HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook a Collection of Vehicles for HERO System Games Author: Steven S
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The HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook A Collection Of Vehicles For HERO System Games Author: Steven S. Long Editing & Development: Allen “I need a new calculator” Thomas Layout & Graphic Design: Andy Mathews , Allen Thomas Cover Illustration: Andrew Cremeans Interior Illustration: Nate Barnes, Jeff Cram, Andrew Cremeans, Keith Curtis, Brad Nault, Jonathan Davenport, Newt Ewell, Roberto Marchesi, Cara Mitten, A WORD OR TWO OF APPRECIATION Special Thanks: We’d like to thank the Digital Sample file Hero playtesters and testreaders who reviewed the HSVS manuscript. Special thanks also to Jason Walters for assistance and advice on the motorcycle writeups. Hero SystemTM ® is DOJ, Inc.’s trademark for its roleplaying system. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, Hero System © 1984, 1989, 2002 by DOJ, Inc. d/b/a Hero Games. 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All rights reserved. http://www.herogames.com THE HERO SYSTEM VEHICLE SOURCEBOOK INTRODUCTION ................................4 CHAPTER TWO: CHAPTER THREE: AIR VEHICLES WATER VEHICLES CHAPTER ONE: GROUND VEHICLES Airplanes ........................................45 Sailing Ships ................................108 Civilian Airplanes ...........................45 Engine-Driven Surface Craft ........119 Civilian Vehicles ...............................6 Pulp-Era Aircraft ..........................45 Civilian Watercraft ........................119 General Civilian Vehicles ...................6 Modern Airplanes ........................50 Military Watercraft .......................124 Pulp-Era Cars ................................6 Military Airplanes ...........................55 Modern Civilian Vehicles ................9 Pre-World War II Airplanes ...........55 Submarines .................................132 Sportscars And Muscle Cars ...........15 World War II Airplanes ..................59 Diesel-Electric Submarines ...........132 Motorcycles ...................................20 Post-World War II Airplanes ..........67 Nuclear Submarines.....................133 Pulp-Era Motorcycles ...................20 Helicopters ..................................90 Modern-Day Motorcycles .............22 Civilian Helicopters ......................90 CHAPTER FOUR: FANTASY Trains ............................................24 Military Helicopters ......................93 AND SUPERHERO VEHICLES Miscellaneous Civilian Vehicles .......29 Miscellaneous Air Vehicles ............104 Fantasy Vehicles ..........................140 Military Ground Vehicles ................32 Superhero Vehicles ......................143 Tanks ............................................32 Other Military Vehicles....................37 Sample file 4 Hero System 5th Edition INTRODUCTION VEHICULAR COMPUTERS n virtually all gaming campaigns, characters paigns). (Except for the Space Shuttle, this book have to travel — sometimes every game, some- doesn’t include starships or space vehicles; Star It would be perfectly times just to reach the scene of the action in a Hero and the products supporting it already con- appropriate for many of Iparticular adventure. And that usually means tain dozens of starships suitable for your games.) the vehicles in this book, they need vehicles. Even in Champions campaigns, The Vehicle Sourcebook is organized into four particular advanced mil- where many characters have the ability to move chapters. The first chapter covers ground vehicles itary planes and water- at high velocity on their own, teams of PCs use — everything from everyday automobiles, to sport- craft, to have vehicular vehicles to get from one place to another as a group. cars, to tanks and other military vehicles. Chapter computers, such as the And even if the PCs don’t need vehicles, their ene- Two focuses on air vehicles, with planes and heli- ones on pages 161-62 mies probably do.... copters ranging from the most advanced jetfighters of The Ultimate Vehicle. However, for space rea- The HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook is a col- to one-man small civilian craft. Chapter Three fea- sons no such comput- lection of over 140 vehicles of all types from many tures water vehicles: boats, submarines, and sailing ers are listed with the different time periods. While the emphasis is on ships from the Age of Sail to the Cold War. vehicles in this book. modern-day vehicles (since many gaming cam- While the first three chapters include only paigns take place in the twentieth and twenty-first real-world vehicles that actually existed (or which centuries and the production of different types of will exist) at some point, Chapter Four departs vehicles expanded greatly during that time), there from the realms of “reality” for those of fiction. are also many vehicles suitable for earlier periods It features Fantasy and superheroic vehicles like and lower levels of technological advancement the ones you might read about in novels or comic (such as those depicted in many Fantasy Hero cam- books. Whether you need an enchanted ship to sail through the clouds or a mole machine to tunnel to the center of the earth, you’ll find it here. The Ultimate Sample file Vehicle The HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook does not include rules for building vehicles, using vehicles, or creating vehicular equipment. You can find that material in The Ultimate Vehicle, Hero Games’s book about vehicle construction and use. Many of the vehicles in this book were built using “TUV’s” rules, so you should refer to it if you see a Power Modifier or other rule that doesn’t seem familiar to you from the HERO System 5th Edition, Revised rulebook. Additionally, TUV itself has approximately 50 sample vehicles. Those vehicles are not reprinted in this book, but each of the chapters lists the relevant vehicles from TUV to help you find what you’re looking for. chapter one: Sample file GROUND VEHICLES 6 Ground Vehicles Hero System 5th Edition CIVILIAN VEHICLES ost of the vehicles characters encounter game terms. Others, such as sportscars and motor- during most campaigns are going to cycles, add more to the game if characters can drive be civilian ones — the ordinary cars, or encounter specific models. Mtrucks, and similar conveyances driven by everyday people. Chapter Two of The Ultimate Vehicle has more information on how they work Pulp-Era Cars and how to create them in HERO System terms. Pulp Hero games and various games set in the OTHER GROUND VEHICLES World War II era (be they Golden Age Champions games or something different) need cars, too. Here In addition to the vehicles described here, you are a few examples of civilian vehicles found on can find several ground vehicles in The Ultimate the roads of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. Despite being Vehicle: technologically primitive compared to modern Armored Car (page 48) cars, they could often attain high speeds due to Chariot (page 43) their large engines. Cybertank (page 53) CHEVROLET COUPE Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-Rod (page 52) Val Char Cost Notes Hovercraft (page 52) 4 Size 20 2.5” x 1.25”; -4 KB; -2 DCV Lotus Esprit Turbo (page 45) 30 STR 0 Lift 1,600 kg; 6d6 HTH [0] M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank (page 51) 14 DEX 12 OCV: 5/DCV: 5 M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (page 50) 16 BODY 2 School Bus (page 48) 3 DEF 2 Limited Coverage (not on Sports Utility Vehicle (page 46) windshield/windows; -¼) 3 SPD 6 Phases: 4, 8, 12 Stagecoach (page 44) Total Characteristic Cost: 42 Steam Locomotive (page 49) Supercar (page 46) Movement: Ground: 25”/100” Sample file Swimming: 0”/0” Ten Speed Bicycle (page 43) Tractor-Trailer Truck (page 47) Abilities & Equipment Two- or Four-Door Automobile (page 45) Cost Power END 16 Motorized Wheeled Vehicle: Ground Movement +19” (25” total), x4 Non- GENERAL combat; OAF (standard tires; -1½), Only On Appropriate Terrain (-¼), CIVILIAN VEHICLES 1 Continuing Fuel Charge (easily-obtained fuel; 6 Hours; -0) [1cc] This section covers a range of typical civilian -2 Ground Vehicle: Swimming -2” (0” total) vehicles. Some of them are written up “generically,” since one modern-day mid- Total Abilities & Equipment Cost: 14 sized car or panel Total Vehicle Cost: 56 truck is very much Value Disadvantages like another in None Total Disadvantage Points: 0 Total Cost: 56/5 = 11 Description: During the mid-to-late 1930s, Chevrolet made a name for itself manu- facturing simple yet rugged automobiles that everyday people could afford — and which often appealled to “hot rodders” because they could easily modify them. This particular coupe was first manufac- tured in 1938. The Hero System Vehicle Sourcebook Chapter One 7 DUESENBERG SJ FORD MODEL A Val Char Cost Notes Val Char Cost Notes 5 Size 25 3.2” x 1.6”; -5 KB; -3 DCV 3 Size 15 2” x 1”; -3 KB; -2 DCV 35 STR 0 Lift 3,200 kg; 7d6 HTH [0] 25 STR 0 Lift 800 kg; 5d6