Leverage TV Show: How to adapt the characters?

[Wasp]

Hi everyone!

I love - LOVE - the old TNT series Leverage about a group of bad guys turned "bad guys who are the best good guys" who use their skills to carry out heists to fight corportate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens. I am wondering how one would best adapt the characters from Leverage into 5e so that it would work as a "traditional" adventuring party...

The Leverage crew is a five-person team:

Parker - the Thief: Expert thief, cat-burglar, pickpocket and safe-cracker, "20 pounds of crazy in a five-pound bag"
Sophie - the Grifter: Con Woman with a taste for art theft and adept at playing different roles, but failing when trying to act legitimally
Hardison - the Hacker: The team's computer specialist, gadgeteer and expert in anything electronic
Eliot - The Hitter: Highly skilled martial artist, weapons expert, and self-described "retrieval specialist" with exceptional perceptional skills and memory
Nate - The Mastermind: Former insurance fraud investigator and alcoholic who is orchestrating the elaborate heists of the team

The most obvious characters would probably be a Thief Rogue, a Glamour/Lore Bard, an Artillerist Artificer or Divination Wizard, a Battlemaster Fighter, and a Rogue Mastermind? But what would you do? Any feats or spells or other things that could work really well in this context?

[Lunali]

Your party is close to the best anyone will do in 5e. The problem is that it will still end up being DnD. If you want to recreate the feel of Leverage, I'd suggest the Leverage RPG, with a fantasy setting.

[Unoriginal]

Hi everyone!

I love - LOVE - the old TNT series Leverage about a group of bad guys turned "bad guys who are the best good guys" who use their skills to carry out heists to fight corportate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens. I am wondering how one would best adapt the characters from Leverage into 5e so that it would work as a "traditional" adventuring party...

The Leverage crew is a five-person team:

Parker - the Thief: Expert thief, cat-burglar, pickpocket and safe-cracker, "20 pounds of crazy in a five-pound bag"
Sophie - the Grifter: Con Woman with a taste for art theft and adept at playing different roles, but failing when trying to act legitimally
Hardison - the Hacker: The team's computer specialist, gadgeteer and expert in anything electronic
Eliot - The Hitter: Highly skilled martial artist, weapons expert, and self-described "retrieval specialist" with exceptional perceptional skills and memory
Nate - The Mastermind: Former insurance fraud investigator and alcoholic who is orchestrating the elaborate heists of the team

The most obvious characters would probably be a Thief Rogue, a Glamour/Lore Bard, an Artillerist Artificer or Divination Wizard, a Battlemaster Fighter, and a Rogue Mastermind? But what would you do? Any feats or spells or other things that could work really well in this context?

The question is: do you want to adapt the *capacities* of the characters, or the *spirit* of the characters?

As in, do you want to play those characters as close as what they can do in the show, or do you want to play "X, but if they were born and raised in a D&D world"?

[Heavenblade]

Kind of teaching, but the "tiny heist" sidequest from the rpg antohology series "dimension 20" is a very funny parody on that concept, with almost the same exact roles.

The first episode is on youtube - Tiny heist (https://www.google.com/search?q=tiny+heist+episode+1&oq=tiny+heist+episode+1&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j0i22i30l3.6292j0j7&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#)


I can't for the life of me recall what all their exact classes were though.
"Eliot" was a monk, "Hardison" was an artificer

[Wasp]

do you want to play those characters as close as what they can do in the show, or do you want to play "X, but if they were born and raised in a D&D world"?
The latter. Inspired by Leverage, but they are natives to a D&D world and do D&D style adventuring. So especially more magic need I guess...


Kind of teaching, but the "tiny heist" sidequest from the rpg antohology series "dimension 20" is a very funny parody on that concept, with almost the same exact roles.
Thanks, I'll check that out!