u/BasiliskOnline

[BitD] Lurk, Infiltrator, and Leading Group Actions

I know the final answer to this whole thing is, in the end, "talk about it at the table" and I'm happy to do so, but every last one of us is new to the game, so having some folks that have more experience discuss how they'd handle it at their table would be helpful.

I have a crew of Shadows that has (possibly) taken a job to try to Heist a body from the Bellweather Crematorium before it's dissolved. Our Lurk has Infiltrator-

>You are not affected by quality or Tier when you bypass security measures.

>This ability lets you contend with higher-Tier enemies on equal footing. When you’re cracking a safe, picking a lock, or sneaking past elite guards, your effect level is never reduced due to superior Tier or quality level of your opposition.

This will be doing a lot of heavy lifting for getting into the Crematorium, I know certain things make sense.. picking a lock would obvious benefit everyone. But what about leading the party through the grounds while hiding from the Security Hulls that stalk the premises? Would the Lurk leading the Group Action (Prowl) now cover everyone else as well with infiltrator?

I am leaning towards yes (which I just talked myself into while typing this out), partly because the information on Group Tests says the stress taken is from covering for your allies (of course, I'll require descriptions on that covering for the narrative and maximum tension drama :P)

Even though I've mostly talked myself into it, I'd still love to hear your thoughts!

Edit: Thanks everyone for your answers, I see a lot of No's and will consider if it comes up, though for most of those responses I don't necessarily agree with the reasons given---I get most people think that it shouldn't work out with it (in most cases).

That being said, I'm not sure my group is gonna take this job after all, I got them a "what you know before you pull any rolls, gather information or freeplay" Doc, because even though I said this would be a ROUGH job for them, they still wanted to get in it. But now that they have an idea on what they are looking at they are thinking perhaps they are biting off more than they can chew. lmao.

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u/BasiliskOnline — 4 days ago