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A question regarding cohort acquisition: Say another Tier 0 gang of NPCs, maybe 2 or 3 guys, are looking to free…

A question regarding cohort acquisition: Say another Tier 0 gang of NPCs, maybe 2 or 3 guys, are looking to free themselves from their oppressive masters, and solicit the PCs to join the PCs’ crew as cohorts. This all arises from the fiction, with zero fortune rolls. Should I continue with the fiction and just grant them a cohort upgrade without the need to spend XP, or is that unbalancing in some way?

The Skovlan gang’s fight with the Wraiths ends messily, and Rind’s pet raven freaks out the whole neighborhood.

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Episode 3!

Episode 3! Rind, Tubes, and Big Mickey secure a source of demon blood, and must contend with a threat to their lair by the Wraiths.

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GMing my first Downtime phase, a player’s Hound suffered a level of Trauma during an Entanglement (a bluecoat…

GMing my first Downtime phase, a player’s Hound suffered a level of Trauma during an Entanglement (a bluecoat interrogation). The rule for Trauma states:

“When you suffer trauma, you’re taken out of action. You’re ‘left for dead’ or otherwise dropped out of the current conflict, only to come back later, shaken and drained.”

This rule is easy to interpret during a score, but we had trouble figuring out what to do during a Downtime phase, since time is much more nebulous and abstracted. What — other than the fiction — determines “taken out of the action”? The end of the Entanglement? The end of the whole Downtime phase?

The player was worried if it was the latter, because he had significant injuries that he wanted to Recover from as one of his Downtime Activities, and he thought his wounds might prevent him from going on the next Score.

In the end, I ruled that the Hound had to sacrifice one of his two Downtime Activities (although he still had the option to pay Coin for more), with a promise to ask this Group their opinion.

Any thoughts, John Harper, Stras Acimovic, or Sean Nittner?

Huge thanks to John Harper for a beautifully designed game, and for his Rollplay: Blades show setup from which I heavily borrowed (read: stole) my own show’s design!

(I’m waiting for in-game shenanigans to inspire a proper show name.)

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Author: Jon Britton

A question regarding cohort acquisition: Say another Tier 0 gang of NPCs, maybe 2 or 3 guys, are looking to free…

The Skovlan gang’s fight with the Wraiths ends messily, and Rind’s pet raven freaks out the whole neighborhood.

Episode 3!

GMing my first Downtime phase, a player’s Hound suffered a level of Trauma during an Entanglement (a bluecoat…

A downtime phase, rife with big talk, seduction, massive benders, and unholy scientific experiments!

My crew of arcane hawkers gets a contract for their first score: running the Lampblacks off some turf in the…

A new crew of arcane hawkers has hit the streets of Doskvol!