Leverage: The Roleplaying Game: Get Ready to Get Even
Matt Forbeck, Cam Banks, Robert Donoghue, Fred Hicks, Clark Valentine, Ryan Macklin
Language: English
Pages: 210
ISBN: 2:00261294
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The rich and powerful, they take what they want. You steal it back. You were bad guys, but there are worse people out there. The weak and the helpless need you. You provide... leverage.
Based on the TV series, The Leverage Role Playing Game puts you in the middle of a dysfunctional but highly-specialized group of con-artists, criminals, and crooks who are trying to turn over a new leaf. You protect the victims of corporations, mobsters, and corrupt politicians by using your expert skills to outwit and overcome the real bad guys.
Leverage is designed for 5 players and one GM ideally.
Each player picks one of the roles from the show to be their primary, and then choose two more to be secondary and tirteary roles. Those being; Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Mastermind, Thief
The game uses appropriate ability score (strength/willpower) + role(hitter/hacker) + specialties(mixed martial arts/parkour) +/- distinctions(drunkard/kleptomaniac) + assets(helpful janitor/length of pipe) vs the GMs roll.
Talents(Badass/Social Center) let you override the basice rules, ala Feats in D&D. Plot Points allow you to modify rolls after the fact, either with dice, additional assets or possibly environmental bonuses. One of the more novel ideas in Leverage is the use of Plot Points to narrate Flashbacks.
Each gameplay session is meant to mirror an episode of the show structure and flow. Players are introduced or otherwise run into a client, plan a caper, overcome the inevitable adversities, and ultimately make the world a better place.
deceptive combatant who baits his opponents with and make sure they’re all working together, executing feints and distraction before putting them out of the his main weapon—the plan. Pick your metaphor: the fight. Suggested Talents: Threat Assessment, Put That Mastermind is the conductor to the Crew’s orchestra, Gun Away the director to the Crew’s cast, the captain to the THE CREW The Platoon Sergeant: This Hitter d10/ Crew’s…uh…crew. Mastermind d8 is the team leader’s
Trigger simply justifies the flashback, it doesn’t require it; it’s up to the Crewmember that would have the flashback. Establishing Distinctions Trigger: A question or comment from another Crewmember that would trigger introspective reflection on your part. It should be somewhat prying, like “So where’d you grow up?” or “What made you want to join this Crew?” or “You’d have to be crazy to try something like that.” Scene Description: You describe a brief flashback scene from your background that
perhaps irreparably. MISTAKEN IDENTITY: The Client has been mistaken for someone else, someone who has serious troubles. EXTORTED: Someone is blackmailing the Client into doing something horrible. INJURED: The Client has been injured, maimed, or traumatized. KILLED: The Client has been killed—in which case the actual Client is someone who cared about the dead person. THREATENED: The Client has been threatened by someone and fears for his life and limbs. FRAMED: The Client has been framed
great Clients, but don’t discount them as education, medical research, and industry. Harvard’s potential Crewmembers, either. nearby in Cambridge, after all. There’s no shortage of big Boston THE BRIEFING The Leverage Crew relocated to Boston, Mass after the First & Second David Jobs left them scattered to the companies involved in questionable practices, many of which hire some of Crime World’s choicest ex-military thugs and security personnel to keep these practices hidden away. THE CREW
Blackpoole an ultimatum: resign now, and better to catch him in the act rather than merely under Nate will leave him alone. Blackpoole, naturally, refuses; suspicion. But they wait too long; the team’s plan goes nor does he call the police, not taking Nate’s threat into effect and the museum is evacuated—leaving Nate seriously. alone in the Two Davids Gallery. THE TOOLBOX THE CRIME WORLD Back together they’re able to pool their talents—but Blackpoole and his men rush back in as soon as