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Special Armor: Possible Tweak

Special Armor: Possible Tweak

I’m thinking about changing the playbooks so all of the special armors are freebie starting abilities. They’re a nice ‘signature move’, but I’ve noticed that they aren’t chosen very often.

What do you think?

Has there been any discussion, conventional wisdom, or debate on how to handle load if players are going to loot…

Has there been any discussion, conventional wisdom, or debate on how to handle load if players are going to loot equipment in the moment?

Example: Harvey the Hound is rolling Light load for maximum sneakability, but during the course of the score he ends up grabbing a lieutenant’s matched sabres. He likes them and wants to keep using them, but it’d be more load than he planned on.

Can Harvey NOT bring his new swords because he didn’t previously say he was bringing Medium load?

Is Harvey just Medium load now? If so, and if the swords would only be 1 dot, would you allow Harvey another load dot, as befits a true Medium load?

Is Harvey still Light load but is just carrying some swords around?

Real life history reminding me of Blades: the London Necropolis Railway:

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161018-the-passenger-train-that-carried-the-dead

We’re getting bombed with spam accounts and posts again, so I’m turning on permission-requirement to join the…

We’re getting bombed with spam accounts and posts again, so I’m turning on permission-requirement to join the community. Just FYI.

Tonight we confirmed my players would rather kill bluecoats than bribe them. Coin is king. Game on!

So session 0 resulted in the creation of a 3 person crew of Hawkers – drug-dealers who deal exclusively to ghosts…

So session 0 resulted in the creation of a 3 person crew of Hawkers – drug-dealers who deal exclusively to ghosts using their own special formula. Made up of an ex-Rail Jack Cutter, a Skovlan Leech and an ex-Forgotten Gods cultist Tycherosi Hound, they operate out of a well-secured, dilapidated house in the rapidly redeveloping area of the nightmarket.

Now I just need to come up with tasty mission hooks. They’ve got some bad blood with Ulf Ironborn (he slept with the Leeches wife) and the nightmarket citizenry don’t take kindly to these scoundrels black mark on their gentrification of the area.

Thinking of something turf-related, maybe some heist of goods being smuggled into the city by train, rival dealers or cultists either not happy their ghosts are getting high or interested in getting them high for nefarious reasons. Certainly some room for getting a sit down with the Veil and coming to an arrangement too.

Any thoughts?

Looking forward to the new Blades show for Rollplay on twitch.

Looking forward to the new Blades show for Rollplay on twitch. I’m excited to see how the Assasins Crew plays out (and maybe seeing this variant of REP if they do a job too quietly (though w/ the players you have, I’m not sure that’ll actually happen))!!!

Okay, the network issues seem to have resolved themselves, so I’ve uploaded the newest PC playbooks to my public…

Okay, the network issues seem to have resolved themselves, so I’ve uploaded the newest PC playbooks to my public Dropbox folder. The URL is https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cntykz7xbpgwh88/AADEvkJC6Zgwx3S4LU7ijjOEa?dl=0

Coming soon: Updated Crew playbooks, including pages for fully functional project clocks, and for custom claim maps.

Further down the line: I’m working on doing a version of the PC sheets that dump the Notes section on the front page in lieu of a Wanted poster you can click on to insert an image of your character.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cntykz7xbpgwh88/AADEvkJC6Zgwx3S4LU7ijjOEa?dl=0

Hey John Harper, I’ve translated to Hebrew the rule reference page and the playbooks for a Con game I’m running…

Hey John Harper, I’ve translated to Hebrew the rule reference page and the playbooks for a Con game I’m running tomorrow. Can I upload them to the internet for the role-play community here to see?

Can you take Veteran advances in your character sheet at any time?

Can you take Veteran advances in your character sheet at any time? Or are they reserved for when you’ve already gotten all the abilities of your playbook?