Alright, I’m going to start a game of Blades in the Dark with my players next week.
They’ve been desperately running from horrific things beyond the ken of mortal minds for long enough, it’s time to run from likely lads with filthy blades,
I have the backer rules (though I got the impression from John Harper’s latest AP episode that a rules update might be coming up) and I’ve been looking through the links here.
Is there anything else I should be aware of? Especially re: rules & setting that I might have missed.
I generally get the sense a lot of the setting is implied rather that exposed at the moment, which means I’ll be stealing from :
Thief
Dishonoured
the Dark Volumes
the Gentleman Bastards
the Tristopolis novels
Freedom™
the Shadow Line
the Wire
the Black Donnellys
Etherscope
A/State
Chaositech (Hauntech)
d20 Moden Cyberspace (Necrotic Implants)
I think it wouldn’t be proper for you NOT to steal, considering the theme of the game.
At the end of the FAQ linked on this community, there are single-sentence descriptions/ideas for many of the less obvious factions. Or here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnHarper/posts/7RuHDYjsL7A Of course you can take them or leave them. Most of the setting is implied, yes, so your sources look great.
There’s also a possibly more current version of the Quickstart posted somewhere in this community (depending on what version you have). The latest is v3f I believe?
Hope you have fun Renaud van Strydonck!