Random thought which occurred to me while listening to the Inception soundtrack on my way home…could Blades In The Dark be hacked to run an Inception-style game?
Random thought which occurred to me while listening to the Inception soundtrack on my way home…could Blades In The…
Random thought which occurred to me while listening to the Inception soundtrack on my way home…could Blades In The…
If you want, or you could just play Lacuna instead.
My players compared the stress mechanics to the heart beat mechanic of Lacuna. Both games I love… coincidence?
I love that damn heart beat mechanic…
It was my first game review 😀
I love Lacuna, but despite the dreamworld setting it’s something of a hack to make it into Inception. Probably not more or less of one than Blades.
Heart rate isn’t like stress. Heart rate isn’t a resource to spend, it’s a range of effects. You never really want to spend stress, but you can want to raise your heart rate to get you into the optimal window for a critical moment.
Yepp I guessed they were different…
But an idea remains: is the player who controls the management of these resources and invest the risk of losing his character.
Never played Lacuna, but I am curious about it.
Heart rate isn’t a resource, though. It increases when you roll. The only way to increase it more is to roll more, and the only way to increase it less is to roll less (or relaxation techniques). It’s more like hit points, except everything you do hurts you. And, of course, being in a certain range lets you roll way more dice if you want (at the cost of even more heart-rate increase).
Lacuna is a kind of hard game to explain briefly. You’re special agents infiltrating a kind of collective dream-world that’s a 1950’s city, sort of, mostly hunting down the psyches of criminals. Government conspiracy and bureaucracy meet Inception. Look up some reviews.
I’ve only run one-shots of it, but it’s a very fun and sometimes surprisingly intense and scary game.