Author: Duamn Figueroa

Got to run Scum and Villainy again! Our roleplaying club hosted another edition of Rosario Juega Indie, a small event we like to do once a year and since some friends got my back organizing I got to GM an awesome game.

It went great. I wrote some pregens and a short scenario. Given the time I focused on introducing the players to the system an run action-packed score, so we didn’t get to do downtime.

I wanted to share not only the good experience but the scenario itself in case some of you were planning to run S&V on similar conditions 😀

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8NRdE-ENo3hY05nS3hZRFZDbzg

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8NRdE-ENo3hY05nS3hZRFZDbzg

Last Thursday we got to wrap our first campaign together! We started around September, so we had approximately 12 sessions. The crew got to advance to Tier 1, earn 1 Wanted level and three of them got their first Trauma.

Some highlights:

– The whole crew is now Bound in Darkness after pledging allegiance to the Night Queen. The Lurk might even start her own cult dedicated to the Forgotten Goddess.

– The crew kicked the Wraiths out of Night Market.

– The lair now has a ghost door on the wall, drawn by a mad spirit.

– The Whisper bonded with Setarra after a tense friendship. Who manipulated who? No one knows.

– The crew struck a deal with Ixis, a wandering psychopomp for the safety of the Seal of Oblivion.

– They blew up the mansion of Magistrate Slane after discovering she was using skovlander refugees as test subjects for the Empire. They also discovered that some imperial soldiers are actually hollows in disguise.

– The Lurk and the Cutter were shown the beautiful Horror of the Unbroken Sun by Ilacille in her sunken temple. They now can open their minds to the thought-tendrils of the Forgotten Gods.

Since it was a first rpg experience for some of them I wanted to give them a sense of closure before jumping to other games, even if we’ll resume play after summer.

I had a rough start, having planned for a new three-players group and ending up with seven, but got the hold on it after some sessions (I have been getting caught in large groups recently, for some reason). Nothing like a big group of new roleplayers to sharpen up your GM skills. Some oddities:

– Due to difficult scheduling we had a rotating cast, with a player or two absend per game (which was a blessing sometimes). I had to come up with a couple of house rules, but nothing too weird.

– Last session we even ran two parallel scores and it was easier than I thought, with 4 players on one mission and 2 on the other. It went great.

I’m really happy with this game and this group, and would be great if I got them into roleplaying for real. After a post-ending talk I confirmed something I had suspected for a long time: Blades in the Dark is a great game to introduce newcomers to the hobby.

Got to play Scum and Villainy with my Burning Wheel group (+2 more friends). It went great, I’m really liking this hack.

We were a big crew, with a Muscle, Mystic, Pilot, Scoundrel, Speaker and Stitch, so that slowed the start of the session.

We played through the starting situation but with a little tweak: since the crew had +1 status with the Cobalt Syndicate, I felt like cheating if I pulled the rug from them and have their allied faction screw them over their first score, so I took the Nightspeakers (a faction they already had -1 with) and have them setting up a false meeting withe the Syndicate, just to unmask themselves and take the box by force.

It was a blast, we had explosions, pursuit, deals, emergency jumps and debts. Overall, great session!