[whswhs]

When I ran a fixers campaign, initially we had the players actually plan out the entire scheme ahead of time, and then carry it out. And since their characters were all incredibly competent, this was a series of completely predictable successes. After just a couple of times, all but one of the players were saying that this was totally boring and they would just as soon not play.

What I came up with instead was to allow the "planner" character to make a Leadership roll (with complementary skill rolls from other PCs). And for every two successes, he got one chance during the caper to say, "Ah, but my plan allowed for that!" and pull a rabbit out of his hat. It seemed to work pretty well. At least it emulated the experience of watching a caper movie.