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Tag: Blades in the Dark
A fantasy game by John Harper, published by Evil Hat Productions in 2017.
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Blades in the dark
IN SHORT… I have a complex relationship to BitD. It’s the game that made me “rediscover” RPGs after a long hiatus, in a long 20-session campaign that I ran as a GM without having ever played the game as a player… Along the way, I can say that I didn’t always run it as intended,…
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Suddenly, You Get Choked
I’ve been hit by a roleplaying memory from a few years ago while discussing Blades in the Dark with an acquaintance. I was playing Scum and Villainy, which is a space-opera/western themed game based on Blades in the Dark. The two games are, rule-by-rule, extremely similar, but that doesn’t make them the same game. Also, this…
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Ghosts of Coalridge – a Polish game from a Polish channel
Ron told me that I should post something on Adept Play – even if it’s in Polish!And while I’m still skeptical as to whether that’s a good idea, I’m happy to oblige.So, all the videos are in Polish, while I’ll try to provide some context in English, for those who’re interested in the entire thing.…
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Keeping them all together.
During one of my consulting sessions, I told Ron one of my major design concerns regarding my current project is the concept of interdependence: it’s a game about a group of people fighting things that should be well beyond the possibilities of the common human being. How do they do this? I want one of the…
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Thoughts about Blades in the Dark
This post is about our experience with Blades in the Dark. The cool things, the problems we run with and the dialectics with the player's psychology. Prelude So, I got a bunch of old roleplaying friends. One of them is working in a public game library, I don't know if it exists in other countries,…
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Monday Lab: Roll to Know
Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn’t help myself, it’s been only two days and here you go. The reason is nothing less than an impressive meeting…
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Monday Lab: [AA]IIEE[EE]!
Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect – fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it “the beating heart of role-playing.” Briefly: design zone 1 is to establish a linear order and then to carry…