Hello all, I am going to be running my first game of Blades soon. I have a new crew of Shadows that are looking to make espionage their thing. For the first score I’ve set up some basic industrial espionage concerning supply of drugs to The Devils Tooth in Nightmarket, but I have an issue. If the proof of a business deal is in a Tier 1/2 Safe, I feel that Limited effect would make sense if they try to open it from a Tier 0 standpoint. How would opening a safe with Limited effect work? Would I make a clock in this situation, and only fill it partially? Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
Hello all, I am going to be running my first game of Blades soon.
Hello all, I am going to be running my first game of Blades soon.
That would be the way I’d go. Give them a limited amount of time to get it open, and each roll takes up a certain amount of time. I love throwing down opposing clocks for this sort of thing.
Like a clock for countermeasures, an alarm or maybe a destruct mechanism for sensitive documents.
Are we assuming a Lurk isn’t going to whip out their set of fine lockpicks (putting the Lurk at Tier 1…)???
Omari Brooks There is no Lurk in the crew, and I meant this to kind of also answer as well other situations that seem more black-and-white in terms of success (like a safe is open or closed) but the answers here concern clock’s might be the way I’ll run it. Every tick representing closeness to getting the tumblers just right. Thanks everyone! If anyone else has other suggestions, please feel free to continue the discussion.
Another interpretation of limited effect could be that the safe is open, but damaged and the manipulation is obvious (and because it’s not a consequence, it cannot be resisted). Come to think of it, it may sound too much like a consequence…