Those of you who have hacked blades in the dark to other settings, what have you done with the whisper? Of all of the play books, The Whisper feels the most setting dependent.
Those of you who have hacked blades in the dark to other settings, what have you done with the whisper?
Those of you who have hacked blades in the dark to other settings, what have you done with the whisper?
Excluding the special playbooks, I would agree.
I split parts of it off into two playbooks (Shaman and Hermetic) for Runners in the Shadows, having to add new abilities where it doesn’t fit.
For a fantasy sci fi hack, I kept about half of it with minor flavor changes and rewrote the rest.
For a Star Trek hack, almost none of it fit.
There’s no supernatural anything in my post-apocalypse hack, so I had to nuke (ahem) Attune too. It was hard; I’d say the closest replacement I had was the Mutant.
I also have a non-supernatural hack, so there’s just no Whisper or Whisper equivalent. It took a lot of thinking to cut out Attune and reorient the actions.
In my Mothlands game Attune connects one to the remnants of the ancient internet and to Predecessor devices. It took some rethinking but many of the whisper moves remained intact for my Will.
In my hack everything is a gothic monster, and no book made it through intact. I scavenged abilities from each sheet, but there is no recognizable cutter or lurk or anything.
I think what makes the Whisper so hard is that when you’re done with the special abilities, the Whisper still has the most setting-specific playbook gear.
The contacts also.