EQ pen&paper RPG conversions

[eltostador]

I really like EQ. I Really like the Big Eyes, Small Mouth rpg system published by Guardians of Order. So, I've written up Cleric Preston as a BESM character. I more or less averaged the values for Modern Military, Cyberpunk, and Hot Rods and Guns for the skill point costs. If you don't understand the system, you can download the bares-bones Tri-Stat sytem for free from the company at www.guardiansorder.com/.
If you dig other RPGs, please post some characters, situations, etc. in that system.

Grammaton Cleric 1st class John Preston
Character Points: 65 Skill Points: 130 Defect points: 5
Body: 6 Mind: 6 Soul: 8
Health: 70 Energy: 70 Shock: 14
Combat:12 Defense:10

Attribute/skill level point cost description
Appearance 3 3
Combat Mastery 6 12 +6 to combat
Extra Attacks 6 24 +6 actions
Heightened Awareness 1 1
Highly skilled 11 11
Gun Bunny 4 4 Dead Eye
Lightning Draw
Steady Hand
Two gun
Kensei 4 4 Lightning Draw
Precise stroke
Two weapons
Organizational ties 2 6
Own mecha 1 4 company car
Personal gear 1 1 flat (major), guns, katana, speed holster,
one more minor item.
(Prozium device is Mundane since everyone has one)
Skills
Acrobatics 1 3
Interrogation 1 3 psychological
Gun Combat 6 30 pistols
Law 2 4 sense offense
Melee atk 6 24
def 6 24
Ranged def 6 30
Unarmed atk 3 12
Defects Bonus Points Details
Recurring nightmares 1 Partridge, Mary, Viviana
Skeleton in Closet 2 sense offender
Owned by Megacorp 2

I'll be posting more charas as I write them. Cheers
Wow, my first smiley. Feels kinda wierd.

[JenGe]

Very interesting!! Please feel free to continue with this...

[eltostador]

Would those more at ease with d20 please take on the responsibility of posting d20 characters. Thank you.

Please note: I'm building these charas based off of only what is in the movie. For example, there is no evidence of Jurgen being a hacker, so he has no computer skills.

[eltostador]

Underground Leader Jurgen.

Off topic, but I thought that William Fichtner was pretty cool as Capt. Knauer in The Longest Yard. He looked a lot healthier than when he was Jurgen, too. It's those crazy, intense eyes that mark him.

Character Points:30 Skill Points:24 Defect points:3
Body:4 Mind:6 Soul:8
Health:50 Energy:70 Shock:10
Atk:6 Def:4
Attribute Level Point Cost Description
Aura of Command 4 4 team of 11 to 50
Organizational ties 6 6
Personal Gear 1 1 "Garage Door Opener", polygraph
Highly Skilled 1 1 +10 skill points
Skills
Stealth 4 16 Silent Movement
Social Sciences 1 1
Urban Tracking 1 1
Interrogation 2 6 psychological
Defects
Skeleton in Closet 2 Sense Offender
Not So Tough 1 -10Health

[eltostador]

Grunt Clerics
CP:62 SP:87 Defect:2
Body:6 Mind:4 Soul:4
HP:50 NRG:50 Shock:10
Atk:8 Def:6
Attribute level cost description
Combat Mastery 4 8
Extra Attacks 4 16
Gun Bunny 4 4 Dead Eye, Lightning draw, Steady hand, Two gun.
Kensei 2 2 Precise stroke, two weapons.
Highly Skilled 7 7
Organizational Ties 2 6
Own Big Mecha 1 1 company car
Personal gear 1 1 flat, guns, katana, speed holster
Skills
Interrogation 1 3 psychological
Gun Combat 4 20 pistol
Law 2 4 sense offense
Melee Atk 4 16
Melee Def 4 16
Ranged Def 4 20
Unarmed atk 2 8
Defects
Owned by Megacorp 2

[eltostador]

Blackheads ;D
CP:24 SP:18 Defect:4
Body:5 Mind:4 Soul:3
Attribute Level Cost Description
Org. ties 1 3
Pers. Gear 1 1 guns, biker armour
OBM 2 8 Motorcycles and trucks
Skills
Law 1 2 Sense offense
Driving 1 5 big rigs, motorcycles
Gun Combat 2 10
Performing Arts 1 1 Living Statue ;D
Defects
Inept Combat 2
Owned by Megacorp 2

[eltostador]

Okay, the last one for today.

Cleaners (SWAT type guys)
Brandt told them to clean, and then he and Preston would sweep.

CP:23 SP:32 Defect:2
Body:5 Mind:4 Soul:4
HP:45 NRG:40 Shock:9
Atk:5 Def:3
Attribute Level Cost Description
Combat Mastery 1 2
Gun Bunny 2 2 weapons encyclopedia, portable armoury
OBM 1 1 squad cars and vans
Pers Gear 1 1 guns, tactical armour, grenades (type varies), batons. More should be added to allow for their portable armoury stuff (because SWAT should have that).
Org Ties 1 3
Highly Skilled 2 2
Skills
Law 1 2 Sense offense
Military Sciences 2 10 Strategy, tactics
Gun Combat 2 10
Ranged Def 2 10 personal
Defects
Owned by Megacorp 2

[eltostador]

What would you guys say to an Equilibrium RPG and resource book, or at least the free equivalent on the internet?
Not that I'm volunteering to write one, I just wonder if there'd be enough interest.

[Sontin-JudasFm]

I'm not sure what you mean by resource book...as far as RPGs go, Angelus and I run an online one. Or at least, we did (Angelus is now at Uni and I've only just managed to claw the Aliens RPG back after the EZBoard attack; haven't looked at the EQ one yet) It had a fair amount of interest, then fizzled out. I'd be interested to see what you come up with

[eltostador]

Shaun, a member of the BESMd6 Yahoo group had this comment,
"You just wanted an excuse to create a gun bunny, didn't you... Heh...
Equilibrium is easily one of my favorite action flicks... Weak plot but
a couple of the fire fights are just gravy.

I wanted to make a "gun fu" style for my players, but couldn't find a
way to recreate the gun katas other than how you have done- with high
skil levels, combat mastery, gun bunny, etc... Maybe a melee
specialization in firearms... Heh heh...

With tri stat you could easily impose restrictions that the combat
mastery and other attributes be in effect... such as ummm... Only when
in combat? Haha jk... If a player came to me wanting to make a
tetragrammaton cleric I would have him tack on a restriction to the
proper attributes that says he can only receive those benefits while
performing the katas against multiple opponents armed with firearms.
This would reduce the cost and allow him to mow down mooks with ease!

The only problem I see with that is one on one combats... The
restrictions would prevent the cleric from using the katas and
attributes once someone closes in to melee. But the only 1v1 scenes that
spring to mind were both melee (karanas and firearms @ point blank
range), and I think it is an appropriate enough "weakness" or hole in
defense."

[eltostador]

I've been doing some thinking, and I'm seeing some limitations in an Equilibrium pen&paper RPG, or maybe I'm just not as good an imaginator as I thought I was. It wouldn't work to be a resistance member before the fall because the man is too powerful. One could be a Cleric, but then the story might follow too closely to Preston's, unless the PCs were the antagonists, but who would want to be that? The safest bet is probably to play after the fall, but I haven't read the Fan-fics yet.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Because that is all I really want to know. I like feedback, that is not abusive.

[Xaio]

It would be a bit hard, and there wouldn't be a *huge* choice of adventure, but you could try:

On the Tetragrammaton's side side, playing Clerics:
- Trying to root out a conspiracy against him
- Attempting to find the underground
- Eliminating a troublesome band of rebels
- Enforcing law upon a new area of the nethers

OR

The Resistance Side
- Eliminating a cleric
- Eliminating a council member
- Trying to convert a cleric
- Trying to take out a prozium factory

Or any number of things like that. Playing as resistance fighters, the clerics would be something like the Agents in the first matrix film - "everyone who has stood their ground... .... has died" So it would be more fighting against the sweeprs and cleaners, and avoiding the age-- clerics.

Also, using the FUDGE system could also work easily. Its kinda similar to whatever one you seem to be using there, in terms of character build, but its rules are freeform and easily adapted to any genre - fantasy to EQ to matrix. Free download.

I would most definitely play in a EQ RPG, and would GM one without a second thought.

[eltostador]

THANK YOU, XAIO!
The stone is shaking off the moss and rolling again!
So, what is the link to FUDGE?

[Xaio]

Anytime I'm a big RPGer myself, so... ;D

www.fudgerpg.com/fudge.html
Is the homepage of it, and has download links to PDF, ZIP, TXT, and a couple of other things.

For a straight link download for the PDF version:

www.fudgerpg.com/files/pdf/fudge.pdf

I think that I personally use a slightly older version of FUDGE, and not this '10th anniversary' one, but its all pretty similar, so...

Enjoy And I'd be very interested to see your results ;D