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DalaranJ posted:So I was trying to assit my players in filling out their crew sheet and one of them asked "What's tyhe difference between 'implements', 'supplies', and 'tools'? Does anyone have any idea? Supplies are for everything, so for getting equipment for your teams, bribes out and so on. I am unsure how to differentiate between the other 2 though.
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Try it as PbP on here, minimal social stigma for it failing too!
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I'd been intending to tweak it slightly so that level 2 harm "just" caused a relatively minor effect. Maybe something like you always have to take a disadvantage if you do not have potency in a particular area.
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Feb 2, 2016 19:36
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See the game I am planning is probably going to be a tad more free wheeling for the most part in terms of effects and so on.
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Iceclaw posted:Well, thanks for answers everyone! On another subject, is there some interest for a pbp game here on SA? I'm itching for testing the game, but it'd be hard to do so IRL for various reasons. VERY YES!
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Apr 17, 2016 18:31
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Well I am hopefully going to be running a game of this in real life this coming Thursday, so heres hoping it goes well.
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Apr 21, 2016 23:09
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Jesus Christ that took long enough!
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Aug 8, 2016 21:53
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Hey there guys, I am doing a recruit for a Blades in the Dark campaign and thought people might be interested! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3787297 Also I am kind of thinking of if you could do a hack to model Railos from Glorantha into the BitD format.
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Aug 21, 2016 22:54
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Does anyone know how to download the additional hacks for Blades, I bought the backer level that gets me all of them, but I don't think I have anything about them?
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Kestral posted:I can personally attest that Band of Blades is in playtesting and is probably near release; I've seen it run at Big Bad Con, and know people who are on the playtesting list. It also looks loving rad and will have been worth the wait. In fact, you can apparently watch a playtest campaign of it run by the designer here, although I haven't seen it yet and can't vouch for the quality of the players. Thank you for linking this. It has made me so much more interested in this product. Is there any sort of written out stuff available thus far? I am a backer of BiTD if that helps?
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May 15, 2018 23:13
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DemonMage posted:Working fine here, the Drive link for the main rules is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZUUqq-04qNdFbDvwZIfgObpzhjWpawS5/view Is there anything like this available for Band of Blades and/or can I contact the creator? I think my group might be up for a game in the near future and would like to test it out.
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May 25, 2018 21:39
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I think they may have turned up the difficulty level a bit too high on BoB. I am all for difficulty but it really does seem as if a failure spiral is an almost inevitability with this sort of set up. I mean perhaps I am much more used to playing games where failure isn't quite so punishing.
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May 31, 2018 07:42
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Does frequent character death result in a fresh playbook every time, or are there recommendations for how to track/award XP for starting characters at “higher levels”? I assume the GM is just supposed to keep some more rookies "on hand" to throw into the meat grinder. Saying that I am fairly sure that even rookies would be fairly good soldiers by this point. My main GM is going to be out of town for a month or so later on in the year, so I might run a quick game of this.
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Jun 6, 2018 00:20
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ZachAttack posted:I think band of blades is a triumph. I had the pleasure of playing it with one of the writers at Gencon two years ago and got myself a copy as soon as I could. It's also, from what I have seen, absolutely hard as balls to win with. Like seriously, holy gently caress.
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Sep 11, 2019 17:26
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I always thought it wasn't until it went from "corruption" to "blight" that Shreya would notice.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:47
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It does mean that if you end up with a threat 5 Chosen they are effectively going to be able to go toe to toe with any of the broken and, hopefully if you help out, send their essence right back to the gods.
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I had a quick question, but do folks think it would be possible/ good to make a blades in the dark that didn't have the "constant doom is all around" aspects? Like you still have the lightning tech and the ghosts, but when you die no-one knows what happens, and there are signs that life is returning to certain places. I just find myself interested in general skullduggery but I find the sheer bleakness of "you die, the world is hosed and getting worse" not especially appealing at this point in time. Would it undercut the themes too much, or would it be appropriate?
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Jul 7, 2020 21:31
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I mean I do like the idea that, if a series of heists goes really badly wrong up and running might be an idea. It'd just take time to prep the next city and get set up there. Would, say, have it so that it goes through phases of extreme growth and for the last decade or so the exterior portions of the dusk have been "lightly" irradiated with plants that grow through your foot and other weirdness? I do like the dome city approach and the general weirdness of the setting, but I always wanted to have the ectoplasm as like "secret government evil" like harvesting people to power things is seen as horrible, and most folks just use electricity like normal. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Jul 7, 2020 21:41
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Wait I'm getting it confused with "melting ghosts down in the electricity" thing.
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Jul 7, 2020 22:44
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Or just have it that murder always leaves a ghost. If you die of old age/ a surfeit of lampreys you are fine, but almost no matter what a violent death leaves a ghost.
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Jul 8, 2020 10:53
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Mhm, the basic feature of "gangs and individuals in them" works really well, and I think could probably be adapted for a whole load more. I think it is why we might end up seeing more BitD hacks over AW hacks.
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Jul 10, 2020 12:19
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Shanty posted:If you do prepared maps in blades they have to be massive and you have to sweep everything off the table dramatically before unrolling them. ZachAttack posted:This is all 100% correct, but you forgot about how you then must dramatically stab a dagger through the map embedding it into the table when you reveal the target of the heist/murder/kidnapping. These are true but only if the heist is going without a hitch. If things go bad it needs to cut to the pepper pot falling over dramatically.
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Oct 13, 2020 22:46
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Is hack the planet any good?
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Oh dear, that is a pity. I have been looking at some of the BitD shadowrun hacks on itch.io because I kind of like the idea of the setting of Shadowrun without the ruleset. Question two, how is "Glow in the Dark" and what is "The Veil"?
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Quick question folks, but has anyone "relocated" blades? By which I mean keeping the mechanics the same but having the setting move from the darkness of Duskvol into another setting? I am not sure if I want to try, but I have had a few ideas about making something and was wondering if there were any examples? Mostly I just keep finding ones where the mechanics have been radically altered instead.
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Lemon-Lime posted:If you want to keep the basic Blades mechanics and just transpose the whole thing to a city you wrote up yourself, you need to remember a few facts about Duskwall which are actually critical parts of the way the game works on a mechanical level: This is very interesting, I'd like to show the few solutions that I have thought of to these thus far: -Just not have an end to the city. The option to run and hide doesn't really apply as much when the state is all around and people can communicate across long distances. Also, does this need to be hard and fast as a rule? Could you just make it so that the cost of running is much much worse than staying and fighting? The loss of what you've built up and all that? - That's fine, the current plan was to already have a bunch of factions already set up as powerbrokers. To ask a slightly deeper question though, is there any recent game that doesn't have there be a huge amount of things to interact with first alongside your own attempts to create something new? Other than dungeon crawlers I don't know if I've ever been in a game that doesn't have some level of this. - I think the thinness of resources is something I need to look at more. - To steal a more "gamey" option just having the police able to contact the other side/ cast "speak with dead" would be a useful option to fall back on. - I had a look at the Whispers moves and the only one that requires a ghost field is "Compel", which can be rewritten to any weird demon thingamajig fairly simply (hopefully). Are there all that many other character or wider options? (leaving aside the Hull, ghost and vamp play books for obvious reasons) Have "attune" just being the generalised "magic sense" does seem possible as well.
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Undead Hippo posted:Except for the ghost stuff. That all needs a rework. This is one of the big things I really dislike about the setting. I know a lot of people like the idea, but I find the whole "all the time ghosts" thing just not my style.
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Midgetskydiver posted:I'm doing a campaign set in a homebrew city and we've downplayed the ghost angle in favor of an "arcane" field. I'm with you- the emphasis on ghosts just doesn't work for me either. Thank you! This is also a great idea and I am probably going to steal it. How has it worked so far for you? See general "arcane" stuff seems to me so much more interesting because it is so much more easily customisable.
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Kumo posted:I thought there were a lot of spin-offs of the Blades system? Oh there are! The conflict resolution system remains the same through all of them. It's just that I don't have an issue with the actual classes or abilities or other sections of "Blades" just mainly ghost lore and things around that. I do like some of the spin-offs, but I'd just like to relocate the majority of Blades as a book, as opposed to starting fresh.
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They are able to let you know that something is very wrong, but you can't quite tell the fact from the fiction?
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Mar 29, 2021 16:10
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Oh poo poo are you playing a Spider?
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Down With People posted:I had just watched the Godfather when we started playing so I couldn't resist the Spider. I always liked the fact that it is a support role for a game that is very weird when it comes to support. How are you finding it btw?
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Dang, when is that out? I missed the kickstarter but that looks right up my alley.
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May 21, 2021 14:04
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The way I'm planning on doing it is not having it set up like a house but set up as a series of challenges. Like if the group choose to approach stealthily then there might be alarms to avoid and patrols. If they approach loud its going to be mooks and the target trying to flee.
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Lemon-Lime posted:We did a post-mortem on the campaign after it ended and I had a bunch of notes which I'd been meaning to write up for this thread, as well, so I took the time to do so just now. Heya I know this is very late, but thanks for this. I've never run a Band of Blades game but it is always something I would love to do at some point, and I wanted to thank you for making this list of hints and tops and telling your story.
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Are there any recent BitD hacks that folks would recommend?
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Bloody hell, hadn't heard anything about that. I'd bought Wiked Ones and was thinking of getting one of the expansions/future stuff but bloody hell.
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At least he released it under CC. Still though, urgh.
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