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This is Soooooo Blades in the dark

This is Soooooo Blades in the dark

Originally shared by Cédric Fonvielle

Thinking about Unhallowed Metropolis style game with Blades, has anyone done something like this?

Thinking about Unhallowed Metropolis style game with Blades, has anyone done something like this? More on the point, do Aristocrat, Dhampir, Mourner or Doctor need their own playbooks or do the base five work well enough?

I’ve a question about the intent/spirit of the BitD rules.

I’ve a question about the intent/spirit of the BitD rules. In our first session, they were instructed by the Lampblacks to recover the treasury of the Red Sashes, per the introduction in the QuickStart. The players chose a Deception plan, and so we spent the evening working to complete a plan to frame the Lampblacks for the theft of the Red Sashes’ treasury. They’ve all taken a significant amount of Stress, and will need Downtime.

All along, I’d been thinking that since they chose a Deception plan, we were pursuing that as the means to abscond with the treasury. Had they chose Infiltration or Assault, we’d have done one of those. I’d intended at the completion of the Deception heist to let them have the treasury and to progress the plot from there.

Is this the correct interpretation? Some part of me thinks it shouldn’t be so easy to make off with the treasury of a Crew well up the ladder from this starting crew. The Red Sashes shouldn’t be such pushovers, should they? Perhaps the PC Crew has succeeded in setting up a situation for a frame, but should they have to then do an Infiltration to get the treasury? But wouldn’t that be the GM telling the players what to do, instead of them having more narrative control?

I’m a bit confused by it all, and welcome any suggestions or interpretations.