I had a chance to run Blades in the Dark rules-as-written (almost entirely, the only exception being giving them more opportunity to act and inquire before a heist.)
One of the players had played the game with me at a previous game day. Another was a pretty experienced gamer who was curious. And I also had the fantastic luck to have a game store patron who walked in looking for board games but sat down to try this game out. We had a great time!
The session was under four hours, with a leisurely character and crew generation process. My only prep was to read through the rules and try to remember how to play the game.
We still blazed through two heists and two down time cycles. When we quit, the story wasn’t DONE, and I could feel it tugging at the players as they reluctantly packed up.
Because Blades in the Dark is awesome.
https://fictivefantasies.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/blades-in-the-dark-the-horsemen/
https://fictivefantasies.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/blades-in-the-dark-the-horsemen
Excellent! It of course it ended like a great TV series that was cancelled after the premier!
Only just went back and re-read this Andrew. Excellent excellent excellent. I love your games 🙂
Thanks, Nathan Roberts! =)