Author: Patrick Fairbanks

Hi all, been playing Blades for a year now, running it for about half that time.

Hi all, been playing Blades for a year now, running it for about half that time.

Hi all, been playing Blades for a year now, running it for about half that time. My group is coming up on Season 2 of my run as GM, and one of my players is introducing a new character at the start of the season.

My question is: should I scale his new character up to the same relative level as the rest of the scoundrels? Has anyone else out there done something similar?

I’m concerned that his new character, who, in the fiction, should technically be better than the entire party at all social interactions, will seem completely inadequate. The other characters have 8-9 sessions of XP under their belts, and he’ll have nothing so far. Any advice is appreciated!

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone! Long time Lurk, first time posting. My incredible group has been playing Blades since late June of 2017. I started as a player, but wanted to try my hand at GMing this great game, and developed a re-skin of Blades I call “Tears in the Rain”.

Tears in the Rain takes place in New Los Angeles, the first Martian colony, now a sprawling metropolis of hovercars, holograms, artificial intelligence, and so much more. Most of the elements of the game are simply re-named, (Ulf Ironborn becomes Dmitri Romanov, etc.) but there are some unique elements as well.

So far we’ve had four sessions, including session zero, and my excitement about the game cannot be contained! Here are my after-action reports on the game so far. As someone that enjoys (and sometimes needs) to read other GM’s approaches to game elements, story, etc. I thought I’d share my own.

I hope you scoundrels can parse something from this! Merry heisting to all, and to all a good heist!