Hey all,
First time poster on here and i have no idea how G+ really works, so i hope this is kind of how it works ^^
I love BitD! A really inspiring piece of game-design. The actual plays on John’s own youtube channel and the one on Rollplay really sold me on this game. Love the campaigns.
Now as a big fan of Exalted (at least the setting, not so much the rules it comes with), i was wondering if i could hack BitD to do a Blades in Creation/Exalted in the Dark game.
It would start as not much of a hack, to be honest…more kind of a renaming and expanding of BitD. And i thought i’d show you guys and gals what i have so that you can give me your thoughts and collected BitD wisdom.
If you know Exalted, then you know that it has the solars as its main protagonists (at least if you go with the corebook). That is where i want to start as well. Players would be playing Solar characters.
As a player you chose one of the five castes every Solar character belongs to (Dawn, Zenith, Twilight, Night and Eclipse) and then you fill out classical attributes and skills, White Wolf style.
Now BitD works very different from that but i was thinking i wanted to port over some of the feel of that, so i want to make exaltedish attributes and skills…this leads me to more than 3 attributes which i named (so far) after the…how to call it…essence of the castes in Exalted.
So i have:
Warrior/Prophet/Diplomat/Savant and Criminal (or Thief or Scoundrel or …?). Those will replace Insight/Prowess/Resolve.
As for actions, i want to do something similar. I want to take (some of) the skills from Exalted and “translate” them. So far i have
For Warrior : Martial Arts (aka Skirmish), War (kind of a tactics thing, maybe also wreck?!), Command (aka Command ^^)
For Prophet: Presence (has something of a sway/consort vibe…but i need it to be something different)
For Diplomat: Socialize (aka Consort), Manipulate (aka Sway)
For Savant: Sorcery (aka Attune), Occult (kind of a study for the arcane), Craft (aka Tinker), Lore (aka Study)
For Scoundrel: Larceny (kind of the thief skill), Stealth (aka Prowl), Hunt (aka Hunt ^^), Awareness (aka Survey)
My problem so far – i think i want 4 actions for each attribute, to keep it in BitD style. As you can see, i don’t have that yet. Any ideas for useful addendums to some of the attributes/jobs? Also, do you have something catchy as a name for Scoundrel/Thief/Criminal? I’m not satisfied with it so far. The night castes are the spies/assassins/thieves of the Solars…but so far i have not had an epiphany.
Another question: If i go with 5 actions under each attribute…do you think that’d be too much? Exalted has 5 skills per Caste…but then again, as each first dot of an action gives a dot for your resistance in that attribute…maybe 5 is too much? I mean 4 dice is already pretty good. So i am not sure i want to go there. At least not yet. Sure, Exalted can do superhuman stuff…but only as long as they have their magical essence at hand (i guess that is what i will call stress in this…essence…because..well, it fits ^^).
Ok, i’ll stop now. Lots of text. Lets see if anyone even reads that at all ^^
If you think this has some merit, please post. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!
JB