Author: Tom Clews

The cobbles rattled beneath the wheels of the dark carriage as it sped down main street to its destination. A wad of phlegm rocketed from the driver’s mouth, rifle steady in hands that did not shake, grey sunken eyes vigilantly scanning the horizon from beneath his sodden tricorne hat as it sped by, horses bolting across the rough cobbled floor exhausted and on rough terrain but sure-footed, the frames of market stalls empty like skeletons picked clean, wary eyes peering from the shadows willing to chance a look but not wanting to catch a bullet. Inside the carriage was dark as pitch, bar a few rays of moonlight illuminating the grimly set mouth and hooked nose of the man sat across from you.

The wood splintered with holes that grew in number by the minute, musket balls ricocheting off the steel sheeting in the panels behind and above you a horrid staccato of violence. His pasty white hand reaching forth to offer a contract, the scent of tobacco, gunpowder and copper thick in the air. “You’ll find her for me before it’s too late?” he pleaded from a bloody mouth the sound clear above the din as the rifles rang out loud and true. Light flooding the darkness as the driver roared such things that would make a whore blush, bodies falling like puppets, strings viciously cut. The man with the pall bearers pallor flops forward onto you as claret spills across his cravat a gurgle in his throat he pushes you from the carriage with reckless abandon slumping into a disjointed pile in the road the last thing you see as with a dead man’s dying wish clutched to your chest the darkness finds you once again”

Welcome to Blades in the Dark a tabletop game of scoundrels, shootouts and scheming. You and other players will work to create and maintain a fledgling criminal empire – your crew – and then take on various shady jobs to improve your standings and status amongst a turbulent criminal society. Gameplay focuses on the moments of daring do during a job (with occasional flashbacks) and the downtime between scores when you recover and pursue all the wretched delights the nights in Doskvol can offer.

We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic players, in the GMT time zone or other European time zones (Sincerely wish we could take people outside of these, but it makes things very difficult as far as scheduling time and such). We’d also ask that you provide a method to contact you on a regular basis, Whatsapp or something similar works fine. For Blades in the Dark as a mission-based game, the sessions should last around 2 – 4 hours, but that can vary such is the nature of any roleplaying game.

Playing with skype and roll20.

Now for a few questions if you could fill out the ones below and stick it in a reply.

* Have you played tabletop games before?

* What days/times would you be available to play?

* And finally, tell us about yourself, what do you think you could bring to the table and why should we pick you over other people?