Marginally Powered Sit-Com Heroes (The TV Land Hero Genre)

This time our Marginally Powered Sit-Com Heroes are trapped in the Land of the Lost!  Where mystery awaits...it wouldn't be fair to tip you off...

This episode is relatively brief game play, emphasizing player interaction and fun.  The consequences in the Land of the Lost will be somewhat more serious than regular light TV shows,in that the PCs can be banged up, perhaps even badly enough to be laid up for the remander of the episode.  Players are welcome (and encouraged) to bring their own slant to the PCs but are encouraged to base it at least somewhat on the original characters – the slant may be a caricature or a bold extrapolation of what the character would be like years later, but should not be too serious.  Players may choose a PC as linked below, and may rearrange and/or augment points so that their main PC is up to a total 50+50 (many PCs do not use their full allotment of points; players unfamiliar with the process may simply ask the GM to assist them).  There’s no winners or losers individually (and no XP awards), but the team wins if they save the day, of course.  Knowledge of the HERO System is somewhat helpful but not necessary, particularly as role-playing is encouraged over combat action (though there will be almost certainly some sort of combat scene or possibly more, just depending of course on the players).  Regular 5^th Edition HERO rules will be used, although lethality will be nullified for the PCs and most other characters (any BOD damage will be capped once a character hits 1 BOD remaining, and they will, if this occurs, in appropriate sit-com fashion, be seen with bandages all over their body and their feet and arms in traction).

Characters are being written up:  current (work-in-progress) versions to date below (HDZ = Hero Designer file) (note - HDZ files are not yet posted but shall be):

Chico Rodriguez (of Chico and the Man)
Corporal Louis LeBeau (one of Hogan's Heroes)
Corporal Peter Newkirk (one of Hogan's Heroes)
Detectives Yo-Yo and Holmes
Mr. Ed and Wilbur
Elly Mae Clampett
The Flying Nun (Sister Bertrille) (HDZ file)
The Fonz (Arthur Fonzarelli) (HDZ file)
The Ghost (Captain Daniel Gregg) (HDZ file) and Mrs. Carolyn Muir (HDZ file)
PFC Gomer Pyle and Sergeant Carter
Jack Tripper
Maxwell Smart (HDZ file)
Phoebe Figalilly (The Nanny) (HDZ file)
The Professor (Roy Hinckley) (HDZ file)
Sergeant Andrew Carter (one of Hogan's Heroes)
Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe (one of Hogan's Heroes)
Uncle Martin (HDZ file) and his "Nephew" Tim O'Hara (HDZ file)

Players need to pick a character.  They then may spend the complement of points to get them to 50+50.  Extrapolations for age, even parodies, of the characters are acceptable, within the limits of good taste and "TV Land" playing.  Rearrangement of existing points are certainly acceptable as well, but all changes to characters require GM permission prior to play. 

Each player gets a "Plot Point".  A Plot Point is a simple mechanic allowing the Player-Character to automatically succeed at something or otherwise have a dramatic point go there way - so long as they act out an appropriate sit-com cliche, trope, or stereotypical action.  An example use of a Plot Point would be to have one's character come across some important piece of information; in such cases, the GM will take the player briefly aside and give them information which they may relay to the others in character.  Plot Points may (and should) also be used to avoid harm or other certain doom (which of course translates into being in the hospital all bandaged up...no fun way to finish a scenario!).