Two years ago at PAX East there was a weird little table in the board game area, and there were sign ups to play a game called Dungeon World there later in the day. At this point my only TTRPG experience was about a years worth of Pathfinder. I signed up to play Dungeon World, and another guy at the table also tried to get me to sign up to play an even weirder sounding game called Lady Blackbird. I’m ashamed to say I said no, but I submit he criminally undersold the game, saying “It’s a game where you play to find out if the Noble Lady Blackbird succeeds in running away from an arranged marriage and reaches her pirate captain lover.” What he should have said is that it’s a game of Firefly + Motherfucking Sorcerers, and I would have signed up immediately. I’m still waiting for the right time to break out this game, but it’s made harder by the fact that I’d like to get a group of exactly 6 people to play it, and for some reason my friends always break into groups of 5 or 7.
The point of this story is I was wondering if Blades (or Lady Blackbird I guess) was going to be showing up at PAX East in any form this year?
(For the record, you don’t need the full crew to play. The game is just as engaging if one or two people are missing, even Lady Blackbird herself. They can be NPCs who aren’t in the spotlight, or be taken offscreen for the whole game.)
I know this to be true, but I’ll probably only play it the one time (over two sessions perhaps), and I just wanna see all the PCs. I’ll force people to do it for my birthday or something. Two years ago was Twilight Imperium 3, last year was a 6 player Small World with tunnels and all the expansions, perhaps this year I’ll do Lady Blackbird.
LB is always at games on demand at PAX. Not sure about Blades, though. You could sign up to run it! 🙂
John Harper Sign up where? Or do you mean just say “Hey, I’m running this, who wants to play?”
According to the Games On Demand site there were 5 games of Danger Patrol, 2 games of Blades, 1 game of Lady Blackbird and 1 game of Lasers & Feelings at GEN CON. Interesting that Danger Patrol was the most popular of John’s games.
You can volunteer with Games on Demand to be a GM. I can’t remember who the contact is for PAX East.
I sent them an email asking for details, so maybe I will run some Blades! That is if my wife is cool with it.
Christopher Corbett
I am very proud of our weird little table. Will contact you this evening, Mark Griffin.
I realy should finish up my LB Playbooks
Looks like I might actually run a game or two of blades at PAX East, if all goes according to plan.