16: Leverage
Shorthand for the con and heist genre, as the best dedicated game I know for it.
(Trinity Continuum works with Les Fantômes and the Dramatic Editing flashback rules also featured in Assassins, but I trust you know that.)
And also because Leverage is about using cons and heists for good, fighting injustice through trickery.
The show has some Christmas-adjacent episodes involving saving a church and stopping an evil toymaker as well as full-on Christmas episodes in season three (where they go all-in on A Christmas Carol and Santa) and five, and Leverage: Redemption season one. (And the original series finale premiered on Christmas Day, a week after the S5 Christmas episode, while very much not being festive at all.)
There’s also the option to go all the way and apply heist story rules to Christmas with the Santa break-in subgenre, as seen with the Prep & Landing animated specials where elves scout houses to deliver presents to in the style of Mission: Impossible.
Delivering a present without being seen seems sort of apt, so might happen as an aside.
I also considered a “winter wonderland” park scam, but that wrote up as kind of a downer. (The crew could arrange an event as the scammers promised, but it would have to be for a smallish target audience to get everybody affected.)
But anyway, we’re here for heroic thieves. And since it’s Christmas, keeping things light and relatively low stakes. Relatively.
The Three Wise Men Job
The manager of a small town’s Christmas club investments thought this was on the up-and-up, it wasn’t a suspiciously large payout. But now a couple dozen families are going to have nothing for the season and a financier has made off with the money. He’d been doing some sketchy things throughout his career but decided this was the year to cash in. And the crew find five more towns he did this to. This distinct lack of holiday spirit must be addressed.
“Let’s go steal a Christmas village.”
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