothers Keeper Jimmy Smith Ex Army Warrant Officer Pilot Evasive Maneuvers- UAV Operations- Medevac/Foreigner (American)/Parkour Enthusiast/Barfly/Photographic Memory/On & Off Again Stripper Girlfriend/T&A Helicopter Tours/Soft Hearted/Reluctant Cartel Associate Sofia Guerrero Career Criminal-Con Artist-Hacker-Getaway Driver/Josefino/Plain Jane/Iron Will/Marathon Woman/I've got friends in high places/Independently Wealthy/Overconfident/Sensation Junkie Edited April 8, 2019 by Super Bad Word choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I'm playing in a similar style HeroQuest game myself. You've got a lot of Keywords per character. Reducing them will make the game easier to run, lots of stuff is rolled in the keywords, breakouts are specialisms (I left out a few things as I didn't know what they were). Some ideas: Raul Garcia Retired Vice Cop 1M (Background) Negotiation+1 Alcoholic +1 San Jose 13 (Community / Culture) friends in low places +1 Tough Guy 17 (Personal) Devilishly Handsome +1 Flaw Mountain of Debt 1M Billy Smith Ex Navy Seal 1M (Background) Surveillance +1 Sniper +1 Cat Like Reflexes +1 American 17 (Culture) Well-Mannered +1 Storage Unit Filled With Guns +1 Extremely Wealthy Sugar Mama 13 (patron) Flaws Short Fuse 17 My Brothers Keeper 1M Just as an unrelated example here's Young Luke Skywalker (episode 4) Farm Boy 13 Fly anything +1 Force 1M Hand to Eye Coordination +1 Technician 17 Robot Friends +2 Flaw Father is evil overlord 1M try and distill your characters down. Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Bad Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Thank you very much! I plan on running a game soon. I didnt immediately realize that some of my keywords would work better as breakout/specials. The keywords i had included related to culture in the setting. For example Josefino was basically a citizen/native of san jose. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 This kind of thing is ridiculously easy to do with HeroQuest. The hardest part is working out the Keywords and Breakouts, until you realise that they really aren't important and go with the flow. On 4/8/2019 at 7:20 PM, David Scott said: I'm playing in a similar style HeroQuest game myself. You've got a lot of Keywords per character. Reducing them will make the game easier to run, lots of stuff is rolled in the keywords, breakouts are specialisms (I left out a few things as I didn't know what they were). Some ideas: Looking good, but I would write them like this, as it is compact and easier, for me, to follow: Raul Garcia : Retired Vice Cop 1M (Negotiation+1, Alcoholic +1), San Jose 13 (Friends in low places +1), Tough Guy 17 (Devilishly Handsome +1), Mountain of Debt 1M (Flaw) Billy Smith: Ex Navy Seal 1M (Surveillance +1, Sniper +1, Cat Like Reflexes +1), American 17 (Well-Mannered +1, Storage Unit Filled With Guns +1), Extremely Wealthy Sugar Mama 13 (Patron), Short Fuse 17 (Flaw), My Brothers Keeper 1M (Flaw) Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Bad Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 (edited) Thanks again i've distilled the rest as follows. Background 17 Cultural 13 Personal 13 Flaws (2) Jimmy Smith Ex Army Chopper Pilot 1m (Evasive Maneuvers +1, Drone Operations +1) Foreigner (American) 17 (Parkour Enthusiast+1, Barfly+1) Photographic Memory 13 Soft Hearted 17 (flaw) Reluctant Cartel Associate 1m (flaw) Sofia Guerrero Career Criminal 1m (Con Artist+1 Getaway Driver+1, Iron Will +1) San Jose 16 (Plain Jane +1, I've got friends in high places+1) Independently Wealthy 13 (Overconfident +1) Sensation Junkie 1m (flaw) Raul Garcia : Retired Vice Cop 1M (Negotiation+1, Alcoholic +1) San Jose 13 (Friends in low places +1),1 Tough Guy 17 (Devilishly Handsome +1), Mountain of Debt 1M (Flaw) Billy Smith: Ex Navy Seal 1M (Surveillance +1, Sniper +1, Cat Like Reflexes +1), American 17 (Well-Mannered +1, Storage Unit Filled With Guns +1), Extremely Wealthy Sugar Mama 13 (Patron), Short Fuse 17 (Flaw), My Brothers Keeper 1M (Flaw) Edited April 15, 2019 by Super Bad Bad hyperlink was deleted 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 And that, to me, is the great strength of HeroQuest, you can take PCs and write them up in a few lines. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Bad Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 I'll continue to add any other material that may be useful to others in regard to setting. Below are converted NPCs for the published Adventure called Hot Wheels. I kinda plugged in numbers that seem to fit. Julio Hernandez, Criminal Lawyer 17, San Jose 13, Livin Large 17, Overprotective Father 17 (Flaw) Josefina Hernandez, Wild, Hot, & Young Street Racer 17, San Jose 13, Fastest sports car on these streets 17, Stubborn 17 (Flaw) Fiona "The Fury" Goring, Hot Tempered Street Racer 5m, San Jose 17, Arsenal in the Passenger Seat 17, Insanely Jealous of Josefina 5m (flaw/relation) Sephiroth Trust Fund Punk 17, San Jose 13, Ladies Man 17, All my exes live in san jose 17 (flaw) Latin King Carjackers 19 (mob) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 On 4/24/2019 at 5:07 PM, Super Bad said: I'll continue to add any other material that may be useful to others in regard to setting. Below are converted NPCs for the published Adventure called Hot Wheels. I kinda plugged in numbers that seem to fit. See, HeroQuest is so easy to use. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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