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 General Information
The following Living Spycraft rules are in effect as of
December 1, 2004.
All new text as of this edition is highlighted in blue.
This document provides instruction for creating agents in the
GENERAL
Living Spycraft game environment and guidance to players and
judges when participating in Living Spycraft events.
Living Spycraft adventures (referred to as “serials”) follow the
INFORMATION
standard RPGA format, being grouped into single-round (4-hour) references
and two-round (8-hour) events. Each player should have an agent
Several books are referenced in this document.
sheet and a career dossier prepared before an event begins, as well
They are:
as any other required documents (as determined by their agent
history and the rules in this document). 3rd Ed. Dungeons & Dragons™ — This system provides some
Special Note: This is a FLUID document, and subject to basic material for agent creation and advancement in Living
change at any time. Please always check for new versions before Spycraft, as defined on page 13 of the Spycraft Espionage
running any Living Spycraft events. Handbook. Dungeons & Dragons books currently incorporated
into the Living Spycraft campaign include:
Table Of Contents • Core Rulebook I: Player’s Handbook™.
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Spycraft™ — These books comprise the core system for Living
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Spycraft. All material from this product line may be applied to
Required Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
Living Spycraft agents and serials unless otherwise specified in
Document Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
this document. Spycraft books currently incorporated into the
Special Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
Living Spycraft campaign include:
Agent Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
Living Spycraft Iconic (Demo) Agents . . . . . . . . . . 04 • Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
Agent Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
• Spycraft: 1960s Decade Book.
Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
Living Spycraft Regional Branches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05 • Spycraft: Agency Sourcebook.
Meta-Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
• Spycraft: Battlegrounds Sourcebook.
Personal Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
Finishing Touches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 • Spycraft: Faceman/Snoop Class Guide.
Agent Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
• Spycraft: Fixer/Pointman Class Guide.
Career Dossier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
Agent Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 • Spycraft: Gentlemen’s Agreement Season Book.
Departments and Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
• Spycraft: Mastermind Sourcebook.
Base Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08
Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 • Spycraft: Modern Arms Guide.
Skills and Skill Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
• Spycraft: Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide.
Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 • Spycraft: U.S. Militaries Sourcebook.
Bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
• Spycraft: World Militaries Sourcebook.
Standard-Issue Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Standard-Issue Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Shadowforce Archer™ — These books provide supplemental
Personal Gadgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 material for the Spycraft system. Material from these books may
Vehicles and Vehicular Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 be applied to Living Spycraft agents and serials only as specifi-
Other Agent Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 cally permitted in this document. Shadowforce Archer books
Agent Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 currently incorporated into the Living Spycraft campaign include:
Agent Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
• Shadowforce Archer Worldbook.
Game Control Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Gaining a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 • SFA: The African Alliance Chamber Book.
Commendation Certificates (“Certs”) . . . . . . . . . . . 35
• SFA: The Archer Foundation Chamber Book.
The Living Spycraft Hall of Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 • SFA: The European Commonwealth Chamber Book.
Living Spycraft Contacts, Forum, and FAQ . . . . . . . 36
• SFA: The Hand of Glory Threat Book.
Minimum Agents Per Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Agent Level Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 • SFA: The Pan-Asian Collective Chamber Book.
RPGA Die Bumps and Other Certs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
• SFA: The Shop Threat Book.
Living Spycraft-Specific Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Printed Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Stargate SG-1™ — These books provide supplemental material
Available Serials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 for the Spycraft system. Material from these books may be applied
Terrortory Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 to Living Spycraft agents and serials only as specifically
permitted in this document. Stargate SG-1 books currently
incorporated into the Living Spycraft campaign include:
• Stargate SG-1 Rulebook.

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Required Materials
The following materials are required when playing Living
Spycraft: At least one copy of each should be available at each
Living Spycraft table.
• (GC) Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
• (GC) Spycraft Modern Arms Guide.
• (GC) Spycraft Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide.
• (GC) The Living Spycraft Master Rules Document (MRD) — this
document, latest edition (v1.7).
• (GC) The official Spycraft Errata Document (SED) — latest
edition (v1.7).
• (Players) All regional and printed support materials relating to
each agent at the table. These materials must be brought by
each player, not the GC. When an agent option or rule a play-
er wishes to bring into play comes into question and the play-
er lacks the required reference, the GC decides whether the
agent option or rule applies or not, and if so, how it impacts
the current game.
The current errata document may be found in PDF format on
the Resources page of the official Spycraft website:
http://www.spycraftccg.com/rpg/resources.html
Additionally, the GC and/or players may want to bring copies
of the remaining Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 books, as needed to support their agents and actions.
Document Updates
When additional agent options are added to this document,
players may add them to their agents at the next typically allowed
opportunity (e.g. when the agent gains a level or otherwise
becomes eligible for the benefit). Agents may not be re-created
due to changes in this document.
Special Allowance
Due to the delay leading up to v1.5 of this document,
each player may modify each of their current agents once
(and only once) to take current rulings and agent options into
account. The player may adjust the choices of his last level
increase only, reassigning the following items as he chooses:
• Class.
• Skill points.
• Ability score increase (if applicable).
• Feats (if applicable).
This modification may only affect the agent’s last level
increase and must be noted in the Certs section of the agent’s
career dossier for the first serial after the change is made, along
with the text: “MRD v1.5 Modification”. As always, the GC must
sign this serial line in ink, indicating that he vouches for the accu-
racy of the agent modifications.
This modification must be completed on or before December
31, 2004. Thereafter, no changes may be made to agents outside
the standard Living Spycraft rules.
Special Note: This allowance also applies to any agent who
has accidentally chosen or gained options that are not available in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
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AGENT CREATION
The first step when joining the Living Spycraft setting is
creating an agent. When creating a Living Spycraft agent, all rules
for agent creation found in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook
apply, except as modified within this document.
Living Spycraft
Iconic (Demo) Agents
Should a player find himself at a Living Spycraft event with-
out a prepared agent, he may use any of our prepared demo
agents — referred to in the Living Spycraft campaign as “iconics”
— to dive right into the action with only a few quick decisions.
Six iconic agents may be found in individual PDF documents,
available on the Downloads page of the Living Spycraft website
and on the Resources page of the official Spycraft website:
http://www.spycraftrpg.com/livingspycraft/downloads.php
http://www.spycraftccg.com/rpg/resources.html
A small amount of preparation is required before these agents
may be used in Living Spycraft — the player must allocate 6 skill
following points before play.
At the end of the player’s first serial using an iconic agent,
the GC fills out the first line of a new career dossier for the
player, excluding the Agent Name line. The player may then design
a new, permanent Living Spycraft agent (or adopt the iconic as his
permanent agent), filling in the Agent Name line and carrying on
with the campaign per the standard rules.
A player may not accumulate more than 1 serial’s worth of XP
using an iconic agent.
Special Note: The individually PDF’d iconic agents are the
only iconics still available for use in the Living Spycraft campaign.
The original iconics — available in one file of six — may no longer
be used.
Agent Level
A new Living Spycraft agent begins play at level 1 with 0 XP,
and gains levels only at the end of serials (never during serials).
The basic rules for gaining levels are found in the Player’s
Handbook™, with modification as described in Chapter 1 of the
Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
Abilities
Each Living Spycraft agent possesses the standard d20 abilities
(Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and
Charisma). See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, pages 15–16,
for descriptions of these abilities, and how to use them in play.
The ability scores of each Living Spycraft agent are generated
using a point-based system. Each agent receives 36 points with
which to purchase all six abilities, paying the costs listed on
Table 1: Point-Based Abilities (see page 5).
Each ability score may range from 8 to 18, before department
modifiers are applied (see page 6).
 Agent Creation
Table 1: Point-Based Abilities Special Note: One justification is off-limits — no Living
Score Cost Modifier Spycraft agent may be designated a “double” (that is, a traitor
working for a different Regional Branch). Double agents may
6 — –2 become a facet of the Living Spycraft campaign, but not as a
7 — –2 function of the agent’s Regional Branch choice.
8 0 –1
Whatever the justification, an agent’s relocation has 2 effects,
9 1 –1 as follows:
10 2 +0
• The number of meta-organization slots available to the agent
11 3 +0 is reduced by 1 (see below for more information about meta-
12 4 +1 organizations).
13 5 +1
• The agent may only access agent options, meta-organizations,
14 6 +2 and resources belonging to his official Agency, not those of
15 8 +2 his branch of residence. All region-only agent options, meta-
16 10 +3 organizations, and resources will be clearly flagged for easy
17 13 +3 convenience; unless flagged, any agent option, meta-organi-
zation, or resource is assumed to be available to agents of all
18 16 +4
regions.
19 — +4
20 — +5 Example: Though Simon’s Canadian agent lives and works in the
United States, he may only call upon Royal Canadian Intelligence
Example: Simon uses his 36 points to purchase the following Service agent options, meta-organizations, and resources, not those
statistics: Str 14 (6 points), Dex 16 (10 points), Con 12 (4 points), of the United States Agency.
Int 12 (4 points), Wis 12 (4 points), Cha 15 (8 points).
During play, a transplanted agent reports to his Agency of
residence (that is, the Agency presiding over the Regional Branch
Living Spycraft where the player lives).
Regional Branches Example: Simon’s Canadian agent reports to the United States
The Living Spycraft campaign is broadly divided into Regional
Agency, even though he is limited to agent options, meta-organiza-
Branches, each corresponding to a rough geographic area.
tions, and resources belonging to the Royal Canadian Intelligence
Each Regional Branch operates like an independent Agency.
Service.
The standard Living Spycraft agent creation and play rules are
applied across all Regional Branch Agencies, though each Regional
Branch Agency maintains its own flavor and some possess organi- Nationality
zational differences from the standard RPGA model (see the Living Whether an agent is a transplant or not, he may be of any
Spycraft home page for more information). nationality. Each Regional Branch Agency employs agents of all
Currently sanctioned Regional Branches include: races, creeds, and faiths.
• Australia — The Security Intelligence Enforcement Group (M09).
Regional Branch Directors
• Canada — Royal Canadian Intelligence Service (RCIS-SRRC).
Each Regional Branch is managed by a Director. Directors
• France — 6ème Régiment de Renseignement et d'Intervention jointly manage the whole of the Living Spycraft campaign. A list
(Le Secret). of Directors and their contact information is available at the
official Living Spycraft website:
• Germany — Abteilung 7 of the Bundesnachrichtendienst.
http://www.spycraftrpg.com/livingspycraft/staff.php
• United Kingdom — The Department of Intelligence and Special
Operations (DISO).
• United States of America — The Agency.
Meta-Organizations
Living Spycraft meta-organizations are currently in develop-
An agent’s Regional Branch Agency must be decided before he ment. Watch the Living Spycraft website and this document for
enters his second serial of play. An agent may choose any Regional additional information as it becomes available.
Branch Agency, regardless of where the player actually lives,
though the agent must report to the Agency of the player’s Personal Budget
residence. The agent is assumed to be “on loan” to the Agency of
During agent creation, each Living Spycraft agent gains a
the player’s residence, assigned to work there, or otherwise
number of personal budget points as described on page 104 of the
officially committed to the player’s native Regional Branch.
Spycraft Espionage Handbook. Unless using an iconic agent,
Example: Simon, who lives in New York City, USA, chooses to the player must spend these points before arriving to his first
generate an agent of the Royal Canadian Intelligence Service, Living Spycraft serial. Any unspent points are lost.
determining that his agent is on extended assignment in the After the first event, the player may reallocate the agent’s per-
United States pursuing a criminal genius who once fled south sonal budget after each serial, but must always spend all available
from his homeland. personal budget points before the start of each subsequent serial.
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Additionally, some serials limit the number of BP that may be
spent to requisition each weapon and/or item for use during the
serial. These limits are in effect until the end of the current serial,
and apply to weapons and/or items requisitioned with either
personal or mission budget, or both. This limitation applies only
to the cost of each base weapon or item, not any accessories,
masterwork modifications, or other options improving it. Weapons
that may be attached together — for example, an assault rifle and
an underbarrel grenade launcher — are considered separate
weapons for this purpose.
All standard personal budget rules apply when creating
a Living Spycraft agent, and when later reallocating personal
budget points.
Finishing Touches
Derived Values
The rules for determining a Living Spycraft agent’s saving
throws are found in the Player’s Handbook™.
The rules for determining a Living Spycraft agent’s Defense
and initiative modifiers are found on pages 158–159 of the
Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
Vitality
A new Living Spycraft agent begins play with the maximum
possible vitality at 1st level (i.e. as if the player rolls the highest
number possible based on their class).
For additional information about vitality in Living Spycraft,
see page 34.
Age
A Living Spycraft agent may begin play at any age. All age
effects described on page 102 of the Spycraft Espionage
Handbook apply.
Agent Sheet
Each player should acquire a Living Spycraft agent sheet to
record his agent information. An explanation of the sheet and its
parts are found on page 12 of the Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
The player must present a prepared agent sheet at the start of
each Living Spycraft serial.
Career Dossier
In addition to his agent sheet, each player must maintain a
Living Spycraft career dossier for each of his agents.
The top portion of the career dossier is filled in during agent
creation, and includes the following:
• Agent Name.
• Player Name.
• Player’s RPGA/Other # (as determined by the Regional Branch
organization).
• Agent Creation Date.
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The rest of the dossier — consisting of many individual mission
blocks — is filled in upon completion of each serial, and includes
the following information:
• Convention/Location of Play.
• Date of Play.
• Serial Name and ID# (taken from the serial’s cover page).
• Agent Level (at the start of the serial).
• XP Gained.
• Certs Gained.
• Game Control Name/Judge #.
• Authorization (the GC’s signature is required for a serial to be
counted during future games).
All career information must be completed in ink and must be
legible. It is the player’s obligation to make sure that his
documents are kept in order and up to date.
AGENT OPTIONS
When creating or improving a Living Spycraft agent, a player
may choose agent options from Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, or
Stargate SG-1 releases as described in the following sections.
Special Note: Many changes are made to Spycraft,
Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate SG-1 agent options herein.
These changes are not errata — they are only necessary to blend
them together as one mechanics pool for the Living Spycraft
campaign.
Departments
and Specialties
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, pages 13 and 17,
for the rules concerning departments.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 departments are approved for use in Living Spycraft games
at this time.
Special Note: If the agent chooses a macro-department, the
full macro-department name — including the required sub-
department choice — must be determined and written down on
the agent’s sheet before he enters play.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All departments in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
1960s Decade Book
All departments in the 1960s Decade Book — including the
D-3 variant, Technical Espionage — are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Komitet Gosudarsvenndi Bezopasnosti (KGB): This macro-
department is not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
Agency Sourcebook
All departments in the Agency Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
 Agent Options
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All departments in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Diplomatic Security: The player must choose the national
government or military force with which he is closely associ-
ated during agent creation. The player’s choice must be
tracked in the Certs section of the agent’s career dossier as
described in this section’s Special Note entry.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All departments in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Orphan: The DC modifier for seduction efforts and attempts
to turn the agent against his organization has no effect in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
Mastermind Sourcebook
None of the departments in the Mastermind Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All departments in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
U.S. Militaries Sourcebook
All departments in the U.S. Militaries Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• U.S. Air Force: The U.S. Air Force Basic Training program does
not count toward the agent’s standard limit of 1 training
program per serial (see page 33).
• U.S. Army: The U.S. Army Basic Training program does not
count toward the agent’s standard limit of 1 training program
per serial (see page 33).
• U.S. Marine Corps: The U.S. Marine Corps Boot Camp
training program does not count toward the agent’s standard
limit of 1 training program per serial (see page 33).
• U.S. Navy: The U.S. Navy Basic Training program does not
count toward the agent’s standard limit of 1 training program
per serial (see page 33).
• U.S. Coast Guard: The U.S. Coast Guard Basic Training
program does not count toward the agent’s standard limit of
1 training program per serial (see page 33).
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All departments in the World Militaries Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
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African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following departments in the African Alliance
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• First Contact Operations: No exceptions or modifications.
• Lethals: No exceptions or modifications.
Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
Only the following departments in the Archer Foundation
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Damage Control: No exceptions or modifications.
• Training Corps: No exceptions or modifications.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following departments in the European Common-
wealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Celebrity: No exceptions or modifications.
• Recruitment: No exceptions or modifications.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
Only the following departments in the Hand of Glory Threat
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Indoctrinated: No exceptions or modifications.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following departments in the Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Disciples of Wong Fei-Hung: No exceptions or modifications.
• Operation: BODY DOUBLE: No exceptions or modifications.
Shop Threat Book
None of the departments in the Shop Threat Book are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
Only the following specialties in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Air Force: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored and all
‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses.
• Army: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored and all
‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses.
• Marines: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored and all
‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses.
• Navy: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored and all
‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses.
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• National Intelligence Department: This specialty’s Pay Grade • Wheelman: For the purpose of determining the effects of the
bonus is ignored and all ‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘depart- wheelman’s soup her up ability, the wheelman is assumed to
ment’ bonuses. Further, the Area 51 infiltrator sub-specialty is be regularly working on any vehicle with which he’s familiar.
not approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Finally,
this macro-specialty extends absolutely no knowledge of 1960s Decade Book
aliens, the Stargate, or any other unconventional topic.
All base classes in the 1960s Decade Book are approved for use
• Diplomatic Corps: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
and all ‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses.
• Engineering Corps: This specialty’s Pay Grade bonus is ignored Shadowforce Archer
and all ‘specialty’ bonuses become ‘department’ bonuses. Worldbook
None of the base classes in the Shadowforce Archer Worldbook
Base Classes are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, pages 13 and 20,
for the rules concerning base classes. African Alliance
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate Chamber Book
SG-1 base classes are approved for use in Living Spycraft games at Only the following base classes in the African Alliance
this time. Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
Special Note: Whenever a class ability demands that the
agent make a permanent choice (e.g. the fixer’s special ability), • High Roller: No exceptions or modifications.
the choice must be made at the conclusion of the serial during
which he gains the level (and therefore, the ability), or at the start Archer Foundation
of the following serial, before play begins. The choice must be Chamber Book
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier, along
Only the following base classes in the Archer Foundation
with the text: “Class Feature Chosen:”, followed by the class name,
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
a hyphen, the ability name, and the choice in parentheses.
with the following exceptions and modifications:
Example: “Class Feature Chosen: fixer — special ability
• Sleuth: When the sleuth uses his final analysis ability, the GC
(fast movement)”.
determines whether an NPC possesses 1 or more backgrounds,
Example 2: “Class Feature Chosen: fixer — special ability and the number of points each NPC has invested in his back-
(feat, Safe House)”. grounds, based on the serial’s source material and his better
judgment. No background points assigned by the GC for this
Spycraft purpose affect the NPC’s statistics.
Espionage Handbook
All base classes in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are European Commonwealth
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following Chamber Book
exceptions and modifications: Only the following base classes in the European Common-
wealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft
• Fixer: When the fixer uses his wildcard gadget ability, he may
games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
choose any gadget on the current serial’s recommended
gadgets list with a cost of 1 BP. If the list doesn’t include any • Spin Doctor: No exceptions or modifications.
gadgets with a cost of 1 BP, then the fixer may choose any
gadget on the list with a cost of 2 BP, and so on. The fixer may Hand of Glory Threat Book
change the gadget’s housing when he chooses it (though the
Only the following base classes in the Hand of Glory Threat
GC may overrule his choice if he feels that it’s unreasonable,
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
such as a standard grappling hook gadget housed in a
following exceptions and modifications:
toothpick).
• Explorer: The explorer’s bonus feat grants either basic combat
• Fixer: The fixer’s procure ability may not be used to requisi-
or basic skill feats, not fringe feats.
tion weapons and/or gear exceeding the serial’s BP limit
(see the sidebar on page 23 for additional information).
Pan-Asian Collective
• Snoop: The snoop must have hacked a computer’s root Chamber Book
account in order to assign it a back door. All computer back
Only the following base classes in the Pan-Asian Collective
doors designated by the snoop are lost at the end of each
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
serial, allowing the snoop to reassign them as standard during
with the following exceptions and modifications:
a later serial.
• Martial Artist: The Discipline of the Body, Discipline of the
• Wheelman: The wheelman may designate his custom ride
Mind, and Discipline of the Spirit feats granted to the Martial
or a signature vehicle as familiar without spending the
Artist are applied as written, but are considered covert feats
required time. The wheelman may designate another vehicle
(see Feats, page 18, for more information about how mystic
as familiar by spending the required time. Either way, the
and psion feats are integrated into the Living Spycraft
familiarity must be tracked in the Certs column of the wheel-
campaign).
man’s career dossier, with a new notation each time he
becomes familiar with a new vehicle, along with the text:
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Table 2: Stargate SG-1 Base Class BP and GP
Explorer Pointman Scientist Scout Soldier
Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg
Lvl Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts
1 1 0 3 0 3 1 2 0 2 0
2 2 1 6 1 6 2 4 1 4 1
3 3 1 9 2 9 3 6 2 6 1
4 4 2 12 3 12 4 8 3 8 2
5 5 2 15 3 15 5 10 3 10 2
6 6 3 18 4 18 6 12 4 12 3
7 7 3 21 5 21 7 14 5 14 3
8 8 4 24 6 24 8 16 6 16 4
9 9 4 27 6 27 9 18 6 18 4
10 10 5 30 7 30 10 20 7 20 5
11 11 5 33 8 33 11 22 8 22 5
12 12 6 36 9 36 12 24 9 24 6
13 13 6 39 9 39 13 26 9 26 6
14 14 7 42 10 42 14 28 10 28 7
15 15 7 45 11 45 15 30 11 30 7
16 16 8 48 12 48 16 32 12 32 8
17 17 8 51 12 51 17 34 12 34 8
18 18 9 54 13 54 18 36 13 36 9
19 19 9 57 14 57 19 38 14 38 9
20 20 10 60 15 60 20 40 15 40 10

Table 3: Stargate SG-1 Prestige Class BP and GP

Bodyguard Field Analyst Field Medic Officer Sniper
Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg Budg Gadg
Lvl Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts Pts
1 1 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 1 0
2 2 1 6 1 4 2 4 1 2 1
3 3 2 9 2 6 3 6 1 3 2
4 4 3 12 3 8 4 8 2 4 3
5 5 3 15 3 10 5 10 2 5 3
6 6 4 18 4 12 6 12 3 6 4
7 7 5 21 5 14 7 14 3 7 5
8 8 6 24 6 16 8 16 4 8 6
9 9 6 27 6 18 9 18 4 9 6
10 10 7 30 7 20 10 20 5 10 7

Shop Threat Book “Connected: An explorer comes to know a wide variety of

Only the following base classes in the Shop Threat Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Scientist: No exceptions or modifications.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
Only the following base classes in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
Special Note: Stargate SG-1 base classes do not gain gear
picks and resource points in Living Spycraft, as shown on Table 2:
Stargate SG-1 Base Class BP and GP (see page 9).
• Explorer: The explorer’s obsessive ability is replaced with the
following ability:
people through his travels. Once per session, he may spend
1 action die to seek out an individual with whom he’s dealt
positively in the past. Seeking this acquaintance out requires
1d6 hours. The acquaintance possesses 1 skill of the explorer’s
choice with a number of ranks equal to 1/2 the sum of the
explorer’s class level + his Charisma modifier.
“Unlike allies gained through the faceman’s backup ability
(see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 23), the disposi-
tion of the explorer’s acquaintance toward the explorer is only
considered friendly (rather than helpful). Further, the acquain-
tance must be compensated for any services rendered.
“The explorer may use this ability even in remote locations,
so long as at least 40 people are located within a 25-mile radius
of his current location (e.g. an Antarctic research base near the
South Pole or a nomad camp in the midst of a desert).
“This is the explorer’s core ability.”

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• Explorer: The explorer’s direction sense ability is replaced with
the following ability:
“Direction Sense: At 1st level, the explorer gains a +2
competence bonus with all skill checks made to navigate from
place to place, regardless of the skill being used. This bonus
also applies to any shortcut maneuver taken by the explorer
when he’s the predator during a chase (see the Spycraft
Espionage Handbook, page 188). This bonus increases by an
additional +1 at 4th level and for every 4 class levels gained
thereafter.”
• Explorer: The explorer’s class level is not rounded down to the
nearest multiple of 4 before they’re added to the levels in
other classes granting the uncanny dodge ability.
• Pointman: The pointman may also choose from the following
cross-class ability options:
Faceman: Linguist; cold read 1/session; quick change
1/session, 2/session; backup 1/session.
Fixer: Procure; evasion (no damage with successful save);
sneak attack +1d6, +2d6; uncanny dodge (Dexterity bonus to
Defense).
Snoop: Flawless search; intuition 1/session; back door ×1;
jury-rig +2, +3.
Wheelman: Daredevil; kick start 1/session; familiarity +1, +2.
This does not increase the number of cross-class abilities a
pointman may choose in the Living Spycraft campaign —
it merely provides the Stargate SG-1 version of the pointman
the same options as his Spycraft counterpart.
The pointman may not choose guardian class abilities when he
gains a cross-class ability.
• Pointman: The examples for possible benefits gained from the
pointman’s serendipity ability should read as follows:
“Some examples include 1 contact (providing information or
help equivalent to a successful favor check or street deal with
a DC equal to the pointman’s class level + 10, or less), 1 hint
(providing insight equivalent to 1 successful inspiration check
with a DC equal to the pointman’s class level + 10, or less),
1 piece of standard-issue gear (with a BP cost equal to 2 × the
pointman's class level, or less), 1 gadget, 1 vehicle, or 1 intel-
ligence resource (with a GP cost equal to 1/2 the pointman's
class level, rounded down, or less), or 1 successful skill check
(even if the pointman didn't make a skill check, or is untrained
with the appropriate skill). The pointman may share the results
of a serendipitous skill check with his lead class ability.”
• Scientist: The scientist’s Xeno-Languages skill is replaced with
Read Lips when used in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Scout: All instances of terrain feats mean terrain ‘training’
feats within the context of the Living Spycraft campaign
(these feats are part of the covert feat tree in this campaign).
• Scout: When the scout gains a terrain feat, he may either
choose from the Stargate SG-1 terrain feat tree (see Feats,
page 18, for more information about how Stargate feats are
integrated into the Living Spycraft campaign), or choose from
the Spycraft covert feat tree.
• Soldier: The soldier’s Concentration skill is replaced with Use
Rope when used in the Living Spycraft campaign.
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Prestige Classes
See the Shadowforce Archer Worldbook, page 162, for the rules
concerning prestige classes.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 prestige classes are approved for use in Living Spycraft games
at this time.
Special Note: Whenever a class ability demands that the
agent make a permanent choice (e.g. the ninja’s special ability),
the choice must be made at the conclusion of the serial during
which he gains the level (and therefore, the ability), or at the start
of the following serial, before play begins. The choice must be
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier, along
with the text: “Class Feature Chosen:”, followed by the class name,
a hyphen, the ability name, and the choice in parentheses.
Example: “Class Feature Chosen: ninja — special ability (fast
movement)”.
Example 2: “Class Feature Chosen: ninja — special ability (feat,
Safe House)”.
1960s Decade Book
All prestige classes in the 1960s Decade Book are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Attaché: The allegiance benefits granted attaché’s abilities
have are ignored in the Living Spycraft campaign
(as allegiance isn’t approved for Living Spycraft play).
When using the “who do you work for?” ability, the attaché
learns the target’s parent organization and current disposition
toward each member of the attaché’s team.
• Menace: This prestige class is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
Agency Sourcebook
All prestige classes in the Agency Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Cat Burglar: When the cat burglar uses his case ability,
the GC determines the organization’s security rating (if any).
This decision has no impact on the installation’s other
statistics.
• Deceiver: This prestige class is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Guide: The guide’s forage ability may not be used to requisi-
tion weapons and/or gear exceeding the serial’s BP limit.
• Paranoid: The paranoid’s special requirement may be incorpo-
rated into the agent’s personal (flavor) history. It implies no
rules requirement.
• Paranoid: The GC determines whether a gadget “operates like
armor or protective gear” as described in the paranoid’s kevlar
insurance ability.
• Paranoid: The paranoid’s conspiracy ability is replaced with
the following ability in the Living Spycraft campaign:
””I’m Everyone”: At 6th level, during the Gearing Up phase of
any mission, the paranoid may choose any 1 NPC (whether he
has met the NPC or not). After 1 hour of undisclosed “file
magic,” the paranoid is assumed to have stolen the target
NPC’s identity, and thereafter possesses it as an average-grade
cover identity (with a +5 power rating and an error range of
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1–3). If the paranoid typically possesses an identity theft
complex skill check modifier of +20 or higher (see the
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, page 107), the cover identity’s
grade is improved to convincing (with a power rating of +7
and an error range of 1–2). This ability may only be used at the
home office during the Gearing Up phase.
“Further, when in the field, the paranoid gains a +5 bonus
with identity theft complex skill checks, and his identity theft
complex skill check interval is reduced to 1 hour.
“At 10th level, during the Gearing Up phase of any mission,
the paranoid may choose any 1 NPC (whether he has met
the NPC or not). After 1 hour of undisclosed “file magic,”
the paranoid is assumed to have stolen the target NPC’s
identity, and thereafter possesses it as a flawless-grade cover
identity (with a +9 power rating and an error range of 1).
“Further, when in the field, the paranoid gains a +10 bonus
with identity theft complex skill checks, and his identity theft
complex skill check interval is reduced to 30 minutes.”
• Producer: The producer’s team player ability is replaced with
the following ability in the Living Spycraft campaign:
”Team Player: At 3rd level, during the Gearing Up phase of
each serial, the producer may choose 1 Agency division from
the following: Finance, Intelligence, Operations, Public
Relations, or Research & Development. For the duration of the
current serial, the producer’s team gains benefits as if that
division possesses a disposition toward them of helpful.
“At 5th level, during the Gearing Up phase of each serial, the
producer may choose 1 or 2 Agency divisions from the
following: Finance, Intelligence, Operations, Public Relations,
or Research & Development. If the producer chooses
1 division, his team gains benefits as if that division possesses
a disposition toward them of ally. If the producer chooses
2 divisions, his team gains benefits as if each division
possesses a disposition toward them of helpful. These benefits
last for the duration of the current serial.”
• Trainer: The temporary level granted by the trainer’s trainer’s
privilege ability lasts only until the end of the current session.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All prestige classes in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Casanova: All seduction targets and effects are lost at the end
of each serial, allowing the casanova to reassign them as stan-
dard during a later serial. Thus, all class abilities that apply
only to NPCs whom the casanova has already seduced — such
as steal ID, pyramid scheme, dupe, “he did it!”, and “I’ll do any-
thing for you!” — may only target NPCs whom the casanova
has already seduced during the current serial. (See Printed
Rules, page 38, for more information about disposition
effects in the Living Spycraft campaign.)
• Casanova: When the casanova targets an NPC with the
“he did it!” ability, or an NPC targeted with the “I’ll do
anything for you!” ability successfully makes his Will save to
realize the casanova’s betrayal, the casanova may never
seduce that NPC again. The NPC’s name must be tracked in the
Certs section of the agent’s career dossier for the current
serial, along with the text: “May never be seduced again”.
In most cases, this will have no effect, but certain rare serials
will involve NPCs from previous serials, and the betrayal must
therefore be tracked.
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• Doppelganger: All identities stolen by the doppelganger are
lost at the end of each serial, allowing the doppelganger to
reassign them as standard during a later serial.
• Oracle: The oracle must have hacked a computer’s root
account in order to assign it a back door. All computer back
doors designated by the oracle are lost at the end of each
serial, allowing the oracle to reassign them as standard during
a later serial.
• Profiler: If the GC determines that a profiler may already
know about an NPC, the profiler may learn the names of any
backgrounds the NPC possesses with a successful education
check (DC 10 + the NPC’s agent level); otherwise, the profiler
may make an information favor check (DC 5 + the NPC’s agent
level) to learn this information. The GC determines whether an
NPC possesses 1 or more backgrounds, and the number of
points each NPC has invested in his backgrounds, based on the
serial’s source material and his better judgment. No back-
ground points assigned by the GC for this purpose affect the
NPC’s statistics.
• Sentry: All surveillance gear successfully customized by the
sentry is lost at the end of each serial, allowing the sentry to
customize new gear as standard during a later serial. Personal
budget may not be spent to pay for the parts required to use
this ability.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All prestige classes in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Courier: When the courier gains the quick use ability, he gains
the benefits of the Quick Use feat for the Bureaucracy skill,
but this is considered a class ability, not a feat. This benefit
may never be applied to any other skill use or action, under
any circumstances.
• Forward: When the forward uses his cache ability, he may
only choose a bundle approved for use in the Living Spycraft
campaign (see pages 22 and the MRD Tables document).
• Goodfella: The agent’s criminal organization must be deter-
mined before the agent enters play for the first time after he
gains his first level in this class. His choice must be tracked in
the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier, along with the
text: “Criminal Organization:”, followed by the organization’s
name.
Example: “Criminal Organization: Russian Mafia”.
• Goodfella: The error range modifier for seduction efforts
made to turn the agent against his organization has no effect
in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Grifter: When the grifter gains the toss ability, he gains the
benefits of the Quick Use feat for the Search skill, but this is
considered a class ability, not a feat. This benefit may never
be applied to any other skill use or action, under any circum-
stances.
• Inventor: The inventor may not use his edison ability to build
a gadget costing more GP than the current serial’s limit,
or the standard Living Spycraft limit (see page 23), whichever
is lower.
• Provocateur: When the provocateur uses his psy-ops ability,
the GC determines the the organization’s loyalty rating
(if any). This decision has no impact on the minions’ statistics.
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• Saboteur: When the saboteur gains the 9th-level demolition
man ability, he gains the benefits of the Quick Use feat for the
Demolitions skill, but this is considered a class ability, not a
feat. This benefit may never be applied to any other skill use
or action, under any circumstances.
• Smuggler: The smuggler may only use his false panels ability
to acquire any single gadget costing a number of GP equal to
or less than the current serial’s limit, or the standard Living
Spycraft limit (see page 23), whichever is lower.
Mastermind Sourcebook
All prestige classes in the Mastermind Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Betrayer: When the betrayer uses his sell-out ability,
the amount of money he earns is multiplied by 2.
• Betrayer: The betrayer’s minor setback ability is replaced with
the following in the Living Spycraft campaign:
“Minor Setback: At 6th level, once per session/round,
the betrayer may choose 1 villain organization and spend
4 hours interfering with the organization’s operations. During
the following 24 hours, the amount of time required for any
standard character or minion squad to react within the orga-
nization’s facilities is increased by 1d4 rounds. If all personnel
in a serial’s facility descriptions is fixed, the number of
minions in the organization’s smallest minion squad type is
reduced by 1. If no minion squads are featured for the target
organization, then all characters working for the target
organization suffer a –2 penalty with skill checks made to
determine surprise.”
• Betrayer: The betrayer’s uncanny foresight ability is replaced
with the following in the Living Spycraft campaign:
“Uncanny Foresight: At 8th level, once per session/round, the
betrayer may choose 1 villain organization. For the duration of
the current serial, when one of the target organization’s
characters suffers an error within the betrayer’s line of sight,
the betrayer’s action die cost to activate the error is reduced
by 1 (to a minimum of 0).”
• Hitman: The hitman’s blood money ability is replaced with the
following in the Living Spycraft campaign:
“Blood Money: At 1st level, each time the hitman reduces a
special NPC’s wounds to –1 or below, he gains 1 additional
action die of his standard type, as determined by his agent
level (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 20).
The special NPC must be an authorized target explicitly iden-
tified during the mission briefing in order to qualify for this
benefit. Further, the hitman never gains additional XP for
earning this bonus action die. This is the hitman’s core ability.“
Modern Arms Guide
All prestige classes in the Modern Arms Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modifica-
tion.
The Sharp Edge (PDF)
All prestige classes in The Sharp Edge are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
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Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All prestige classes in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Armorer: When the armorer gains the 3rd-level rush job
ability, he gains the benefits of the Quick Use feat for either
the Craft (Gunsmithing) or Mechanics skill, but this is
considered a class ability, not a feat. This benefit may never
be applied to any other skill use or action, under any
circumstances.
• Armorer: The armorer may only use his “I want all of that…”
ability to acquire any single gadget costing a number of GP
equal to or less than the current serial’s limit, or the standard
Living Spycraft limit (see page 23), whichever is lower.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
Only the following prestige classes in the Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Cat Burglar: When the cat burglar uses his case ability,
the GC determines the organization’s security rating (if any).
This decision has no impact on the installation’s other
statistics.
• Counter-Terrorist: No exceptions or modifications.
• Hacker: If the hacker’s custom-built system is lost or
destroyed and the hacker doesn’t have the week necessary to
replace it during the current serial, the system is replaced at
the start of the following serial.
• Hacker: When the hacker gains the 5th-level math wiz
ability, he gains the benefits of the Quick Use feat for the
Computers skill, but this is considered a class ability, not a
feat. This benefit may never be applied to any other skill use
or action, under any circumstances.
• Sniper: No exceptions or modifications.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following prestige classes in the African Alliance
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Commander: The commander class’s Chamber and reputation
requirements are waived for Living Spycraft play.
• Commander: The commander’s renowned ability is replaced
with the following Living Spycraft variant:
“Renowned: A Commander’s reputation speaks for itself.
At 1st level, once per session, when the Commander
successfully improves a target’s disposition in any way, he may
immediately make a presence check targeting the NPC
without spending an action die (see the European
Commonwealth, page 83, and page 41 of this document,
for more about presence checks). This bonus presence check
only affects the target NPC, regardless of the presence action
taken and no matter how many other NPCs are present.”
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• Pretender: The pretender class’s Living Spycraft requirements
are as follows:
Agent Level: 5+.
Intelligence: 13+.
Bluff: 8+ ranks.
Bureaucracy: 4+ ranks.
Feats: Credible, Flawless Identity.
• Pretender: The pretender’s psion class ability is ignored for
Living Spycraft play.
• Pretender: The pretender’s competent ability is replaced with
the following Living Spycraft variant:
“Competent: The pretender gains a competence bonus with
all Hobby and Profession checks equal to 1/2 his class level
(rounded up). This is the pretender’s core ability.”
• Pretender: The pretender’s bonus feat(s) may be chosen from
the covert or style feat trees.
• Pretender: The pretender’s casual focus ability is replaced
with the following Living Spycraft variant:
“Casual Focus: At 4th level, the pretender may gain a
competence bonus with any 1 education, inspiration,
Intelligence-based, or Wisdom-based skill check equal to 1/2
his class level (rounded up). The pretender may use this
ability a number of times per session equal to his class level.”
• Pretender: The pretender’s mental leap ability may increase
his Intelligence or Wisdom by a number equal to 1/2 his class
level (rounded down).
• Pretender: The pretender’s mental prism ability grants him an
additional number of Flawless Identities equal to his class
level.
• Tamer: No exceptions or modifications.
• Troubleshooter: No exceptions or modifications.
Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
Only the following prestige classes in the Archer Foundation
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with
the following exceptions and modifications:
• Field Analyst: No exceptions or modifications.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following prestige classes in the European
Commonwealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Accuser: In the Living Spycraft continuity, the ‘Accusers’ are
in fact the Agency’s Internal Affairs division. Also, the Accuser
class’s Chamber requirement is waived for Living Spycraft play.
• Accuser: When the Accuser uses his background check ability
to access the records of an Agency operative, he gains access
to the Agency’s records of the target since he joined
his current Regional Branch only. Also, the Accuser’s
suspend investigation ability may target any non-Agency
investigation.
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• Accuser: The Accuser’s privilege ability is intended to
safeguard the Agency and all its Regional Branches.
Further, it may not be used to target another player-
controlled Living Spycraft agent.
• Illuminati: The illuminati’s Handler feat prerequisite is
replaced with the Government Contacts feat.
• Illuminati: The illuminati’s bonus feat(s) may be chosen from
the gear or style feat trees.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
None of the prestige classes in the Hand of Glory Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Mystics of the East (PDF)
None of the prestige classes in the Mystics of the East are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following prestige classes in the Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Dai Lo: In the Living Spycraft continuity, the ‘Dai Lo’ are in
fact the Agency’s Field Officers. Also, the Dai Lo class’s
Chamber requirement is waived for Living Spycraft play.
• Dai Lo: The dai lo’s The Five ability remains unchanged
mechanically, but its favor is adjusted as follows:
Collective Division Agency Division
Crane Public Relations
Dragon Operations
Leopard Finance
Snake Intelligence
Tiger Espionage
Further, the name of the dai lo’s privilege ability is renamed
“field officer’s privilege” in Living Spycraft.
• Mole: When the mole uses his insider ability, the GC
determines the the organization’s personnel rating (if any).
This decision has no impact on the statistics of the installation
or the minions protecting it.
• Raptor: No exceptions or modifications.
Shop Threat Book
Only the following prestige classes in the Shop Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Technocrat: No exceptions or modifications.
Silent Specters (PDF)
None of the prestige classes in the Silent Specters are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games.
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Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
Only the following prestige classes in the Stargate SG-1
Rulebook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
Special Note: Stargate SG-1 prestige classes do not gain gear
picks and resource points in Living Spycraft, as shown on Table 3:
Stargate SG-1 Prestige Class BP and GP (see page 9).
• Bodyguard: The bodyguard’s heavily armed ability is replaced
with the following ability:
“Heavily Armed: At 4th level, the bodyguard gains an
additional 10 BPs that may only be spent to requisition
weapons and armor.
“At 8th level, this bonus increases by an additional 10 BPs
(to a total BP bonus of 20).”
• Field Analyst: The field analyst gains the following additional
ability, first seen as part of the original Spycraft class:
“Safe House: At 4th level, the field analyst gains the Safe
House feat. Further, each of the field analyst’s safe houses is
equipped with a serviceable dark room.”
• Field Analyst: The field analyst’s shutterbug ability is replaced
with the following ability:
“Shutterbug: The field analyst collects and uses a wide
variety of sensors and detection gear, including his trusty
camera. At 6th level, the field analyst and each of his
teammates pays only 1/2 the listed cost for any optic or
surveillance gear (rounded down).”
• Field Analyst: The field analyst gains no bonus feats.
• Field Medic: This class first appeared as the ‘medic’ in the
Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide. A Living Spycraft agent may
never possess levels in both of these classes at the same time.
• Field Medic: The field medic’s field medicine ability first
appeared in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide as ‘field medic’.
A Living Spycraft agent may never possess both the field
medicine and the field medic abilities at the same time.
• Field Medic: The field medic’s medicine chest ability is
replaced with the following ability:
“Field Medicine: At 4th level, the field medic and each of his
teammates pays only 1/2 the listed cost for any first aid kits
or other medical gear (rounded down).”
• Officer: The officer class gains the following requirements:
Knowledge (Military History): 2+ ranks.
Profession (Military): 4+ ranks.
• Officer: The officer’s field logistics ability is replaced with the
following ability:
“Field Logistics: Starting at 4th level, the officer’s experience
with mission paperwork allows him to secure additional
supplies. Once per serial, the officer gains a number of
additional BPs equal to his total Bureaucracy skill bonus.
These BP may only be acquired in the field, after the mission’s
Gearing Up phase is complete (i.e. gear requisitioned with
these BP always costs twice standard unless the officer or one
of his teammates possesses the procure ability).
• Sniper: The sniper’s Survival skill is replaced with Use Rope
when used in the Living Spycraft campaign.
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Skills and Skill Uses
See the Player’s Handbook™ for the rules concerning the
acquisition and improvement of skill ranks. See the Spycraft
Espionage Handbook, page 36, for rules concerning the use of
skills.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 skills and skill uses are approved for use in Living Spycraft
games at this time.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All skills and skill uses in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Computers: All programs or viruses created or modified with
this skill are returned to the home office at the end of each
serial. An agent may not retain a program or virus he’s
created or modified as part of his personal gear.
• Craft: All unspent income generated with this skill, as well as
all items created using this skill, are returned to the home
office at the end of each serial.
• Craft: All objects created with this skill are returned to the
home office at the end of each serial. An agent may not retain
an object he’s created as part of his personal gear.
• Cryptography: All encryption codes created with this skill are
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain an encryption code he’s created as
part of his personal gear.
• Demolitions: All unused explosives built with this skill are
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain an explosive he’s created as part of
his personal gear.
• Forgery: All documents and other forgeries created with this
skill are returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain a forgery he’s created as part of his
personal gear.
• Handle Animal: The rules for teaching an animal herein are
replaced with those found in the African Alliance Chamber
Book (see Nature, Red in Fang and Claw, page 72), and the
Mastermind Sourcebook (see “Welcome to the Menagerie,”
page 16). Where the rules differ between these two
books, the Mastermind Sourcebook rules take precedence.
For additional detail, see pages 40 and 41 of this document.
• Intimidate: All DC modifiers applied by critical successes
scored when using this skill are lost at the end of each serial.
• Languages: Each language an agent gains or improves —
including each language gained or improved with newly
acquired ranks in the Languages skill — must be tracked in
the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier, along with the
text: “New language:” or “Improved Language:”, followed by
the language’s name and either “fluent” or “native” in paren-
theses.
Example: “New Language: Farsi (fluent)”.
Example 2: “Improved Language: Farsi (native)”.
Further, when an agent first encounters a language he does
not already know, and which he has not already determined
that he doesn’t speak (see later in this section), he makes a
Languages check as described on page 58 of the Spycraft
Espionage Handbook.
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With success, the agent actually already knows the language.
This must be tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career
dossier, along with the text: “Known Language:”, followed by
the language’s name and “fluent” in parentheses.
Example: “Known Language: Farsi (fluent)”.
With failure, the agent does not already know the language,
and must dedicate skill ranks to learning it, as described in the
official Spycraft/SFA Errata (see page 10). This must be
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier,
along with the text: “Must Learn Language:” followed by the
language’s name.
Example: “Must Learn Language: Farsi”.
• Perform: All unspent income generated with this skill, as well
as all modifiers applied by critical successes and failures scored
when using this skill, are returned to the home office at the
end of each serial.
• Profession: All unspent income generated with this skill is
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
1960s Decade Book
All skill uses in the 1960s Decade Book are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Computers: This version of the Computers skill is only used
when the agents somehow work with 1960s computer gear.
• Computers: Even when using 1960s computer gear, all
programs or viruses created or modified with this skill are
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain a program or virus he’s created or
modified as part of his personal gear.
• Craft (Photography): All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Craft (Photography): At the conclusion of a serial during
which the agent successfully uses this skill to add 1 or more
masterwork modifications to a camera, the agent may include
the camera in his personal gear by allocating a number of his
personal BP equal to the camera’s total cost, including the cam-
era’s base cost and all masterwork modifications and other
options. See the sidebar on this page for more information
about customized gear. The agent may not allocate mission-
granted BP to retaining a customized camera.
When an agent successfully adds 1 or more masterwork
modifications to a camera and keeps the camera as part of his
personal gear, it must be tracked in the Certs column of his
career dossier, along with the text: “Improved Item:”, followed
by the camera’s name and the name of the new modification
in parentheses.
Example: “Improved Item: Standard camera (reduced weight).”
An agent may attempt to add a masterwork modification to
another agent’s camera, but even if the modification is
successfully added, all its effects are lost at the end of the
current serial.
An agent may only attempt to add 1 masterwork modification
per session, whether the modification is applied to a weapon,
vehicle, or piece of gear.
Customized Gear
An agent’s personal gear may never contain customized
gear, weapons, and vehicles costing a total number of combined
BP and GP higher than 2 × his agent level, excluding all gear,
weapon, and vehicle base costs.
If a customized item, weapon, or vehicle is lost or destroyed,
it may no longer be included in the agent’s personal gear — the
agent must requisition a base item, weapon, or vehicle and
begin the customization process again. All BP and GP invested
in the customized item, weapon, or vehicle are returned at the
end of the serial in which the item is lost or destroyed.
• Craft (Recording): All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Craft (Recording): At the conclusion of a serial during which
the agent successfully uses this skill to add 1 or more master-
work modifications to a piece of audio or video recording and
playback gear, the agent may include the item in his personal
gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal to the
item’s total cost, including the item’s base cost and all
masterwork modifications and other options. See page 15 for
more information about customized gear. The agent may not
allocate mission-granted BP to retaining a customized item.
When an agent successfully adds 1 or more masterwork
modifications to a piece of audio or video recording and
playback gear, and keeps the item as part of his personal gear,
it must be tracked in the Certs column of his career dossier,
along with the text: “Improved Item:”, followed by the item’s
name and the name of the new modification in parentheses.
Example: “Improved Item: Standard video camera (reduced
weight).”
An agent may attempt to add a masterwork modification to
another agent’s item, but even if the modification is success-
fully added, all its effects are lost at the end of the current
serial.
An agent may only attempt to add 1 masterwork modification
per session, whether the modification is applied to a weapon,
vehicle, or piece of gear.
• Hobby (Gambling): All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Profession (Journalism): All unspent income generated with
this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of
each serial.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All skill uses in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions
and modifications:
• Forgery: All video and images doctored with this skill are
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain a forgery he’s created as part of his
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• Profession (Espionage): All unspent income generated with
this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of
each serial.
• Surveillance: All evidence collected with this skill is returned
to the home office at the end of each serial. An agent may not
retain evidence he’s collected as part of his personal gear.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All skill uses in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions
and modifications:
• Craft (Poison): All poisons created with this skill are returned
to the home office at the end of each serial. An agent may not
retain a poison he’s created as part of his personal gear.
• Profession (Smuggler): All unspent income generated with
this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of
each serial.
Mastermind Sourcebook
Only the following skills and skill uses in the Mastermind
Sourcebook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Handle Animal: All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Handle Animal: At the conclusion of a serial during which the
agent successfully uses this skill to domesticate, train, and/or
teach an animal 1 or more tricks, the agent may choose to
keep the animal by allocating a number of his personal BP
equal to the animal’s total cost, including the animal’s base
cost increased by an additional 50%, rounded up (if the
animal is domesticated) or by an additional 100% (if the
animal is trained), plus the cost of all tricks. See page 16 for
more information about domesticated and trained animals.
The agent may not allocate mission-granted BP to retaining a
customized animal.
• Handle Animal: Where the rules differ between this book and
the African Alliance Chamber Book, this book’s rules take
precedence.
• Profession (Veterinarian): All unspent income generated
with this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion
of each serial. Also, where the rules differ between this book
and the African Alliance Chamber Book, this book’s rules take
precedence.
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Modern Arms Guide
All skill uses in the Modern Arms Guide are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Computers, Craft (Gunsmithing), Craft (Weaponsmithing),
Craft, Electronics, Mechanics, Surveillance: At the conclu-
sion of a serial during which the agent successfully uses one
of these skills to add 1 or more masterwork modifications to a
weapon or piece of standard-issue gear (as appropriate),
the agent may include the weapon or gear item in his
personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal
to the weapon or item’s total cost, including its base cost and
the cost of all masterwork modifications and other options.
See page 15 for more information about customized
weapons. The agent may not allocate mission-granted BP to
retaining a customized weapon or gear item.
When an agent successfully adds 1 or more masterwork
modifications to a weapon or gear item and keeps it as part of
his personal gear, it must be tracked in the Certs column of his
career dossier, along with the text: “Improved Weapon:”, or
“Improved Gear:” (as appropriate), followed by the weapon or
gear item’s name and the name of the new modification in
parentheses.
Example: “Improved Weapon: Colt M1911A1 service pistol
(custom handle).”
An agent may attempt to add a masterwork modification to
another agent’s weapon or gear item, but even if the
modification is successfully added, all its effects are lost at the
end of the current serial.
An agent may only attempt to add 1 masterwork modification
per session, whether the modification is applied to a weapon,
vehicle, or piece of gear.
• Craft (Gunsmithing): The benefits of all ammunition hand-
loaded with this skill are lost at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain a weapon with hand-loaded
ammunition as part of his personal gear.
Modern Arms Guide
Chapter 9 Website Download
(PDF)
All skill uses in the Modern Arms Guide: Chapter 9 website
download are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications.
• Computers: All programs, viruses, or anti-viruses created or
modified with this skill are returned to the home office at the
end of each serial. An agent may not retain a program or virus
he’s created or modified as part of his personal gear.
• Computers: All benefits gained from overclocking a processor
with this skill are lost at the end of each serial. An agent may
not retain a computer featuring an overclocked processor as
part of his personal gear.
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• Computers: At the conclusion of a serial during which the
agent successfully uses this skill to add 1 or more peripherals to
a computer, the agent may include the computer in his
personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal
to the computer’s total cost, including the computer’s base cost
and all peripherals and other options. The agent may not allo-
cate mission-granted BP to retaining a customized computer.
When an agent successfully adds 1 or more peripherals to a
computer and keeps the computer as part of his personal gear,
it must be tracked in the Certs column of his career dossier,
along with the text: “Improved Computer:”, followed by the
computer’s type, base power rating, and the name of the new
peripheral in parentheses.
Example: “Improved Computer: desktop +2 (black box).”
An agent may attempt to add a peripheral to another agent’s
computer, but even if the modification is successfully added,
all its effects are lost at the end of the current serial.
An agent may attempt to add any number of peripherals per
session.
• Craft (Gunsmithing): All effects applied when cleaning a
firearm with this skill are lost at the end of each serial.
• Forgery: All images doctored with this skill are returned to the
home office at the end of each serial. An agent may not retain
an image he’s doctored as part of his personal gear.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All skill uses in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Craft (Machining): All unspent income generated with this
skill, as well as all items created using this skill, are returned to
the home office at the end of each serial.
• Craft (Machining) : All objects created with this skill are
returned to the home office at the end of each serial.
An agent may not retain an object he’s created as part of his
personal gear.
• Mechanics: At the conclusion of a serial during which the
agent successfully uses this skill to add 1 or more gadgets,
pieces or ordnance, or masterwork modifications to a vehicle,
the agent may choose to keep the vehicle by allocating a
number of his class-granted GP equal to the vehicle’s total
cost, including the vehicle’s base cost and all gadgets, pieces
of ordnance, masterwork modifications, and other options.
See page 16 for more information about customized vehicles.
The agent may not allocate mission-granted GP to retaining a
customized vehicle.
When an agent successfully adds 1 or more masterwork
modifications to a vehicle and keeps the vehicle as part of his
personal gear, it must be tracked in the Certs column of his
career dossier, along with the text: “Improved Vehicle:”,
followed by the vehicle’s name and the name of the new mod-
ification in parentheses.
Example: “Improved Vehicle: military jeep (lightened body).”
An agent may attempt to add a masterwork modification to
another agent’s vehicle, but even if the modification is
successfully added, all its effects are lost at the end of the
current serial.
An agent may only attempt to add 1 masterwork modification
per session, whether the modification is applied to a weapon,
vehicle, or piece of gear.
• Profession (Mercenary): All unspent income generated with
this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of
each serial.
• Profession (Military): All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Profession (Racer): All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All skill uses in the World Militaries Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
None of the skills and skill uses in the Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following skills and skill uses in the African Alliance
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Handle Animal: All unspent income generated with this
skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of each
serial.
• Handle Animal: At the conclusion of a serial during which the
agent successfully uses this skill to domesticate, train, and/or
teach an animal 1 or more tricks, the agent may choose to
keep the animal by allocating a number of his personal BP
equal to the animal’s total cost, including the animal’s base
cost increased by an additional 50%, rounded up (if the
animal is domesticated) or by an additional 100% (if the
animal is trained), plus the cost of all tricks. See page 17 for
more information about domesticated and trained animals.
The agent may not allocate mission-granted BP to retaining a
customized animal.
• Handle Animal: Where the rules differ between this book and
the Mastermind Sourcebook, the Mastermind Sourcebook’s
rules take precedence.
• Profession (Veterinarian): All unspent income generated
with this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion
of each serial. Also, where the rules differ between this
book and the Mastermind Sourcebook, the Mastermind
Sourcebook’s rules take precedence.
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Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
None of the skills and skill uses in the Archer Foundation
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following skills and skill uses in the European
Commonwealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Bureaucracy: This skill may not be used to hide money from
the Agency.
• Diplomacy: No exceptions or modifications.
• Innuendo: The benefits of all propaganda campaigns
launched with this skill are lost at the end of each serial.
• Perform: No exceptions or modifications.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following skills and skill uses in the Pan-Asian
Collective Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Climb: No exceptions or modifications.
• Computers: At the conclusion of a serial during which the
agent successfully uses this skill to create 1 or more false or
cover identities, the agent may include any number of the
identities in his personal gear by allocating a number of his
personal BP equal to each chosen identity’s total cost (see the
Pan-Asian Collective Chamber Book, page 60, and the
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, page 105). The agent may not
allocate mission-granted BP to retaining a cover identity.
• Concentration: No exceptions or modifications.
• Forgery: At the conclusion of a serial during which the agent
successfully uses this skill to create 1 or more false or cover
identities, the agent may include any number of the identities
in his personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP
equal to each chosen identity’s total cost (see the Pan-Asian
Collective Chamber Book, page 60 and the Faceman/Snoop
Class Guide, page 105). The agent may not allocate mission-
granted BP to retaining a cover identity.
• Knowledge (Martial Arts): No exceptions or modifications.
• Sense Motive: No exceptions or modifications.
• Sleight of Hand: No exceptions or modifications.
Shop Threat Book
Only the following skills and skill uses in the Shop Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Knowledge (Chemistry): No exceptions or modifications.
• Knowledge (Game Theory): No exceptions or modifications.
• Knowledge (Physics): No exceptions or modifications.
• Profession (Scientist): All unspent income generated with
this skill is returned to the home office at the conclusion of
each serial.
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Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
None of the skills and skill uses in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Feats
See the Player’s Handbook™ for the rules concerning the
acquisition of feats.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 feats are approved for use in Living Spycraft games at this
time.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All feats in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Five Star Service: All outstanding debts must be paid (in field
expenses) at the end of the mission. If an agent doesn’t have
enough field expenses to pay his debt, he must forfeit experi-
ence to satisfy the debt as described on page 105 of the
Spycraft Espionage Handbook (to a minimum XP reward of 0).
Other agents may use their field expenses to help the agent
pay his debt.
• Fortunate: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Handler: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Personal Staff: Each member of the agent’s personal staff
possesses ability scores of 9, no vitality points., and
automatically fail all saves he is forced to make. Whenever
performing any menial task (e.g. cooking, cleaning, fetching,
etc.), a personal staff member applies a total skill bonus equal
to 1/4 the agent’s total agent level (rounded down, minimum
+0); personal staff members possess absolutely no other skills,
nor may they ever gain any. Personal staff members possess
absolutely no other agent options (including classes, NPC or
otherwise), nor may they ever gain any.
• Private Identity: If an agent’s private identity is
compromised, his XP reward during the current serial is
automatically reduced to 1/2 standard (rounded down).
This completely restores the benefits of the agent’s Private
Identity feat — the agent’s future XP rewards are unaffected
unless his private identity is once again compromised.
• Quick Use: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Safe House: As discussed in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide,
and the official errata, this feat is now part of the gear feat
tree. All newly created Living Spycraft agents may only choose
it from that tree. If an agent created prior to the release of
v1.5 of the Master Rules Document gained this feat as a style
feat, however, he may either retain it as a style feat or choose
a new style feat, as part of the agent revamp exception
explained on page 4 of this document. Either way, the agent
must have the GC of the game during which his character is
revamped sign off on his log sheet.
• Safe House: An agent team gains 1 safe house in each city
per agent who possesses the Safe House feat.
Example: Donovan and Garrick both possess the Safe House
feat. Their team benefits from 2 safe houses in each city.
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Further, any feats that modify an agent’s safe houses apply • Soviet Comrade: This feat is not available in the Living
only to that agent’s safe houses. The team may not combine Spycraft campaign.
the effects of feats that modify safe houses to produce “super
• Stars and Stripes: This feat is not available in the Living
safe houses”.
Spycraft campaign.
Example: Donovan possesses the Safe House Armory feat and
Garrick possesses the Safe House Infirmary feat. The agents Agency Sourcebook
may visit a safe house with an armory and/or a safe house
All feats in the Agency Sourcebook are approved for use in
with an infirmary in each city, but may not visit a safe house
Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
with both an armory and an infirmary.
modifications:
Any agent possessing 1 or more feats that modify safe houses
• The Devil’s Own: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequisite is
may apply the benefits of these feats to 1 specific safe house
replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
belonging to another agent, at the cost of 1 action die per feat
campaign.
applied. No other agent may pay this action die cost. This effect
lasts only until the end of the current session. • Family Friends: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequisite is
replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
• Signature Gadget: In the Living Spycraft campaign, this feat
campaign.
gains a prerequisite of “Agent level 6+” when taken a second
time and “Agent level 12+” when taken a third time. • Family Planners: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequisite is
replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
• Signature Gadget: If the agent’s signature gadget is either
campaign.
lost or destroyed, he gains the permanent mission gadget
point bonus described in this feat’s Special entry. This must • Line of Leaders: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequisite is
be tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
dossier, along with the text: “Lost Signature Gadget:” or campaign.
“Destroyed Signature Gadget:”, followed by the gear’s name
• Raised in the Saddle: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequi-
and “(+2 mission gadget points)”.
site is replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
Example: “Lost Signature Gadget: Armored clothing liner campaign.
(+2 mission gadget points)”.
• Trouble Magnet: This feat is not available in the Living
• Signature Gear: If the agent’s signature gear is either lost or Spycraft campaign.
destroyed, he gains the permanent mission budget bonus
• Warrior Line: This feat’s “Family Business” prerequisite is
described in this feat’s Special entry. This must be tracked in
replaced by “Clearance Basics” in the Living Spycraft
the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier, along with the
campaign.
text: “Lost Signature Gear:” or “Destroyed Signature Gear:”,
followed by the gear’s name and “(+2 mission budget)”.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
Example: “Lost Signature Gear: Glock 18 (+2 mission budget)”.
All feats in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are approved for
• Signature Vehicle: In the Living Spycraft campaign, this feat use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
gains a prerequisite of “Agent level 6+” when taken a second modifications:
time and “Agent level 12+” when taken a third time.
• Double Life: If the agent loses access to the benefits of his
• Signature Vehicle: If the agent’s signature vehicle is either Private Identity feat, he also loses access to the benefits of this
lost or destroyed, he gains the permanent mission gadget feat. Likewise, the agent regains access to the benefits of this
point bonus described in this feat’s Special entry. This must feat when he regains access to the benefits of his Private
be tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career Identity feat. The agent does not lose any additional XP when
dossier, along with the text: “Lost Signature Gadget:” or he possesses both of these feats.
“Destroyed Signature Gadget:”, followed by the gear’s name
• Little Black Book: This feat’s background effects are ignored
and “(+2 mission gadget points)”.
in the Living Spycraft campaign.

1960s Decade Book Fixer/Pointman Class Guide

All feats in the 1960s Decade Book are approved for use in
All feats in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide are approved for
Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
modifications:
• American Patriot: This feat is not available in the Living
• Clockwork Tactics: This is considered a basic combat feat in
Spycraft campaign.
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• The Bear: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
• Personal Lieutenant: The agent’s personal lieutenant may be
campaign.
designed using any of the following NPC classes: academic,
• The Eagle: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft community criminal, conscript, lackey, or professional (1960s
campaign. Decade Book), diplomat, hot rodder, mouthpiece, or security
guard (African Alliance Chamber Book), academic, mysterious
• Flag Waver: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
stranger, paper pusher, or professional (Archer Foundation
campaign.
• Hammer and Sickle: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.

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Chamber Book), aristocrat (European Commonwealth
Chamber Book), drug lord (Hand of Glory Threat Book),
community criminal, martial arts mook, shadow warrior,
technophile, or urban biker (Pan-Asian Collective Chamber
Book), or academic or professional (Stargate SG-1 Rulebook).
The personal lieutenant may never multi-class.
• Safe House Armory: The agent decides the exact weapons
contained in his safe house armory when he uses this feat’s
ability. He may choose any shotgun of any gauge and type
costing 25 BP or less, any submachinegun of any caliber
costing 18 BP or less, and any handgun of any caliber costing
12 BP or less.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book
All feats in the Gentlemen’s Agreement Season Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Mastermind Sourcebook
All feats in the Mastermind Sourcebook are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Animal Partner: Where the rules differ between this
book and the African Alliance Chamber Book, the Mastermind
Sourcebook’s rules take precedence.
• Contracts: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Cronies: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Industrial Sabotage: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Pet Project: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Political Clout: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Political Immunity: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Safe House Menagerie: If the agent chooses to permanently
allocate personal budget to including any number of animals
with a total cost exceeding 12 BP in his safe house, it must be
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier,
along with the text: “Safe House Menagerie:”, followed by a
list of all animals chosen and the animals’ total cost.
“Example: Safe House Menagerie: alligator (24 BP)”.
Also, where the rules differ between this book and the African
Alliance Chamber Book, the Mastermind Sourcebook’s rules
take precedence.
• Secret Hideout: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Spy Hunter: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
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The Sharp Edge (PDF)
All feats in The Sharp Edge are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications.
• Kali’s Kiss: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All feats in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions
and modifications.
• Mine Basics: This is considered a gear feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Mine Mastery: This is considered a gear feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
U.S. Militaries Sourcebook
All feats in the U.S. Militaries Sourcebook are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Top Kick: This feat’s Special entry is replaced with the
following in the Living Spycraft campaign:
“Special: Only Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps personnel
may choose this feat. For Air Force personnel, the enlisted
rank prerequisite is reduced to E-7 or higher. Further,
you immediately lose this feat — gaining no compensation for
the loss — if you ever suffer a promotion point penalty of –1
or higher.”
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All feats in the World Militaries Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
Only the following feats in the Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Discipline of the Body: This feat is applied as written, but is
considered a covert feat in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Discipline of the Mind: This feat is applied as written, but is
considered a covert feat in the Living Spycraft campaign.
The Initiate prerequisite is replaced with “Agent level 5+”.
• Discipline of the Spirit: This feat is applied as written, but is
considered a covert feat in the Living Spycraft campaign.
The Initiate prerequisite is replaced with “Agent level 10+”.
• Mystic: This feat is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Further, the bonded followers benefit is
ignored. Finally, this feat infers absolutely no true mystic
ability in the Living Spycraft campaign, but luck instead.
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African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following feats in the African Alliance Chamber
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• “A Little Bit of Luck…”: This is considered a chance feat in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Animal Partner: Where the rules differ between this
book and the Mastermind Sourcebook, the Mastermind
Sourcebook’s rules take precedence.
• Fortune Favors the Bold: This is considered a chance feat in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Fortune’s Fool: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• “…Goes a Long Way”: This is considered a chance feat in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Improved Bull Rush: No exceptions or modifications.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: This is considered a chance feat in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Safe House Menagerie: If the agent chooses to permanently
allocate personal budget to including any number of animals
with a total cost exceeding 12 BP in his safe house, it must be
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier,
along with the text: “Safe House Menagerie:”, followed by a
list of all animals chosen and the animals’ total cost.
“Example: Safe House Menagerie: alligator (24 BP)”.
Also, where the rules differ between this book and the
Mastermind Sourcebook, the Mastermind Sourcebook’s rules
take precedence.
• That’ll Leave a Scar: No exceptions or modifications.
• Too Ugly to Die: No exceptions or modifications.
• Turn the Air Blue: No exceptions or modifications.
• You Ain’t So Pretty No More: No exceptions or modifications.
Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
Only the following feats in the Archer Foundation Chamber
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• All or Nothing: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Black Cat: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Jinx: This is considered a chance feat in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Peculiar Dodge: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Rule of 5: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Tough Luck: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Unshakable: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
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European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
All feats in the European Commonwealth Chamber Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Aura Reading: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Brain Freeze: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Eyes of Judgment: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Misfortune: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Further, the DC of the Will save prompt-
ed by this feat is equal to 10 + the agent’s Charisma modifier
+ the number of chance feats the agent possesses. Finally, this
feat’s ability may be used a number of times per session equal
to the number of chance feats the agent possesses.
• Moment of Weakness: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Momentary Lapse of Reason: This feat is not available in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Political Immunity: This feat grants the agent immunity to all
criminal charges brought against him by organizations outside
the Agency. It does not protect him from the effects of
isolation (see the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, page 108,
and page 39 of this document).
• Sour: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Suspicious Amnesia: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• When the Chips Are Down: This feat is not available in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
Only the following feats in the Hand of Glory Threat Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Fade to Black: This is considered a style feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Forgotten: This is considered a style feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
Mystics of the East (PDF)
Only the following feats in the Mystics of the East are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Mark of Strife: This feat is applied as written, but is considered
a unarmed combat feat in the Living Spycraft campaign.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
All feats in the Pan-Asian Collective Chamber Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
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Shop Threat Book
Only the following feats in the Shop Threat Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Micro-Miniaturization: No changes or exceptions.
• Personal Workshop: No changes or exceptions.
• Private Library: No changes or exceptions.
• Quality Assurance: No changes or exceptions.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
All feats in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Advanced Technology: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Alien Healer: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Aquatic Training: This is considered a covert feat in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Arctic Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Bandage: This is considered an advanced skill feat in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Clear Mind: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Desert Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Extra Supplies: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Extra Support: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Extrapolate Connections: This feat is not available in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Favor of the Gods: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Flawless Identity: This is considered a style feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Forest Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Fortunate: This is considered a chance feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Goa’uld Hunter: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Harmless: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Heal the Body: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Heal the Mind: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Intuitive Linguist: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Jungle Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
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• Kelno’reem Mastery: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Lucid Touch: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Mountain Training: This is considered a covert feat in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Naquadah Sense: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Phase Sense: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Phase Targeting: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Private Identity: This is considered a style feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Further, if an agent’s private identity is
compromised, his XP reward during the current serial is
automatically reduced to 1/2 standard (rounded down).
This completely restores the benefits of the agent’s Private
Identity feat — the agent’s future XP rewards are unaffected
unless his private identity is once again compromised.
• Promotion: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Rapid Healing: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Shared Deception: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Stargate Explorer: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Swamp Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Symbiote: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Track: This is considered an advanced skill feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Unconventional: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Urban Training: This is considered a covert feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Weapon Group Proficiency: There are two exotic weapon
group proficiencies in the Living Spycraft campaign —
archaic and martial arts. There is no primitive exotic weapon
group proficiency in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Zat Resistance: This feat is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Zen Focus: This is considered a basic combat feat in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Zen Shot: This is considered a basic combat feat in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Xeno-Studies: This feat is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
Backgrounds
At this time, Living Spycraft agents may not acquire
backgrounds.
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Bundles
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 106, for the rules
concerning the acquisition of feats.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 bundles are approved for use in Living Spycraft games at this
time.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All bundles in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications.
• Bundle C: The agent does not gain the .357 revolver or the
9x19mm service pistol, nor the accompanying accessory or
ammunition. Instead, this bundle’s cost is reduced to 15 BP.
1960s Decade Book
All bundles in the 1960s Decade Book are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All bundles in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All bundles in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Modern Arms Guide
All bundles in the Modern Arms Guide are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All bundles in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Spycraft Boot Camp (PDF)
None of the prestige classes in the Spycraft Boot Camp I are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
U.S. Militaries Sourcebook
All bundles in the U.S. Militaries Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All bundles in the World Militaries Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following bundles in the African Alliance Chamber
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Medical Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
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Weapon, Gear, Gadget,
and Vehicle Limits
Some serials limit the number of BP that may be spent to
requisition each weapon and/or item for use during the serial.
These limits are in effect until the end of the current serial, and
apply to weapons and/or items requisitioned with either
personal or mission budget, or both. This limitation applies only
to the cost of each base weapon or item, not any accessories,
masterwork modifications, or other options improving it.
Weapons that may be attached together — for example, an
assault rifle and an underbarrel grenade launcher — are consid-
ered separate weapons for this purpose.
Any bundle containing weapons and/or items that exceed
this limit become unavailable in the serial as well.
If an agent loses access to one or more weapons and/or
items that are part of his personal gear as a result of a serial’s
BP limit, he may reallocate the cost of each affected weapon
and item per the standard Living Spycraft Gearing Up rules.
Additionally, some serials limit the number of GP that may
be spent to requisition each gadget for use during the serial.
These limits are in effect until the end of the current serial, and
apply only to gadgets, not vehicles. When an agent requisitions
a gadget with one housing and multiple options (e.g. a standard
grapple belt with the lockpick set option), this limitation applies
to the cost of each base gadget and each option separately.
Finally, the number of GP a team may spend to requisition a
vehicle may be similarly limited under very rare circumstances,
which will always be described in each appropriate serial, in the
Gearing Up section. These limits are in effect until the end of
the current serial, and apply only to vehicles, not gadgets
(though separate gadget limits may be included as well). This
limitation applies only to the cost of each base vehicle, not any
masterwork modifications, vehicular gadgets, ordnance, or
other options improving it.
Unless specified otherwise, all of these limits apply before,
during, and after the Gearing Up phase, for the duration of the
current serial.
Defying the Home Office
Any agent may attempt to slip one or more restricted
weapons and/or items through the Agency’s supply channels.
This requires one assistance favor check per desired weapon or
item, against a base DC 10/15/20/25. This DC is increased by 5
per weapon or item the agent has already successfully slipped
through channels during the current serial.
Example: Donovan, a 3rd-level soldier, has already slipped a
restricted weapon through channels and wants to slip a restrict-
ed piece of armor through as well. His DC is 15.
Example 2: Walter, a 14th-level soldier, has already slipped
two restricted weapons through channels and wants to slip a
restricted piece of armor through as well. His DC is 30.
The agent may not spend action dice to increase any favor
check result when trying to slip a restricted weapon or item
through Agency channels.
With success, the restricted weapon or item becomes avail-
able to the agent for the duration of the current serial, or until
Control or another superior Agency representative notices his
insubordination (with at least one successful Listen, Search, or
Spot check, per the GC’s discretion).
With failure, or if the GC determines that the agent’s insub-
ordination is discovered during the same serial, the agent gains
1 isolation grade (see Isolation, page 39).
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Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
Only the following bundles in the Archer Foundation
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Aquatic Operations Kit: No exceptions or modifications.
• Investigative Operations Kit: No exceptions or modifications.
• Paranormal Operations Kit: No exceptions or modifications.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following bundles in the European Commonwealth
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Financial Operations Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
• Interrogation Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
• Underworld Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
Only the following bundles in the Hand of Glory Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Lamprey Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
• Shocktrooper Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following bundles in the Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Infiltration Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
• Intrusion Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
• Martial Arts Bundle: No exceptions or modifications.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
All bundles in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following costs:
• Duty Bundles: Each of these bundles costs 25 BP in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Mission Bundles: Each of these bundles costs 35 BP in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Personal Bundles: Each of these bundles costs 35 BP in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
• Weapon Bundles: Each of these bundles costs 35 BP in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
Additionally, the following exceptions and modifications
apply to bundles from this book:
• Advisor Bundle: The agent may choose whether he gains the
desktop or laptop computer as part of this bundle.
• Computer Specialist Bundle: The agent may choose whether
he gains the desktop or laptop computer as part of this
bundle.
• Researcher Bundle: The agent may choose whether he gains
the desktop or laptop computer as part of this bundle.
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Serial Bundles
Beginning in December 2003, Living Spycraft serials feature
original bundles designed to expressly equip agents according to
the mission’s briefing conditions. These bundles are approved for
use in other serials on a case-by-case basis, as follows:
• Facing Facts: The silent assault bundle is approved for use in
all Living Spycraft games (25 BP): Small backpack (to carry
and store bundle), 4 sets of black BDUs, 4 pairs of tiger claws,
4 standard suppressors, 3 standard laser sights, 2nd generation
night vision sight, 12× telescopic sight, binoculars, climbing
kit, electronics kit, lockpicking kit, expendable tactical jammer.
• Ground Truth: The forward reconnaissance bundle is
approved for use in all Living Spycraft games, though the
regional maps target the location of the serial’s first scene
(25 BP): Heavy duty backpack (to carry and store bundle),
camouflage fatigues, ghillie suit, binoculars, camouflage net,
encrypted tactical radio (×2), entrenching tool, facepaint
(3 applications), one-man tent, night vision goggles, regional
maps, 20× day/night spotting scope with tripod.
• Herilian Agenda: The modified SGC mission bundle, and all
3 Herilian bundles, are not approved for use in Living Spycraft
games.
• The Maltese Experiment: The modified diplomacy bundle is
approved for use in all Living Spycraft games (25 BP): Luggage
(to carry and store bundle), 4 sets of trendy clothes, logbook,
PDA (power rating +2), cell phone, standard video camera with
2 commercial-grade tapes.
• The Maltese Experiment: The modified diversion bundle is
approved for use in all Living Spycraft games (25 GP):
Backpack (to carry and store bundle), mechanics kit, tactical
radio, earplugs, 3 flash/bang grenades.
• Outbreak: The Moscow investigation bundle is approved for
use in all Living Spycraft games, though the regional maps
and language and travel manuals target the location of the
serial’s first scene (25 BP): Large toolkit case (to carry and
store bundle), 2 evidence kits, fingerprinting test kit, UV flash-
light, chemical analyzer, metal detector, hand-held lie
detector, flashlight, forgery kit, leatherman, travel manual and
regional maps, language manual, magnifying glass, pocket
microscope.
• Where The Lion Sleeps Tonight: The African safari bundle is
approved for use in all Living Spycraft games (25 BP): 1 set of
safari clothing, magnetic compass, regional maps (any Third
World region), 1 pair of night vision goggles or 1 pair of
binoculars, survival kit, canteen, flashlight, first aid kit,
1 antidote shot, headset radio with 2-mile range, digital
camera with either super-telephoto or infrared filter lens.
Standard-Issue Gear
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 104, for the rules
concerning the acquisition and use of standard-issue gear.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 standard-issue gear is approved for use in Living Spycraft
games at this time.
Special Note: Some standard-issue items feature new costs,
weights, or other values in the Living Spycraft campaign (and some
of these even intentionally contradict the official Spycraft/SFA
errata) — when a discrepancy arises, defer to the separate MRD
Tables document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options.
Special Note: Standard-issue weapons, personal gadgets,
and vehicles and vehicular options are covered in separate
sections.
 Agent Options
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All standard-issue gear in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Bugs: If the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide is available, then the
bugs listed in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign; instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult the separate MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options.
• Camera, Digital: The digital camera in this book is not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult the separate MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options.
• Demolitions Kit: The demolitions kit in this book is not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult the separate MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options.
• Drugs and Poisons: If either the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook or
the Shop Threat Book are available, then the drugs and
poisons listed in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign; instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult the separate MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options.
• Protective Gear: The protective gear in this book is not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult Chapter 8 of the
Modern Arms Guide for protective gear options.
• Weapon Accessories: The weapon accessories in this book is
not approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult Chapter 6 of the
Modern Arms Guide for weapon accessory options.
1960s Decade Book
All standard-issue gear in the 1960s Decade Book is approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications.
• Ballistic Nylon Vest: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Fragmentation Vest: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Inflation: The actual costs of all items is adjusted to reflect
modern pricing.
• Night Vision Viewer: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Remote Chemical Sensor: When requisitioned in the Living
Spycraft campaign, this device is made from modern parts and
features advanced robot technology, and the device’s cost is
adjusted accordingly. The device’s mechanics are unchanged.
• Survival Radio: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign.
• Voice Encryption Device: This item is not available in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All standard-issue gear in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with our exception or
modification.
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Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All standard-issue gear in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book
All standard-issue gear and standard-issue gear uses in the
Gentlemen’s Agreement Season Book are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Mastermind Sourcebook
Only the following standard-issue gear in the Mastermind
Sourcebook is approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Animals: A Living Spycraft agent may requisition any animal
in this section at the listed BP cost. He may alternately
requisition a domesticated version of each animal at 1.5 × its
listed BP cost (rounded up), or a trained version of each
animal at 2 × its listed BP cost. A Living Spycraft agent may
not requisition an animal that already knows one or more
tricks, unless those tricks are included in its basic package —
in order for a Living Spycraft agent to acquire an animal with
additional tricks, he must requisition a basic animal and train
it using the Handle Animal skill (see the Mastermind
Sourcebook, page 16, and the African Alliance Chamber Book,
page 57). Further, a Living Spycraft agent may not requisition
an animal with augmentations, nor may he augment an ani-
mal during play.
• Animals: If an agent’s animal is lost or killed, the agent
regains all BP dedicated to the animal at the end of the
current serial. Thereafter, he may either requisition a new
base, domesticated, or trained animal or redistribute the BP
as he sees fit.
• Animals: If an animal that has learned one or more new tricks
is lost or killed, the agent must begin the process of training a
new animal again — he may not requisition a new trained
animal possessing the learned tricks.
• Animals: Where the rules differ between this book and
the African Alliance Chamber Book, this book’s rules take
precedence.
Modern Arms Guide
All standard-issue gear in the Modern Arms Guide is approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications.
Special Note: All standard-issue gear modifications in the
Modern Arms Guide are also approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, per the modified rules for applying them (see page 16).
• Assault Vest Insert: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Instead, the standard insert listed in the
separate MRD Tables document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue
Gear Options may be used with any listed armor.
• Kevlar Vest Insert: This item is not available in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Instead, the standard insert listed in the
separate MRD Tables document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue
Gear Options may be used with any listed armor.
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Modern Arms Guide
Chapter 9 Website Download
(PDF)
All standard-issue gear in the Modern Arms Guide: Chapter 9
website download is approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
without exception or modification.
Modern Arms Guide
Expansion: Volume I (PDF)
All standard-issue gear in the Modern Arms Guide Expansion:
Volume I is approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without
exception or modification.
Special Note: All standard-issue gear modifications in the MAG
Expansion: Volume I are also approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, per the modified rules for applying them (see page 16).
U.S. Militaries Sourcebook
All standard-issue gear in the U.S. Militaries Sourcebook is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications.
• Ceremonial Sword: This item has no mechanical benefit in
the Living Spycraft campaign (other than potentially as an
improvised weapon).
• Dress Uniform: This item has no mechanical benefit in the
Living Spycraft campaign (outside potentially allowing him
into military dress functions with the proper credentials).
• Service Uniform: This item has no mechanical benefit in the
Living Spycraft campaign (outside potentially allowing him
into military service functions with the proper credentials).
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All standard-issue gear in the World Militaries Sourcebook is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following standard-issue gear in the African Alliance
Chamber Book is approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with
the following exceptions and modifications:
• Animals: A Living Spycraft agent may requisition any animal
in this section at the listed BP cost. He may alternately
requisition a domesticated version of each animal at 1.5 × its
listed BP cost (rounded up), or a trained version of each
animal at 2 × its listed BP cost. A Living Spycraft agent may
not requisition an animal that already knows one or more
tricks, unless those tricks are included in its basic package —
in order for a Living Spycraft agent to acquire an animal with
additional tricks, he must requisition a basic animal and train
it using the Handle Animal skill (see the African Alliance
Chamber Book, page 57, and page 16 of this document).
Further, a Living Spycraft agent may not requisition an animal
with augmentations, nor may he augment an animal during
play.
• Animals: If an agent’s animal is lost or killed, the agent
regains all BP dedicated to the animal at the end of the
current serial. Thereafter, he may either requisition a new
base, domesticated, or trained animal or redistribute the BP
as he sees fit.
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• Animals: If an animal that has learned one or more new tricks
is lost or killed, the agent must begin the process of training a
new animal again — he may not requisition a new trained
animal possessing the learned tricks.
• Animals: Where the rules differ between this book and the
Mastermind Sourcebook, the Mastermind Sourcebook’s rules
take precedence.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following standard-issue gear in the Pan-Asian
Collective Chamber Book is approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Cover Identities: No exceptions or modifications.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
All standard-issue gear in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, at the costs listed in
the MRD Tables document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear
Options, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Equipment Qualities: Living Spycraft agents may not add
equipment qualities to items.
• ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Monitor): This item is not
available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Computer Software, Space Navigation: This item is not
available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Computer Software, Stargate Dialing Control Program:
This item is not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Explosives: The explosives in this book are not approved for
use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead, Living Spycraft
players should consult Chapter 7 of the Modern Arms Guide
for explosives options.
• GDO (“Garage Door Opener”): This item is not available in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Demolitions Kit, Breaching: A Living Spycraft agent may
use this item to produce 1 standard breaching charge with
the Demolitions skill (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 49).
• Demolitions Kit, Claymore: A Living Spycraft agent may
use this item to produce 1 standard claymore charge with
the Demolitions skill (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 49).
• Demolitions Kit, C4: A Living Spycraft agent may use this
item to prepare one standard 1/4-lb. C4 charge with the
Demolitions skill (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 49). This bomb’s size may be increased in 1/4-lb.
increments by paying the cost listed in the MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Standard-Issue Gear Options,
to a maximum individual bomb size of 5 lb.
• Demolitions Kit, Satchel: A Living Spycraft agent may
use this item to produce 1 standard satchel charge with
the Demolitions skill (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 49).
• Demolitions Kit, Thermite: A Living Spycraft agent may
use this item to produce 1 standard thermite charge with
the Demolitions skill (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 49).
 Agent Options
• Medical Kit: This item is not available in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Suits: The protective suits in this book are not approved for
use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead, Living Spycraft
players should consult Chapter 8 of the Modern Arms Guide
for protective suit options.
• Weapon Accessories: The weapon accessories in this book is
not approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead,
Living Spycraft players should consult Chapter 6 of the
Modern Arms Guide for weapon accessory options.
Standard-Issue Weapons
See the Modern Arms Guide for the rules concerning the acqui-
sition and use of standard-issue weapons. These supercede the
rules in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 standard-issue weapons are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games at this time.
Special Note: Some weapons, accessories, and weapon
enhancements feature new costs, weights, or other values in the
Living Spycraft campaign (and some of these even intentionally
contradict the official Spycraft/SFA errata) — when a discrepancy
arises, defer to the MRD Tables document: Living Spycraft
Standard-Issue Weapon Options.
Special Note: Standard-issue gear, personal gadgets, and
vehicles and vehicular options are covered in separate sections.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
The standard-issue weapons and accessories in the Spycraft
Espionage Handbook are not approved for use in the Living
Spycraft campaign. Instead, Living Spycraft players should consult
Chapters 2–7 of the Modern Arms Guide for standard-issue
weapon options.
1960s Decade Book
All standard-issue weapons in the 1960s Decade Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Modern Arms Guide
All standard-issue weapons, weapon accessories, and
ammunition in the Modern Arms Guide are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Special Note: All standard-issue weapon modifications in the
Modern Arms Guide are also approved for use in Living Spycraft
games, per the modified rules for applying them (see page 16).
Modern Arms Guide
Expansion: Volume I (PDF)
All standard-issue weapons and ammunition in the Modern
Arms Guide Expansion: Volume I are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications.
• Pepper Spray: Any lingering Constitution damage inflicted by
this weapon is recovered in full at the end of each serial.
• Pepperball Launchers: Any lingering Constitution damage
inflicted by these weapons is recovered in full at the end of
each serial.
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Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All personal ordnance in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
The standard-issue weapons and accessories in the Stargate
SG-1 Rulebook are not approved for use in the Living Spycraft
campaign. Instead, Living Spycraft players should consult Chapters
2–7 of the Modern Arms Guide for standard-issue weapon
options.
Personal Gadgets
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 105, for the rules
concerning the acquisition and use of personal gadgets.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 personal gadgets are approved for use in Living Spycraft
games at this time.
Special Note: Living Spycraft agents receive gadget points
only during the Gearing Up phase of any mission. Gadgets may be
requisitioned during the mission’s Gearing Up phase or in the field.
Living Spycraft agents may requisition gadgets costing no more
than a number of GP equal to 3 + the team’s average agent level
divided by 4 (rounded down, minimum 0). Living Spycraft agents
may only requisition a gadget costing more than this if it is
included in the serial’s Recommended Gadgets list.
Special Note: Some gadgets feature new costs, weights, or
other values in the Living Spycraft campaign (and some of these
even intentionally contradict the official Spycraft/SFA errata) —
when a discrepancy arises, defer to the MRD Tables document:
Living Spycraft Gadget Options.
Special Note: Standard-issue gear, standard-issue weapons,
and vehicles and vehicular options are covered in separate
sections.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All personal gadgets in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Attaché Case, Submachinegun: When used in the Living
Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a 9mmP
CZ Scorpion submachinegun (see the Modern Arms Guide,
page 101). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
The weapon is assumed to be loaded with standard military
ball ammunition — if the agent wishes to use another type of
ammunition, he must requisition the bullets separately.
• Bug Detector, Acoustic Unit: This gadget is not available in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Cigarette, Dartgun: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a standard dartgun
(see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 113).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply. The weapon
is assumed to be loaded with a knockout or lethal poison I dart
— if the agent wishes to use another type of ammunition,
he must requisition the dart separately.
• Cigarette, Flamethrower: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a Chinese Arsenal Type 67
flamethrower (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 132).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
 Living Spycraft MRD
• Cigarette, Grenade: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a standard fragmentation
hand grenade (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 42).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• Cigarette, Pistol: When used in the Living Spycraft campaign,
this weapon operates like an ACCU-TEK HC 380 pocket pistol
(see the Modern Arms Guide, page 89). All modifiers in the
gadget description still apply. The weapon is assumed to be
loaded with standard military ball ammunition, and may not
be loaded with an alternate ammunition type.
• Cigarette, Spray: When used in the Living Spycraft campaign,
this weapon operates like aerosol mace or knockout gas
(see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, pages 111 and 238,
respectively). All modifiers in the gadget description still
apply. The weapon is assumed to be loaded with standard
pepper spray or knockout gas — if the agent wishes to use
another type of ammunition, he must requisition the gas
separately.
• Clothing, Standard Liner: When worn in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this clothing operates like a personalized tuxedo
liner (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 142). All modifiers in
the gadget description still apply.
• Cosmetics and Jewelry, Micro-Grenade Earrings: When
used in the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates
like 1/2 lb. of C4 (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 132).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• Cosmetics and Jewelry, Taser Cufflinks: When used in the
Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
standard taser (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 35).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• Cosmetics and Jewelry, Woman’s Compact: When used in
the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like 1/2 lb.
of C4 (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 132). All modifiers in
the gadget description still apply.
• Explosives, Explosive Pen: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a standard flash grenade
(see the Modern Arms Guide, page 42). All modifiers in the
gadget description still apply.
• Explosives, Magnetic Flask: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like 1/2 lb. of C4 (see the
Modern Arms Guide, page 132). All modifiers in the gadget
description still apply.
• Eyewear and Eye Drops, Faceprint Lenses: All faceprints
stored in this gadget are lost at the end of each serial.
• Eyewear and Eye Drops, Otherman Drops: All eyeprints
stored in this gadget are lost at the end of each serial.
• Shoes, Blade: When used in the Living Spycraft campaign,
this weapon operates like a standard stiletto blade (see the
Modern Arms Guide, page 35). All modifiers in the gadget
description still apply.
• Shoes, Gun: When used in the Living Spycraft campaign, this
weapon operates like an ACCU-TEK HC 380 pocket pistol
(see the Modern Arms Guide, page 89). All modifiers in the
gadget description still apply. The weapon is assumed to be
loaded with standard military ball ammunition — if the agent
wishes to use another type of ammunition, he must requisi-
tion the bullets separately.
• Shoes, Shock-Tip Shoes: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a standard taser (see the
Modern Arms Guide, page 35). All modifiers in the gadget
description still apply.
• Voice Modulators, Larynx Implant: This gadget is not
available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Watches, Explosive: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like 1/2 lb. of C4 (see the
Modern Arms Guide, page 132). All modifiers in the gadget
description still apply.
• Watches, Garrote: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a standard garrote (see
the Modern Arms Guide, page 35). All modifiers in the gadget
description still apply.
• Weapons, AF Hush Puppy: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a Colt M1911A service
pistol (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 89). All modifiers in
the gadget description still apply. The weapon is assumed to
be loaded with standard military ball ammunition — if the
agent wishes to use another type of ammunition, he must
requisition the bullets separately.
• Weapons, Umbrella Gun: This weapon gadget may be applied
to any handgun in the Modern Arms Guide. The cost of the gun
must be paid separately. At the conclusion of a serial during
which the agent adds this gadget to a weapon, the agent may
include the weapon in his personal gear by allocating a
number of his personal BP equal to the weapon’s total cost,
including the weapon’s base cost and all masterwork
modifications and other options, as well as a number of his
class-granted GP equal to all gadgets added to the weapon.
See page 15 for more information about upgrading and
adding masterwork modifications to gear. The agent may not
allocate mission-granted BP or GP to retaining a customized
weapon.
• Weapon Enhancements (All): At the conclusion of a serial
during which the agent adds 1 or more enhancement gadgets
to a weapon, the agent may include the weapon in his
personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal
to the weapon’s total cost, including the weapon’s base cost
and all masterwork modifications and other options, as well
as a number of his class-granted GP equal to all gadgets
added to the weapon. See page 15 for more information
about upgrading and adding masterwork modifications to
gear. The agent may not allocate mission-granted BP or GP to
retaining a customized weapon.
• Weapon Enhancements, Match Grade Weapon: This gadget
may only carry over from mission to mission if the agent
devotes mission-granted BP and GP to the weapon as described
earlier in this section. The agent may not pay triple the
standard GP cost to retain the weapon enhancement.
• Weapon Enhancements, Weapon Accurizing: This gadget
may only carry over from mission to mission if the agent
devotes mission-granted BP and GP to the weapon as described
earlier in this section. The agent may not pay triple the
standard GP cost to retain the weapon enhancement.

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 Agent Growth
1960s Decade Book
All personal gadgets in the 1960s Decade Book are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions
and modifications:
• New Ring Gadgets, Standard Garrote Ring: When used in
the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
standard garrote (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 35).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• New Weapon Gadgets, Crossbow Bracer: When used in the
Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a stan-
dard crossbow (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 42).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply. The weapon
is assumed to be loaded with standard crossbow bolts — if the
agent wishes to use another type of ammunition, he must
requisition the bolts separately.
• New Weapon Enhancements, Mercy Edge: At the conclu-
sion of a serial during which the agent adds this gadget to a
weapon, the agent may include the weapon in his personal
gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal to the
weapon’s total cost, including the weapon’s base cost and all
masterwork modifications and other options, as well as a
number of his class-granted GP equal to all gadgets added to
the weapon. See page 15 for more information about
customized gear. The agent may not allocate mission-granted
BP or GP to retaining a customized weapon.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All personal gadgets in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All personal gadgets in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book
All personal gadgets in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All personal gadgets in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• New Attaché Case Gadgets, Attaché Case Bomb: When
used in the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates
like 1 lb. of C4 (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 132).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• New Attaché Case, Attaché Case Rocket Launcher: When
used in the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates
like a Hawk M-1 rocket launcher (see the Modern Arms Guide,
page 132). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
The weapon is assumed to be loaded with a standard 40mm
HEAT rocket.
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• New Belt Options, Sword Belt: When used in the Living
Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a standard
machete (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 36). All modifiers
in the gadget description still apply.
• Protective Gear Options, Fibermesh Armor: At the conclu-
sion of a serial during which the agent adds this gadget to a
piece of protective gear, the agent may include the protective
gear in his personal gear by allocating a number of his
personal BP equal to the weapon’s total cost, including the
protective gear’s base cost and all masterwork modifications
and other options, as well as a number of his class-granted GP
equal to all gadgets added to the protective gear. See page 15
for more information about customized gear. The agent may
not allocate mission-granted BP or GP to retaining a piece of
customized protective gear.
• Protective Gear Options, Hardened Joints: This gadget is
not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Protective Gear Options, Reflexive Joints: This gadget is not
available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Protective Gear Options, Reinforced Joints: This gadget is
not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• New Gadget Weapons, Rifle Cane: When used in the Living
Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a Daewoo DR-300
assault rifle (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 93).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply. The weapon is
assumed to be loaded with standard military ball ammunition —
if the agent wishes to use another type of ammunition, he must
requisition the bullet(s) separately.
• New Gadget Weapons, Microwave Cannon: This gadget is
not available in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Weapon Enhancements (All): At the conclusion of a serial
during which the agent adds 1 or more enhancement gadgets
to a weapon, the agent may include the weapon in his
personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal
to the weapon’s total cost, including the weapon’s base cost
and all masterwork modifications and other options, as well
as a number of his class-granted GP equal to all gadgets
added to the weapon. See page 15 for more information
about customized gear. The agent may not allocate mission-
granted BP or GP to retaining a customized weapon.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
Only the following personal gadgets in the Shadowforce
Archer Worldbook are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Cell Phone Models (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• Diving Equipment (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• New Evidence Analysis Items, Dedicated Unit: All smell-
prints stored in this gadget are lost at the end of each serial.
• New Evidence Analysis Items, External Unit: No exceptions
or modifications.
• OmnID Cards (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• Palmprint Identifiers, Mark 1 Model: No exceptions or
modifications.
• Palmprint Identifiers, “Backfire” Edition No exceptions or
modifications.
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• Palmprint Identifiers, “Blowback” Edition: When activated
in the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
standard fragmentation hand grenade (see the Modern Arms
Guide, page 42).
• Palmprint Identifiers, Tracking Modification: No exceptions
or modifications.
• Patches, Brainscanner Patch: No exceptions or modifications.
• Patches, Caffeine Boost Patch: No exceptions or modifica-
tions.
• Patches, Calm Emitter Patch: No exceptions or modifications.
• Patches, Panic Emitter Patch: No exceptions or modifications.
• Rings, Hologram Projector: The agent must describe the
hologram image when he requisitions this gadget.
• New Surveillance Gadgets, Houseflies: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Surveillance Gadgets, Mosquitoes: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Surveillance Gadgets, Roaches: No exceptions or
modifications.
• Synthetic Skin, Memory Flesh: No exceptions or modifica-
tions.
• Synthetic Skin, Smart Skin: No exceptions or modifications.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only the following personal gadgets in the African Alliance
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• New Clothing Gadgets, Standard Basic Blacks: No excep-
tions or modifications.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Bubble Coat: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Standard Funeral Gown:
When worn in the Living Spycraft campaign, this clothing
operates like a personalized tuxedo liner (see the Modern
Arms Guide, page 142). All modifiers in the gadget description
still apply.
Further, when this clothing’s weapons are drawn and used in
the Living Spycraft campaign, they operate as follows:
Stilettos: These operate like standard stiletto blades (see the
Modern Arms Guide, page 35).
Throwing Knives: These operate like standard throwing knives
(see the Modern Arms Guide, page 42).
Mini-Grenades: These operate like standard concussion
grenades (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 42).
Taser: This operates like a standard taser (see the Modern
Arms Guide, page 35).
As with the armor, all modifiers in the gadget description still
apply.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Hat Gas Mask: When worn in the
Living Spycraft campaign, this gadget operates like a standard
gas mask (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 143). All modi-
fiers in the gadget description still apply.
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• New Clothing Gadgets, HAZMAT Underwear: When worn in
the Living Spycraft campaign, this gadget operates like a
standard NBC suit (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 143).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Standard Remote Restraint:
No exceptions or modifications.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Sound Damping: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Static Repulsion Generator:
No exceptions or modifications.
• New Clothing Gadgets, Standard Stealth Environment
Suit: When worn in the Living Spycraft campaign, this gadget
operates like a standard NBC suit (see the Modern Arms Guide,
page 143). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
Only the following personal gadgets in the Archer Foundation
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with
the following exceptions and modifications:
• New Diving Equipment, Air Tooth: No exceptions or modifi-
cations.
• New Diving Equipment, Fluid Breathing System: No excep-
tions or modifications.
• New Diving Equipment, Rebreather Pen: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Diving Equipment, Underwater Jet Shoes: No excep-
tions or modifications.
• New Diving Equipment, Underwater Lenses: No exceptions
or modifications.
• New Diving Equipment, Underwater Weapon Conversion:
At the conclusion of a serial during which the agent adds this
gadget to a weapon, the agent may include the weapon in his
personal gear by allocating a number of his personal BP equal
to the weapon’s total cost, including the weapon’s base cost
and all masterwork modifications and other options, as well
as a number of his class-granted GP equal to all gadgets
added to the weapon. See page 15 for more information
about customized gear. The agent may not allocate mission-
granted BP or GP to retaining a customized weapon.
• New Document Gadgets (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• New Weapon Options, Directional Mine: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Weapon Options, Flute Gun: When used in the Living
Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a standard
blowgun (see the Modern Arms Guide, page 52). All modifiers
in the gadget description still apply.
• New Weapon Options, Magnet Knuckles: When used in the
Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
standard set of brass knuckles (see the Modern Arms Guide,
page 35). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
• New Weapon Options, Rocket Launcher Cast: When used in
the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
Hawk M-1 rocket launcher (see the Modern Arms Guide,
page 132). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
The weapon is assumed to be loaded with a standard 40mm
HEAT rocket.
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European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following personal gadgets in the European
Commonwealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Currency Gadgets (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• New Document Gadgets, Memscan Device: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Infiltration Gadgets (All): No exceptions or modifica-
tions.
• New Watch Options, Magnetic Pocket Watch and
Extending Chain: No exceptions or modifications.
• New Weapon Options, Disintegrating Bullets: No excep-
tions or modifications.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
Only the following personal gadgets in the Hand of Glory
Threat Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Fringe Science, Blueprint Recorder/Projector: This item is a
standard Agency gadget, unconnected to any supernatural
elements, in the Living Spycraft campaign.
• Fringe Science, Terrorprints: This item is a standard Agency
gadget, unconnected to any supernatural elements, in the
Living Spycraft campaign.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
None of the personal gadgets in the Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Shop Threat Book
Only the following personal gadgets in the Shop Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• New General Options, Touched by Genius: At the conclusion
of a serial during which the agent adds this option to a
gadget, the agent may include the gadget in his personal gear
by allocating a number of his class-granted GP equal to the
gadget’s total cost, including the gadget’s base cost and all
options. The agent may not allocate mission-granted GP to
retaining a customized gadget.
• Card Gadgets (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• New Explosive Gadgets, Cell Phone Bomb: When used in the
Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like 1 lb. of C4
(see the Modern Arms Guide, page 132). All modifiers in the
gadget description still apply.
• New Explosive Gadgets, Food Poisoning Explosive:
No exceptions or modifications.
• New Eyewear and Eye Drop Gadgets (All): No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Medical Gadgets, Hypodermic Pen: No exceptions or
modifications.
• New Security Gadgets (All): No exceptions or modifications.
• New Sonic Gadgets, Distracting Bug: No exceptions or
modifications.
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• New Sonic Gadgets, Phone Unit: No exceptions or modifica-
tions.
• New Watch Gadgets, Geiger Counter Watch: No exceptions
or modifications.
• New Weapon Gadgets, Cell Phone Dart Gun: When used in
the Living Spycraft campaign, this weapon operates like a
standard dartgun (see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
page 113). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
The weapon is assumed to be loaded with a knockout or lethal
poison I dart — if the agent wishes to use another type of
ammunition, he must requisition the dart separately.
• New Weapon Enhancements, Refrigerated Clip: No excep-
tions or modifications.
Vehicles
and Vehicular Options
See the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide, Chapter 4, for the rules
concerning the acquisition and use of vehicles. These supercede
the rules in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
See the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 105, for the rules
concerning the acquisition and use of vehicular gadgets.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 vehicles and vehicular options are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games at this time.
Special Note: When a serial limits the number of GP that may
be spent to requisition each of the team’s gadgets, this limit does
not apply to vehicles (though it does apply to vehicular gadgets).
Special Note: Some vehicular options feature new costs,
weights, or other values in the Living Spycraft campaign (and some
of these even intentionally contradict the official Spycraft/SFA
errata) — when a discrepancy arises, defer to the MRD Tables
document: Living Spycraft Vehicle Options,
Special Note: Standard-issue gear, standard-issue weapons,
and personal gadgets are covered in separate sections.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
The vehicles in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are not
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead, Living
Spycraft players should consult Chapter 4 of the Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide for vehicle options.
All vehicular gadgets in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook,
however, are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Concealed Machinegun: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a 7.62mm vehicular
machinegun (see the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide,
page 102). All modifiers in the gadget description still apply.
The weapon is assumed to be loaded with standard military
ball ammunition — if the agent wishes to use another type of
ammunition, he must requisition the bullets separately.
• Rocket Launcher: When used in the Living Spycraft
campaign, this weapon operates like a 70mm vehicular rocket
launcher (see the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide, page 102).
All modifiers in the gadget description still apply. The weapon
is assumed to be loaded with standard fragmentation rockets
— if the agent wishes to use another type of ammunition,
he must requisition the rockets separately.
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1960s Decade Book
All vehicular gadgets in the 1960s Decade Book are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modifica-
tion.
Battlegrounds Sourcebook
All vehicles in the Battlegrounds Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
All vehicular gear in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide is
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
All vehicles and vehicular modifications and gadgets in the
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide — including drones — are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book
All vehicles and vehicular modifications and gadgets in the
Gentlemen’s Agreement Season Book are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
Modern Arms Guide
Expansion: Volume I (PDF)
All vehicular modifications in the Modern Arms Guide
Expansion: Volume I are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
without exception or modification.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All vehicles and vehicular modifications, gadgets, and ordnance
in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
U.S. Militaries Sourcebook
All vehicles in the U.S. Militaries Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or modification.
World Militaries
Sourcebook
All vehicles in the World Militaries Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
Only the following vehicles and vehicular gadgets in the
Shadowforce Archer Worldbook are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Battle Bus: This vehicle is a semi tractor and box trailer
(see the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide, page 101), though its
cost and statistics remain as printed in the Shadowforce
Archer Worldbook.
• Battle Bay: No exceptions or modifications.
• Garage Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
• Medical Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
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• Props Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
• Surveillance Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following vehicular gadgets in the European
Commonwealth Chamber Book are approved for use in Living
Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Computer Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
• Gear Workshop Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
• Weapon Workshop Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
Hand of Glory Threat Book
None of the vehicles in the Hand of Glory Threat Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
None of the vehicles or modifications, gadgets, and ordnance
in the Pan-Asian Collective Chamber Book are approved for use in
Living Spycraft games.
Shop Threat Book
Only the following vehicular gadgets in the Shop Threat Book
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• High Performance Suite: No exceptions or modifications.
Other Agent Options
In addition to the many standard agent options listed in the
previous sections, many Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer,
and Stargate SG-1 books contain new agent options specific to
the topic or period presented (see each book for specifics).
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 new agent options are approved for use in Living Spycraft
games at this time.
• Cover Identities: Cover identities may be requisitioned as
gear (see the MRD Tables document: Standard-Issue Gear
Options).
• Intelligence/Mission Resources: Unless a serial expressly
states that one, more, or all intelligence/mission resources are
unavailable, the agents may requisition them at the listed costs
in the field.
The following intelligence resources are available in the Living
Spycraft campaign: advance team reports, aerial reconnais-
sance, air strikes, artillery fire support, backup, blackout,
carrier strike group intimidation*, combat air patrol,
cryptologic supercomputers, diplomatic station support,
disguise crew, diversions, embassy security detail, evacuation**,
fallback caches, gun grab bag, law enforcement authority†,
martial law, medical services, quarantine, satellite reconnaisals
intercepts, smuggling, team projects, team research.
* This intelligence resource’s duration is always “mission” in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
** When the GC spends 1 action die to activate this resource’s
complication, the serial’s primary villain gains 1 additional
minion squad. If the serial’s primary villain commands more
than 1 standard minion squad type, or the serial features more
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than 1 primary villain, the GC chooses 1 squad from all
available options and increases its quantity by 1. If the serial’s
primary villain commands no minions, or the serial doesn’t
feature a primary villain, this complication option becomes
unavailable to the GC.
† The GC determines the Agency’s leverage within the target
area, based on the serial’s details about recent events in the
area and the general outlook of the area’s population.
• Nature, Red in Fang and Claw: Animals may be trained in
the field or requisitioned as gear (see pages 17 and the MRD
Tables document: Standard-Issue Gear Options, respectively).
Living Spycraft agents may not convert or import animals
from other d20 games.
• Presence: An agent must possess the Jet Setter feat in order
to use these rules (see page 41). All remaining presence effects
are lost at the end of the current serial. For more information
about presence, see the European Commonwealth Chamber
Book, page 82.
• Rank and Promotion: An agent conceived as part of a U.S.
military Armed Force may begin play at any rank up to the
maximum rank possible according to his current promotion
points.
When one or more military agents are present at the start of
a Living Spycraft session, the players determine the team’s
leader during each mission, with the GC resolving the
situation if the players can’t come to a quick consensus.
A military agent gains the skill check bonuses listed in the
Benefits of Rank and/or Warrant Officer sections only when
interacting with the U.S. Military. A military agent never gains
the bonus BP or GP described in these sections, even if every
agent on the team is part of the same military force.
The rules in the Disciplinary Action section are not in effect as
part of the Living Spycraft campaign. Instead, the GC and
players are encouraged to utilize the modified isolation rules
when discipline is required, whether from the Agency or from
the military. Whenever a military agent suffers one or more
isolation effects, he also suffers a promotion point penalty as
follows:
Table 4: Military Isolation
Isolation Condition Promotion Point Penalty*
Administrative Leave –1
Suspension –3
Disavowed –5
Burned Drummed out**
* This penalty is lost when the isolation condition is
removed.
** The agent loses his military status and may never regain
it. This is tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career
dossier, along with the text: “Drummed Out: Isolation”.
The Agency enforces all isolation effects — even those justified
as military disciplinary action.
The rules in the Chain of Command section are only in effect
when every player at the table is playing a military agent and
when the GC and every player at the table votes to enforce
them. Otherwise, they have no effect upon Living Spycraft
play. When in doubt, the GC determines whether any action is
ignores or is in direct opposition to a team leader’s orders.
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Living Spycraft agents may only gain decorations as certs
granted by serials — the GC may never award them.
Future versions of this document will incorporate rules for
creating and playing military agents from other world military
forces.
• Training Programs: Barring ability-related exceptions, each
agent may undertake only 1 training program during each
serial, during the Gearing Up phase. The agent is assumed to
pass the final exam, but must pay the program’s full cost and
spend the program’s full recertification time during the
Gearing Up phase in order to gain its benefits. When a Living
Spycraft serial does not specifically mention how much time
is available to the agents during the Gearing Up phase,
a maximum of 8 hours are available.
The following training programs are available in the Living
Spycraft campaign: Agency orientation, air assault training,
basic airborne training program, basic disguise training, basic
firearms training, basic interrogation training, basic self defense
training, coercion resistance training, covert operations
training, cultural immersion training, dive certification, escape
and evasion training, first aid certification, “fumigation” train-
ing, guerilla warfare training, impersonation training, military
operations in urban terrain (MOUT) training, political indoctri-
nation, prisoner handling instruction, psycho-linguistics train-
ing, recon and retrofit program, tactical disruption training,
tactical medicine primer, technical maintenance training, top-
down entry technique, U.S. Air Force Basic Training program,
U.S. Army Basic Training program, U.S. Coast Guard Basic
Training program, U.S. Marine Corps Boot Camp training pro-
gram, U.S. Navy Basic Training program, weapon certification
training, wilderness survival training.
• “Welcome to the Menagerie”: Animals may be trained in the
field or requisitioned as gear (see pages 16 and the MRD Table
document, respectively). Living Spycraft agents may not
convert or import animals from other d20 games.
The following Spycraft, Shadowforce Archer, and Stargate
SG-1 new agent options are not approved for use in Living
Spycraft games at this time.
• Allegiance.
• Backgrounds (including Backgrounds Revisited).
• Chemical Monster Rules.
• Deathtraps.
• Fringe/Other Side: Fringe options available in the Living
Spycraft campaign are described throughout this document.
• Gadget Creation.
• Gear Abuse and Maintenance.
• Long-Term Gearing Up.
• Mastermind Classes: Though these options may not be
chosen by Living Spycraft agents, they are frequently used to
design Living Spycraft NPCs.
• Mystic World: Some mystic options are available in the Living
Spycraft campaign, as described throughout this document.
• NPC Classes: Though these options may not be chosen by
Living Spycraft agents, they are frequently used to design
Living Spycraft NPCs.
• Plate/Power Armor.
• Psionics.
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• Reputation.
• Shadownet.
• Standard Minion Types Revisited: Though these options may
not be chosen by Living Spycraft agents, they are frequently
used to design Living Spycraft NPCs.
Special Note: New rules are covered in a separate section.
AGENT GROWTH
The following rules concerning agent growth apply at all
times in the Living Spycraft campaign.
Agent Experience
The Living Spycraft campaign awards experience in the
following ways only:
• An official Living Spycraft serial — Each agent participating in
an official Living Spycraft event earns the same amount —
a precise amount determined by the objectives completed
during play. The GC calculates the amount of XP earned
according to the Rewards section of the serial played.
Special Note: A Living Spycraft agent may gain experience
when playtesting an officially sanctioned global or regional
serial in progress (i.e. one that is written but not edited).
This experience may not be applied to the agent until the
serial is officially released to the public, however — the agent
records it on his career dossier as standard, but does not
factor it into whether he gains a new level at the end of each
serial until the serial releases. Further, any changes made to
the serial’s Rewards must be incorporated into the agent’s
XP gain when it is applied (i.e. if a serial’s XP rewards are
lowered or raised after playtesting but before official release,
the agent must change his XP gain accordingly).
• Action dice earned during play in an official Living Spycraft
event — The agent gains a flat 25 XP per action die he is
awarded during play, and the maximum XP he may gain from
action dice during any 1 serial is limited to 1 die per agent
level he possesses. The agent may still use any action dice he
gains beyond this limit as standard, but is granted no XP for
earning them.
Example: A 4th-level agent may gain experience from up to 4
action dice (100 XP) during any single Living Spycraft serial,
though he may gain and use any number of action dice
during the same serial.
• An official Living Spycraft cert — The amount of XP listed on
the cert is added directly to the agent’s cumulative XP total.
As yet, we have only released 1 XP cert, at Origins and GenCon
2002.
A Living Spycraft agent may never gain XP from any other
source.
Further, a Living Spycraft GC may never award XP outside the
precise numbers provided in an official Living Spycraft serial or
cert, or by awarding action dice (and then he may never award
more XP than listed earlier in this section, even if he awards more
dice to a single agent during play).
Also, though broken up by scene, mission objectives, and
(rarely) the Debriefing phase, all Living Spycraft XP is rewarded
at the serial’s end. Living Spycraft agents may never gain levels
mid-mission.
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Finally, A Living Spycraft agent may only gain 1 agent level at
the end of each serial, no matter how much XP he’s accumulated.
Excess XP is not lost, however — the agent’s total accumulated XP
carried into his next mission, after which he may, again, only gain
1 agent level, and so on.
Special Note: It has come to our attention that some GCs are
not awarding serial XP in the proper fashion. The official rule is
that if the agents successfully complete two or more graded
objectives within the same reward tree, they earn the XP for the
highest-grade objective they complete.
Example: A serial’s Rewards section contains the following
reward tree:
A. Killing one or more [enemies]: 50/75/100/125 XP per agent.
B. Capturing one or more [enemies]: 100/150/200/250 XP per
agent.
If a first-tier team of agents completes both of these
objectives, killing one or more enemies and capturing one or more
enemies, they each earn 100 XP. This is the case even if they kill
every enemy but one, and capture that last enemy.
Game Control Experience
Living Spycraft wants to reward everyone and anyone who
helps the campaign grow. As such, each time a GC runs a serial,
he gains the following XP, which may be applied to any 1 of his
personal agents:
• When a GC runs a serial for the first time and has not played
it personally (i.e. he “eats” the serial), he gains a flat 500 XP.
A GC may earn this XP reward only once per serial. This must
be tracked in the Certs column of the GC’s career dossier,
along with the text: “Lost Serial:”, followed by the serial’s
name and “(+500 XP to ______)”, where ______ is the name
of the GC’s agent receiving the XP.
Example: “Lost Serial: Agent Down (+500 XP to Donovan)”
• When a GC runs a serial he has previously played or ran,
he gains a flat 200 XP. A GC may earn this XP reward as many
times per serial as he is willing to run it. This must be tracked
in the Certs column of the GC’s career dossier, along with the
text: “Event:”, followed by the serial’s name and “(+200 XP to
______)”, where ______ is the name of the GC’s agent receiv-
ing the XP.
Example: “Event: Agent Down (+200 XP to Donovan)”
In all cases, the GC’s agent dossier must be signed by at least
2 of the players participating in the serial, all of whom must
provide their full names and RPGA/other #s, in case later tracking
is required.
Special Note: This rule does not apply to serials run prior to
the release of version 1.5 of the Living Spycraft Master Rules
Document (MRD). Our apologies, but trying to go back and track
who ran what, where, and when is just impossible.
Special Note: A Living Spycraft GC may gain first-run and/or
multiple-run experience when playtesting an officially sanctioned
global or regional serial in progress (i.e. one that is written but not
edited). This experience may not be applied to the GC’s agent until
the serial is officially released to the public. The GC records it on
his career dossier as standard, but does not factor it into whether
he gains a new level at the end of each serial until the serial
releases.
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Gaining a Level
Each time an agent gains a level, the player must choose the
class in which the agent gains the new level. There is no penalty
in Living Spycraft for multi-classing (i.e. mixing levels from
different classes).
A Living Spycraft agent may only gain 1 agent level at the end
of each serial, no matter how much XP he’s accumulated. Excess
XP is not lost, however — the agent’s total accumulated XP carried
into his next mission, after which he may, again, only gain 1 agent
level, and so on.
Gaining Vitality
The number of vitality points a Living Spycraft agent gains
when he rises in level is based on the vitality die of the class in
which he gains the new level, as follows:
Die Type Vitality Gained
d8 +5
d10 +6
d12 +7
Example: Donovan gains a level as a soldier (vitality die d12).
He gains 7 additional vitality points.
Commendation Certificates
(or ‘Certs’)
Commendation certificates — or ‘certs’ — represent specific
prizes or accomplishments a Living Spycraft agent earns during
play. The specific use or effect of each certificate is described on
the certificate (or explained as part of the GC’s text in the serial).
When an agent receives a certificate, it must be tracked in the
Certs column of the GC’s career dossier, along with the text:
“Cert:”, followed by the cert’s name and any notes or fill-ins
required by the cert.
Example: “Cert: Enmity of W.A.R.D.”
As always, the agent’s sheet must be signed by the GC who
handed the cert out.
Some certs are flagged with rules-specific qualities, as follows:
• Accomplishment: This certificate type represents a particular
accomplishment and may not be traded to or used by any
agent except the agent to whom it is originally awarded.
Accomplishment certs rarely affect play directly, but rather
serve as triggers for events during later missions.
• Cumulative: The effects of this certificate are cumulative.
Unless otherwise stated in the specific cert description, when
an agent gains more than 1 copy of this cert, he is subject to
the combined effects of all copies of this cert in his possession.
Example: An agent possesses 2 copies of the Enmity of
W.A.R.D. cert, each of which inflicts a –3 penalty with Bluff,
Diplomacy, and Gather Information checks targeting
characters loyal to W.A.R.D. The agent suffers a –6 penalty
under these circumstances.
• Finite: This certificate type features a number of check boxes
(possibly as few as one). One of these boxes is marked off in
ink each time the certificate is used. A finite certificate with
all check boxes filled is permanently expended and may no
longer be used in any future serials.
• Isolation: This certificate represents a negative sanction placed
upon the agent by his Agency, usually due to breaking basic
tenets of the global intelligence network or interfering with
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the enjoyment of his fellow players. For more information
about isolation certs, see Printed Rules — Faceman/Snoop
Class Guide, page 39.
• Limited: This certificate represents a condition that may only
affect the agent once at any given time (e.g. a disease).
An agent may only possess 1 of each named limited certificate
at any time. Each additional limited certificate with the same
name is discarded when acquired.
• Minimum Level-X: This certificate is a reward of higher-level
play, and may not be awarded (or traded) to any agent whose
total agent level is lower than the indicated minimum.
• Rare: This certificate represents an extremely rare item,
condition, or other benefit (e.g. an item which is known to be
present in only small numbers across the globe). Only 1 agent
may benefit from each named rare certificate during each
event round. If the agents cannot agree about who gets to use
a named rare certificate, each agent with the same rare
certificate rolls 1d20, adding his agent level, and the agent
with the highest result may either use the certificate or
choose who uses it. Ties are re-rolled.
• Unique: This certificate represents a condition, item, or other
benefit that is known to be unique in the Living Spycraft
setting (e.g. Agency Assistant Director).
Any cert without any of these flags may be possessed and
used in any quantity during any event round.
All certs must be signed in ink by the awarding Game Control.
Any unsigned cert must be confiscated and destroyed by the GC
of the current round (unless the GC knows for a fact that it’s an
honest mistake, in which case he may sign it himself).
Identical Certs
Unless otherwise stated on a cert or in this document, certs
are not cumulative. That is, when an agent gains two or more
copies of an identical cert, only one of them applies at any time.
Important Note
When an agent completes a serial without gaining certs or
lingering agent options or effects that are recorded in the Certs
section of his career dossier, the GC or player must draw a line
cleanly through the box in pen.
Trading Certificates
Certificates may only be traded between players, never
between agents controlled by the same player.
Once traded away, each certificate may never be traded back
to the same player, ever.
Example: Simon trades 1 of Donovan’s certs to Steve. That cert
may thereafter be traded to another player, but may never be
traded back to Simon. If the cert is later traded to a third player,
it may never be traded back to either Simon or Steve, and so on.
When a certificate is traded, it must be tracked in the Certs
column of the GC’s career dossier, along with the text: “Traded
Cert:”, followed by the name of the cert, then the name of the
trading player and the name of the receiving player, in that order,
in parentheses.
Example: “Traded Cert: Enmity of W.A.R.D. (Simon to Steve).”
The agent’s sheet must be signed by the GC who observed the
trade, as well as both trading players.
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The Living Spycraft Agent Level Restrictions
Hall of Heroes As of v1.7 of this document, Living Spycraft’s agent level
When a Living Spycraft agent dies, or gains his 20th agent restrictions have changed, as follows.
level, he is eligible to be submitted into the Living Spycraft Hall of
• Each agent’s ‘natural tier range’ is defined as within 2 levels
Heroes, a section of the Living Spycraft home page that will
of his current agent level (e.g. a 6th-level agent has a natural
appear soon.
tier range of 4–8).
In either case, the player should either send in a photocopy or
a legible computer scan of his agent sheet to the following: • Tables may be formed with agents of any level. The agents at
each table must collectively agree to play the current serial at
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Example: An agent’s natural tier range is 4–8. He chooses to
Feel free to include up to 1 brief paragraph about your agent,
play a serial at second-tier (target average agent level 7).
and/or how he died (if appropriate). We’ll strive to include as much
He plays without modification.
information as we can in his eulogy/retirement announcement.
• Any agent 3 or more levels higher than the chosen play tier
Please be patient when you send in your agent. It may take up
level may choose to “tier down” to the chosen play tier.
to a month to update this section of our website.
This grants the GC 1 bonus action die per level of difference
between the agent’s natural tier range and the chosen play
tier level.
PLAYING Example: An agent’s natural tier range is 4–8. He chooses to
THE GAME play a serial at first-tier (target average agent level 2). The GC
gains 2 bonus action dice at the start of the serial.
This section addresses standard Living Spycraft play rules, • Any agent 3 or more levels lower than the chosen play tier
and issues that may arise during play. level may choose to “tier up” to the chosen play tier.
This grants the agent 1 bonus action die per 2 levels of
Living Spycraft Contacts, difference between the agent’s natural tier range and the
Forum, and FAQ chosen play tier level. The agent does not gain any XP
for these bonus action dice, nor are these bonus dice counted
If any of your questions are not answered by this document,
in the calculation to determine the GC’s starting action dice.
please feel free to drop by the official Living Spycraft forum…
Example: An agent’s natural tier range is 4–8. He chooses to
http://www.alderac.com/forum/index.php
play a serial at third-tier (target average agent level 12).
The forum contains the official FAQ, serial release information, He gains 2 action dice at the start of the serial.
event descriptions, and one of the most informative, fun-loving
• If the agent’s natural tier is lower than the lowest available
gaming crowds on the internet.
play tier for a serial, he may play at the lowest play tier by
Alternately, you could consult the official Living Spycraft FAQ “tiering up” as described earlier in this section.
directly at the following URL…
• Each agent gains XP at the chosen play tier or their natural
http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4199 tier, whichever is lower. This means that some agents at the
table may gain different XP for the same event.
If all else fails, drop a line to your Regional Branch Director…
Example: An agent’s natural tier range is 4–8 and he plays a
Australia: Pending.
serial at the first-tier (target average agent level 2). He tiers
Canada: Angus Chan (lspy_gus@winterpost.com) or Michael
up, gaining the serial’s first-tier XP reward.
Yingbull (mbull@uoguelph.com).
France: Christophe Mouchel (krs_paris@yahoo.fr). Example 2: Following the previous example, the same agent
Germany: Arne Reuter (reuter@phoenix-interactive.de). plays the same serial at the second-tier (target average agent
United Kingdom: Megan Robertson (megan@medals.org.uk) level 7). He gains the serial’s first-tier XP reward.
or Dave McAlister (dpmcalister@gmail.com).
Example 3: Following the previous two examples, the same
United States: Adam Stein (jlsdvm@bellsouth.com) or Patrick
agent plays the same serial at third-tier or fourth-tier (target
Kapera (pkapera@alderac.com).
average agent levels 12 or 17, respectively). He gains the
serial’s first-tier XP reward, which falls within his natural tier
Minimum Agents Per Table range.
Unlike standard RPGA-sanctioned events, Living Spycraft may
be played with three (3) to six agents per table. This rule
supercedes any instances of four to six agents in official
documents (including serials).
This may create conflicts with RPGA reporting, for which AEG
and the Living Spycraft Branch Directors are not responsible and
cannot help. All players must agree to risk not losing RPGA
credit for the serial when before starting play at a table hosting
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RPGA Die Bumps and
Other Certs
Official RPGA die bumps and other formally universal RPGA
benefits are sanctioned for use in Living Spycraft, save those with
obvious genre-based conflicts (e.g. bonuses to spell use, turning
undead, etc.).
When an RPGA die bump or another RPGA benefit grants an
action point or another randomly rolled numerical bonus, it
always grants 1 action die of the agent’s standard type — even if
the RPGA die bump or benefit lists a higher die type or value.
Example: Donovan, a 4th-level soldier, uses the GenCon 2002
D20 Modern bonus button, which grants him a bonus action point
(+1d6) to any 1 roll. He gains +1d4 to 1 roll in Living Spycraft.
Further, XP is never gained from any RPGA die bump or other
benefit, even if the die bump or benefit is written to grant bonus
experience. Thus, gaining an additional action point/die from an
RPGA die bump or benefit grants the bonus, but not the associate
XP a Living Spycraft agent gains when he earns an action die
during play.
Finally, each agent may use no more than to 1 RPGA-sanc-
tioned bonus per session/round per 5 agent levels he possesses.
Thus, a 3rd-level Living Spycraft agent may use only 1 RPGA-
sanctioned bonus per session/round, while a 14th-level Living
Spycraft agent may use up to 3 RPGA-sanctioned bonuses per
session/round.
If a question arises concerning a specific RPGA benefit, the GC
has ultimate authority (though questions may be directed to the
Living Spycraft Board of Directors, as standard).
Living Spycraft-Specific
Rules
The following rules are in effect at all times when playing
Living Spycraft, and supercede all rules stated elsewhere when a
conflict arises.
Spycraft Errata
Unless otherwise specified within this document, all Spycraft
errata is in effect at all times. The official Spycraft errata
document is available at the following URL:
http://www.spycraftccg.com/rpg/resources.html
Limited-Use Abilities
and Feats
Many Spycraft and Shadowforce Archer abilities and feats
indicate they may be used a fixed number of times per session.
Each 4-hour Living Spycraft round is considered 1 session for this
purpose. During continuous events that require 2 or more rounds
to play, each agent may begin to use such limited-use abilities
and feats after the final encounter of each 4-hour period (as if
beginning a new session). Unused limited-use abilities and feats
do not carry over to later rounds.
Playing Multiple Agents
A player may maintain as many Living Spycraft agents as he
likes at any time, though no player may participate in any single
serial more than once (it’s therefore impossible that two or more
of any player’s agents play the same serial as well).
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Enforcing the Rules
When a player is found to be breaking the rules, it should be
everyone’s first instinct that he’s merely misinformed. The GC and
all players should make an effort to help less knowledgeable play-
ers come to task with the rules, and learn from their mistakes.
In the unfortunate event that a player is caught cheating,
the GC should make every effort to discreetly resolve the situation
at the event, taking the player aside (preferably under the guise of
something in-game, like something the player’s agent spotted),
and politely correcting him.
When a player is known to persistently circumvent the rules,
one or more of the GCs involved should contact their Regional
Branch Director for instructions (see page 35 for a list of Regional
Branch Directors and their email addresses).
A GC is permitted to eject chronic troublemakers, but should
only do so under the most dire circumstances, in which the
offending player will ruin the game for everyone if he stays. Any
GC who takes such drastic measures should contact his Regional
Branch Director at the first available opportunity and report the
incident.
Special Note: In most cases, player and agent behavior can be
kept in line using the isolation rules (see page 39). Reporting and
ejection should only be considered when players intentionally
cheat, spoiling the game for other players.
Reporting Heroism
Shortly, hopefully in the next MRD update, we’ll be instituting
a system whereby acts of selfless heroism are rewarded amongst
the online Living Spycraft community. Watch future versions of
this document, and the Living Spycraft website, for details.
On Decorum
While Living Spycraft is a game about cloak and dagger
mischief, and the agents are routinely tasked with all manner of
secret mayhem, it’s still important that no one ‘cross the line’
(especially during convention and in-store play where underage
children may be present). Please be courteous of those around you
and avoid gratuitous descriptions of potentially questionable
activities (including but not limited to theft and assassination).
Further, Living Spycraft players are expected to conduct
themselves honestly and to be considerate of the rest of the Living
Spycraft community. Massive scale games such as this are only
possible if everyone strives to reach a common ground. Should any
disputes arise that cannot be resolved with a minimum of fuss,
contact your Regional Branch Director for a recommendation.
Have fun!
Printed Rules
The following sections detail which printed Spycraft rules are
used to run the campaign. All GCs and players are required to
adopt and adhere to these rules at all times.
Spycraft
Espionage Handbook
All rules in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Chapter 4 — Action Dice (page 99): During continuous
events that require 2 or more rounds to play, the GC and each
agent discard all remaining action dice and refresh to their
standard starting supply after the final encounter of each
4-hour period.
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• Chapter 5 — Gearing Up (page 104): The agents may When the team requisitions a vehicle, the team has access to
requisition standard-issue gear from any approved source a like vehicle in every scene through to the end of the current
(see page 24). The agents may only requisition standard-issue serial (even if subsequent scenes take place on different
weapons from the Modern Arms Guide and later books as continents). Some serials may restrict the agents from
described earlier in this document (see page 26) — Living requisitioning certain vehicles or limit the agents to only a
Spycraft agents may never choose weapons from the Spycraft small number of vehicles. This is a facet of the serial, not a
Espionage Handbook. general Living Spycraft rule.
At the beginning of each serial, each agent may requisition • Chapter 6 — Combat (page 156): The Living Spycraft
gear as described on page 104 of the Spycraft Espionage campaign utilizes the fluid initiative system presented on page
Handbook. The Gearing Up (and planning) phase may never 9 of the Modern Arms Guide, not the standard initiative
take longer than 30 minutes per session (or an amount of time system presented in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
noted in the serial text). The GC should move on to the If the GC and every player at a table decides to use the
serial’s first scene immediately at this point, after which no classic Spycraft initiative system instead, they may, however.
additional gear choices may be made before the action begins. If the GC or even one player objects, the fluid initiative system
Gear choices made after the Gearing Up phase are subject to remains in effect.
the standard Spycraft rules for requisitioning gear in the field
• Chapter 9 — Game Control Tools, Action Dice (page 226):
(see the Spycraft Espionage Handbook, page 106).
The GC gains no XP when he gains action dice, or based on the
Each serial’s mission budget is based on its starting threat number of action dice he possesses at the end of a serial.
code. If a serial’s threat code rises during play, each agent
• Chapter 9 — Game Control Tools, Rewards (page 239):
gains the difference between the bonus mission budgets of
All Living Spycraft XP rewards are determined by the serial, not
the old and new threat codes.
the guidelines presented in the Spycraft Espionage Handbook.
Living Spycraft agents do not roll randomly when determining
• Chapter 9 — Game Control Tools, Designing New Gadgets
their mission budget and field expenses. Instead, each Living
(page 240): These rules do not apply in Living Spycraft.
Spycraft agent is assumed to roll a ‘7’ for both purposes.
• Chapter 9 — Game Control Tools, Mastermind System
Some serials feature one or more scenes before the Gearing
(page 242): Living Spycraft serials are designed for use with
Up phase. During these early encounters, Living Spycraft
the Mastermind System, but only to facilitate home games.
agents do not benefit from mission budget (but retain their
The Mastermind System is not approved for use in the Living
personal gear).
Spycraft campaign.
Some serials also permit the agents to exchange some or all of
• Chapter 9 — The Disposition System (page 269): When a
their mission budget after the Gearing Up phase. This is a facet
serial does not expressly set an NPC’s starting disposition,
of the serial, not a general Living Spycraft rule.
the NPC’s starting disposition is assumed to be neutral.
All gear and gadgets requisitioned for, or acquired during, The GC may set the NPC’s disposition to either friendly or
a mission is automatically returned to the Agency at the end unfriendly at his discretion.
of each serial (with the exception of expendable items as
Further, even when an agent scores a a critical success with his
described later in this section). This includes all items acquired
disposition check or otherwise permanently adjusts an NPC’s
during the Gearing Up phase, as well as those requisitioned in
disposition toward him, all dispositions reset to their starting
play or purchased with field expenses.
grades at the end of each serial. An NPC’s disposition toward
Expendable items that are part of an agent’s personal gear an agent may never permanently change unless the agent
(such as flares and ammunition) — as well as personal gear gains a certificate that expressly states otherwise.
that is lost or stolen during a serial — are replaced at the end
of each serial. 1960s Decade Book
• Chapter 5 — Gadgets (page 105): Unless otherwise stated in Only the following rules in the 1960s Decade Book are
a serial’s text, when the agents are gearing up or requisition- approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
ing gadgets in the field, no single gadget they requisition may exceptions and modifications:
cost more than a number of GP equal to 3 + the team’s aver-
• Chapter 7 — Gambling Revisited (page 176): These rules are
age agent level divided by 4 (rounded down, minimum 0).
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
Some serials may include a list of gadgets costing 4 or more according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
GP that are approved by the Agency for use during that
• Chapter 7 — Seduction Revisited (page 183): These rules —
mission only, and some serials may permit the agents to
including the optional seduction quality — are approved for
requisition any gadget costing up to a set number of GP,
use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
or may even lift the GP maximum altogether. This is a facet of
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion. The rules for
the serial, not a general Living Spycraft rule.
using disposition in the Living Spycraft campaign still apply
• Chapter 5 — Vehicles (page 147): The agents may (see page 38).
only requisition vehicles from the Soldier/Wheelman Class
Guide and later books as described earlier in this document
(see page 31) — Living Spycraft agents may never choose
vehicles from the Spycraft Espionage Handbook (though
vehicular gadgets may be chosen from the Spycraft
Espionage Handbook with only a few exceptions and
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• Chapter 7 — Long-Term Contacts (page 186): These rules
are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, with the
following exceptions and modifications.
A Living Spycraft agent need not designate a previously
encountered character as a long-term contact; instead, he
may simply choose to acquire a long-term contact whenever
he gains a new level, devoting 1 or more skill points to the
acquisition as standard. The agent may only gain long-term
contacts when he gains a level, and may only choose long-
term contacts from the Specialists and Street Contacts section
of the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide (see page 81 of that book).
The following costs supercede the costs described in the
standard rules:
Contact Relationship Cost Disposition*
Information sharing (level 1) 1 Friendly
Exchange of favors (level 2) 2 Helpful
Field assistance (level 3) 3 Ally
* Rather than act as a prerequisite, a long-term contact’s dispo-
sition toward the agent is determined by the chose relationship.
A Living Spycraft agent may later upgrade a long-term
contact’s relationship and disposition when he gains each
additional level, by spending a number of skill points equal to
the difference between the contact’s current relationship and
the desired new relationship.
When an agent acquires a long-term contact, it must be
tracked in the Certs section of his career dossier, along with
the text: “Long-Term Contact:,” followed by the contact’s
name and his Specialists and Street Contacts statistics block in
parentheses.
Example: “Long-Term Contact: Frederick Forth (activist)”.
Each time a long-term contact is brought into play, he gains
the statistics block in the Specialists and Street Contacts
section that is closest to and lower than the current serial’s
target average agent level.
Example: Donovan possesses an activist long-term contact.
During a level 6 serial, the activist gains the 7th-level statis-
tics block (as 7th level is closer to level 6 than 3rd level, and
11th level exceeds the current serial’s target average agent
level).
Long-term contacts are always under the GC’s control
(though the agent summoning each long-term contact is
expected to provide instructions and orders, within the limits
provided in the standard Long-Term Contacts section).
Long-term contacts possess basic gear related to their career
or focus totaling no more than a number of BP equal to 2 ×
the summoning agent’s total agent level (usually, but not
always, including the gear outlined in the Specialists and
Street Contacts section). The GC chooses all gear carries by
any long-term contact.
Once acquired, a long term contact may never be lost — even
if a contact is killed during a serial, he is replaced by an
identical specimen at the start of the following serial.
Consequently, a Living Spycraft agent may never regain skill
points spent to acquire a long-term contact.
Finally, a long-term contact may never be overextended in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
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• Chapter 7 — Stress (page 187): These rules are approved for
use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion. All stress effects
are lost at the end of each serial unless unless the agent gains
a certificate that expressly states otherwise.
Agency Sourcebook
None of the rules in the Agency Sourcebook are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent options allowed
elsewhere in this document.
Battlegrounds Sourcebook
None of the rules in the Battlegrounds Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent
options allowed elsewhere in this document.
Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
Only the following rules in the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Chapter 2 — Jury-Rig and Elbow Grease (page 40):
These actions may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent
possessing the listed class abilities, but all improved gear and
vehicles are lost at the end of each serial.
• Chapter 2 — Multitasking (page 43): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 2 — Skill Check Caps (page 56): These gear options
may be chosen by any Living Spycraft agent, but all improved
gear is lost at the end of each serial.
• Chapter 2 — More Power! (page 58): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Forensics (page 68): These rules are approved
for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Interrogation and Interviews (page 74): These
rules are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign,
either according to official serial text or per the GC’s discre-
tion.
• Chapter 3 — Profiling (page 69): These rules are approved
for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Records (page 78): These rules are approved for
use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Surveillance (page 80): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 4 — Handoffs (page 94): These rules are approved
for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either according to
official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 4 — Area Pursuits (page 95): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
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• Chapter 4 — Persuasion (page 102): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
The rules for using disposition in the Living Spycraft campaign
still apply (see page 38).
• Chapter 4 — Cover Identities (page 105): The agents may
requisition cover identities as standard-issue gear in the Living
Spycraft campaign (see the MRD Tables document: Standard-
Issue Gear Options).
• Chapter 4 — Identity Theft (page 106): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 4 — Isolation (page 108): The isolation rules are
used in the Living Spycraft campaign in three circumstances,
as follows.
When an agent fails to slip a restricted weapon or item
through Agency channels, or an agent successfully slips a
restricted weapon or item through Agency channels and his
insubordination is later discovered, the agent gains 1 grade of
isolation. For more information about defying the home office
in this fashion, see page 23.
At the end of any serial during which an agent acts reprehen-
sibly (e.g. commits unwarranted acts of murder, torture,
depravity, etc.), blatantly ignores standard Agency protocol
(e.g. unnecessarily reveals his employers to the public, allows
known criminals or killers to go loose without an order or
imminent need, etc.), or blatantly defies an Agency order or
mission objective, the GC or any agent may choose to impose
1 grade of isolation. If at least 1/2 the players present agree
with the decision (rounded up), the targeted agent gains 1
grade of isolation.
At the end of any serial during which the agents fail all of the
mission objectives, the GC may choose to impose 1 grade of
isolation. If at least 1 player present agrees with the GC’s
decision, each agent at the table gains 1 grade of isolation.
When an agent gains his first grade of isolation, he is assumed
to be on administrative leave, and suffers all the effects of
that condition. For each grade of isolation he gains thereafter,
he suffers all the effects of more severe isolation conditions,
as follows.
Table 5: Isolation Grades
Isolation Grades Isolation Condition*
1 Administrative Leave
2 Suspension
3 Disavowed
4 Burned
* An agent may never suffer from the retirement isolation
condition as a result of isolation grades.
For more information about each isolation condition and its
effects, see the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, page 108.
When an isolation condition prevents an agent from requisi-
tioning any type of gear, that agent’s BPs may not be spent to
requisition that type of gear — even if the BPs are traded or
given to another agent.
The GC is within his rights to use law enforcement and other
NPCs to harry or even hunt down burned agents. An agent
who possesses 4 isolation grades is a serious liability, and
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won’t be missed if killed in the line of duty. A burned agent’s
best option is to keep his head down, stay out of the limelight,
and help his teammates enough to justify 1 or more improve-
ment commendations, as described later in this section.
When an agent already possessing 4 isolation grades gains
another isolation grade, the new isolation grade is ignored.
Though these isolation conditions infer that the agent is
removed from active duty, he in fact remains on the active
operative roster and may continue to participate in missions
(i.e. play in serials) as he wishes. In fact, this is the only way he
may reduce and eliminate isolation conditions, as described
later in this section.
Likewise, an agent may gain improvement commendations,
which represent his efforts to better his behavior or results in
the field. An agent gains improvement commendations by
merely completing serials without incident. At the end of any
serial during which an agent possessing 1 or more isolation
grades gains no new isolation grades, the GC or any agent may
choose to award him 1 improvement commendation.
If at least 1/2 the players present agree with the decision
(rounded up), the targeted agent gains 1 improvement
commendation.
When an agent possessing no isolation grades gains 1
isolation grade, he also gains the corresponding isolation cert
(see later in this section and page 39). Each isolation cert fea-
tures two columns of check boxes. The leftmost column rep-
resents the number of isolation grades the agent has accumu-
lated, while the rightmost column represents the number of
improvement commendations the agent has received.
All isolation and improvement commendations must be
tracked in the Certs column of the agent’s career dossier,
along with the text: “Isolation Grade +1” or “Improvement
Commendation +1”.
At the end of any serial, when an agent possesses more
isolation grades than improvement commendations, he is
considered to possess a number of isolation grades equal to
the difference between the two, and begins the next serial
suffering from the corresponding isolation condition.
Example: At the end of a serial, Donovan has accumulated
2 isolation grades and 1 improvement commendation.
He is considered to possess 1 isolation grade and begins the
following serial suffering from administrative leave.
At the end of any serial, when an agent possesses an equal
number of isolation grades and improvement commendations,
or more improvement commendations than isolation grades,
he loses the cert and stops suffering the effects of isolation
conditions (though he may still gain isolation grades during
later serials, as described here).
Example: Continuing the previous example, at the end of the
following serial, Donovan has accumulated 2 isolation grades
and 2 improvement commendations. He loses his isolation cert
and stops suffering from the effects of isolation (for now).
An agent may never gain more than 1 isolation grade or
1 improvement commendation per serial. All subsequent
isolation grades and improvement commendations gained
during the same serial are ignored.
The decision to impose isolation is subjective, and should be
imposed only when an agent or team is obviously at fault.
Abuses of this system should be immediately reported to the
region’s Branch Director.
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• Chapter 4 — Communications and Electronic Warfare
(page 110): These rules are approved for use in the Living
Spycraft campaign, either according to official serial text or
per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 4 — Intelligence Resources (page 113): The agents
may requisition intelligence resources in the field using
gadget points, per the standard Spycraft rules.
• Chapter 4 — Advanced Cryptography (page 120):
These rules are approved for use in the Living Spycraft
campaign, either according to official serial text or per the
GC’s discretion.
Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
Only the following rules in the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide
are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Chapter 2 — New Fixer Special Ability Options (page 43):
These agent options are available to any Living Spycraft fixer
possessing his class’s special ability, without exception or
modification.
• Chapter 2 — New Pointman Cross-Class Ability Options
(page 44): These agent options are available to any Living
Spycraft pointman possessing his class’s cross-class ability,
with exceptions and modifications applying to each listed
class ability as described in the appropriate sections of this
document.
• Chapter 2 — Agency-Issued Clothing (page 47): These rules
are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 2 — Fencing Gear (page 49): This action may be
undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent possessing the listed
class abilities, but any and all monies gained are lost at the
end of each serial.
Further, when the agents suffer a critical failure, the agents
must sacrifice double the intended number of BP (to a
minimum remaining team BP of 0). A critical failure with a
fencing attempt has no effect upon the agents’ mission
budget during following serials.
• Chapter 3 — Ambushes and Chase Ambushes (page 60):
These rules are approved for use in the Living Spycraft
campaign, either according to official serial text or per the
GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Harassment (page 63): This action may be
undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent or NPC, but all
harassment effects are lost at the end of each serial.
• Chapter 3 — Interrogation (page 66): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Police Action (page 68): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 3 — Taking to the Streets (page 71): These actions
may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent, but all long-
term effects are lost at the end of each serial. The specialist
statistics beginning on page 81 are also approved for use in
the Living Spycraft campaign.
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• Chapter 3 — Blackmail and Coercion (page 77): These
actions may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent or
NPC, but all blackmail and coercion effects are lost at the end
of each serial.
• Chapter 4 — Villain Core Abilities (page 102): These actions
may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft villain, without
exception or modification.
• Chapter 4 — New Security Options (page 116): These serial
options are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign,
either according to official serial text or per the GC’s
discretion.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book
Only the following rules in the Gentlemen’s Agreement
Season Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games,
with the following exceptions and modifications:
• Appendix — Volcano Rules (page 82): These rules are
approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
Mastermind Sourcebook
Only the following rules in the Mastermind Sourcebook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Chapter 1 — Snitches (page 13): Unless specified within a
serial, each minion’s knowledge is assumed to be average.
• Chapter 1 — “Welcome to the Menagerie” (page 16):
Animals may be trained in the field or requisitioned as gear
(see pages 16 and the MRD Table document, respectively).
Living Spycraft agents may not convert or import animals
from other d20 games.
• Chapter 2 — New Villain Core Abilities (page 54): These
actions may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft villain,
without exception or modification.
Modern Arms Guide
All rules in the Modern Arms Guide are approved for use
in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions and
modifications:
• Chapter 1 — New Skill Descriptions/Upgrading Gear and
Masterwork Modifications (page 6): Living Spycraft agents
may not requisition gear with masterwork modifications.
The only way for Living Spycraft agents to obtain masterwork
items and modified gear is by performing masterworks
modifications as described in the Spycraft Modern Arms
Guide (see pages 16).
Further, when a published and approved item, weapon, gad-
get, or vehicle features built-in qualities and modifications,
the item and all of its qualities and modifications are
considered one unit for the purpose of determining cost.
The agent need not devote additional BP to keep the item as
part of his personal budget.
• Chapter 1 — Fluid Initiative (page 9): The fluid initiative
rules are the default in the Living Spycraft campaign, though
an event round may choose to use the standard Spycraft
initiative rules instead. This choice must be unanimous —
if the GC or any player objects, the fluid initiative rules are
used.
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• Chapter 1 — Morale (page 12): The morale rules are not in
use in the Living Spycraft campaign unless prompted by an
approved rule or official serial text. NPC reactions are either
described within serial text or left to the GC’s discretion.
• Chapter 1 — Quick N’ Dirty Masterwork Items (page 16):
These rules are not approved for use in the Living Spycraft
campaign.
• Chapter 5 — Recoil (page 56): The recoil rules are
mandatory, not optional, in the Living Spycraft campaign.
Modern Arms Guide
Expansion: Volume I (PDF)
All rules in the Modern Arms Guide Expansion: Volume I are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, without exception or
modification.
Soldier/Wheelman
Class Guide
All rules in the Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following exceptions
and modifications:
• Chapter 3 — Races and Gambling (page 57): This action
may be undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent, but any and
all monies gained are lost at the end of each serial.
Shadowforce Archer
Worldbook
None of the rules in the Shadowforce Archer Worldbook are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent
options allowed elsewhere in this document.
African Alliance
Chamber Book
Only of the rules in the African Alliance Chamber Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the following
exceptions and modifications:
• Nature, Red in Fang and Claw: Animals may be trained in
the field or requisitioned as gear (see pages 16 and the MRD
Table document, respectively). Living Spycraft agents may not
convert or import animals from other d20 games.
Archer Foundation
Chamber Book
None of the rules in the Archer Foundation Chamber Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent
options allowed elsewhere in this document.
European Commonwealth
Chamber Book
Only the following rules in the European Commonwealth
Chamber Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with
the following exceptions and modifications:
• Chapter 3 — Presence (page 83): These actions may be
undertaken by any Living Spycraft agent possessing the Jet
Setter feat, but all presence effects are lost at the end of each
serial. The rules for using disposition in the Living Spycraft
campaign still apply (see page 39).
• Chapter 3 — New Disposition Grades (page 86): These rules
are approved for use in the Living Spycraft campaign, either
according to official serial text or per the GC’s discretion.
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Hand of Glory Book
None of the rules in the Hand of Glory Threat Book are
approved for use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent
options allowed elsewhere in this document.
Pan-Asian Collective
Chamber Book
Only the following rules in the Pan-Asian Collective Chamber
Book are approved for use in Living Spycraft games, with the
following exceptions and modifications:
• Chapter 3 — Cover Identities (page 60): The agents may
requisition cover identities as standard-issue gear in the Living
Spycraft campaign (see the MRD Tables document: Standard-
Issue Gear Options).
Shop Threat Book
None of the rules in the Shop Threat Book are approved for
use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent options allowed
elsewhere in this document.
Stargate SG-1 Rulebook
None of the rules in the Stargate SG-1 Rulebook are approved
for use in Living Spycraft games, except for agent options allowed
elsewhere in this document.
Available Serials
Living Spycraft features three types of serials — global serials,
regional serials, and adapted serials — as follows.
At present, all Living Spycraft serials — including global,
regional, and adapted serials — may be played for XP gain, even
if they have expired with the RPGA. In the future, we may remove
certain serials from XP circulation, but this is not the case at
present.
Global Serials
Official Living Spycraft events are designated either premieres
or archive events, as follows.
• A premiere event is a serial that is being run worldwide for
the first time. When a player shows up to a Living Spycraft
premiere event, he plays in the one serial identified in the
event description. A premiere serial drops into the most
recent, incomplete archive the month after its release.
• An archive events is a set of up to five serials that have been
around for a while, and which might not have significant draw
on their own. By grouping them together, however, an event
coordinator can satisfy large groups of players who may
already have played the newest premiere.
When running an archive event, all GCs on hand should be
familiar with all serials in the archive, allowing any to be run
as needed. When players show up to an archive event, they’re
broken into trams/tables according to the serials they have yet
to play, and gaming commences as usual.
Alderac Entertainment Group runs events of both types at
all the larger shows, and ask outside Living Spycraft event
coordinators to adopt the same system. Drop us a line with any
questions. We understand that this can be a lot of work, however,
and so we are happy if archive serials are scheduled by name as
well (it’s just not as effective for campaign growth).
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The current global serial release schedule may be viewed at
the following URL…
http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4195
All global serials are available from the RPGA and at the
Downloads page of the official Living Spycraft website…
http://www.spycraftrpg.com/livingspycraft/downloads.php
#serials
Serials typically arrive at the official site much more quickly
than at the RPGA, so you might want to check there first.
Regional Serials
The following serials are expressly designed for use with Living
Spycraft, but often involve distinctly regional flavor and ongoing
storylines in which the agents may affect the course of events
within the region, and beyond. Regional serials offer up to 1/2 the
standard XP rewards of a global serial with the same target
average agent level, and are distributed through each region’s
Living Spycraft website pages, which can be reached from the
following URL…
http://www.spycraftrpg.com/livingspycraft/regions.php
Adapted Serials
Additionally, several serials originally released as print
products, promotional items, and for other campaigns are now
available for Living Spycraft play, as follows.
• Back to Basics (online serial).
• Flashpoint (online serial).
• Gentlemen’s Agreement Season Book (published book).
• One Minute to Midnight (online serial).
• The Panacea Gambit (online serial).
All online serials on this list are available at the following URL:
http://www.spycraftccg.com/rpg/resources.html
Agent Options
1. Several new agent options will become available during the
Terrortory season, including allegiance. The GC can provide
details as they enter play (GCs can find this material in the
Terrortory season section of the MRD GC document).
Serials
1. Serials released from February to July 2004 will be marked
with a “Terrortory” label, indicating that they are events in this
storyline season. Except for adjustments and new material
mentioned in each serial, and the following restrictions, all
standard rules for Living Spycraft play apply when running
one of these serials.
2. All serials run from 01/01/04 to 08/31/05 are automatically
part of the Terrortory season, even if they don’t bear the
Terrortory label. When running a serial without the Terrortory
tag during this period, the GC will provide additional context
about the serial’s place in the Terrortory storyline (GCs can
find this material in each serial and in the Terrortory season
section of the MRD GC document).
3. As much as possible, we’ve avoided restricting the serials in
which players can participate as a result of this storyline.
However, three restrictions do exist, as follows.
• An agent may not play Nest after playing either Operation
Snow Pigeon or any Terrortory serial.
• An agent may not play Operation Snow Pigeon after playing
any Terrortory serial.
• An agent may not play Nest, Operation Snow Pigeon, or any
Terrortory serial after playing Revolution, the final Terrortory
serial.
Campaign Conclusion
1. A new Living Spycraft campaign will begin on 9/01/05. Details
about this campaign will be released in a forthcoming edition
of the Master Rules Document (MRD).

TERRORTORY
SEASON
Beginning in December 2004, Living Spycraft is entering a
new phase of play. From this point forward, all Living Spycraft
events become part of a dedicated storyline season, according to
the real-world date on which they are run.
Each storyline season will push the setting forward, and some
will dramatically alter the play environment as well.
The first storyline season is called “Terrortory” and runs from
12/01/04 to 08/31/05. During this time, the following rules and
additional campaign material apply.

Regional Branches
1. All Regional Branches are separate extensions of the same
umbrella organization, and therefore, all events impacting
“The Agency” during this season affect every Regional Branch
in the same fashion.

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