I am pondering an explicit favor bank as part of how I run Blades in the Dark.

I am pondering an explicit favor bank as part of how I run Blades in the Dark.

I am pondering an explicit favor bank as part of how I run Blades in the Dark. With all the devil’s bargains, useful aid from reluctant friends, and factional interaction, there’s something more granular than faction status that I think needs its own page.

I cannot possibly be the only person running a game where this would be useful.

I imagine favors ranging from 1 (day to day modest stuff), to 2 (serious business), to 3 (life debt).

So, for each down time cycle, I am now imagining rolling 1d6.

1: Roll 2 Entanglements.

2: Roll 1 Entanglement.

3: A favor comes due. (Consult the list.)

4: A friendly faction wants your help.

5: An unfriendly faction makes a move.

6: Nothing happens.

5 thoughts on “I am pondering an explicit favor bank as part of how I run Blades in the Dark.”

  1. This means I’d strip explicit mention of friendly and unfriendly factions provoking action from the entanglement list, freeing up slots for even more delightfully creative stuff.

  4. Sounds very Changeling: the Lost. Interesting…

    I’m gonna have to really sink my eye teeth into the v3 QuickStart, to digest this. Andrew Shields, are all of your musings available from your page? You’ve been a primary source for me for quite a while, but I operate exclusively on mobile device. It’s hard to navigate this google site on a phone…

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