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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Denaes" data-source="post: 2707506" data-attributes="member: 33738">Automatic weapons are popular in spy movies, not not nearly a requirement and are actually more condusive to action movies (spy or otherwise). I chose to run the first Mission without automatic weapons. We added them into the 3rd mission. Automatic weapons are very cirucumstantial. A player might not want to use one in many cases because of the civilian factor and they're not condusive to staying under cover. Villains may not want to use them in public because they're very illegal, tend to draw massive amounts of attention and they too could have morals regarding civilians as well. That all depends on how you want to run your game. There are spy movies that don't use automatic weapons and some that use them very selectivly. Some use them very heavily.Recoil "rules" are just noted somewere on the sheet by the weapon or on a list of bonuses. If the player is too weak they mark "-1 to hit". If it's a burst weapon they mark "-X (difference between strength & recoil) to hit on burst" If it makes a difference, they might make not of bonuses when "Braced". This is something that adds time to character generation but not to playing. I havn't had Sprawleded come up yet. Just paperclip or bookmark that page (or print out the page with the table on it). If someone is KOed, there isn't anything to do. If they're Knocked Down, then you'll have to look up the status condition once and you'll know what it does. Thats why you might want to run a basic mission - Caliber I or II - which isn't supposed to be a "Base Assault" (which, by the way, has nothing to do with spies as much as being an action movie staple) so the players only have sidearms. So what if the first mission you run isn't 100% spy-action movie? There are so many spy movies around I'm sure you're fitting one of their molds. There is just more there in the book than you're going to use in any single adventure/mission so there's no sense burdening yourself learning too much at once. Like trying to stat out a whole campaign world when your players are just in a small town. Note on Movies, character & PCsBad news is that everyone is going to say "I want to play a character like..." you're going to worry about why a first level character can't be a two weapon fighting machine from a John Wu film... and then why their PC isn't as great as X character from some movie.Most Action/Spy movies are awful for group RPG sessions. You often have one character doing everything and then possibly a fill in sidekick or two helping out. But a RPG is a group/team effort, not an individual effort. Unless you want 3 players "waiting in the van" the whole game, you're going to have to think carefully about the team and what sort of game you want to run. The Itallian Job is a good group movie, but even then, whoever plays "Napster" is going to just be making a few skill rolls. Thats pretty boring. I'd plan to expect players to compare themselves to movie equivilents. I've had people comparing themselves to Bond & that dude (Tom Cruise) in MI and we have to remind them that it's a group game, not all about one player who does it all.</blockquote>

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