Any ideas on how to represent a Sotheby's style luxury auction as a social (combat) scene? I'm thinking on a situation where the protagonist and villain have a bidding battle over a McGuffin item, with preferably other parties also joining in. How could one bring in tactical elements, allying with other bidders etc? How does the resource (wealth) level play into it?

 

I haven't been able to find any ruling in YS for forcibly moving opponents in a conflict (apart from grappling rules that cover physically throwing someone). The options to affect someone seem to be limited to stress, consequences, and maneuver aspects. So how to cover situations like air evocation blasts (physical push), panic-inducing fear (mental push), or siren song (mental pull)? I've used a rule of thumb of one zone of forced movement per shift, as with sprinting, but it quickly makes such actions quite powerful. Another issue that has come up is how to deal with pushing someone to "certain doom" from a rooftop, cliff edge or ship - how big chance should the victim have to resist such maneuver?

Any ideas or experience?

From what I've seen on this board, most campaigns seem to focus on present day and the majority of those to the USA - probably due to the player base, I guess...

Anyone else running a historical setting?

I know of Rick Neal's Fearful Symmetries campaign (http://www.rickneal.ca/?cat=334) set in early 17th century Prague

Our group is just starting a campaign in early 16th century Venice (think Assassin's Creed II without the assassins...)

Any experiences or thoughts about using this sort of setting? Do the DFRPG rules need tweaking?