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A few questions, settingwise, on BITD: 1. The Dagger Isles are all imperial, right? 2. Deathlands presumably aren't immediately fatal but are perilous. If you were planning a mission outside the city walls, just how bad is it? Is it just dark and full of demon-wolves or is it actively toxic? 3. Reading, there's no public recourse to governance at all, is there? This is partly from the Radicals playbook, but having a friend on the council means you've swayed/blackmailed a noble family; there's no way of getting one of "your guys" on the council?
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DalaranJ posted:You could do a quick read of ghost lines on John’s website for a little more clarity on this. There's mention of "Choking fog" and the fact Bulls wear breather masks, so it seems likely that the deathlands are actually actively toxic even if you feel like trying your luck outside the walls.
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Apr 8, 2018 09:29
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Shockeh posted:It's a fairly obvious, pretty hand-waved 'Look, you can go out there, but in general, players are not supposed to, so explain to them you can expect to probably die out there'. The thing is it is relevant to the Smugglers and is relevance-adjacent to Cults and Hawkers.
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Apr 8, 2018 09:48
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Lemon-Lime posted:I mean, it's intended to keep play in the city (it's a toxic, barren wasteland so you can't actually escape the city for long), but we also know enough about the deathlands that "find a maintenance gate to deathwalk from neighbourhood A to B via the outside" is a totally viable plan. The ghosts and the toxic air that requires pressurised, powered breathing apparatuses are just things that you can make clocks out of. Yeah, for sure, I just wasn't sure from reading if it was a case that it's literally toxic or if it was mad max. I got my answer to that from Ghost Lines, I just couldn't find out much in the book.
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Apr 8, 2018 10:21
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I'm not sure why in an industry that's spent years being functionally a hobby for a significant proportion of it, people are surprised or shocked that it's partly a hobby.Subjunctive posted:Support it with his efforts? idgi He liked the games other people made so he wrote stuff for them for free. He's asked other people, several of whom he's done so before, to do the same for him. This is what a hobbyist industry looks like. Look at how internet artists, even ones who work for commission, draw fanart or bonus works of each other's characters because they like the design.
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May 28, 2018 15:36
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Flavivirus posted:Funnily enough one of my Legacy 2 stretch goal writers said they were wondering why John Harper never responded to their pitch for a BitD stretch goal, but now they realise their crucial mistake was asking what the rates were. Okay, that's pretty dodgy.
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May 30, 2018 18:38
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admanb posted:Marielda is a good arc but it's an unusual example of Blades because they are so bad at it. I'm curious how you mean? Or, do you mean how the players keep forgetting they have flashbacks and failing to come up with good engagement plans? Because, fair.
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Dec 5, 2018 22:20
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SkySteak posted:Just posting here as I realized that I'm asking questions in the TG Chat far more relevant for this own thread! I was told that the spin off for BiTD, Scum & Villainy can be essentially standalone to the original BiTD book. Would it be wise however to attempt to run a game of S&V without having touched BiTD itself? Part of me feels like just skipping the original book is potentially risking skipping a lot of context and understanding, but perhaps I am wrong! It's its own game and line using the same core mechanics. You're no more missing out on BITD than you would be missing out on Apocalypse World by playing The Sprawl or something.
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Jan 27, 2019 14:13
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Glazius posted:Ehhhhh. I think the Sprawl does a good job of explaining itself and it's intended mode of play, though, which is one of the reasons I went for that.
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Jan 28, 2019 20:11
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Okay, so, stumbled on the turf/claim rules. I didn't appreciate that turf and claims are (maybe?) totally seperate things, but on a closer re-read, they seem to be; the segment on Claims notes "some claims count as turf", suggesting they're not the same. But, I'm also not sure how to acquire turf, since it's noted to be "a way you can expand", but the process for taking claims is it's own thing for claims specifically that turf doesn't seem to reference? Basically, is the intent that turf is a subset of claims, or is turf it's own seperate thing?
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Feb 3, 2019 17:08
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Yeah, I think Blades does explain itself a lot better than most games; there's just a lot of internalised D&D out there. Most people don't learn D&D from the book, remember; most people get taught it by friends. But, yeah, blades SUPER likes to have a map, even if it's just a sketch. Having the information needed to play the game in front of people is more important in Blades than most games, IMO.
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Jan 20, 2020 21:20
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My opinion on the FatT Blades game was that Austin went in loving hard whenever someone had consequences to suffer; your personal judgement on how much risk is in a roll and how much resistance deals with it matters a lot!
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Apr 27, 2020 19:41
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tokenbrownguy posted:Blades PCs are durable as hell. If the MC moderates their punches, they'll have little trouble rebounding. There's "moderating the punches" and there's the Marielda thing where failed rolls lead to total collapse of everything all the time, to be fair. I love Marielda but Austin went in hard.
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Apr 27, 2020 20:26
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I'll vouch for maps; I think it's much easier for players to have a sense of where things are in relation to each other with a map; without you can get a bit confusing.
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Oct 16, 2020 19:58
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The confusion comes in with the "You can use foo (but bar might be better)" examples. Where actions have semeingly overlapping remits it's often inobvious why one might be better and cases in good faith could be made for several skills. From that point of view compressing the list helps.
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to go back to wicked ones imploding - did the undead book ever come out or is that gone forever now?
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