Printing Pages?
I’m running my first session of Blades tomorrow and I could not be more excited. One thing I’d like to do is have some of the PDF printed out for quick reference. I don’t mind scrolling through phones and laptops for the more obscure stuff, but if there’s a handful of pages that get checked a lot I think it’d be better just to have them printed off. Could any of you veterans advise me on what I should have at hand?
Right now I’m thinking the Action descriptions for the characters and the roll rules (for position, complication, etc) for me. Is there anything else that’s crucial that I’m overlooking?
I like to have the two rules reference pages and the GM reference page printed. If I was going to do a 4th page, it would be the “people” page as I love having the chart with personality and appearance descriptors handy.
I haven’t printed individual pages, but I do have handouts set up in Roll 20 to do something similar.
Off the top of my head, these are the bits I’ve found most useful for frequent reference:
Actions (Descriptions, Positions/Consequences – Desperate/Risky/Controlled, and Effect Levels)
Post-Score Process (Payoff, Heat, Entanglements, Downtime Actions)
Engagement Roll Results
GM Goals/Principles/Actions
Names/Looks (for generating NPCs on the fly)
Duskvol Reference (Notable NPCs, Districts, Locations, Public Houses, etc.)
Faction List (There’s a page somewhere that has them listed with their Tier and category — that’s fairly useful. I also have the full faction descriptions for the handful of factions that they have a relationship with.)
I don’t recall what pages exactly all this stuff was on — I wound up going through with the snipping tool to screenshot individual tables and whatnot. I do know that the reference pages included in the Sheets pdf are well-organized and useful, and I think a lot of this was on those.
If it’s your first session, the Character Creation and Crew Creation sheets are both useful, as is the list of vice purveyors.
I did a “First session sheet”, that could be useful: plus.google.com – I have created this “First Session Sheet” to help me record all the basic inf…
David Barrena That’s awesome! Seems like it’d be useful far beyond the first session, too. As a GM I’m always looking for better ways to remember and reference all that without just looking at the group’s crew sheet.
I have checked and the original PDF link is no longer working. The new one is dropbox.com – Blades in the Dark-First Session Sheet.pdf