As much as I love the Blades base setting, I am really excited about some of the stretch goal alternates.

As much as I love the Blades base setting, I am really excited about some of the stretch goal alternates.

As much as I love the Blades base setting, I am really excited about some of the stretch goal alternates. Will they be released at the same time as the book or are we looking at a Juntu’s Floating Ice Hell type situation?

I’d like to manage my expectations accordingly

Blades Quick Start v3 Draft: new version!

Blades Quick Start v3 Draft: new version!

Blades Quick Start v3 Draft: new version!

Here’s the new draft PDF for v3 of the Quick Start:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/32k4p0semn2k7yh/blades_quickstart_v3_draft_03.pdf?dl=0

It’s still rough in places, and is missing some new stuff I’ve been developing, but I decided to not make you all wait any longer. 🙂

(Full version with examples, changelog, etc. will be in the works next week after I’m done with GoPlay NW)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/32k4p0semn2k7yh/blades_quickstart_v3_draft_03.pdf?dl=0

Patrick sings a song of the Nightmare Sea, which may give folks some ideas for the inky black waves lapping against…

Patrick sings a song of the Nightmare Sea, which may give folks some ideas for the inky black waves lapping against…

Patrick sings a song of the Nightmare Sea, which may give folks some ideas for the inky black waves lapping against Duskwall. With annotations! Certainly Iron Eye’d tribes would fit right in – not in Duskwall, but at some distant redoubt of civilization, fallen on hard times.

Here is an update for the enterprise system (not the crew enterprises in Crow’s Foot.) I reworked the training…

Here is an update for the enterprise system (not the crew enterprises in Crow’s Foot.) I reworked the training…

Here is an update for the enterprise system (not the crew enterprises in Crow’s Foot.) I reworked the training system, added examples, put in a way to grow enterprises with coin, swapped out a blank enterprise sheet for an example page to show off the flexibility, inserted use for the fortune roll, and probably a bunch of other stuff I’m not remembering.

For those who did not see this before, this is what I’m using at my game table to replace the crew sheet entirely. What is on the character sheet does not change, but this is how the crew is mechanically represented.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-for-blades-in-the-dark-6-22-15.pdf

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-for-blades-in-the-dark-6-22-15.pdf

Devil’s Bargains!

Devil’s Bargains!

Devil’s Bargains!

Obviously, everyone at the table can potentially offer a Devil’s Bargain, but we were finding that pausing a roll to figure out a good one was slowing things down too much, so we have made the decision to make them “on demand”. Basically, the player who is rolling can ask for one, and then we all brainstorm what it should be, but if they are confident in their dice, then we don’t worry about it.

Pros:

-Much quicker.

Cons:

-Means we don’t get as many fun complications as when there are always DBs on the offer for each roll.

I’m using an alternative system to the crew sheet, and here is an update to the current state of the enterprises of…

I’m using an alternative system to the crew sheet, and here is an update to the current state of the enterprises of…

I’m using an alternative system to the crew sheet, and here is an update to the current state of the enterprises of the various crews we care about in Crow’s Foot.

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-6-21-15.docx

The Red Sashes have been rocked back on their heels by repeated assaults. It seems likely the remaining crews will strike decisively if they can to divvy up the remaining spoils rather than letting the Red Sashes recover. 

We’ll see if Jack Shear and Bryan Mullins want to work with the Lampblacks to target one of the enterprises, the Tenpenny Court Upstairs Network. If they do, maybe they can take it over (reduced or, if disruption is minimal, near its current rating.) Rewards could include a new enterprise, a cooperating crew granting control of another enterprise to them, and/or an increase in one of their existing enterprises.

In the last session I ran with gangs, the characters working for the Crows struck a massive blow against the Elegant Companion Tea House. Now the remains of that enterprise have been scooped up with new management from the Lampblacks, increasing their scope of operations and further diminishing the Red Sashes. Good work, gang!

https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enterprises-6-21-15.docx

Our play report from our first adventure “The Warehouse Job” from last night.

Our play report from our first adventure “The Warehouse Job” from last night.

Our play report from our first adventure “The Warehouse Job” from last night. 

I had meant to have a lot more prep work done in advance, custom character sheets and such, but I just ran out of time.  I cut the Whisper playbook out completely as it will need some retooling for my setting, so we had the other four playbooks represented.  We also had some difficulty figuring out the Crew creation from the two rule sets, so we just winged some of that too.  I think it turned out well, and the group seemed to have a good time.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9YYP2mxz25GRF93SmJkdXpSY1k/view?usp=sharing