Blades in the Dark G+ Archives

BitD has a lot of different cool mechanics that might be actual “scenes” if the group decides they’re interested in the details.

 

I’m finding as I run it that I want to try to be more explicit about the level of detail we’re going to get into for any given mechanic before we enter into it. Whether it’s first or third person, how much is actual dialogue and how much is a conveyance of the general nature of a conversation, etc. These are things I struggle with a bit when running all RPGs.

 

The game is flexible enough that nothing breaks and we can navigate through it, but following some of the scenes I feel like either:

 

1) I didn’t provide a level of detail/color that was sufficient for the scene because I didn’t quite have a handle on the level of detail that would be appropriate when entering into the scene/mechanic and

 

2) The other players and I may have had different expectations about how much would be covered or glossed over.

 

You can negotiate all that during or before and it’s fine but I’ll be curious what the final game text says about some of these issues. While we’re playing I feel like we’re sort of “finding our way forward with generosity” similar to games like Fiasco or Archipelago, but with mechanics more akin some other games.

It’s going to take some practice, I think.