Cool, thanks for sharing Richard. I've been doing mine in a Wordpress blog but that's obviously a totally different sort of beast.

Thanks for that - I'll go and try to find a copy of that. Looked at a couple of reviews on the internets and it seems promising!

@Arcteryx: Look, it being easy to deal with doesn't mean it's not a problem. And if it's equally unfair for everyone, it's still a problem.

Problem: flying thing. Here's my boom-stick. See? No longer a problem. Totally not unfair at all.

@Arcteryx: In most cases, I woul agree with you. However, as in most cases even the possesion of weapons in Germany is illegal, this can bring up many problems. And for some of these problems a simple refuse of a compel doesn't work IMO.
But I think if one of the characters has a license because of his background, most other stuff is up to roleplaying and smart using of  the weapons...

I totally get that. And if that's an entertaining state to impose on the game and the players, cool. But I'm betting any action movie with awesomesauce^tm that takes place in Germany - and was made there - probably conveniently misplaced this section of the criminal code.

Hey, I'm not saying gratituous violence and a high body count is the only way to inject some fun & games into a game, but sometimes when you have to send in the ninjas (see reference in Spirit Of The Century), their ninja-foo might come off a bit weak without some arguments of the sharp-pointy-and-leadcoated persuasion.

I'd just do whatever provides the most entertainment, to be honest. If all movies & action novels out there had heroes or villians who followed their country's laws to the letter, there'd be a lot of boring movies out there.

I'm always hunting around for maps and I came across this site while looking for resources on an opera house that I was going to set an encounter in; I link to that specific page because it is an example of the kind of floorplans that are available, plus photos from all vantage points & views. Hope it's not out of place to put a link here, but wanted to share with the rest of you who may be looking for a similar resource. There're tons of modern buildings & hard to find plans for things like museums, exhibition halls, that sort of thing.

http://www.archdaily.com/115949/guangzhou-opera-house-zaha-hadid-architects/ground-floor-plan-316/

If anyone has any other favourites I'd love to hear about them...

I do like this aspect (no pun intended) of the game; that a lot of the "mechanical" balance actually lies in the narrative of the game.

Because as I see it, the power is as equally rife with liability as it is with benefit - if played right. Hoping to hear arguments against it as I'm set to mark it down to 0 in my game.