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Old 08-26-2010, 06:19 AM   #21
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I think Scrapheap Challenge (a.k.a. Junkyard Wars) would be the go-to TV show for examples of scrounging. And McGyver, of course.

(Or would that be Scrounging Sport?)
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Old 08-26-2010, 09:08 AM   #22
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Mac is an artist! Scrounging Art.
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Old 08-26-2010, 09:29 AM   #23
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Heh, the A-Team would probably count too.
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Old 08-26-2010, 10:13 AM   #24
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A short list of people likely to have Scrounging in the real world: anybody who's very poor, found-items sculptors, guerrillas, hackers who Dumpster-dive, inventors, laboratory scientists, mechanics, military soldiers and NCOs, prisoners, salvors, squatters, and survivalists. Oh, and cats . . . who find something you assumed was lost two years ago and proceed to bat it around on the floor.
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Old 08-26-2010, 10:46 AM   #25
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Oh, and cats . . . who find something you assumed was lost two years ago and proceed to bat it around on the floor.
My pet theory is that it wasn't lost, it was just hidden wherever the cat hides things. We moved a sideboard at my mothers place and found a good fifty-odd wine corks, a heap of rubber bands, the odd ball of tinfoil, and other 'treasures' underneath it.

The cat was thrilled.
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Old 08-26-2010, 11:54 AM   #26
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My pet theory is that it wasn't lost, it was just hidden wherever the cat hides things. We moved a sideboard at my mothers place and found a good fifty-odd wine corks, a heap of rubber bands, the odd ball of tinfoil, and other 'treasures' underneath it.
... the tell-tale heart? ;)

Anyway... gadgetters, like I said. Scroungers could form a mutual interest club, but others might be put-off by the very idea.

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Old 03-07-2013, 01:03 PM   #27
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This is a bump, but is the most relevant thread.

As GMs how would you guys game the use of "Scrounging" in a UrbanEx / Abandoned Building Scrounging style session?

Can't conjure up better way to phrase it, sorry!

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Old 03-08-2013, 05:10 AM   #28
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The movie "operation pettycoat" (and the remake) have some of the greatest example of military scrounging i know off :)

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Hmmm...missed this thread the first time around....my favorite scrounger on film is James Garner. Not the Great Escape however; in the Americanization of Emily...where he plays an US Admiral's dogrobber in London in the months leading to D-Day...very interesting and Julie Andrews does a nice job also!
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Old 03-08-2013, 06:32 AM   #29
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Observation is scouting for criminal, espionage, military, or police purposes; it's for spotting guards, security, and counter-observers, and concealed vehicles and strongpoints.
I would love to hear more detail on use of this skill. I'm never sure how much I should focus on the "without letting others know that you are watching" part of the skill description on 211.
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Old 03-08-2013, 07:32 AM   #30
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It seems to me that the "military scrounging" as depicted in movies would not just use scrounging skill. It might start with a scrounging roll, with a complimentary roll on something like soldier or administration, to locate the item. Then any number of social skills could be used to acquire it, administration, diplomacy, fast-talk, gambling, intimidation, merchant, etc. If it is a complicated process, it might take using a number of these skills in succession, or using one or more of them as complimentary skills to another.
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