Visual Inspiration
At GenCon 2014, I bought Gateway: The Book of Wizards by Sean Andrew Murray on a whim. It’s a slim art book filled with profiles of curious wizards from the city of Gateway. Gateway itself is a massive city; think “city the size of France.” So many of the images in Gateway seem like perfect inspiration for Blades in the Dark. I’ll probably adapt Gateway as the setting for my Blades game.
The link is to a Google image search. I strongly recommend picking up the book, too, because Murray does a fantastic job of world-building, too.
Wow, that is glorious. Looks like the best place to get it is his Etsy? https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/187375703/gateway-the-book-of-wizards-signed?ref=related-0
It is fun and the world it shows is really interesting.
Do you have the book, Judd?
I do!
Nice. Looking at the Whisper playbook, I see that the Blades’ setting includes “ectoplasmic energy.” Gateway also has a magical energy that’s harnessed as a resource to power spells, magic items, and automata. I can’t remember what it’s called, but it will probably dovetail nicely with some of Blade‘s setting assumptions.
Very cool!