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I’m watching the Rollplay:Blades game that John is running on JP’s twitch and I was wondering about the party stress…

I’m watching the Rollplay:Blades game that John is running on JP’s twitch and I was wondering about the party stress trackers that John was updating in roll20 for his players to be able to see an overview. Are they configured as some sort of token or a visible character sheet type thing?

Framework for Convention One Shots?

Framework for Convention One Shots?

Experienced Blades GMs: if you were planning to run Blades at a convention in a 4-hour session, how would you frame the session to give the players the best Blades experience? Would you:

– Go all the way through crew and character creation, then improvise a score?

– Start with pregenerated characters and spend the whole session running through a pre-prepared, multi-part score, with a little down time in between scores?

– Something else?

Hey gang, I have a dumb question.

So I completely missed the kickstarter, but preordered via Backerkit, and am reading through the stretch goals–they’ll all be in the main book, right? I’d assume they’d come into the PDF via update through DriveThru, but they’ll be in the physical copy once that ships too right?

I only ask because I know there have been PBtA games in the back that had stretch goals locked behind special editions or were kickstarter exlcusive (Masks and AW 1st edition come to mind), and I’m super excited for the Vigilantes gang and Western/Cyberpunk hacks.

Cheers!

I see one potential reason to push yourself when indulging your vice, if you have 4 or 5 stress to start, it…

I see one potential reason to push yourself when indulging your vice, if you have 4 or 5 stress to start, it eliminates the possibility of over-indulging your vice, if that is something you’re concerned about.

Hey, guys!

Hey, guys! So I’ve started the process of creating a sort of “Gang Glossary” that lists basically all of the player groups for Blades in the Dark that I can find. Mostly, it’s for a personal project and that I like reading the actual play reports, but scrolling through the entirety of the actual play section is….. mindblowingly exhausting.

But, and here is the important part, I would like all of you to help by posting links to your own actual play reports, or play reports that you follow!

The way it’s going to work is, that the gangs are going to be listed in alphabetical order. Then, the actual plays, whether they be blogs, google docs, or youtube vods(or Twitch vods if they don’t have to be subscribers), would be listed underneath in bulletin format, chronologically. Preferably, if someone else is adding, what I would like is for it to be done by just writing in whatever the session title is(even if it is just Session X), and then just hyperlinking the title to the report, vod, etc.

Currently, I have just added the Bloodletters, Doskvol Spectral Society, and the Theives’ Cant from Sean Nittner’s Actual Plays. The reason I linked the Bloodletters to Sean’s website instead of John Harper’s youtube is because Sean’s website includes the videos.

I’m about to go back and link in the Last Word, which is the group John GM’s for itmejp’s Rollplay show. These will be the youtube vods because you have to be a sub to watch them on JP’s channel. After that, I’ll be adding in all of the other groups from Sean’s actual plays.

If I did it right, the document should be open so anyone who wants to edit in a new gang, or a new session, then they should be able to do so.

Personally, I don’t mind if it is a one shot or not. Please, feel free to add them.

This is not meant to replace the Actual Plays section of the Google + Community, and in fact, I still encourage everyone to post there. This is simply meant to be an appendix of sorts. It is meant to operate off links.

So, without further ado,

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hdlNETQyCLxq365xa9_adv92hqHC2V2TAx9c8BAtDs/edit?usp=sharing

Tim Denee Jakob Oesinghaus The stress teeth and blades logo have completely disappeared from the Roll20 sheets.

Tim Denee Jakob Oesinghaus The stress teeth and blades logo have completely disappeared from the Roll20 sheets. The Attributes are still there in the list, though. My guess is maybe it’s a linking to imgur problem? Y’all are super awesome.

Revising Vigilantes for v8.1 is way more work that I thought it would be.

Upshot, I’m re-evaluating old assumptions and rebuilding the areas that I think were underdeveloped.

As I make progress I’ll post drafts here.

Now that we’ve got a high resolution map of Doskvol, I’d love to hear about anyone’s experience with getting a large…

Now that we’ve got a high resolution map of Doskvol, I’d love to hear about anyone’s experience with getting a large map printed out for tabletop. Either paper or vinyl. Vendors, pricing etc.

I recall someone contracted such a map early on with mixed success when the map was lower resolution.

There’s something about Blades’ genre that makes me want to see the players stooped over a table, plotting out their schemes on a grand scale.

Hey John Harper or Sean Nittner – can you comment on what things are meant to be in the Player’s Kit that the dot…

Hey John Harper or Sean Nittner – can you comment on what things are meant to be in the Player’s Kit that the dot com will eventually host? Trying to create some player materials.

How long (in table time) do your scores last? Do you tend to do multiple scores per session or just one?

For our campaign, we only do one score per night and the score itself will last 90-120 minutes.

Our format is a little different because we have a ~15 player open table campaign. We start off the session with downtime actions, “word on the street” (what’s going on in Duskvol), and then score selection (usually selecting from a few narratively relevant options). Sometimes there’s a short unrelated vignette to tie up loose story ends. After the main score, we do payoff, heat, XP, and entanglements.