{"id":2798,"date":"2016-04-13T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2016-04-14T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:56:54","slug":"modern-agents-quick-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/modern-agents-quick-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Agents Quick-Start Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gamingballistic.blogspot.com\/p\/gurps-day.html\">GURPSDay<\/a><\/em>\u00a0full of more great GURPS material than you can shake a bag of d6s at!<\/p>\n<p>Today for your gaming enjoyment, I offer up a four-person team of modern agents created with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/series\/quick-start\/\">the Quick-Start rules<\/a>: the Face, the Hitter, the Infiltrator, and the Shooter. They are built as &#8220;Heroic&#8221; PCs, and could be used as FBI agents, mercenaries, a ring of thieves, etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2813\" title=\"The Full Crew\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2813 ext-pdf\">The Full Crew<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2809\" title=\"Face\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2809 ext-pdf\">Face<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2810\" title=\"Hitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2810 ext-pdf\">Hitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2811\" title=\"Infiltrator\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2811 ext-pdf\">Infiltrator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2812\" title=\"Shooter\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2812 ext-pdf\">Shooter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for fully realized characters along these same archetypes, be sure to check out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warehouse23.com\/products\/SJG37-0307\">Action 1 &#8211; Heroes<\/a>.&#8221; These four, though, are designed for fast play, and as examples of fast creation &#8212; total time to make all four characters was about 40 minutes (feels like most of that was typing!), which would naturally be closer to 10-15 minutes if they were all being created simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying creating Quick-Start characters the last few months. The players who have used it love being able to hit the ground running and get a game underway quickly (as do I). Sometimes they later build on the characters and expand them, sometimes they just keep them as-is. Either way, they are <em>playable<\/em>, which is the important thing.<\/p>\n<p>The only real tweak I made for these agents was to give them all a second wildcard skill (&#8220;Trained Agent!&#8221;) to simulate their broad training, and the &#8220;First Aid&#8221; skill at IQ for free (for survivability and mercy).<\/p>\n<p>I hope pre-made characters like this are helpful and can cut your prep down a bit. If you end up using them for anything, I&#8217;d love to hear how it goes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bodyguards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bodyguards-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"bodyguards\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bodyguards-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bodyguards.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--Precis - Today I offer up a four-person team of \"Heroic\" level Quick-Start agents useful as FBI agents, mercenaries, a ring of thieves, etc.: the Face, the Hitter, the Infiltrator, and the Shooter. 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