The upcoming James Bond: 007 campaign is coming together. Berin Kinsman posted his character, Carlos Milian, on his blog a few days ago, and I did a revamp of my wife’s character for the campaign:
Danielle Marie Vega
Father, Tomas Vega, was a Cuban-American State Dept. diplomat, now a functionary at Foggy Bottom. Her mother is a French equestrienne. She was born in Marseilles, France, and was raised with money, with the family traveling frequently to different postings. Was a competitive equestrienne until age 13 (she got too big), and is an avid mountain climber, skydiver, and SCUBA diver.
Attended Princeton and was on the track team from 1998-2000. Was on US Olympic team as a triathlete for the summer games in 2000. Graduated in 2001 with a business degree and a minor in romance languages, and joined the FBI.
Was put on the Joint Counterterrorism Task Force in 2002 as an financial analyst (forensic accounting), but went into the field in 2003 when connections between Latino gangs and Al-Qaida operatives surfaced. Several high-profile arrests in 2005 and her cover was considered “irretrievable.” Moved to RICO in 2006, based in New York, but quickly became bored. Left FBI in 2009 to join Veritas International.
Age: 30 Ht: 6’3″ Wt: 156 lbs. Appearance: Good-Looking Fame: 80 Rank: 175 (built with 6000 pts.)
STR: 9 DEX: 10 WIL: 15 PER: 10 INT: 10
HTHD: B Carry: 101-150 Speed: 2 Stam: 36 hr Run/Swim: 55 min
Fields of Experience: Business, Forensics, Law, International Law, Skiing/Snowboarding, Skydiving
Weaknesses: Adrenaline Junkie, Close Personal Ties
Skills: Boating 5 (15), Charisma 3 (18), Driving 8 (18), Evasion 12 (22), Fire Combat 6 (16), Hand-to-Hand Combat (Savate) 8 (17), Interrogation 8 (18), Languages: English (native), French 10 (20), Spanish 12 (22), Lockpicking 5 (15), Mountaineering 8 (20), Riding 9 (21), Seduction 6 (15), Stealth 3 (15)
Preferred Weapon: SIG-Sauer P229 .40S&W
Vehicles: BMW 650i convertible (blue), BMW R1200GS Adventure (orange and black) motorcycle
The Black Campbell 
30 October, 2009 at 07:01
I totally dig on JB:007. I think it works best when you only have one, MAYBE two players. The characters in JB, especially the double-0s (and who would want to play anything less?) are highly capable of working on their own.
Top Secret (1E) is my spy game of choice when you’re running teams (gaming groups of 2-3 or more).
30 October, 2009 at 09:12
For the traditional investigation angle, I like one or two players, as well. However, there are a couple books and shows that gave me ideas for team-style adventures: Marcinko’s Rogue Warrior novels, and The Unit TV series both give some insight into how you can break up a group of players (I still don’t like to run over four or five) so that they are handling different aspects of an ivestigation — two are doing the schmoozing at the party, for instance, while others are breaking into whatever room/compound/whathaveyou, or are running the surveillance.
It’s doable, but it’s not the traditional Bond story scheme.