Character Creation Challenge 2025 27: Spies And Cons And Capers

Character Creation Challenge 2025

27: Spies And Cons And Capers

(Capers as in the genre, not Capers as in the 1920s proto-superhero game.)

Bands can work as glamorous adventurers like superspies and dashing thieves, getting in trouble in fancy international locations.

The Beatles’ second film Help! is a take-off of pulp adventures and the spy-fi of the era, complete with unnecessary international travel and some plot points that haven’t aged as well as the songs.

See also the Bond story The Living Daylights about a sniper travelling undercover as a cellist, like the classic gangster hiding a Tommy gun in a violin case.

And in the film somehow led to this.

And the Leverage episode The Studio Job about song theft, as well as the times they take over movie and TV productions and magic acts.

And Hustle does the movie con too, and there’s also the time Emma pretends to be Kylie to steal an appearance fee for a millionaire’s private party.

And if Now You See Me can get two movies out of using magic shows to rob places, you could probably do this as more than one adventure.

Thick As Thieves

“Whatever you do, don’t tell anyone”

Concept

A group of con artists posing as a band, having created hype artificially, to get performer access to a super-rich party.

Members, Leverage style

Angel Eyes, lead singer, Grifter

Milton, keyboards, Hacker

Fenwick, drums, Hitter

String, guitar, Thief

Dove, manager, Mastermind

Statistics

Hope 1

Ego 1

Fanbase 1

Cash 0

Performance Traits

Technique 2

Power 1

Stagecraft 4

Casing a joint could be a Work Scene...