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Get Smart Name Generator

by David Dorward on Oct.01, 2009, under RPG, Spycraft

One day I might get around to running a Get Smart game using Spycraft 2.0. Crafty are even nice enough to define a base set of campaign qualities for Light Hearted so I don’t even need to dig through the list of options.

In the meantime, however, I present:

The Get Smart Name Generator
d100 Name
1 Agent 1
2 Agent 2
3 Agent 3
4 Agent 4
5 Agent 5
6 Agent 6
7 Agent 7
8 Agent 8
9 Agent 9
10 Agent 10
11 Agent 11
12 Agent 12 is an NPC. Reroll.
13 Agent 13 is an NPC. Reroll.
14 Agent 14
15 Agent 15
16 Agent 16
17 Agent 17
18 Agent 18
19 Agent 19
20 Agent 20
21 Agent 21
22 Agent 22
23 Agent 23
24 Agent 24
25 Agent 25
26 Agent 26
27 Agent 27
28 Agent 28
29 Agent 29
30 Agent 30
31 Agent 31
32 Agent 32
33 Agent 33
34 Agent 34
35 Agent 35
36 Agent 36
37 Agent 37
38 Agent 38
39 Agent 39
40 Agent 40
41 Agent 41
42 Agent 42
43 Agent 43
44 Agent 44 is an NPC. Reroll.
45 Agent 45
46 Agent 46
47 Agent 47
48 Agent 48
49 Agent 49
50 Agent 50
51 Agent 51
52 Agent 52
53 Agent 53
54 Agent 54
55 Agent 55
56 Agent 56
57 Agent 57
58 Agent 58
59 Agent 59
60 Agent 60
61 Agent 61
62 Agent 62
63 Agent 63
64 Agent 64
65 Agent 65
66 Agent 66
67 Agent 67
68 Agent 68
69 Agent 69
70 Agent 70
71 Agent 71
72 Agent 72
73 Agent 73
74 Agent 74
75 Agent 75
76 Agent 76
77 Agent 77
78 Agent 78
79 Agent 79
80 Agent 80
81 Agent 81
82 Agent 82
83 Agent 83
84 Agent 84
85 Agent 85
86 Maxwell Smart is an NPC. Reroll.
87 Agent 87
88 Agent 88
89 Agent 89
90 Agent 90
91 Agent 91
92 Agent 92
93 Agent 93
94 Agent 94
95 Agent 95
96 Agent 96
97 Agent 97
98 Agent 98
99 Agent 99 is an NPC. Reroll.
100 Agent 100

If two players get the same result — reroll.

List of named NPCs via Wikipedia.

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Spycraft 2.0 is approaching

by David Dorward on Sep.16, 2008, under Spycraft

Forbidden Planet recently turned 30 and gave away some nice big 30% discounts, I couldn’t resist and picked up a copy of Spycraft 2.0.

This is a scary book, it has 500 pages and I can’t find any fluff in it. Most of it is rules, but there is a little bit of advice for GMs thrown in. It does cover everything, and, unlike most games, doesn’t dramatically downplay everything except combat.

The rules for a chase sequence, for instance, involve a series of opposed rolls and an abstract distance between the participents. Each turn the two sides pick a strategy, which modifies their skill roll and provides a number of possible outcomes (such as changing the distance between the two parties, forcing the opponent to drive through dangerous terrain (or loose ground) or giving a bonus to attacks – yes, gunfire can be exchanged during a chase). The winner picks the outcome they want from the strategy they chose (and if they won by a lot, they get to pick multiple outcomes).

Complicated? It looks that way, but I like the look of it, and am looking forward to giving it a try.

As it happens, a couple of friends have moved back to the area recently (from exciting locales such as ‘the wrong side of London’ and ‘Uganda’) which gives me a suitable pool of victims to try it out on. We’ve been tossing around ideas and it looks like we’ll have:

  • The tech guy (“Flinkman? No, not Flickman. Like the tech guy from Alias.” “That’s Flinkman.”)
  • The martial artist driver
  • The stealthy killer
  • and one other

It is early days and we just have broad strokes from a couple of emails so far, but it looks like the concept is shaping up nicely.

As a D20 based (in the loosest possible sense) game, Spycraft is almost certainly going to benefit from a battlemat so I think I’m going to have to invest in some more miniatures from the Street Violence range (I’ll take any excuse to buy them, the sets have some really nice figures in them, I just need to find time to attack the ones I have already with paint brushes).

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