Daniel Charlton – Blades in the Dark G+ Archives

I faintly remember there being a “low/street level superhero” hack in the works. Did I imagine this?

I ask because I’ve been wanting to run a game where the players struggle desperately each session and then Saitama, One Punch Man comes in and solves their problems in one punch rendering their challenge and hardships almost mute. The problem is that I needed a system where players wouldn’t mind the struggle. Then I had a shower moment this morning after remembering I gave two players traumas last night and they thought it was brilliant.

Although I’m not too sure Blades and Superheroes mix. I think C Rank style Superheroes might work quite well.

tl;dr; Looking for supers hack for one punch man where players will eventually resent me and call me names behind my back.

p.s. Any thoughts or feelings on this idea. Feel free to comment.

As the railjack supplement isn’t out yet (no rush :)) could people fill me in on some known lore and any home rules…

As the railjack supplement isn’t out yet (no rush :)) could people fill me in on some known lore and any home rules they’ve come up to handle it please?

I get the basic jist that they stand on the top of trains and fend off ghosts but just wanted to learn more.

Thanks

I’m hopefully going to be running Blades with a new group soon.

My plan was to have them coming into the city to deal with the Lampbacks/Red Sashes war and see how things progress.

My idea was that the players in the group with a rich/higher stature in society background would be working for a richer noblemen or even as the emperors underlings. Whereas the poorer/thug like characters would be working for them. Giving the group a mix of dynamics.

The “rich” characters would be trying to please their “lord” by making a crew and infiltrating the district whereas the “poor” characters would be out to better themselves.

What do people think of this idea? Also would you keep some facts a mystery. Like the poor know they’re working for someone but don’t exactly know who etc.

Actual play report for He’s Just Sleeping

Actual play report for He’s Just Sleeping

Gang members

Nox – The man with the plan and good charade skills.

Callum – The brute with a heart of gold.

Walter – The dirty pervert.

Dash – The druggie.

The Score

Their old gang has fell apart because their boss was killed without paying his “staff”. Being a bit of a drunk and extremely paranoid they had no idea of where his stash was.

Luckily for the gang the Spirit Wardens are on a bit of a backlog so the gang had time to sneak in and force some life into him long enough for him to tell them where the stash is.

The plan

Walter the slide will dress up as a bluecoat, Sgt Buckley, and then open up a window from the cellar. Once inside they’ll find the body and use a spirit mask hopefully still on the boss’ body to get the info you want.

The game

Everything went super well until the gang got to the morgue. At that point the idea was to talk the Warden into letting them see the body and if that failed plan B was to use slumber essence… obviously they ended up using plan B. Dash ended up wrestling the warden to the ground and ended up whiffing too much essence making him a bit loopy for most of the rest of the score. He also ended up with some inners on him. With the warden talki of illness in Doskvol Dash doesn’t know if he’s infected.

Callum then showed his true colours. With time to the next corpse pick up soon. He risked everything by himself and carried the corpse out while the others tried to locate the spirit mask.

Dash and Nox ran off to the evidence room where belongings are stored before being auctioned off.

Walter stayed back to put another body in the Boss’ casket. With a stroke of luck the other wardens had lost their protective gear and didn’t want to enter the morgue. Walter now dressed like a Spirit Warden hid the naked Warden and answered the door with a body. The wardens didn’t know that he had skipped a body in the hopes of being paid by a rich family to let the corpses spirit go free. He then wandered out to find a badly wounded warden on the floor. This warden had met Callum trying to escape. Walter tried to help. But only after getting a slap from nearly copping a feel. Seems this warden was a lady and had a large wound under her robe. With Anita the warden given first aid Walter simply walked out and was escorted to hospital only to disperse later.

While this was going on Dash managed to get past a lightning gate and Nox played charades as far as Dash was concerned who was quite loopy still. He found the mask and thought why not knick some other stuff. They then ran for their lives now that the Wardens were on high alert.

Round up

Great session by PbP. Characters are starting to click together nicely. There’s plenty more trouble for the new unnamed gang to get up too.

Quote of the game

OOC: “I wasn’t aware that we discussed xp like rational beings after the job is done, that’s good though”

IIC: ““Give me a few minutes, fellas. Nature calls.” He held his stomach, and let out a subtle groan.”

tl;dr

tl;dr

BitD PbP over on myth-weavers

Pitch

That damn leader of yours has gone and got himself killed.

Great! He was paranoid and a lost cause anyway, too much of the booze. He’s only gone and died though without telling you where he hid all the gangs stash. Half the gangs disbanded because of that. Good riddens to them.

You though, you’ve stayed. Because you’re smart. You know that he’s only been dead for a day or two and the Spirit Wardens are on a massive backlog. If you can get in there and wake the dead lazy git. You can ask him where his stash is and live the life of riches.

Theme tune: No Way But The Hard Way – Airbourne

I’m looking for players that can post fairly regularly (once every few days w/ expected delays over Christmas) and that are interested in building the world around them.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=39164

Is anyone running a Blades in the Dark game via Play by Post?

Is anyone running a Blades in the Dark game via Play by Post? I’m going away for the Christmas period and wondering if anyone can help me get my fix.

Does Blades work well over PbP? I may be tempted to start up a campaign in the new year when I’m back at my PC and not tied to a tablet.

I’m new to hacking Blades in the Dark and was wondering if anyone out there wants to contribute to making a Final…

I’m new to hacking Blades in the Dark and was wondering if anyone out there wants to contribute to making a Final Fantasy VII hack based on the city Midgar?

If you’re interested in working on this hack please head over to my discord channel for more information: https://discord.gg/TF228fB

I’m just in the planning stage at the minute but some of the issues in my head that I’m running into is how to handle materia as its magic technically anyone can use.

I’d love to hear peoples ideas or concerns so please reply or send me a message on that discord channel.

p.s. Some of these hacks look amazing. Keep up the good work.

Stras Acimovic Scum & Villainy is brilliant.

My Mindjammer (FATE rpg) game is currently on hiatus and I was thinking of convincing my group to just straight up move to your setting when we get back to playing 🙂

One question though if that’s ok. In Mindjammer players can play as the AI for a sentient ship. In the finished hack, will there be the option to play as a ship AI? Can you technically just use the xeno background and say the pilot playbook?

So Savage worlds has “Savage World Fan” and Apocalypse World has “Powered by the Apocalypse”.

So Savage worlds has “Savage World Fan” and Apocalypse World has “Powered by the Apocalypse”. What are all these add-ons/hacks going to be labelled as? Maybe “Designed with a blade”?

Can’t wait for the Bluecoats hack never mind the other goals which are amazing.