The Impossible Dream

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What about using Dread to play a heist game, like the films 'The Italian Job', 'The Bank Job' or 'Ronin'? I think it could rock.

They're already isolated, given their planning a crime. Asking for outside help is risky: both of getting caught as well as having to share the spoils.

The suspense of course is getting caught. The hope is the big riches or something similar at the end.

If the tower falls it could mean someone is removed from the game: someone gets caught or killed, or maybe someone betrays the team like Gregor does in Ronin.

Another possibility is that the tower falling doesn't affect an individual so much as everyone. For instance, whoever knocks over the tower their character might have screwed the plan up somehow, like Reservoir Dogs where Mr. Blonde shoots and kills civilians in the middle of the jewel heist. If the tower hadn't toppled the plan would of worked perfectly. But, like the Italian Job ends with them all in a bus teetering on the edge of a cliff, when have the criminals got away for good?