I have introduced 8 people to Blades in the Dark today.

I have introduced 8 people to Blades in the Dark today.  (edit to add caveat; a number of players were backers, but had not actually played, and the play? The play is the thing.)

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I didn’t need to worry about time for the first session; we could have made a crew as well as making characters. No one played in both sessions. And, it was a loud room and the group wasn’t keen to try to do a quickie heist in the last almost-hour.

For the second group, we went about 3:20, and it was a group of 5, so after making characters and the crew and scouting one mission then scouting another and doing a heist and a down time, the group was done. I was yelling myself hoarse to talk to 5 players while at the table in the middle of the room surrounded by happy gamers. Not so bad. =)

Lots of compliments were directed to John Harper for the catalog of games he designed, and the people who played this one had a great time.

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