Blowback
A modern-day thriller RPG inspired by the television series Burn Notice as well as the Bourne trilogy movies. Each player creates one Professional - a spy/operative who have been blacklisted - and one Civilian connected to another player's Professional. Character creation is choosing a type of Professional (general Lifer or specialized Artist) and distributing four values among the four attributes: Commando¸ Diversion¸ Pavement¸ Provocateur. Players also distribute a set of values among rated Relationships¸ as well as picking background details. The players collectively determine the job they did together that went wrong to get all the Professionals blacklisted. Play is divided into two large phases: Analysis and Operation. Resolution involves either taking a fixed number of successes equal to half of stat¸ or rolling d6s equal to stat where 4-6 is a success. All successes during the Analysis phase are kept as dice to be used in Operation phase. In addition¸ the number of success dice minus failed dice is a modifier to the next roll on that stat¸ called Momentum. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim