Another Morrow Project Build

Given yesterday's post on the Landmaster, I thought I'd follow up by providing an example character sheet for one of the PC in the Campaign.

The team consists of half a Special Forces A-Team plus a couple of scientists. Rather than the hard-core realism of the original game, it's done as almost a pulp style version action adventure.

Creating a good Special Forces write-up in HERO System takes more than just a few points. The real world training is extensive and they start with already experienced soldiers for the most part. A base of 100 points plus disadvantages will just get you there leaving little to individualize the character, so we started with the top end (for non-superheroes) of 125 points plus up to 125 points of disadvantages.

The character sheet is laid out in a rather odd way. It actually starts on the back with the package deals that make up the character's training presented in chronological order, and presented in their complete form. The front contains specialized training and individual skills.

The result is that the same skill may appear more than once, when this happens we've put the skill roll on the first occurrence of the skill on the back of the sheet, or on it's appearance on the front if present. The rest of the entries are marked with a '$' (called cash money upgrade by the players).

This makes the sheet dificult to read until one gets used to it, but keeps the training history of the character intact.

These characters are in many ways the most competent and well-rounded characters we've ran in HERO System.

Our example PC is First Sergeant Preston Walker.

By nature Preston is an idealist protected by enough experience to understand realism. He joined up to protect his country and takes the SF motto of de oppresso liber (to 'free the oppressed') to heart. His grandfather was a hero in WWII and he strives to live up to that idea.

A strong family man who's lost track of his wife and son due to the breakdown of the Project. He was told that they were to be taken to safety and likely put into stasis at one of the major bases. However he doesn't know if they made it there as the last transports left under fire. Nor does he know which base, or for that matter where any other base at all may be located.

As a result he is quite angry at waking up long after the planned period, and is currently thinking that things are moving too slowly. This is often most reflected in conflict with Prof Winston, one of the scientists who in Preston's mind is taking this as more of a puzzle to be solved than the serious disaster that it is.

His Captain is worried about this mindset, given that Preston is his top Sergeant currently, and he needs him calm and in control.