Pursuit Complications

The quarry just went over the gap between two roofs. The far side is lower than it looks and the tiles over there are wet. That's THE GAP, one of 36 cards in this deck, and it gives you a choice between jumping or going down the drainpipe hand over hand while the quarry gets small.

Every card works that way. The Hard Way costs risk and the Long Way costs ground. Draw one when a chase starts, or once it's turned into the same roll over and over, and read the stretch out loud. The face-up card's last line holds until the next card covers it. Three cards makes a short chase and five makes a long one, and the ending comes from whatever those stretches did.

The deck carries no chase rules of its own. It slots into the procedure your table already uses, or into none at all, and it plays the same whether the party is doing the chasing or getting chased.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 36 chase cards in 6 suits: the street, the roofs, the green, the under, the water, and the dark.
• 2 blank House cards for ground that only your table runs.
• Ground dots on every card. One is a step, two is a stretch, and three is the whole chase.
• Screen edition plus a plain-white print edition, US Letter, with cut lines.
• Every card as plain text for VTT decks and house tools.
• Bookmarked, DRM-free PDF. Works with 5e, 5.5e, and other fantasy RPGs. No rules text.

When a fight settles into trading turns, Encounter Complications is the deck to pull out.

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