Occasional Action Theatre (or OAT, for short) is the place where adventures suitable for a single evening's entertainment live. These adventures are presented in cinematic style, mostly because they have been inspired by movies, but also because a movie-scene approach to running the games helps with story line and flow. I have, as should be obvious, pillaged the Feng Shui game mercilessly for this section. I've also pillaged some characters from Surbrook's Stuff, but that's OK, it's always been mutual!

All the adventures use a set of pre-generated characters (though you can always use your own), plus maps and cardboard counters, so you can run them with nothing else needed except some dice.

So, without further ado:

Starring roles are archetypes which turn up again and again. They're also the heroes of Occasional Action Theatre. The Fixer The Gritty Detective The Huge Bruiser The Karate Cop The Killer The Lone Biker The Martial Artist The Masked Avenger The Mercenary Not on the same team, but definitely a character role: The Villain	The supporting cast is those characters who aren't stars, but still get a mention - friends, enemies and villains! The Annoying Kid The Hard-bitten Cop The Femme Fatale The Girlfriend The Ordinary Joe The Villain's Lieutenant
	Extras are all those characters who get listed in the credits at the end as "Woman with Red Coat" or "Long-Haired Man ". They're nameless, faceless, and expendable. Mooks. You can get cut-out-and-use Mook counters here. Cops

All of the adventures follow a common format. First up is the the credits, which includes those starring roles most suitable for use with the adventure. In most cases, there will be more starring roles listed than players available to fill them, so that players have a choice of what they'd like (the adventures are ideal for 3-5 players, but you should be able to balance them to 2-6 easily). Normally there should not be more than one of each starring role in play at the same time. The credits also include a supporting cast - in some cases this can include a starring role which is not suitable for player characters in that adventure - because it is scripted to die part way through, doesn't appear until later, has important information the players need to get, and so on.

After the credits is a brief introduction and then a plot hooks section, detailing a link for all of the starring roles into the adventure. Players should be given a slip of paper with this information along with their character sheet so that they should be primed and ready to go - and also to remind them of their motivation during the game.

Finally there is the adventure. Each is set up as series of short scenes, with a fairly linear plot line. This is ACTION theatre - it's up the GM to keep the plot hopping. Don't let the players wander off and spend two hours game time hunting vainly for clues. Hopefully, the plot is interesting enough and obvious enough you won't have to do a lot of herding. Each scene comes with a map and hints on how to run that scene in a memorable fashion.

You can of course run these as part of a regular campaign using your own characters, in which case you should be less heavy-handed in guiding the players and flesh out the main adventure thread a little.

With that said, here's the adventures! Lights, Camera, Action!

• Return of the Iceman. Movie-set mayhem in Hong Kong leads (inevitably) to a massive gangland shootout!