Let’s Talk About Player Skill and Planning

This is the third in my player skill post series (see Let’s Talk About Player Skill and Equipment and Let’s Talk about Player Skill and Notes). In this post I talk about how players can organise themselves to steal the really valuable stuff the GM has secreted away in vaults. Introduction and Inspirations This post has three inspirations: A general urge to give players (i.e., me too!) more useful tools when playing different kinds of adventures. The theory here is if all you have is a hammer (i.e., weapons and attacks written on your character sheet) then everything looks like a nail (combat). I’m drawing from Mike Shea’s categorisation of different types of prep to do for different types of adventures, and thinking about different adventure types from the player’s perspective. I already handled the most important part of the dungeon crawl (in my view, anyway): the equipment list, and the most important part of the investigation. This covers the infiltration or heist. I wrote a couple…