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6/24/2025, 4:46:25 PM
>>95939393
Ended up grabbing Reign: Leviathan from the Vola recently and was pleasantly surprised. Pretty low-key SF (all the strangeness ties back to a single unnatural conceit) and the game focuses on a sort of "administrative backgrounder" PoV which you don't see as much of in spy media outside Sandbaggers.
The campaign's well set out and Reign's faction system is robust, the main barrier to me running it would likely be the strange headspace of penpusher protagonists at a remove from the action. Don't think I have the GM skills to do it justice (yet).
I'll probably recycle it into the campier "Jagged Alliance meet Phantom Doctrine" game I'd like to run someday. Definitely hives with the ICA-aping recommendation >>95940179
>>95940524
The meat of espionage plots is in the scheming, not novel monster stat blocks so the reasons you describe for sticking to the d20 compatible ecosystem are valid but barely apply in this case. As >>95940179 says you can read stuff like Spycraft and strip everything of value with barely a glance of theechanics. Also if you're dealing with mouth breathers afraid of learning new systems then any espionage plots are pretty much doomed by their idiocy from the get-go.
Ended up grabbing Reign: Leviathan from the Vola recently and was pleasantly surprised. Pretty low-key SF (all the strangeness ties back to a single unnatural conceit) and the game focuses on a sort of "administrative backgrounder" PoV which you don't see as much of in spy media outside Sandbaggers.
The campaign's well set out and Reign's faction system is robust, the main barrier to me running it would likely be the strange headspace of penpusher protagonists at a remove from the action. Don't think I have the GM skills to do it justice (yet).
I'll probably recycle it into the campier "Jagged Alliance meet Phantom Doctrine" game I'd like to run someday. Definitely hives with the ICA-aping recommendation >>95940179
>>95940524
The meat of espionage plots is in the scheming, not novel monster stat blocks so the reasons you describe for sticking to the d20 compatible ecosystem are valid but barely apply in this case. As >>95940179 says you can read stuff like Spycraft and strip everything of value with barely a glance of theechanics. Also if you're dealing with mouth breathers afraid of learning new systems then any espionage plots are pretty much doomed by their idiocy from the get-go.
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