Tag: Nathan Roberts

So I’ve been playing Blades solo to while away my time posted away from home at work. I finally took the time to write the first little bit up. Its been a great learning curve and rather fun. I’ll keep plugging away the AP if folks are interested. The narrative is in black text, the mechanical text in blue. Comment if you like 🙂

So in tonight’s session the concept of zero level effect came up, since effect level gets manipulated far more than the dice pool in the current rules.

We like it!

After some fumbling it is mentioned briefly under dominance and also in the teamwork section as a mitigation principle for aiding. Which is also great!

But Perhaps John Harper on the effects and consequence page there needs to be a zoo effect ‘box’ just to highlight that scale/potency/quality can reduce an effect to zero?

Can I just say, the NPC generator 2 is gold!

I’ve just been sent to a rural posting for work, and have a bit more downtime on hand, so I’ve been indulging in a little solo RP with Blades. The idea is to generate some Solo GM fun and come up with some cool ‘tales of legendary scores’ to throw at the PCs in our regular game.

Along with the steampunk Tarot, the random charts and the NPC generator have given SO much inspiration for the story. I particularly like the addition of the desires/reviles/occupation(s) ward/tavern variables – They tell a story in like, 5 words!

I’ll post a posthumous AP soon….

Played Sean Nittner’s Gaddoc Rail Score this evening at Ettin Con with resounding success! The bunch of wily scoundrels were after a ghost-hunting weapon being transported in an elaborately arcane chest, promising to deliver to Lyssa of the Crows.

The players had fun with a few set-up flashbacks involving procurement of uniforms, tapping old alliance contacts and murdering a few bluecoats by offering their bodies to hungry ghosts. The crew went primarily with a deceptive plan, smartly avoiding direct conflict, pulling off a ‘pick up and deliver’ score incognito, via the canals and sewers under the city.

A brief downtime phase allowed us to dabble in the new crew mechanics to good effect.

Love Love Love the new effect system and the ‘push your luck’ nature of the escalation mechanics. Players LOVED that. It was so tense. Everyone stressed out to the max too. Such a great game.