Tag: Vasco Brown

I have a question about adding items to the standard Load/equipment list. Early on in our campaign (about 10 sessions ago), the Lurk in our game asked if there was a way she could add a ‘concealable, hand cross-bow’ and ‘sleeping darts’ to her equipment list, so she would not have to make an Aquire Asset roll every downtime. Since her character didn’t have any skill to create these herself, I explained that she could accomplish this with a Aquire Asset roll to find a machinist and/or apothecary and a sufficiently long-term project for setting up the mechanist to produces these for her on a regular basis. She did so, and all was well in the underworld.

Then, in our most recent session, the Lurk asked if she get some sort of supernatural smoke-bombs. I grinned and flipped to the new Alchemy rules and announced that there was just such a thing. “Shadow Essence,” I said, reading the description, “and it only takes a 4-clock project to get 1 dose.” “That is exactly what I want”, she replied, “but can I add it to my Load list permanently?” That make me stop and reconsider. The way we had been handling such a thing in the past worked fine for us, but seems to fly in the face of the new rules for Alchemy. I’m currently contemplating how to facilitate this in way allows me to be a fan of the character, while still honoring the spirit of the rules.

Has anyone had a similar situation in their game. If so, how did you handle it?

In one of our recent sessions, the PC crew, the Black Scales, met with Candra the leader of a splinter faction of Crows that opposed Lyssa’s take over of their gang. They made a deal that the Black Scales would assassinate Lyssa, and in exchange the Crows would pay tithe to the Black Scales once Candra was able to regain control of the group.

We decided to represent the tithe like this: (Crow’s Tier Roll) – Fortune Roll = coin in downtime. The ‘Quality’ of the fortune roll depends on how hindered the Crow’s operations are (unhindered = 1, at war or actively hunted by the Bluecoats / Inspectors = 4).

Has anyone set up something similar in their game? If so, how did you handle it?

In my group’s last session, we realized that we weren’t sure how to handle PCs aiding PCs in downtime actions, since it had never come up before. We see that the aided PC gets +1d to their roll, but does the aiding PC have to also spend a downtime action? Or does he spend 2 stress, as per the regular aiding rules?

I might have missed this in the text, but I didn’t see a clear explanation during my last re-read.

Hey John Harper , in the section “Crew Advancement” on page 18:

I’m reading that the PC’s get the “1 Coin (+2 per Tier) as bonus payment” ONLY when they Advance (i.e. mark 8 Crew Adancement ticks), not automatically at the end of every session. Is that correct?