Equipment

Agents are typically equip with guns, cars, clothing, safe houses, and various gadgets. Don’t worry about writing down every single piece gear you have. You only need to track with possessions you actually care about. Unique toys. Don’t have to write down the provisions you’re carrying or how many flashlights you have. Important Equipment has Ranks, like Traits or Assets.

An example of Equipment is James Bond’s “Walther PPK”. Sure, Bond can pick up the Sten submachine gun used by Dr. No’s men and shoot it just as well, if not better, than anyone else. But when the PPK is in his hands… he seems just a little more intimidating.

Equipment is rolled whenever it comes in handy and adds a bonus equal to its Rank. In a car chase having a Rank 4 Maserati GranTurismo S Automatic might be quite helpful but that doesn’t mean you can’t use an unranked Volvo you found on the street to make your escape. It is just that escaping in a broken down Volvo is way more difficult than escaping in a top of the line sports car.

An Equipment Rank can translate into a number of things, its usefulness, quality, personal attachment, or any thing else you can think of. A Rank 2 Knife might be a little sharper then a Rank 1 Knife, or maybe its just because it’s your father’s knife. The details of why the Equipment is the rank it is can be left up to the Agent.

Equipment is purchased at the same rate as Traits and Assets but can also be handed out by Operations. Equipment purchased by the character is considered to be replaceable. At a price. That Rank 4 Maserati we mentioned earlier might have been left in Paris when you had to use that Volvo to escape.  Once you get back home you can get a new Maserati, one Rank lower. If you ever leave your gear in the field, it looses a Rank.

Agents can also share Equipment but unlike Assets they do not get separate Ranks. Your Rank 4 Maserati is a Rank 4 Maserati for anyone who uses it. When Virgo uses his effect to find a Rank 5 Dragunov he can hand it over to Aries and it continues to function as a Rank 5 Dragunov. Of course if you give your favorite gun to Aries and he leaves it in Berlin you still stuffer the Rank loss with its replacement.

There are times when Equipment can be found in the field, in the previous example of a car chase, Operations might point out a Lexus LF-A sitting on the street, a Rank 2 car to use for your escape. For a time you have access to a decent Lexus LF-A but if you ever have to leave it behind there isn’t a new one waiting for you at him. This is the cost of free Equipment, it’s not easily replaced when lost.