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I'm thinking of creating The Rat, just a real subservient toady of a playbook. Most of their abilities would be focused on avoiding negative attention. Sort of like The Slide, but cowardly instead of smooth.

Sam Walker4 years ago(+1)

I like the sound of that! Would be cool to add mechanics around avoiding Heat, or maybe a form of Help/Group Action that is more detrimental to the Rat than usual, but offers some extra benefit to the Crew.

Violet Grist4 years ago(+1)

Thanks, definitely gonna try something with heat.

I was just about to say that I was going for more of a selfish coward type , so a self-sacrificing ability probably wouldn't work thematically; but now that I'm thinking about it, it would be fun to have an ability where other players get advantage for sacrificing you on their own.

Dissonance4 years ago(+1)

This is a cool niche! Would love to see it. I imagine their abilities would have a lot of upsides and a lot of downsides.

Violet Grist4 years ago

Thanks! I'm thinking they'll be high risk, high reward. Either flying under people's radars, or immediately distrusted by everyone in the room.

Lowgun4 years ago

I like it! I was thinking of something similar, inspired by Adam Koebel’s design sessions for Womb Of Night. He worked on a playbook named “the Scum” which had, as a touchstone, Grima Wormtongue for example. Really neat idea!

Violet Grist4 years ago

Nice! Haven't seen that, but Wormtongue is exactly what I was going for. Him and Starscream.

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