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John Harper; I’ve been thinking about honor, insults, face and high society after Sean Nittner posted that clip from…

John Harper; I’ve been thinking about honor, insults, face and high society after Sean Nittner posted that clip from the blades rollplay.

Would you have any hints, books, resources, suggestions, ect, on how to bring these elements into the fiction? Where did you learn how the social elements of upper class society function?

Filling the “need-more-Blades”-hole with another crew.

Filling the “need-more-Blades”-hole with another crew. I start my third group tonight, because the other players don’t have more time (or so they say, Buuuuh!).

Looking forward to tonight. I’m curious which crew type they will choose and if we start with Bazso vs. Mylera again.

It’s really interesting how different the style of play is with different people. IMO Blades adapt really well to that.

I’d like to share with you this great website.

Originally shared by Marcelo Paschoalin

I’d like to share with you this great website. The unique feature is to create/generate word lists based on partial word lists. This way, you can input a list with, let’s say, twenty names and then the website will break them, mix and match and generate lots of names based on those you input at first.

This allows some consistency with name generation while keeping them random.

For example, for my published sword & sorcery Egyptian-flavored setting, I have this list of female names: http://www.nexi.com/fun/rw/rwcgi.cgi?cmd=source&id=291221 (yes, you can save your lists for later).

I hope you like it.

http://www.nexi.com/fun/rw/rwcgi.cgi?cmd=source&id=291221

If you want this snazzy Blades t-shirt you have until Wednesday to snag one!

https://teespring.com/twitch/rollplayblades#pid=300&cid=6151&sid=front

Please somebody make a hack where you don’t start with any action dots.

Please somebody make a hack where you don’t start with any action dots. I would play the fuck out of that. You have to

I mention it because I’m toying with starting my playbooks off with 1 dot in two different actions this week, instead of 2 in one action and 1 in another action.

Here’s a newer bit from Player Best Practices that feels appropriate to share today.

Here’s a newer bit from Player Best Practices that feels appropriate to share today.

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The scoundrel’s lot is tough. The world in which they are trapped is deeply, cruelly unfair — created by the powerful to maintain their power and punish anyone who dares to resist. Some of the systems of the game are built to bring these injustices into play. No matter how cool or how how capable the PCs, the Heat will pile on, Entanglements will blindside them, the powers-that-be will try to kick them down with no regard.

Depending on who you are in real life, this predicament may come as a shock to you, requiring some new understanding on your part. Or it may be all too familiar. Either way, we’re the advocates and fans of our characters, but they are not us. Their fate is their own. We don’t safeguard them as we might safeguard ourselves or our loved ones. They must go off into their dark and brutal world and strive and suffer for what they achieve. They’re brave to try. We’re brave to follow their story and not flinch away. When they get knocked down, we look them in the eye and say, “You’re not done yet. You can do this. Get back in there.” And, unlike in our own world, our characters in Blades in the Dark cannot be defeated by mere power. They can suffer — and they surely will — but their Resistance is always effective. The tools of oppression ultimately break against their defiance.

If we’re willing to step back a bit, to not suffer their trials as personal failures, to imagine them as perseverant when we ourselves might quail, we might get to see them win past pain and despair into something else. It’s a long shot, but they’re up for it.

So I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders for the first time (because of Blades in the Dark) and I noticed that a…

So I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders for the first time (because of Blades in the Dark) and I noticed that a major part of the show (specifically in the first season at least) is about how the characters deal with trauma (mostly) inflicted upon them by the horrors of WWI and the social situations that it created . In game, most of these characters trauma’s are accounted for (Tommy would be cold, Arthur would be unstable, and so on) by the stress and trauma mechanics of the gang. Except for one I think, Freddie Thorne – the committed communist. Freddie, even being a ‘good’ person (in my opinion) who lives to help the poor and downtrodden and who is a relatively good lover, ultimately puts everything and everyone in his life at risk for the sake of his ideals. His trauma is his idealism, it is what put’s him at odds with the social order and those who love him, and it is where he went after being abused and then discarded by the state he probably once felt a patriotic love for.

Idealism could fall under being obsessed, but the feeling of being obsessed is a very internal and individual thing, where as idealism is much more directly social and pertains to effecting the social order itself.

What does everyone here think about adding this to list of trauma’s that a character can suffer? How do you think it would play out?

http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=KzHnbiaQ

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