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 Freedom! Justice! Truth! The flags hang from every window, the river is full of cheering people, everywhere people are flush with victory. That was the world as it should have been. We were supposed to be planning a vital strike against the vile City Council and their oppresive moves across The Dusk. Instead you find yourselves here.  You are in flight, the bluecoats are around every corner, the whistles, the gun shots, you can still remember the faces of those that they dragged away. Will anyone talk? Has anyone sold you out? Where are you running to? All that you do know is this, revolution is coming to The Dusk, one way or another. Welcome to Blades in the Dark, a game based on the Apocalypse World engine. The game has you serving as daring scoundrels, enriching yourselves and living a life of crime in the haunted city of Duskwall. Except that in this case, the main goal is not to enrich yourself... or it isn't just to enrich yourselves. You are playing as Revolutionaries, people striking back at their oppressors and making life hard for all areas of the Dusk that do not understand that change is always coming. You are still living lives on the run and on the move, fighting against all manner of dangerous people, demons and ancient Gods. But you must light the fires of liberty, even if it looks more like a conflagration from up close. If you are new to the game, or just new to tabletop games in general, don't worry I will be on hand to answer any questions. Either post them in this thread, or just ask me over PM's. I have also set up a discord server and will be linking to that once I have some guesses on the number of people that are going to be involved. I am also going to have a provisional date for every session to take place from 1800-2200 every Tuesday but, again, this can be re-arranged as and when people need it.  Please provide the following: A picture of your Character A bit of background, why they are doing what they are doing, where they came from etc Some ideas of what their Duskwall would look like after the Revolution. An idea for an opposing faction that can be added to the game Thank you all very much! Yours Josef
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There are game books, let me post a little bit an example one of them: There are lots of different sorts of scoundrel, in most peoples cases just tell me what sort of person you would like to be and I will recommend one. In this case, this is the "spider" scoundrel. Spiders are people who solve their problems through manipulation, guile and planning ahead. So, how does it work and what does it mean?  See the red highlighted bit? Thats where we put some of the extareneous stuff, what your character looks like, their former job, their name and their alias. It's also got your vice, this can be anything from "help starving orphans" to "snorting powdered demon horn off of an obsidian table". What a "vice" does is let you deal with your stress (also highlighted) which kind of acts like your health when you are in jobs. It's kind of like luck in that you can burn it for cool moves, more dice rolls and not getting your head smashed in.  This red highlighted bit shows the character sheet, all of them have a few special skills which you can choose from. I chose Functioning vice because my character knows how to keep a firm grip on themselves. Alongside that it also lists your "friends/contacts". This might just be a small number of them, or it might be the only people you know in the Dusk. Up to you. Anyone with a upturned triangle is a close friend. Anyone with a highlighted down turned triangle is a rival. In my case Salia helped set us up with contacts in the forming dockers union, whereas riven has refused to do business with me after I used some of his saltpetre to blow a hole in city hall  These are our skills. Anything with a dot next to it represents 1 D6 worth of dice used to solve a problem in that method (I will run through skills in future) but when designing a character you will start off with 3 points in various skills, then you choose 4 more to allocate where you want. Any of the slightly crappy coloured circles are added in, the other 3 came along first. Hope this helps out, do ask if you need more help with character ideas/ what sort of scoundrel you'd like to be. On that note; Your character will almost certainly use the "leech" playbook. What sort of copper would you have been, an inspector or an ordinary grunt? What kind of person is your character, how do they solve problems?
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Feb 23, 2018 23:55
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Miftan posted:Definitely a grunt. Solves problems by hitting stuff in the face/genitals until they're solved. I don't have much compassion for people who oppress others. In which case I would recommend the "cutter" book.  Here we go, have a quick look over it and I can help run through some things! Undead Hippo posted:Keir Long- the Spider Sounds good, just as a quick thing but what was your background, were you always a revolutionary or did you start off learning a trade of some kind? Also, do you have any ideas for characters you can trust/ get on with, or ones you are actively feuding with? Antilles posted:Portrait This also looks grand! Though it will be interesting to see where the voices lead you! Firos posted:
This all sounds excellent, the only problem is that "sharpshooter" has changed a bit, it now reads as :You can push yourself to do one of the following make a ranged attack at extreme distance beyond what’s normal for the weapon—unleash a barrage of rapid fire to suppress the enemy That and, I am afraid that you can only go up to 2 dice dots on a starting character. The idea is really good though and I am really interested to find out more! Also seems good! Just as a quick thing if you could put days you would like this to run in bold at the bottom of your apps that would be awesome! Thank you all for the great apps, will keep the applications open for about another week (maybe 2) but please do spread this around and anyone who is just watching please let me know over PMs. Thanks!
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Feb 26, 2018 15:31
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CourValant posted:Name: Callista Ophélie LeClair (age 19) Would you like to consider either the Lurk- https://bladesinthedark.com/sites/default/files/sheets/blades_sheets_v8_2_Lurk.pdf Or Slide- https://bladesinthedark.com/sites/default/files/sheets/blades_sheets_v8_2_Slide.pdf as an option? I mean probably the lurk would fit better, but I just wanted to confirm! Also, don't worry at all, I haven't played much blades, but I want to trial it out and everyone is being super cool about it at the moment! Undead Hippo posted:Items aren't done during character creation, the list represents everything you can reasonably and easily get hold of. At the beginning of a mission you choose load level, which roughly corresponds to how suspicious you look. You can pick any item from your item list as needed, until you run out of load. After that, you're locked in for the rest of the mission. Thanks very much for the background info and the explanation. Yes "load" is usually decided on before a job and is based on if you want to go out "loaded for bear" or if you want to blend in with your fellow citizens. As a quick thing, I have a copy of the "Radicals" playbook, but I am making some changes to it as it is very much based on earlier ideas of what the game would look like. I will get it posted within the next few days! (link to the playbook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0IrYKSJRl46bTNTZklQSWpuMFE/view) In particular I am thinking of replacing some of the special abilities with things closer to the "Vigilanties" specialist set-up because as is the Radicals book is both painfully generic and also kind of shite at modelling revolutionary things. For instance. We are going to have Protected Ground to start with, this work's as follows; Your crew is brand new, but you have chosen some small part of a district as your protected grounds. This is the area that you have pledged to keep safe, and you know it well. The area is small, only three or four city blocks—but it’s still an intrusion on someone. The GM will tell you about two factions which have been impacted by your presence: One faction is pleased you are keeping the peace. Take +2 status with them. One faction is threatened by your presence. Take -2 status with them. Choose your preferred methods to keep these places safe: Uniting: Connecting your community together to fight. Interference: Disrupting Counter-Revolutionary operations. Resistance: Defying oppressive laws and customs. Terror: Intimidating your enemies. When you prepare to execute an operation of your preferred type in your protected grounds, you get +1d to any gather information rolls and a free additional downtime activity to contribute to that operation. This can help you discover an opportunity, acquire an asset you might need for the job, find an appropriate target, etc. When you acquire a claim you also expand the size and/or type of your protected grounds. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Feb 27, 2018 |
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Feb 26, 2018 23:53
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CourValant posted:Please let me know if there is anything else I need to do to finish character creation; should I fill out the character sheet, pick equipment, allies, foes, roll for anything, etc.? No need to roll anything, or pick equipment, but just do as others have done, look at the sheet and see what you would like to be able to do. For what skills do look at page 26 of this document: https://bladesinthedark.com/sites/default/files/blades_playerkit_v8_2.pdf Also it looks as if we may have every single last playbook covered, which makes for a rather nice spread!
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Feb 27, 2018 00:22
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Current plan, based on what people have been responding with, is to have it on Discord at 1800-2200 GMT on a Wednesday. However, if people would prefer Play by post instead that is also fine, it's more the fact that personal experience teaches me unless things are planned out there ends up being a lot of waiting around.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:31
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Okay so current votes go as follows: Tuesday-Discord Rumda Undead Hippo Wednesday-Discord Miftan Firos Antilles Undead Hippo PBP CourValant Okay I think I still need to hear from Sullat about timings, but does anyone want to make any other recommendations? I am more than happy to do this as PbP if that is easiest for everyone. Thanks!
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Mar 1, 2018 09:52
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Hey that sounds good to me, anyone else want to confirm?
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Mar 9, 2018 08:44
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CourValant posted:So, no PbP then? Guess I'll take my leave. Afraid not. Sorry CourValant!
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Mar 9, 2018 22:35
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https://discord.gg/gegQA3 I think this should be able to work!
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Okay everyone, I wanted to ask who can make what days this week as I remember some people can't make the last Wednesday of the month. I can do most days except Sunday, but I'd like to hear if anyone else needs other times. Will also be posting this in the Discord so that everyone sees!
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