Author: Jeremy Friesen

My initial thoughts on Blades in the Dark.

Originally shared by Jeremy Friesen

Last Thursday I ran a session of John Harper‘s Blades in the Dark for seven other players. Beforehand, I read the rules, printed the handouts, and assembled my GM screen. John Harper crafts an evocative setting into the rules – ghosts, soot, capitalist…

http://takeonrules.com/2017/07/04/blades-in-the-dark-by-john-harper/

Anyone have, know of, or have the ability to make a font that represents countdown clocks in Blades in the Dark? There are dice fonts, just checking if there are BitD fonts.

Ran my first game of Blades in the Dark for seven new to BitD players. Character creation, crew creation, two scores, and two downtimes (all in 3.5 hours).

Spent a lot of energy, but people were clamouring for more next week.

My goal was to get a sense of how the game plays, what makes a meaningful score, and look at the downtime in earnest. Lots of overlaying game tech and plenty of dials that I can tweak.

It is not a game for a new GM, but I can see it (and it’s hacks) as a solid choice for a style of GM-ing that I enjoy. More later.

(Of the Apocalypse World lineage, this is at the top. I love conflict resolution instead of tempo resolution that is prevelant in D&D 3E or greater and Dungeon World.)

Generated the probabilities for Blades in the Dark.

Originally shared by Jeremy Friesen

I received my copy of Blades in the Dark. Curious about the probabilities, I wrote up a ruby script to generate the dice pool results from 0 dice to 6d6. I’ve tabularized the output for easier reading. Pool Size Critical Success Compromised Failure 0 0%…

http://takeonrules.com/2017/06/06/blades-in-the-dark-probabilities/