[Social Engineering] Find a specific person in a foreign city (Known Individuals)

[Lamech]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I'm assuming you mean in the end. It's (IMHO) perfectly okay to start chasing half a dozen trails only to exclude all but one by the end of the adventure.

Hmm... maybe I didn't quite explain this right. The description the PC's have needs to specify one person.

If the PC's are given the job of "Find the man with natural blue hair, grey eyes and a chicken tattoo on his ankle. He is 23 years old." And they go to New York and low and behold, they find three people who have all those qualifications? They won't be able to find the "right" one. OTOH, if the "right" person is actually 25 years old, they won't be able to figure it out. They want a 23 year old.

The description can be pretty vague "The blonde kid who worked at my Dad's store three years ago" is enough as long as there is only one blonde kid who worked at the Dad's store three years ago. If there were three its not. If there were zero its not.

Basically when the PCs are given the target, whatever they are given as a description must describe one, and only one person.