![]() ![]() At the time of gameday this past weekend, the players ended playing mostly healers, and the amount of hilarity ensued, but their first session was something different from what they used to playing and overall enjoyed the experience.īefore my RPG concoction, someone else combined the classic fantasy tropes of iconic games (like D&D) and incorporated their spin to the Blades in the Dark ruleset (thanks to the OGL/SRD) called Blades Against the Darkness. The players were excited about this game and didn’ t know what to expect. Mechanically, the players would create character sheets for characters they would not be playing and would swap at the start of play. I wanted to incorporate the light-hearted narrative of movies such as Ocean’s Eleven or the Italian Job but some of the complexity such as shows like Leverage. As a bonus, I threw in the complication that the characters in a previous heist job found a magic artifact, but it caused the characters’ souls to swap into different bodies. The pitch was that the players’ characters were all hired thieves, con artists, cutthroats, and glamors trying to make a name for themselves in the city of Lastil-Taswell. I pitched several different campaigns and story ideas and finally, the players voted for a heist-style D&D game featuring an iconic city the party had visited at the tail end of Season 2 and half of Season 3 of our gameplay. So my players and I decided to take a break from our main storyline Team BAJA, and ultimately we decided to run a D&D mini-campaign. While it’s not required but heavily suggested, as reading material, make sure to grab a copy of Blades in the Dark as I will referencing many of this jargon and mechanics. I did my best to marry them while adapting my twist on the mechanics to create a sort of Ocean’s Eleven narrative but with the chaos brought through Dungeons & Dragons with the structure provided by Blades in the Dark. ![]() I realized there was an opportunity to incorporate some of beautiful mechanics of Blades into D&D. But as luck would have it, my players decided to take a short break from our Adventures of Team BAJA D&D game. For a while, I have always wanted to run a game of Blades in the Dark but never found the opportunity to do so. ![]() I fell in love with John Harper’s Blades in the Dark, an RPG of thieves & misfits where the city itself is the greatest adversary. ![]()
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