Category: Blades in the Dark: Discussion

I tell you one hack I would love to see, is a Victorian/Sherlockian themed hack, were you get to play James…

I tell you one hack I would love to see, is a Victorian/Sherlockian themed hack, were you get to play James…

I tell you one hack I would love to see, is a Victorian/Sherlockian themed hack, were you get to play James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Edward Pierce, Robert Agar. With playbooks like snakesman, cracksman, screwsman, bludgeoner!

http://www.tlucretius.net/Sophie/Castle/victorian_slang.html

Maybe with a steampunk twist, I would love it set in 2000AD’s Stickleback’s London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickleback_(comics)

As a GM, never have I wanted the players to succeed more, but felt so powerless to help them.

As a GM, never have I wanted the players to succeed more, but felt so powerless to help them.

As a GM, never have I wanted the players to succeed more, but felt so powerless to help them. Anyone else feel like this?

Question: while building a crew, each player has to assign a positive and one negative tier 1 faction tick: What…

Question: while building a crew, each player has to assign a positive and one negative tier 1 faction tick: What…

Question: while building a crew, each player has to assign a positive and one negative tier 1 faction tick: What happens when two different players chose the same faction but assign a + and a – ?

The ticks cancel each other and the faction ends up with 0 status?

I was hoping to get clarification on crew creation step 7 “Assign Faction Status Ticks”.

I was hoping to get clarification on crew creation step 7 “Assign Faction Status Ticks”.

I was hoping to get clarification on crew creation step 7 “Assign Faction Status Ticks”. When the group chooses Tier 2 ticks is that a starting 2 with two factions (one good/one bad)? The same with Tier 3. Can the group picks overlap with player picks?

Where is a good place to submit FAQs? I don’t want to flood the main page if that’s not where I should do that.

Where is a good place to submit FAQs? I don’t want to flood the main page if that’s not where I should do that.

Where is a good place to submit FAQs? I don’t want to flood the main page if that’s not where I should do that.

I can’t find the post that read in part “from my reading, it doesn’t seem possible for PCs to die”.

I can’t find the post that read in part “from my reading, it doesn’t seem possible for PCs to die”.

I can’t find the post that read in part “from my reading, it doesn’t seem possible for PCs to die”.

That query is responded to just fine in the FAQ, but I wanted to mention here what I’m thinking of as a baseline to direct a group’s discussion of the issue.

By default, when the fiction seems to contain lethal potential, the position is already DESPERATE and the PC chooses to “try again by taking a bigger risk and rolling a DESPERATE move,” then how about the default danger is death and by default the player is not going to choose to mitigate that result with Stress?

I also generally play with players that might choose death for their PCs before it got to that point if it felt right, but I can see some groups wanting a pre-defined “here’s where we hoist the ‘death flag’ line.” This might serve.

And they can still “go ghost”.