Author: Ben Liepis

Reduced Effect on rolls with Limited Effect: Do you do this?

It’s a debate I had with a buddy and it got me wondering if others inflicted this consequence on such rolls. Personally, I’m not a fan as it turns success into failure or, if one wishes to look at it a different way in the fiction, a Lost Opportunity.

Smack my brain into gear! 🙂

We’re having trouble wrapping our heads around hunting grounds for Assassins. Other crew types can generate their own scores for profit on a preferred place to crime, however unless assassins are hired they’re really just sociopathic dicks. To us it’s a huge fictional stretch that there would be a viable amount of “assassiny things” in a 3-4 block area.

Maybe we’re missing the obvious or does anybody else have difficulty finding logical ways to deal with assassin hunting grounds? Thanks in advance, awesome people!

I’ve been thinking a lot about claims. IMO, as written the claims section is the only “weak point” of the rules. Why? Well, as written you must seize each claim as all are already owned by a faction. So, this means a crew can’t create a claim and evade negative faction status. They can’t join forces and share a claim. This doesn’t sit as well with me as I’d like. After all, if they can squat in an abandoned warehouse why can’t they have a brothel in there as well? Why would that risk war with another faction? At worse, a rival crew might be upset the PCs are invading the same market, but that’s not seizing a claim as the NPCs still have theirs.

I’ve gotten pretty good at the system but this aspect has been really bothering me as it forces extreme antagonism over other avenues.

Was the link for the Hacker/Tinkered levels released? If so, I either missed it or wasn’t sent it. :O

Envoy and Fixer oopsie:

On the claim map it reads “targets” for both, however in the descriptions it mentions “clients”. So, are you getting more coin for the type of people killed or the type of people paying? I assume the latter but wanted to make sure.

Also, have the sheets been edited and if so was there an update I missed? Thanks!

Getting claims as gifts without going to prison.

Is this feasible? I would think so. If going to prison can net you a claim, why couldn’t you get one by doing a favor on the outside? I’m looking for some ideas. LTPs are always good but might be too simple, unless linked with another LTP and possibly some scores. Hmmm…

An idea I had…

Vaedh (“Ar” is a Skovlan prefix for “new”) was the grand capitol and pride of Skovlan. The stone marvel spanned a large portion of the Emerald Shield (the name of the cliff of beautiful, green stone on the southern border of the island and bulwark against invasion). The Shattering splintered the Shield into massive spires of jagged, towering stone, the once-beautiful green now sickly. Mighty Vaedh plunged into the hungry ink, its inhabitants swallowed by stone and sea as the world broke.

Where once stood a city to rival fabled Kar’uatha (kingdom of the Other Ones, fae-like beings of legend) now stands Arvaedh, a grim and stalwart collection of steel and stone platforms linked by bridges of the same. The capitol of Skovlan and seat of Imperial power in the north. It is a city broken in body and spirit, but it still endures, a testament to the people of this harsh land.

An oddity of Arvaedh is the horizontal lightning barriers below the platforms, preventing ghosts from “climbing” to harass the living. Falling (or being thrown down) into the barriers is called “greeting Grenjhal” (the Skov god of storms).

Vaedh still resides far below its surrogate city, the shattered remains clustered around the spire bases and drowned in the waves of black. The deathlands scavengers (as well as foolhardy and desperate relic hunters) toil in this accursed place, tasked with bringing back the “glories and wonders Vaedh”. A poor excuse those in power give to justify plundering the past in the hopes of more power. Coveted most is Ahgurm’s Eye, a ruby the size of a man’s head and fabled to have given power over dragons.

Does a Leech have to use the crafting rules in order to select gadgets? If so, it seems the gadgets part of the playbook is weak. If not, too strong. Thoughts? Ideas? An obvious thing I’m missing to smack me upside the head with?

Did anybody miss out on the Special Edition? If so, we grabbed an extra and would love to gift it to somebody who wasn’t able to get it. Why? Cuz this community fucking rocks and spreading goodwill is awesome. 🙂