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<blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8386695" data-attributes="member: 6809274">Since my 1-20 5E campaign wrapped earlier this year, my main group and I have been taking some new systems for a spin. New to us, anyway. This week, we kicked off Night's Black Agents -- the vampire spy thriller powered by GUMSHOE that bills itself as &quot;Jason Bourne vs Dracula&quot;. We spent most of the session building characters, which is probably more complicated than it needs to be.I dropped the newly-minted spies into a short scenario I created called &quot;The Aleppo Target&quot;. It's meant to be the James Bond-esque cold open action sequence. After completing this intro, we'll segue into &quot;Out of the House of Ashes&quot;, a scenario from the Zalozhniy Quartet campaign. That scenario is heavy on investigation and intrigue, which is why I thought we needed a hot start.To set the mood I used some drone footage of Aleppo from YouTube. It worked well. The spies were assaulting a compound Delta Force-style to capture a Syrian warlord called The Butcher of Aleppo. They moved through the compound, taking out guards, and rerouting the CCTV cameras to their mobile phones. They soon discovered the Butcher was ready for them. Instead of finding the Butcher sleeping in his bed, they found a feeble old man wired to an explosive vest. Simultaneously, their helicopter evac came under RPG attack. And their handler was kidnapped from the safe house where she was orchestrating the entire op. On that cliffhanger I called the session.NBA is built so that players can choose to automatically succeed if they spend enough points. The challenge comes from deciding if now is the best time to spend points, or if they're better saved for later. It'll be interesting to see how this feels over the course of a full adventure, but for now the players enjoyed the sense of ultra-competence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="THEMNGMNT, post: 8386695, member: 6809274"] Since my 1-20 5E campaign wrapped earlier this year, my main group and I have been taking some new systems for a spin. New to us, anyway. This week, we kicked off Night's Black Agents -- the vampire spy thriller powered by GUMSHOE that bills itself as "Jason Bourne vs Dracula". We spent most of the session building characters, which is probably more complicated than it needs to be. I dropped the newly-minted spies into a short scenario I created called "The Aleppo Target". It's meant to be the James Bond-esque cold open action sequence. After completing this intro, we'll segue into "Out of the House of Ashes", a scenario from the Zalozhniy Quartet campaign. That scenario is heavy on investigation and intrigue, which is why I thought we needed a hot start. To set the mood I used some drone footage of Aleppo from YouTube. It worked well. The spies were assaulting a compound Delta Force-style to capture a Syrian warlord called The Butcher of Aleppo. They moved through the compound, taking out guards, and rerouting the CCTV cameras to their mobile phones. They soon discovered the Butcher was ready for them. Instead of finding the Butcher sleeping in his bed, they found a feeble old man wired to an explosive vest. Simultaneously, their helicopter evac came under RPG attack. And their handler was kidnapped from the safe house where she was orchestrating the entire op. On that cliffhanger I called the session. NBA is built so that players can choose to automatically succeed if they spend enough points. The challenge comes from deciding if now is the best time to spend points, or if they're better saved for later. It'll be interesting to see how this feels over the course of a full adventure, but for now the players enjoyed the sense of ultra-competence. [/QUOTE]

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