Here is the more-polished half of my current notes for the assassin skill, Impersonation. I have had a good burst of assassin-related ideas recently.
Impersonation
Impersonation is pretending to be someone you are not, whether subtly (through your speech and your motions) or overtly (through your appearance and your skills).
Core Ideas
The further removed you are from the target, the harder it is to impersonate them.
The further removed an observer is from the target, the more likely they are to take your disguised self as genuine.
If you spend time in proximity to an observer who is suspicious of you, they will periodically make checks to see if they become more suspicious of you. If they fail these checks, their suspicion will lessen, and the periods between checks will grow greater, until eventually they are no longer suspicious.
I need some help with aspects of my economic system related to metals and the manufacture of metal goods.
For example, I want to figure out more accurate values for the amount of coal needed to produce enough heat to melt metals for smelting.
I can find values online for the BTU produced by a given unit of a given type of fuel. And I can find the melting points of various metals and metal alloys.
But how many BTU are needed to reach a given temperature in a forge's hearth, and how long does that temp need to be maintained? People who burn coal to heat their homes have created online calculators to estimate how much coal would be needed to keep a room of a given size heated to a given temperature, but their answers don't agree with each other in the slightest.
In our most recent session this past Sunday, the party met and drank with a local merchant who they'd met on the road, and agreed to sign a contract with him the next day (a contract to do something dangerous to benefit his business -- I'll skip it for now.) The same evening, though, they got to scheming: suppose they were to go and find this guy at home tomorrow morning, while hungover, and just take him out? That way they could earn the money he was going to pay them without having to do anything more dangerous than killing one small-time merchant.