Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and was heavily based on Joseph Bell. He was written up in the first and second printings of GURPS Horror but the values didn't fit how skills were supposed to be calculated (especially with his 18 IQ in the second edition). It also didn't contain some aspects of the character described in the canonical stories. Adding those back in with the changes in 4e produces this version. Default skills have also been added even through no actual points went into them.
==Sherlock Holmes==
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===Social Background===
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==Notes==
===Copyright===
In 2013 it was ruled that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H Watson were in the public domain in the US which was confirmed on appeal in 2014 and the US Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. Of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes stories "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone", "The Problem of Thor Bridge", and "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" were also ruled as being public domain in the US. The remaining stories go public domain in 2022 to 2023.Kellogg, Carolyn (Aug. 5, 2014) "Sherlock Holmes is really, really in the public domain -- really" Las Angeles Times
===Additional Information===
* That Time Sherlock Holmes Went off the rails
===How good was he? ===
*"I have been beaten four times - three times by men and once by a woman." Sherlock Holmes in "The Five Orange Pips"
*"In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures." - John Watson in "The Yellow Face"
===The Adventure of the Empty House===
As pointed out in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William Baring-Gould there are many irregularities with Holmes account to Watson and the state of the places he claims to have gone. Enough that people who play The Game (ie assume the stories actually happened with names and sometimes dates changed to protect clients) have come out with various theories.
*Secret Identity [-5] or [-10]: Post return Holmes and the pre return Holmes are two different people. Anthony Boucher's "Was the
Later Holmes an Imposter." (summed up by Baring-Gould) before he eventually threw it out in favor of Armstrong's Holmes-Never-Left-London Theory.Eustace Portugal and Professor John B. Wolf added to Boucher's theory by pointing out other inconsitenties between the Holmes before and one after the Return.
** Holmes was killed and either because he had a hand in it or was afraid of Moriarty's gang Mycroft Holmes had someone who looked like Holmes learn enough to pass himself off as Holmes.Marvein Grasse {"Who Killed Holmes?"} suggested that Watson and Mycroft killed Holmes. Watson because of a long held hatred and Mycroft because of jealousy and greed.
** It was not Moriarty but Holmes that died at Reichenbach Falls and it was the Professor who passed himself as Holmes to Watson.Eustace Portugal
*Secret [-10]: Holmes, to cover his failing abilities, framed some ex-professor named Moriarty to explain his problems.A.G. Macdonell
*Split Personality (12): Holmes suffered from Multipule Personality Disorder and he was MoriartyT.S. Blakeney; A variant of this appears in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Original Stories by Eminent Mystery Writers as "The House that Jack Built"
==Notes==
==References==
*Costello, Peter (1991) The Real World of Sherlock Holmes
Category:Classic Conversions