My ongoing campaign of the post-apocalyptic RPG
Other Dust is ... well ... ongoing! In the last few sessions, the players have been solving a murder mystery and looking for a treasure map. This culminated in a heist at the closest thing a junkyard bartertown has to a luxury hotel. I decided to set the whole thing up with miniatures, because representing multiple different things going on simultaneously is an important part of the heist genre.
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| The hotel and its compound. |
The caper-comedy genre is one of my comfort zones, I think, and part of that is because it's possible to introduce consistent genre elements in a way that's still surprising. I decided to just make a quick random complications table that would let me keep things moving without having to plan everything out in advance. I rolled once every so often to get things like "a vehicle arrives" or "unwanted social interaction" or "room service!" just to keep the NPCs moving around the space.
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| A consortium of investors try to get Jeb interested in their new product. |
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| The law! The red-robed junkborgs, merciless enforcers of The Perfesser's law, turn up when Jeb sets off the alarm. |
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| Twiggs spots lizardy medical genius Patches tampering with the ingredients outside the kitchen. |
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| Twiggs fails to talk his way past the housekeeping staff. |
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| Our heroes(?): L to R: Jaime, Twiggs, Jeb, Reesix |
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| The night manager is having a pretty bad day. |
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