Advice for longer scores?
So I’m running a Blades game (hurray!) though the whole table is still coming to grips with the rules and Doskvol as a setting I’m pretty happy about the start.
The player-proposed second score is an operation that will take several days to play out. Blades seems to be more focused on smaller, more single night type affairs (otherwise the restrictions on DTAs etc. don’t start to fit the fiction so well). Has anyone got any advice for longer span scores? Assume that just now no one aim that has been proposed is significant enough to warrant making an entire score of its own.
I can expand more later but I’m on my phone right now. The main way is to use the engagement roll to cut to the moment of crisis. Then let them play out from there. If the mission is sprawling and they start to plan again ask for another engagement roll and do another jump cut. Either they’ll complete the score or their stress is going to give out.
I don’t think there’s anything you need to change for longer scores. Just describe the actions taking place over days rather than minutes or hours.
Aaron Berger Yea, I gotta go with Aaron here. You can have your Slide working on the inside for a week, but the score is when things go down, when sh*t gets real. Engagement roll. Everything else is setup or prep or flashback. Ask them what they wanted to do in the long time. Usually the activities are also there for flashback fodder. “I want to learn their passwords as a member of their cult” becomes “You need a password to continue.” “Right, I flashback to the week I spent with them and I learned it then.”
Depends how you mean by longer scores. Is it a score with several components? Will they be robbing somone on Monday, killing their body guards Tuesday, replacing the guards wednesday etc…
If thats the case then do multiple scores and set up a clock for the big payoff at the end.
Thanks everyone. Aaron Berger I hadn’t considered the possibility of slotting in additional engagement rolls based on how the fiction played out. Makes perfect sense to me… new step of the approach, new engagement.
I would use “Linked Plans” where several smaller scores has its own plan, engagement, and operation, whose outcome creates the opportunity for the greater/main score.
This way every linked plan whould involve some score directly related to completing the greater/main score – f.eks. several jobs to break into Saltford’s bank. 🙂