

Instead, the designers went several layers beyond what was needed to put together a licensed RPG, and instead created an extremely well put together system that not only captures the show perfectly but also gives a ton of tools for players and GMs to create your heists. Leverage: The Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game based on the Leverage television series using the Cortex Plus system. Fantasy Grounds, one of the leading virtual tabletop platforms, now offers officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons content from.

Feats represent special tricks or abilities a character has acquired through training, luck, or as a quirk of his birth. Now, it would have been easy to put together a game where there’s a bunch of useful skills, you roll some dice, add the number to the skill, and go on. You assemble your crew of a grifter, hacker, hitter, mastermind, and thief and pull off one job in an evening to help the helpless and provide leverage. Each episode is one complete heist- like watching Ocean’s Eleven in an hour (and with only five people.) It turns out I wasn’t the only one watching Leverage for RPG research- the has just been released from to bring the same sort of stories to your RPG table.

For those who don’t know, Leverage is a show about five highly skilled con-artists and thieves who have decided to help those who have been wronged and have no place left to go. While researching powers for PC, I took notes from a number of sources, and one that bubbled to the top was the. Long time readers will remember the, my attempt to merge d20 Modern with D&D 4e.
