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<blockquote data-quote="Silent Cartographer" data-source="post: 4581861" data-attributes="member: 57089">My example isn't D&amp;D, but fits the James Bond example to a &quot;T&quot;. Shadowrun adventure scenarios almost universally follow this formula. I ran a very successful SR2-SR3 (with a SR4 epilog) over the course of several years, during which the players fine-tuned their characters to a well-oiled velvet fist operation. They started off learning the ropes of standard 'legwork' stuff, pumping NPC contacts, etc. They worked up through hard-core interrogation and brute force methods and eventually developed agent provocateur strategies; compelling others to act on their behalf through bribery, kidnapping, extortion, informing, etc. All the characters developed non-combat roles related to investigation, whether it was the usual faceman skills, or hacking, or an extensive (exhaustive) network of contacts and informants. Of course, they were all still combat monsters, too, lol.That may be too much modern flavor for D&amp;D, but toned downed a bit and mixed in with the usual D&amp;D tropes can make for some effective James Bond style fantasy investigation adventuring. My main 3.0 campaign was a Greyhawk Slavers 'adventure path' run Shadowrun style; the party started in Dyvers and were hired by various employers, leading them to eventually working for secretly for Tenser as their ultimate <a href="http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Johnson" target="_blank">Mr. Johnson</a>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silent Cartographer, post: 4581861, member: 57089"] My example isn't D&D, but fits the James Bond example to a "T". [I]Shadowrun[/I] adventure scenarios almost universally follow this formula. I ran a very successful SR2-SR3 (with a SR4 epilog) over the course of several years, during which the players fine-tuned their characters to a well-oiled velvet fist operation. They started off learning the ropes of standard 'legwork' stuff, pumping NPC contacts, etc. They worked up through hard-core interrogation and brute force methods and eventually developed [I]agent provocateur[/I] strategies; compelling others to act on their behalf through bribery, kidnapping, extortion, informing, etc. All the characters developed non-combat roles related to investigation, whether it was the usual faceman skills, or hacking, or an extensive ([I]exhaustive[/I]) network of contacts and informants. Of course, they were all still [B]combat monsters[/B], too, lol. That may be too much modern flavor for D&D, but toned downed a bit and mixed in with the usual D&D tropes can make for some effective James Bond style fantasy investigation adventuring. My main 3.0 campaign was a Greyhawk [I]Slavers[/I] 'adventure path' run [I]Shadowrun[/I] style; the party started in Dyvers and were hired by various employers, leading them to eventually working for secretly for Tenser as their ultimate [URL="http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Johnson"]Mr. Johnson[/URL]. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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