Hey, sorry in advance if this the wrong place for this but does anyone have a gm screen for blades? I am running game for my friends, and also my first time during a game more then a session, so it would be convenient to have all the different things in one or two pages.
Hey, sorry in advance if this the wrong place for this but does anyone have a gm screen for blades?
Hey, sorry in advance if this the wrong place for this but does anyone have a gm screen for blades?
I highly recommend a Hammerdog GM screen with the GM, Rules 1 & 2 and Doskvol map as inserts. You can find all the Blades files at the Evil Hat website.
Inserts: http://www.evilhat.com/home/blades-in-the-dark-downloads/
Screen: hammerdog.com – The World’s Greatest Screen – Hammerdog Games
I did exactly what Ben Liepis outlined. Great screen. Use cardstock for the printouts. Easier to insert and remove.
Since there are no secret roles or anything like that, I tend to just lay everything out in front of me plus index cards with timers and such.
Having the players see when I fill in the clocks has a nice psychological effect.
Thank you, we have been playing over roll20 lately. For the most part I don’t do hidden rolls, I just want a sheet or two to have the misc rules to keep them in mind
The Evil Hat link is your best bet. Grab the first three “cheat sheets” and you’re good to go. 🙂
The only roll I sometimes keep secret at the table is the engagement roll. Between sessions it’s a few “who can do what and when” fortune rolls.
Another ‘secret’ roll I do is for generating some of the characters of the world.
Ben Liepis you mean the entanglement roll?
Karl Meyer, no. The engagement roll at the beginning of a score. The entanglement roll is open and a group thing.
Hammerdog landscape definitely. 😀
Ben Liepis the engagement roll sets the position of the crew’s first roll against the first obstacle of the score, which you cut to right after rolling engagement. How can that be a secret?
Oliver Granger , because I don’t tell them, “Hey, I rolled a 6” or whatever. I guess it’s not a secret for long, honestly. The fictional results are obviously open but the numbers aren’t, that’s all. In the end not many rolls are truly secret once you attach the fiction and/or results. A better way to say it would be that I don’t roll it openly, preferring the fictional position to be at the fore, not the number.
Edit: I don’t make the entanglement roll, the players do.
Ben Liepis Fair enough! Though that seems a weird approach to me.
Oliver Granger, “secret” is probably too extreme a word for simply rolling behind a screen. 🙂