Just returned home at 1am from a late night out, only to find this special edition waiting for me on my door step on…
Just returned home at 1am from a late night out, only to find this special edition waiting for me on my door step on the 1st of October. How very spooky and appropriate!
My players finally picked out a name for their crew, so it seemed appropriate to introduce that name in the fiction…
My players finally picked out a name for their crew, so it seemed appropriate to introduce that name in the fiction in a big way… and since they just got an Inspector on their asses last session, what better way than plastering these up all over Doskvol (and my apartment as a surprise when they walked in)?
Watch out for the Devil’s Gentry, y’all. They like to play with fire.
Dunno if anyone else has tried this out, but in the table of contents of my PDF, the “Shadows” heading links to…
Dunno if anyone else has tried this out, but in the table of contents of my PDF, the “Shadows” heading links to “Smugglers” and vice versa. Is there a way to fix this on my end, or is this a situation where an updated PDF would need to be released from John’s end?
So, I already shared the gorgeous poster of Doskvol that a friend of mine was nice enough to print out for my play…
So, I already shared the gorgeous poster of Doskvol that a friend of mine was nice enough to print out for my play group, and I’m back with another awesome bit of coolness. One of the players in my Blades in the Dark campaign is a new role-player, having just started gaming in the past 7 months, and a musician. He made a theme song for the D&D game he ran for his friends, and now he’s done the same for my table!
I absolutely love passionate players, and this was very cool, so I share his hard work with y’all!
https://soundcloud.com/schafer-gray/blades-in-the-dark-theme
I can see stories like this making it into papers in Doskvol, except that many of the outlandish supernatural ones…
I can see stories like this making it into papers in Doskvol, except that many of the outlandish supernatural ones would turn out to be real (bitten by a skeleton indeed)!
Originally shared by Robert Miller
I see many, many grim adventure hooks here, from a real life newspaper from the late 1800’s up to 1939.
I’ve got a friend who does graphic design for a living, and she’s got access to a printer that can do 13×19 posters!
I’ve got a friend who does graphic design for a living, and she’s got access to a printer that can do 13×19 posters! She did me a favor and printed up this beautiful bad boy, and even gave it a sepiatone effect for good measure 😀
I tried my hand at a Faction tonight!
I tried my hand at a Faction tonight! Specifically, I rolled at random to see what Factions should be at odds in my initial situation, and I got the Ink Rakes/Cyphers/Wraiths… but those first two don’t have write-ups in the book. Rather than shrug and roll again, I put my scoundrel hat on and dove in.
Here’s my rendition of giving the Ink Rakes some nuance as a legitimate, albeit shady, newspaper and magazine empire.
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INK RAKES (Tier II)
The exploitative, sensationalist news and magazine holdings of industrialist/populist Wester Haig.
Turf: printing houses up and down Ink Lane, a three story office building in Charterhall (HQ), street corners throughout Doskvol
NPCs: Wester Haig (Akorosi self-made magnate; obsessive, transgressive), Una Grine (star rake; cutthroat, charming)
Notable Assets: enthusiastic citywide readership, loyalty of the working class, expansive quality presses for printing the news (and more), dedicated cohorts of street muscle & grifters
Quirks: Favored Ink Rakes use Whispers and Ghost Keys to witness incriminating incidents from within the Ghost Field.
Allies: Cabbies, Gondoliers, Dockers, Rail Jacks
Enemies: Cyphers, Skovlander Refugees, City Council, rival newspapers
Situation: Wester Haig is looking to expand the already successful operations of the Ink Rakes. His boys have begun claiming corners where they can, covering lots of ground with the help of a sympathetic working class, disgruntled with other elitist sheets. He now has an idea to cement his readerships’ interest: mixing distilled spirit essences into his newspaper Ink, indulging his readers’ desire to “feel like they’re really there.” Then it will be time to give his rivals the spike.
Clocks:
• Acquire a Spirit Essence Supplier – 4
• Seize the street corners of his rivals – 4 (repeating)
I’ve got a game of Blades coming up Saturday, and I’ve been worrying that maybe I was too proud — flew too close to…
I’ve got a game of Blades coming up Saturday, and I’ve been worrying that maybe I was too proud — flew too close to the broken sun — and I wouldn’t have my dear darling book by then.
No reason to worry! It was waiting for me at home! It’s awesome, feels great, love the gloss on the knives, and besides a little print error-y looking line it’s as gorgeous as could be. Time to crack it open and finish my prep!
Inspiration to consider for just how accepted the corruption throughout Duskvol is: street gang business cards!
Inspiration to consider for just how accepted the corruption throughout Duskvol is: street gang business cards!
http://boingboing.net/2017/04/21/vintage-chicago-street-gang-bu.html
Hey John Harper! With the v7 update, and the correctly oriented map, something caught my attention.
Hey John Harper! With the v7 update, and the correctly oriented map, something caught my attention.
On page 75 and 76, the Duskvol maps, we can see Crow’s Foot in the south with the little north-south canal to the left of it.
On page 77, the Crow’s Foot map, we see that same north-south canal to the left — but there also appears to be an east-west canal connected to it. I think this is a holdover from super early versions of the map that may have had another canal over there.
Not sure if you had noticed this, so I just wanted to bring it to your attention! Loving v7 and all of its little moments of fine-tuning. I really dig the new Hunting Grounds stuff.