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Location Datafile: Fisk Tower

Fisk Tower

Distinctions

Empire Built in Plain Sight
Luxury Above, Crime Below
Everyone Answers to the Kingpin

Power Set: Criminal Corporate Fortress

Private Security d8
Criminal Intelligence Network d10
Legal and Corporate Shields d8
Hidden Safe Rooms d8
Surveillance Systems d8

SFX: Kingpin’s Reach: Step up Criminal Intelligence Network when tracking, blackmailing, or pressuring a target.

SFX: Security Lockdown: Spend 1 PP (Or step down a die in the Doom Pool as Watcher) to create a d8 or d10 Asset representing locked elevators, sealed offices, or armed response teams.

SFX: Lawyered Up: Step up Legal and Corporate Shields when resisting investigation, arrest, exposure, or public scandal.

SFX: Hidden Leverage: Spend 1 PP (or step down a die in the Doom Pool as Watcher) to reveal a d10 blackmail, bribery, or criminal asset tied to someone in the scene.

Limit: Public Respectability: Gain 1 PP when Fisk’s legitimate image prevents direct hero action.

Limit: Cracks in the Empire: Step up Doom when evidence, betrayal, or internal rivalry threatens Fisk’s control.

Limit: Innocents on the Payroll: Gain 1 PP when ordinary employees, guards, or coerced witnesses complicate the heroes’ choices.

Stress Tracks

Physical d6–d12
Legal Pressure d6–d12
Criminal Control d6–d12

If stress steps past d12, Fisk Tower suffers Trauma: public exposure, federal raid, gang war, corporate collapse, or Fisk’s empire tightening in response.

Example Complications

Security Cameras Everywhere
Elevators Locked Down
Witness Intimidated
Evidence Vault Sealed

About Mark Meredith

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Mark is a military veteran, game designer, a believer in the oxford comma, and an all-around nerd.

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This entry was posted on May 20, 2026 by in Location Datafiles.

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