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Post by Jaymz on Jun 29, 2014 16:02:25 GMT
Use Mission Impossible as your inspiration.
IMF for a new age.
Stymie high tech arms dealers. Curtail Terrorist plots. Infiltrate and eliminate high level international criminals.
The old Mission Impossible TV series is PERFECT for mission mining.
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Post by damianmagecraft on Jun 29, 2014 20:20:44 GMT
Cortex's(Margret Weis Productions) Leverage the RPG lends itself ideally to this concept.
All characters have the same 5 talents (These are separate from the stats) to which a die value is assigned (1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, & 1d12... no two die repeated).
The talents are: Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, & Mastermind.
Each Talent is an area of expertise.
Hitter = Hand to Hand, ancient weapons, modern weapons, etc...
Hacker = electronics, mechanics, computers, etc...
Grifter = The art of the con, impersonation, etc...
Thief = cat burglar stuff
Mastermind = the man with the plan.
An additional mechanic introduced in the game is the "flashback" (you only get so many of these per episode [adventure]) which allows a PC to "alter" the circumstances of a complication by flashing the story back to a previous moment in time and "adding actions" (current time events cannot be canceled only altered for a more favorable outcome.)
resolution mechanic is simple and strait forward.
Roll the die of the relevant talent/stat.
a 4+ is a success
a 1 adds additional complications to the scene
The system is designed to emulate "mary sue" level of expertise the Leverage characters demonstrate.
The system is also very story/plot driven
I have used the system to run the following TV Show inspired one shot games...
Mission Impossible
Macguyver
A-Team
Burn Notice
Man from Uncle
NCIS
Scooby Doo
Chuck
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