Dropbox with prefab characters! Can you see this?
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v007nc5t2506hoh/AACstJAtBGMzpzkfCPleirSOa?dl=0
I confess I rearranged or rewrote (or added) some of the special abilities. However, this should be prime to let people get a one-off experience playing Blades in the Dark without having to make a character.
These are gender neutral, and they have a bit of flavor to them (enough to get a player started.) I think they’ll be useful.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v007nc5t2506hoh/AACstJAtBGMzpzkfCPleirSOa?dl=0
Well, I know what I’m stealing for my anti-Gencon game…Â
Solidarity. Let’s get some people excited about Blades in the Dark. =)
I included the template I used to make these, as well as leaving them in Word format, so if you want to make your own or alter mine that’s cool. Just do it to your own copy. =)
Thank you so much, Andrew!
Thank You for posting.
Yay pregens!
At a quick glance – these are really nice. Great job on the descriptions, and on creating a variety of characters for each playbook.
One minor point is that I think you’ve written in a bunch of original backgrounds for each character, instead of the by-the-book Labor; Noble; Underworld; etc. That’s great for flavor, but the Background element gives players a bonus die when they’re confronting other characters who share their background. That’s gonna put somebody with a “rural limmer” background at a disadvantage… Or did I miss something here?
(I think you also deliberately came up with a slew of new, or just specific vices, which is really fun 🙂 )
I felt flexibility was okay since now backgrounds give +1 action rating and have no mechanical impact beyond that.
Glad you like them!
Ziv Wities , regarding a +1 die when confronting characters with the same background, that was true of the first draft of the rules John put out, but not the last two. That’s been removed.Â
Can see. Will certainly use.
Another point for Ziv Wities is that the whole thing is not the background always; the instructions encourage elaborating on the basics. So the background mechanically would be “rural” and I added limmer as further flavor. Same with “noble” and exile added, and so on. It is two steps pushed together in one, with the background and some further detail.
I was going to make .pdfs, but decided to leave them in Word so people could edit them. I encourage you to make your own copies and tinker! =)
If people want to play past that first session, though, you’ll need some things that aren’t on this version. I wanted to make it as friendly, simple-looking, and non-threatening as possible. =)
Ah, thanks!
I completely missed that change!
Very cool.