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Ok so this request comes from
John W Roberts on Facebook. This came after I put out a request for ideas. I said I would build him and I have for Hero System 6th Edition.
Jack Burton is the main character in "
Big Trouble in Little China"...however while he is the main character, the character himself is in fact more the side kick.
Jack Burton
Val Char Cost Roll Notes
15 STR 5 12- Lift
200.0kg; 3d6 HTH damage [1]
13 DEX 6 12- OCV:
5/DCV: 5
13 CON 3 12-
12 BODY 2
10 INT 0 11- PER
Roll 11-
10 EGO 0 11- ECV:
3 - 3
15 PRE 5 12- PRE
Attack: 3d6
6 PD 4 Total: 6/9 PD (0/3 rPD)
6 ED 4 Total: 6/9 ED (0/3 rED)
2 SPD 0 Phases: 6, 12
6 REC 2
30 END 2
30 STUN 5 Total Characteristics Cost: 62
Movement: Running: 15m/[Noncombat]"
Leaping: 4m/[Noncombat]"
Swimming: 6m/[Noncombat]"
Cost Powers END
15 Luck 3d6 0
15 "Its All in the Reflexes": Reflection
(40 Active Points' worth), Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (35 Active
Points); Only Works Against Objects hurled at the PC that can be caught (-3/4),
Requires A Roll (DEX roll; -1/2) 1
Perks
1 Fringe Benefit: License to practice a profession (Truck
Driver)
Talents
6 Combat Luck (3 PD/3 ED)
2 Resistance (+2 to roll)
Skills
Everyman Skills
0 1)
Charm 8-
0 2)
Climbing 8-
3 3)
Concealment 11-
0 4)
Conversation 8-
0 5)
Deduction 8-
2 6)
KS: Truck Routs 11-
0 7)
Paramedics 8-
3 8)
Persuasion 12-
3 9)
PS: Truck Driver 12-
0 10)
Shadowing 8-
3 11)
Stealth 12-
2 12)
TF: Common Motorized Ground
Vehicles
Skills
2 1)
Acting 10-
3 2)
Combat Driving 12-
3 3)
WF: Small Arms, Blades
4 4)
+2 to offset a specific negative OCV modifier with Ranged Attacks
2 5)
+2 to offset a specific negative OCV modifier with Knives/Daggers
3 6)
+1 with blades
10 7)
+2 OCV with Blocking
6 8)
+3 with DEX Rolls
Total Powers
& Skills Cost: 88
Total Cost: 150
150+ Disadvantages
20 Psychological Complication: Brash (Common; Total)
10 Psychological Complication: Overconfident (Common; Moderate)
Total
Disadvantage Points: 150
THE PLOT
(NOTE - If you have not seen this cult classic yet and don't want it ruined then stop reading here. It's on Netflix so check it out!)
Truck driver
Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his friend, restaurant owner Wang Chi (Dennis
Dun), go to the airport to pick up Wang's fiancée Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), who is
arriving from China. A Chinese street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap
another Chinese girl at the airport who is being met by her friend Gracie Law
(Kim Cattrall), intending to sell her as a sex slave. After Jack intervenes,
they take Miao Yin instead. In Jack's big-rig truck, he and Wang track the
Lords of Death to the back alleys of Chinatown, where they find a funeral
procession that quickly erupts into a street fight between the Chang Sing and
Wing Kong, two ancient Chinese societies. When "The Three Storms"
(Thunder, Rain, and Lightning) appear, slaughtering the Chang Sing, Jack tries
to escape but runs over Lo Pan (James Hong), a powerful and legendary sorcerer,
as well as the leader of the Wing Kong. Horrified, Jack exits his truck, only
to find Lo Pan, who is merely annoyed. Wang hurriedly guides Jack through the
alleys, escaping the carnage and mayhem, but Jack's truck is stolen.
Wang takes Jack
to his restaurant, where they meet up with Gracie, Wang's friend Eddie Lee
(Donald Li), and magician Egg Shen (Victor Wong), a local authority on Lo Pan.
They try to explain to an incredulous Jack some of the ancient knowledge and
sorcery the Chinese brought with them to America, eventually devising a plan to
infiltrate a brothel, where they think Miao Yin is being held. However, the
Storms make off with Miao Yin, bringing her to a front owned by Lo Pan. Trying
to rescue her, Jack and Wang are quickly subdued by Rain and taken to see Lo
Pan, now in the form of a crippled, old man. Wang tells Jack that Lo Pan needs
a special green-eyed girl to break an ancient curse, and he intends to
sacrifice Miao Yin. Centuries ago, Lo Pan, a great warrior, but most of all a
powerful wizard, was defeated in battle by the first sovereign emperor Qin Shi
Huang. The Emperor placed upon Lo Pan the curse of No Flesh. Although Lo Pan can
be temporarily granted a decrepit body by supplication to the gods, in order
for him to permanently break the curse and regain his human form, he must marry
a woman with green eyes. This simple act will appease Ching Dai, the God of the
East. But to satisfy the Emperor, he must sacrifice her. When Jack and Wang's
friends attempt to save them, they are also captured, and Lo Pan notes that
Gracie has green eyes, too. Lo Pan decides to sacrifice Gracie, while making
Miao Yin his unwilling wife.
After getting
the drop on Thunder, Jack and Wang escape, also freeing many women kept in
holding cells. Wang and Jack go to see Egg Shen, and with the help of the Chang
Sing, they enter an underground cavern to return to Lo Pan's headquarters. Egg
pours each of the group a potent potion that Jack says makes him feel
"kind of invincible." During the wedding ceremony, a huge fight
ensues, which Jack misses due to accidentally knocking himself out. Wang kills
Rain in a sword duel, while Jack and Gracie try to catch Lo Pan. Wang joins
them, and just when all seems lost, Jack kills Lo Pan with a skillful knife
throw. Thunder, who was in the midst of a battle with Wang, becomes enraged and
feels dishonored at his failure to protect his master. He inflates to an
enormous size, exploding and killing himself. Jack, Wang, Gracie, and Miao Yin
are cornered by Lightning in a corridor, which he makes collapse. Egg rescues
them with a rope and kills Lightning by dropping a stone Buddha statue on him
when he tries to follow. After finding Jack's truck, they escape back to Wang's
restaurant.
Lo Pan having
been defeated, the group celebrates in a warm and family-like way: Wang and
Miao are obviously about to marry; Margo, Gracie's journalist friend, seems to
be about to pair-up with Eddie; and Egg decides to go on a prolonged vacation,
saying China is in the heart. Jack, instead of starting up a new life with
Gracie (as everyone was expecting up to that point), bids farewell to the group
and hits the open road, with an unknown-to-him stowaway – one of the remaining
monsters from Lo Pan's labyrinth.
