Character Prepping for an adventure - what do you take? What is your choice of Gear?

[Qoltar]

Here's the situation:

Its a modern or contemporary setting, lets say sometime between 1995 to the present.

You or rather your character can only take with him or her what you could reasonably carry on yourself while walking or running. However, that does include an average-sized backpack and maybe an over-the-shoulder duffle bag.

What do you take?

What do you arm yourself with ?

What kind of footwear?

Clothing (or 'armor')?

What kind of communications Gear?
(Assume a team with at least 2 to 3 others as allies)

IF it makes a difference, does the choice of gear change if the situation is:

1) Time traveling to a known destination.

2) Time traveling to a random decade or century.

3) Heading to a Zombie-infested city or town

4) Rescuing friends without permission of the authorities. "Off the Books" (Modern-day, with contemporary/modern-day politics)

5) Invited to be a passenger or crewmember on an alien spacecraft that has visited Earth...and is about to leave

6) Part of a Group of modern-day humans who have decided to STEAL an alien spacecraft that landed here by mistake.

7) You are part of a new group of allies or friends that hunt Vampires or other monsters.


- Ed Charlton

[Ed the Coastie]

My standard "adventuring" gear:

• tee-shirt, long-sleeve cotton shirt, jeans
• Leather jacket, fedora
• Brahma SWAT boots
• M1911A1 pistol w/ 2-3 magazines, several boxes of ammunition and a cleaning/maintenance kit
• K-bar knife
• My "church kit" (Scriptures, consecrated oil, etc)
• A fairly decent first aid kit
• An equally-decent portable electronics tool kit
• Assorted survival gear (compass, Zippo lighter, basic fishing gear, multitool, etc)

There's some other assorted stuff...hardhat, portable radio, Civil War replica artillery shortsword, 96 hours of food and water, high-power flashlight, etc.

[Qoltar]

Damn, Ed thats almost the same gear my frienbd Kilroy chose for his character in the Maggie's Marauders TRAVELLER game.

Fedora? - yep

K-bar knife - Check

- Ed

[reb]

#7

depending on where the vamps are:
terrain
location
geography
defences (if known)
security
how many bloodsuckers
powerlevel
do they have any auxillery protection?
what is the method of infil?
exfil?
where are they holed up?

weapon would depend on my character at the time and what they prefer.

all these would affect my loadout.

i would have the following though in any mission to take out vamps:(just one loadout example off the top of my head.)
-6 silver plated randell or coldsteel throwing knives in a combined sheath on my right thigh.(always have)
-.357 s&w mod 327 tactical revolver
loaded with black talon starpoint rounds with silver granulated loads in the rounds.
carried in a tactical fast draw holster located on my right rear waist.
2 speed loaders in a drop pouch on my right side.

-a calico m-955a with a 100 rnd helical mag 9x19mm
aim point sight
laser sight
tactical flashlight
assault sling
loaded with silver coated ball rounds & sjhp with granulated silver embedded in nose.
possably a suppresser
x3 mags
1 in a mag pouch attached to a asspack
the other two on my lower back attached to my assault vest.

a white phopherous grenade
4 m-67 frags
2 sticks of dynomite with 8 second detonaters.wrapped around them with tape would be silver linked chain.
a silver coated machete on back.(always have usually)
located in a sheath in my lower back just above my asspack:
a sawed off double barrell .12 ga shotgun loaded with .000 silver buckshot.
12 rounds in a ammo shot pouch on my left side.
on assault vest:gerber multi-tool.
-minoculer/nvg capable (thermal) (always have usually)
small pair of tactical binos.

on a drop rig on right thigh:
fn five seven n usg 5.7x28mm
2 mags carried in integral mag pouches on drop holster.

on left ankle:
a gerber mk 11
brass knuckes in vest.

stainless steel mesh chainmail armor vest inside ballistic vest gen 111
comm:
prc-126 sof set & w/a c-4 headset

telescoping sectional baton in sheath/on left leg

balaclava
digital cammies
light tactical boot (have a small silver blade in right boot,retracts into toe of boot.)

chemlight sticks(12 hour) if needed.

food & hydration would depend on op length.

[reb]

possably for #7

if in silent mode:
a barnett preditor avi
with red dot scope and 20 quarills (silver plated carbide tipped quads)
or a 4x32 multi reticle scope.
cocking device
integral optional quiver

a wristrocket probably a barnett diablo or a barnett pro diablo with adjustable pin sight and stabilzers.
and a pouch with 50 9.5mm heavy weight silver plated spherical shot.
and 30 10mm silver shot.

[darksaba]

I'd recomend against jeans, when they get wet they can hold a lot of moisture and really rub painfully. Most outdoor clubs that I know of won't allow members to wear jeans during activities.

[Ed the Coastie]

Originally Posted by darksaba

I'd recomend against jeans, when they get wet they can hold a lot of moisture and really rub painfully. Most outdoor clubs that I know of won't allow members to wear jeans during activities.

I agree completely...but not only are jeans are perfectly acceptable in an RPG, I am more likely to be wearing them at any given time than I am anything else.

The rest of the non-clothing stuff is already in the Go-bag that I keep in my front closet.

[sjard]

Originally Posted by darksaba

I'd recomend against jeans, when they get wet they can hold a lot of moisture and really rub painfully. Most outdoor clubs that I know of won't allow members to wear jeans during activities.

That is why, when I was still in the boy scouts, a standard piece of gear for any hiking trip was several pair of nylons. Wear those under almost everything else and it cuts down on chaffing and blistering.

[reb]

Originally Posted by darksaba

I'd recomend against jeans, when they get wet they can hold a lot of moisture and really rub painfully. Most outdoor clubs that I know of won't allow members to wear jeans during activities.

they are also extremelly hard to move silently in as the heavy fabric rubbing always makes noise.
and most of them fit tight and cause profuse sweating in a humid enviroment.
they are a asset in jungle enviroments.

[IrishRover]

There's a few almost constants for me.

Small unmarked bills..almost always a supply of local valuables, whatever it might be!

A roll of coins..or often 2 of them...unless carrying brass knuckles is an option. (Spendable and useful)

Hollow shoe heels, with file and lockpick. a few bills sewn into my clothes

ball bearings/marbles

fire starting gear

Magnifying glass, adn a loupe.

Pepper, spray or powder

Gun, appropriate for the scenario--if that's an option. More often, if a gun is needed, I'll take one from someone else. (Unless my character happens to be a gunslinger type, of course.)

Solar scientific calculator

Leatherman and/or Swiss Army Knife

3 or 4 D Cell LED Mag-light
Small crank radio.flashlight/12 v power take-off

"Gizmo bag"