Hello, fellow scoundrels!

Hello, fellow scoundrels! Over the past year or so, I’ve been painstakingly working on a set of custom-made play aids for use on Roll20 for my own sessions of Blades in the Dark. I do this for other games as well, but with Blades, it kind-of grew out of hand. After much pushing and prodding from my players, I’ve decided to release a version of these assets for all of you to use!

Keep in mind that these are set up for my own personal use, and not all of it is strictly necessary. That said, inside you will find:

– A high-quality map of Doskvol with darkened water and some other small flourishes, but nothing that would detract from its use as a game aid.

– My own set of Countdown Clocks (4, 6, and 8-count clocks), with fully transparent backgrounds so you can use them across multiple screens. The edges may look a bit grainy in the preview, but once you drop them down on something they look great.

– A score screen where you can draw quick maps or diagrams, and a screen for keeping track of season clocks and the like (especially useful for clocks you would rather keep hidden from players).

– All of the handouts (tables, visual aids, player and GM references) included with Blades, sized and ready to be added as Roll20 handouts.

– Images for each Playbook and Crew type, to be used with the Roll20 BitD character sheets (I tend to keep a folder of blank Playbooks ready in case someone needs to make a new character due to overindulging or whatever).

– A Blades in the Dark “title screen” to cut to when you’re not actively using the others.

– Instructions on how to add these to your own Roll20 lobby with no quality loss (it’s trickier than you’d think).

Also included in the Google Drive folder is a screenshot of some of these assets working together–combined with the excellent Roll20 character sheets for Blades, it really helps to immerse the players and keep the whole play experience feeling consistent.

I should point out that I am NOT an artist, so everything included is just created out of chopped up assets from the Blades in the Dark PDFs, plus some of my own tweaks. So, I’d like to give a very special thanks to John Harper for his excellent production design on Blades, which really helped to give me a good palette to work. Oh, and for making an amazing game too.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MdRnmVJCgpGXxNqgc9fCfduzt69nZwdM?usp=sharing