We finally got around to starting our short Ghost Lines campaign, a prequel series set 40 years before Blades in the Dark, just before the Unity War. Once we’ve wrapped this up we’ll jump ahead and start a BitD campaign.
We’ve been playing Dungeon World before this, so the PBTA-style of Ghost Lines was an easy transition. I also used the Die of Fate a lot.
Fun session! Cleared a few ghosts, narrowly out-paced a deathstorm, made friends with Ragnar Ironborn, and smuggled some whiskey for a young lamplighter union representative called Baszo.
So far all is well, but lightning oil is in high demand and the Doskvol elites want the refineries moved out of their city. Trouble’s brewing…
Bonus points if you can name the three actors referenced by the players for their characters.
Booker looks like Oscar Isaac. Not sure about the others?
Adam Schwaninger that’s one!
Andre the Giant?
Kirk Leeson Haha, got it. The last one is the hardest unless you’re a fan of a certain era of a certain genre of film.
Please tell me Slaine is the Lurk!
Really nice art style
Toimu Hah! Well this is Ghost Lines, so there is no Lurk, but he is, surprisingly, the intellectual of the group.
neil walker Thanks!
Look very cool. Lucky players!
Great work! What program did you use for creating the newspaper?
Stefan Struck Thanks!
Andrea Di Stefano Hey cheers – that’s all done in Photoshop.
How did you get such a cool Roll20 environment? That character sheet is gorgeous!
Eli O’Sullivan Kurtz Cheers – I coded that character sheet myself but it has been accepted into the Roll20 repository, so if you start a new campaign and choose the Ghost Lines character sheet, that’s what you’ll get. I also linked to my art assets back in this post: https://plus.google.com/109817499382146310869/posts/cfg4bJQC766
Tim Denee awesome work, bravo! 😀
Third one looks like Bolo Yeung.
Thanks much, Tim Denee!
Peter Frain Got it, well done. You get the prize.
Tim Denee what filters/tweaks did you run on those portraits to make them “blades-in-the-dark-ified”?
Chris Paladino I take a reference photo, desaturate it and crank the levels (lots of contrast), and then trace a new layer over the top in photoshop with Chris Bourassa’s Darkest Dungeon photoshop brushes (available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B71GBh_3L_Q1RHVWRzRvSTgtem8/view). It’s a bit of a manual process but a pretty fast way to get a Mignola/Darkest Dungeon kind of style.
drive.google.com – Bourassa_DDbrushes.abr
Uuuuh! 🙂 Free brushes with Bourassa, Darkest Dungeon and Mignola in one sentence. Great! Thanks for this info. running off downloading
Stefan Struck Yeah! They’re basically just triangle-brushes, nothing fancy, but they do seem to do a good job.
Tim Denee Thanks for the tipp. I was looking for the original tweet but could not find it. Seems to be early 2016 and twitter doesn’t go that for back in time. Nevertheless, it’s fun to use them. Great! 🙂