08-26-2010, 06:19 AM | #21 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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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08-26-2010, 09:08 AM | #22 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
Mac is an artist! Scrounging Art.
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08-26-2010, 09:29 AM | #23 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
Heh, the A-Team would probably count too.
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08-26-2010, 10:13 AM | #24 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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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08-26-2010, 10:46 AM | #25 | |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
Quote:
The cat was thrilled.
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08-26-2010, 11:54 AM | #26 | |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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Anyway... gadgetters, like I said. Scroungers could form a mutual interest club, but others might be put-off by the very idea. Detective - "In fact, it was not the butler... but the cat!" Assembled family - *gasp*! Cat - *hisss* <leaps toward open window> |
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03-07-2013, 01:03 PM | #27 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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! M. |
03-08-2013, 05:10 AM | #28 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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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03-08-2013, 06:32 AM | #29 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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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03-08-2013, 07:32 AM | #30 |
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Re: When does one use Scrounging?
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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