#RPGaDAY2020 25: LEVER

#RPGaDAY2020

25: LEVER

“People like that, corporations like that, they have all the money, they have all the power, and they use it make people like you go away. Right now, you’re suffering under an enormous weight. We provide... Leverage.”

The Leverage RPG is now out of print, but series creator John Rogers wrote a guide to modern con and heist games for Fate Worlds.

And with the series coming back, we might get more.

It’s set in a heightened real world for no monsters and hardly any no time travel, but it’s a great fit for RPGs as it features a small group of irregulars with clearly defined roles (which become the stats in the game) and many RPGs are heists anyway. Add the Flashback mechanics and other tricks to avoid hours of planning.

It’s been on my GMing backlog for a while now.

And yes, Les Fantômes in Trinity Continuum is absolutely in this genre.

But anyway, the series title refers to this:

Leverage is using non-standard ways to deal with problems.

And what’s more player character than that?