Author: David Foley

My players are an odd bunch.

My players are an odd bunch.

My players are an odd bunch.

We just wrapped up our fourth session of Blades, and our as-of-yet unnamed Crew of Smugglers has smuggled in a very, VERY shifty-looking artifact for the nobleman father of the group’s Hound. They ended up in a running gunfight in Barrowcleft, wherein the Hound shot a Spirit Warden’s horse out from under him. The group then decided that animal ghosts were a thing.

And then I rolled the Unquiet Dead entanglement.

So now the Hound has a revenge-obsessed ghost-horse on her tail, looking for opportunities to get its vengeance. It is all at once ridiculous and utterly terrifying.

Ghost-horse. Jesus…

(Brief aside, art belongs to Mina Sunderberg. If you haven’t read her webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent, you should. The ghosts in it have directly influenced the worst spectral inhabitants of my Doskvol.)

Just had our first IC session of Blades tonight, and it was an absolute blast.

Just had our first IC session of Blades tonight, and it was an absolute blast.

Just had our first IC session of Blades tonight, and it was an absolute blast. I’m pretty sure I forgot to properly assign position and effect due to tier, so our intrepid band of smugglers got away basically scot-free.

But we’re all learning this together, so it’s okay.

The only real problem I have is that I need more Blades in my life. Confound you, John Harper, for making such a delightful game that scratches all of the itches I never knew I had!

So, to the point at long last: for those of you who’ve tried it, how does BitD fare in play-by-post? I’m considering running a game over on Mythweavers, as I absolutely cannot cram any more IRL/IRC games into my schedule, but I’m not certain how easily the fast-paced nature of Blades will translate to the typically slow speed of play-by-post gaming.

Firstly, I just want to say I absolutely LOVE Blades in the Dark.

Firstly, I just want to say I absolutely LOVE Blades in the Dark.

Firstly, I just want to say I absolutely LOVE Blades in the Dark. v8 was well worth the wait, and if everything goes well I’ll be cobbling together a group for it tonight.

Now on to the primary reason for this post: a quick rules clarification. For the two levels of Harm that have multiple boxes (1-Harm and 2-Harm), are multiple instances of Harm cumulative if they both apply to a situation? Say I’m running from a bunch of Bluecoats and I’m both “Drained” and have a “Sprained Ankle”, both of them level 1 Harms. Does that mean that my effect is reduced twice? Or does each level’s penalty only apply once per appropriate situation?