How are dates and time being handled?
How are dates and time being handled? Are there special names for the days of the week? Is it 7 days in a week? Are the months 1-12 with January, February, etc? Is midnight the final bell? The 12th bell?
I made this for my soon to start hangouts game, it is the suggested size for google event titles.
I made this for my soon to start hangouts game, it is the suggested size for google event titles. I thought someone might find it useful.
Yesterday we had a neat session with #theMalkavs
Yesterday we had a neat session with #theMalkavs . I came up with some observations I’d like to post later, but for now questions:
This one needs a little context:
Nienna the Lurk had a bad streak of action rolls, going from controlled to risky, from risky to desperate and from desperate to desperate again but then Mariana decides to use Nienna’s silence and shadow vials on this last re-roll. I rule that since the situation changed (now she’s in a totally darkened and silenced room) the position changes upwards to risky (instead keeping with desperate again). Is this valid or am I stretching the position rules too much?
This is hard to explain. Lets say a score stretches two sessions:
When taking the character advancement questions, do you tick advancement for situations that came up in the previous session and were already ticked or the character already got all they could from those situations and would only advance from new challenges?
I’d say that they can only tick once for every situation they meet on any particular score, the idea is that the advancement questions try to have the players pushing their character to new adventures and dangers.
Crew advancement: can an enterprise count as an score and as a sidejob? the Malkavs had an entanglement that had them give a favor to an Inspector and wound up stealing some valuables on the side, so I rule that it was both when advancing the crew. Valid?
John Harper, is there any chance of the updated QS being posted today.
John Harper, is there any chance of the updated QS being posted today. I may be running Blades tonight for a few friends.
What if you want to play Blades in the Dark, but don’t want to commit to a campaign?
What if you want to play Blades in the Dark, but don’t want to commit to a campaign? What if you want to be in one or more one-shot games?
Here is a two page rules mod for how to play a GANG instead of a CREW. I would like to know what you think! I plan to try it out on Saturday.
Players can choose a type of gang to play (which gives a single advantage, instead of having to choose a special ability.) They also choose what underboss to work for, which tips the GM off to what kind of missions they want to play. There is no long-term advancement for gangs, as they form and split and reform all the time; however, characters can gain reputation, which may help them start their own crew with the backing of the Crows! =)
https://fictivefantasies.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gang-generation-4-22-153.pdf
I just missed the kickstarter by a day or two, but this game is right up my alley. Mark down another one on the…
I just missed the kickstarter by a day or two, but this game is right up my alley. Mark down another one on the “hoping for a late buy-in” list.
Since I haven’t got the QS rules, I’ve been ringing as many details from the internet as possible, and there’s one thing I haven’t seen discussed. Your gang playbook sets you up as some specific criminal endeavor (smuggling, dealing, etc). As you rise up the tiers, is there any way to expand out of that? Can you annex lower tier gangs and make them pay you for the privilege of operating on your turf? You’d expect a kingpin of crime to have his fingers in all kinds of operations.
While playing with Dan Hall and Craig Vial an hour or so ago there was a brief moment of linguistic confusion over…
While playing with Dan Hall and Craig Vial an hour or so ago there was a brief moment of linguistic confusion over “backup”. It refers both to people not on point and to taking a point of stress to give a die to the person on point, right? Thought it might be helpful to not have it refer to two different things on two different pages.
Also, how does coin for characters work? We couldn’t find anything about characters getting coin. I can’t remember if we read it or remembered it but we get coin when we fill a crew’s advancement ticks, right? When else do characters get coin?
Thank you 🙂
So a month ago there was a request for a squeaky clean setting for Blades.
So a month ago there was a request for a squeaky clean setting for Blades. I suggested either a “toy escape” or “Robin Hood”. Ever since then I couldn’t get that out of my head and the result is a (partial) translation of Blades to Robin Hood. Any comments welcome 🙂 Provisionally called #TheMerryBand
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11G8hpQKJXt0Pj5yCRAZWDqOfXynifFOCDb5SAovaSgI/edit?usp=sharing
I may have missed this, but are the rules available anywhere if we did not contribute to the Kickstarter?
I may have missed this, but are the rules available anywhere if we did not contribute to the Kickstarter? Also, any estimate on when the game will be available for purchase?
As an aside, I’d love to hear anything about what sort of things the Leeches can do. As a listener to the Sawbones podcast, I’m eager to prescribe my patients everything from bloodletting to opium
John Harper, are you planning on making the rules to Blades in the Dark usable under a creative license or some…
John Harper, are you planning on making the rules to Blades in the Dark usable under a creative license or some such. If so, have you decided how you want your work credited? If you haven’t, the I vote for “powered in the dark”