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Kickstarter update yesterday said:

Another update will be sent out today to Hacker and Tinkerer level backers, with a link to the Dropbox share for the source files.

Just sanity-checking — you’re sending out an update via Backerkit too, right? For those who upgraded their pledge at that point?

Thanks 🙂

I’ve been reading the North Water and have to thoroughly recommend it for Blades in the Dark atmosphere &…

I’ve been reading the North Water and have to thoroughly recommend it for Blades in the Dark atmosphere & inspiration.

For example:

“There is no sin left now, there is only the blood and the water and the ice; there is only life and death and the grey-green spaces in between. He will not die he tells himself, not now, not ever. When he is thirsty, he will drink his own blood; when he is hungry, he will eat his own flesh. He will grow enormous from the feasting, he will expand to fill the empty sky.”

It also led to me reading about rag-and-bone men, which would be great to drop whole-cloth into Doskvol. “Bone-grubbers”!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Water

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666046-the-north-water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man

Brainstorm – why the lightning walls of the empire’s capital went out and where is the fucking immortal emperor?

Lately, I felt like my campaign is having a minor existential crisis – the characters got almost too powerful to touch, they’ve destroyed their enemies and accomplished most of their goals, and now they mostly just strolling around in undead hedonism and doing mad experiments. It’s fun, but not like it used to be.

So, naturally, I’ve initiated the end of the world:

In the end of last session they heard the news – the capital is down, the Emperor is missing, and the highest ranking persona in the Empire is on his way to duskvol with his pleasure cruise for a pre-arranged festival.

I’m delighted to say it worked like dark magic – they immediately decided to steal said person’s soul, replace it with their dead slide’s soul, and TAKE OVER THE SHATTERED WORLD. I love my players.

NOW: can you tell me, dear scoundrels, WHY did it happened? I don’t know, and most of the rumors I’ve invented on the spot don’t make any sense.

So…

What happened to the capital? Where is the Emperor? How come the Last Cardinal and his pleasure cruise escaped the fall?

War with the Dimmer Sisters?

What could that look like? My group of Shadows just pissed the Dimmer Sisters off by sending Roslyn flying into their own lightning barrier. The Shadows have a hidden lair, and I’m not quite sure what the Sisters can do to track them down/mess with them. It’s obvious enough that it’d probably be occult in nature, but I’m curious what ideas others have about what proactive actions the Sisters might take to take down a hidden group of Shadows.

Hi all

Our Crew (shadows) are involved in a Heist tick break into the Sparkwright Tower. Any suggestions for describing the inside of the tower as well as complications, encounters etc?

So the group I am in wants to make nightmare gas, and hold Doskvol ransom.

So the group I am in wants to make nightmare gas, and hold Doskvol ransom. Some Batman Begins shit. The leech in our party is trying to infuse Dream Dust with Leviathan Blood. Does this sound like a good idea? xD

I just approved someone’s post that was held for moderation and it vanished.

I just approved someone’s post that was held for moderation and it vanished. Not sure what’s going on! If a post of yours is missing, let me know.

Hey guys, I think I did a pretty good job on my group’s Roll20 home page, so I thought I’d show it off.

Hey guys, I think I did a pretty good job on my group’s Roll20 home page, so I thought I’d show it off. Those are player written newspaper articles by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnLwDX4QnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnLwDX4QnI&feature=youtu.be

I need a bit of help with Duskwalls economy.

I need a bit of help with Duskwalls economy. My crew of Shadows are espionage experts and they want to specialise in Industrial Espionage, I’m fairly familiar with the more underhand businesses like casinos, brothels, tattoo parlors and whatnot but we are more interested in the more legal industries. Basically what do the well to do citizens of Duskwall do to make their COIN legally…ish?

So just as a general question idea, I’ve heard recently that Blades in the Dark originally started out as a Dungeon…

So just as a general question idea, I’ve heard recently that Blades in the Dark originally started out as a Dungeon World campaign? Or that the campaign created the world for it, something like that? Does anyone know where I can perhaps find a summary or vod of the campaign?