Ran my first session of Blades in the Dark using the quick start adventure and had a few questions that we weren’t able to answer.
Are there descriptions of the Hound’s Ghost Hunter abilities? I assume ghost-form is the same as on the ghost playbook, but a search of the document found no other mentions of mind-link or arrow-swift.
In regards to the quality of something (an item or gang), are the tiers listed? I see fine mentioned a lot as +1 quality, but the playbooks all reference elite cohorts at +1 quality. Is elite the same as fine in this instance? Is there a rank better than fine?
It was a lot of fun, though most of my players are having a hard time breaking away from habits they’ve formed from playing Pathfinder and D&D for many years.
No descriptions of those two abilities so do what I do just ask the player “So what does mind-link do?”
And more importantly “how does mind-link feel?”
Fine items (such as the Hound’s Fine Rifle) bump up the Effect Level after a roll (Standard Effect to Great Effect, etc), which can really help when you’re trying to level the playing field against a higher Tier gang. Cohorts and Experts have a Quality rating, which can be used as the basis for a Fortune roll (so when you have a Cohort attack the enemy, or your NPC Physicker needs to heal one of the PCs, roll their Quality). So if a gang of Thieves have the Elite Shadows upgrade, when they gain a Shadows Cohort, its Quality starts at 2 instead of 1 (same with the Breakers’ Thugs, or the Cult’s Adepts).