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Originally Posted by Aramone
Would Serenity RPG be easy to convert to BRP.
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I've actually done some writing for the
Battlestar Galactica RPG, which uses the same Cortex system
Serenity uses and I've run about a dozen or so sessions between the two games.
My gut feeling is that while it would be an immense amount of work to try to "translate" the
Serenity RPG to BRP, it would be rock-bottom simple to just play a
Serenity/Firefly game using BRP, if you get the distinction I'm making.
For example, if you were to pick the professions for the crew of
Serenity, here's how they might match up:
- Mal - Mal's a seasoned Soldier, skilled with weapons and command, extremely tough (like an 18 or 19 CON)
- Zoe - another Soldier with some stealth type skills
- Wash - a Pilot extraordinaire
- Jayne - a Warrior with a lot of gun skills, high STR, SIZ, and CON
- Kaylee - an Engineer with mad Repair and Technical skills
- Inara - an Entertainer with a few other skills, high APP and Status
- Book - a Priest with extensive experience of some unknown type, perhaps (as theorists will spin) as an Assassin or a Spy
- Simon - a Doctor with high Status for his privileged upbringing
- River - a "create your own profession" character most likely ("Test Subject"), with a wide variety of military and physical combat skills, and some Psychic Powers. I'd give her the following: Danger Sense, Eidetic Memory, Intuition, and maybe Precognition. Her DEX and POW would be extremely high. If I were using Sanity as an optional system, hers would be fairly low from her past experiences.
I'd probably use the Total Hit Points option to separate the heroes from the mooks, and would everyone's weapons would likely just be standard firearms with a few extras and the occasional laser pistol or energy weapon showing up for variety.
Serenity herself would be a Space Vehicle, Transport as described on pages 270 and 271, though without FTL or energy shields.
Depending on how you want to play them, Reavers would be the equivalent of Orcs (p346), Maniacs (p363), or I'd make up a set of stats for them.
Note that while I'm not saying you'd need to copy the show's characters, this is just an example of how you'd translate it to BRP.