Category: Blades in the Dark: Hacks and Add Ons

I’ve updated the listing of enterprises in the neighborhood. Aldo and Wolfram torched a 2 point enterprise for the Red Sashes, and that was just enough to knock them from Tier 2 down to Tier 1, so if they don’t immediately annex another enterprise they’ll lose points from their remaining enterprises. At tier 2 they can have a maximum of 10 in an enterprise, but at tier 1, it is a maximum of 5. So they are in a “make or break” situation.

The Lampblacks and Crows are likely to make a move to assure the weakened Red Sashes stay weak. We’ll see what the characters do. Maybe they can negotiate to help out in exchange for control of a small enterprise, if the big dogs snap up the bigger ones.

I also updated the document to include the PC crew.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-6-9-15.pdf

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-6-9-15.pdf

Here is an example of what the three starting crews could look like set up with the enterprise system.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprise-for-starting-crews.docx

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprise-for-starting-crews.docx

Here is my first attempt to codify my thoughts on using enterprises instead of the crew sheet structure.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-for-blades-in-the-dark-6-6-15.pdf

This draft isn’t the finished version, but I am interested in feedback. This is far more in-depth and complex than anything else I’ve proposed, so it took significantly more to get it from an idea to a .pdf. I know this is not the direction John Harper is taking the game, as it focuses on resource management, but I needed to flesh it out because it makes sense to me.

An important advantage of the system is that those who want to use it minimally can use it minimally. Even if the crew has a small base, or no base, and focuses on heists, this still gives the GM great tools for helping the PCs choose targets.

For an example, I’ll stat up how the crew with Jack Shear and Bryan Mullins characters looks with the new version.

They picked “Everyone Steals” which grants people +1 skill point, and “Slippery” to allow rolling 2 results for entanglements and keeping one, and getting +1d to reduce heat. I think Slippery could be repurposed as a special ability to buy, but not Everyone Steals.

They picked Amancio, a fence, as the contact. They also picked having a crew of adepts, a hidden lair, and a library.

For flavor, they decided their lair was in the basement of an occult bookshop, Adeleide’s Phrenological Emporium, with a sewer access to the gondola canals.

How does this look in the enterprise system?

They start with 2 enterprise, one for each of them. One will invest in the fence, Amancio. The other will invest in the bookstore, which is over their lair.

The point of enterprise from the bookstore will be put back into the bookstore to make it legal, to cover fees and expenses and all. As it grows, perhaps it will generate more income than it needs to stay legal, but for now that will do.

The point of enterprise from the fence will go to fund having a crew of 4 adepts.

The default lair has living space, meeting space, and a space for something else; they choose to put a library in there.

One of the characters is close to getting a bead on how one crew is moving leviathan blood into the city illegally, and he is going to make a move to get in on that. This will represent adding an enterprise to the crew. 

What do you think? This is still rough, but it’s my best thinking about this at the current time.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-for-blades-in-the-dark-6-6-15.pdf