Hold the Second Wave
Does anyone care to share how they handled the Skydagger Keep mission Hold the second wave? I’m trying to make sense of how to handle the 10-clock Chosen/Broken battle and how it affects or is...
View ArticleThe Kickers: Tier 1 street gang in Charhollow
As long as I wrote this up, I figured someone else might find it useful. Notes: The Black Lions are a similar street gang in The Sheets, western Charhollow; Chael is the head. The Hive are more like...
View ArticlePact with a shadow demon cloak
A demon imbued artefact can grant its wielder arcane powers. ARCANE ABILITIES The Shadow Demon starts at strength 0 and with its hunger clock filled. This signifies it is at its weakest. No matter its...
View ArticleNew Starting situations
I´ve run 2 short campaigns and 2 oneshots of blades in the dark. My problem is that between the different groups there have been some players that participated in all of them. This results in Duskwall...
View ArticleBlades in the Dark Dice
I’ve seen photos online of custom Blades in the Dark dice. Where can I purchase these, please? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleThe Community site has been restored
Thank you for your patience while I worked to bring the Community site back to life. It had to be restored from a backup, so there is a possibility that some messages/posts are lost. If you encounter...
View ArticleCity Of Red Waters released
Happened while the community site was down but City Of Red Waters is finally complete and available to the public. Evilhat store: https://evilhat.com/product/city-of-red-waters/ DriveThruRpg:...
View ArticleBlades in the Dark SRD site now has a Patreon
Hello Scoundrels. As you may know, the Blades in the Dark SRD site has had some issues in recent months, which are all fixed now. To help prevent issues and expand the site, I’ve started a Patreon...
View ArticleThe Chosen's role during the campaign
My first attempt at running the campaign’s reached the High Road, and I’ve started to think a little more deeply about how, in this take on the campaign, the Chosen worked (or didn’t work) alongside...
View ArticleReconciled: how it works?
Hello blades! So, one of my characters intends to become a full adept of the Path of Echoes and to “host” (more or less permanently) a ghost of the Reconciled, via ritual preparation. So I was...
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Uptime monitoring is now active on the Blades in the Dark site and community
I’ve done a fair amount of work on the backend so the site won’t have outages again but this monitoring will immediately notify me when there are issues. Thanks to everyone who has supported the new...
View ArticleWhat Forged in the Dark games should be added to the list on...
I want to list more Forged in the Dark games on the official Blades website, on the Forged in the Dark page. What games do you want to see listed? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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What type of gang do you lead? - Gang personality quiz
There is an online BitD gang personality test: https://lucas-c.github.io/blades-in-the-dark-what-kind-of-gang-are-you/ This quiz is designed for players to answer it collectively by the players, in...
View ArticleUsing Blades in the Dark to develop NPC Adversaries?
So I’m currently running an Ars Magica Campaign set in the time of the first Crusade. I’m running with a single player who rose through the ranks and carved out the Frankish Principality of Damascus,...
View ArticleOne Shot Mechanic: Changing XP to Tokens to use Special Abilities
Hey, there. I’m thinking about introducing a special mechanic for A Fistful of Darkness one-shots and I would like to hear your opinion / thoughts about this. It’s not specific for aFoD and it may be...
View Articleabout coin rewards in BitD
Hello! So, an year ago, I gamemoderated about 10 sessions of BitD and while I loved the result, some of my players didn’t. There was two things though that I maybe got wrong and I’m still thinking...
View ArticleWhat is the hardest part of Blades in the Dark to understand? I'm gathering...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-is-hardest-99988526 I’m putting together a Blades in the Dark actual play that teaches the game as we play the game. Instead of watching a lecture, I want to teach...
View ArticleWhen should PC's lose Items?
Greetings scoundrels, Revisiting Blades after a hiatus, and while reviewing notes from a previous session I came across a somewhat intense discussion with some of my players, regarding items and...
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BitD OC Illustrations
Some Duskvol Impressions painted by me First of all a huge thank you to John Harper and Evilhat Productions for that awesome game and also to the community for all that great extra content. My Game...
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Even more Duskvol Art
Here are some more Duskvol illustrations I painted 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleGoogle Sheet Character Keeper on Steroids :)
Happy day folks! I’m happy to report that based on player feedback v12 of the Virtual Play Toolbox is out your input is greatly welcomed! What’s new: ● Added Unquiet Dead playbooks (Ghost, Hull, &...
View ArticleMajor update to Deathlands Score Kit
Happy day all! version 4 of the Dealthlands Score Kit is out and it is a major revision. It adds an entirely new theater to play in: The Lost District. This theater has its own set of random tables...
View ArticleGooglesheet to help you play BoB
This googlesheet helps you keep track of your Council, individual troopers, clocks, notes, record safety tool info, and even can roll dice :)....
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Looking for a cool vintage font?
Look here. Free vintage looking font. Very blady, I think https://pixelbuddha.net/fonts/architoria-vintage-victorian-font-free-download 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleChangeing password
I want to change my password. I went to the profile security page, and clicked the button to send an email to change my password. I got a message saying “Outgoing email has been disabled for non-staff...
View ArticleMaking Headquarters More Significant
I’m currently working on crew designs for my Soulbank hack (derived from Hello, World with the @umbralAeronaut 's blessing) which takes place in a virtual simulation, and one thought I’m entertaining...
View ArticleDoes the Forged in the Dark license extend to video games?
Does the Forged in the Dark license only cover tabletop roleplaying games, or could I create a video game using it? To be clear, I’m not talking about making an adaptation of Blades (or any other...
View ArticleBlades VTT support
Bag of mapping has released support for Blades in the Dark and is looking for feedback. No downloads, no modules, no login required to take it for a spin. just go to bagofmapping.com and start a map....
View ArticleFan Broken: Keeper - (Wormkeeper, The Master, The Parasite, or The Host)
For those wanting to inject a little ‘Resident Evil 4’ into their Band of Blades campaigns, below’s a full writeup for a homebrew parasitic Broken “Keeper” - using the same format found in the BoB...
View ArticlePotential Agon Jam
Hey everyone - I’m thinking of running an Agon Jam this fall, in the timeframe of Oct - Nov, and I wanted to put some feelers to gauge interest. If you don’t know, an Agon Jam is basically a...
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