Hey all

Hey all,

I’m planning to start running a game of Blades soon, so I’ve been listening to some APs, and I was hoping to get some examples that might help clarify when a social interaction crosses over into a social score.

For context: in one of the APs that I listened to, Baszo Baz invites the PCs to a meeting a la War in Crow’s Foot. The group decides that this constitutes a social score and proceeds directly to the engagement roll. To my mind, this is more of a gather information moment: the PCs aren’t aiming for any particular outcome, they’re just there to learn what Baszo has to say and to figure out how they can best take advantage of the situation. Moreover, they’re meeting with Baszo at his invitation, so there’s no real opposition, per se, although things could certainly go sideways if, for example, they decide that they’re going to double-cross him. On the other hand, if they had arranged a meeting with Baszo with the specific aim of, say, tricking Baszo into believing that another crew had it out for the Lampblacks in order to sow profitable chaos, then that might be more in-line with my vision of a social score.

I’m under the impression that, at the end of the day, the best rule of thumb is that if it feels like it ought to be score to your group, then it’s a score, ’nuff said. Still, I’m trying to get a feel for when a potentially dangerous social encounter that might yield some advantage to the crew becomes a potentially dangerous social score that might yield some advantage to the crew.

Thanks!