Friday, January 29, 2016

Last night, we did chargen for Night's Black Agents.

Last night, we did chargen for Night's Black Agents.

I'll be playing a former watcher / muscle for the world bank. I find the leaders of countries about to default on their loans, watch them real good, then beat 'em up.

There are some things I really like about the gumshoe system, and NBA in particular. Places where I'm fuzzy on decisions that were made, and places where I would have done it differently.

For example: spending points to get the clues? YES. That is precisely right. MOS? Yes, please: the "I win by infinite" button works really well within the genre of competence porn.

Distributing dozens of points? That's not a thing I love.

The layout of the character sheets? Those, I think, could be a whole lot better. There was a lot of compressing numbers. Luckily, that is fixable.

We've tried this genre before on our rotating games Thursday night. I'm hopeful this time we will have enough characters to make it happen.

3 comments:

  1. I'm sure you could probably take the point buy system of GUMSHOE skills and use a pyramid structure like Fate Core does. "You get two skills at rank 4, three at rank 3, and five at rank 2" or whatever

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  2. I am so looking forward to my ex-Soviet talking with your capitalist fanatic.

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  3. He's not a fanatic, he just doesn't like people who welch on their debts.

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