Wow I feel silly. Thanks so much! Really cool of you to go out of your way to help my dumb butt. This looks like an incredible game! Thanks for all your hard work to give us a great experience!
I know it's a long shot, but are there versions of the PDFs that are editable in Illustrator? I would love to modify the maps of Duskwall to fit my own fantasy city, but importing the documents to Illustrator totally breaks the formatting.
This is genuinely one of the best TTRPGs ever made, and it speaks to me on so many levels. Big fan, bought the book, money well spent.
No, there aren't any directly editable versions of the maps. The full-page maps in the Player's Kit (https://bladesinthedark.com/downloads) are vector-based, and you can get to the "parts" in AI, but yeah, the formatting of text gets turned to outlines.
An imagintive world in a dark, foreboding style rarely seen. (The game does cite the Dishonoured video games as an influence.) The mechanics are simple, so if you have imaginative group of new to TTRPG players this could be the ideal game. You do not need to go in with detailed plans, you need to be prepared to take a lot of notes as both the GM and players .
Also check out its space opera sibling, Scum and Villany.
I figured that I'd throw up a comment and say that this probably my favorite game to GM of all time. The book is written expertly, and gives the GM tons of mechanics to sink into that make GMing super easy and low prep compared to a lot of games (Looking at you, DnD). It's powered by the apocalypse, and as such, it runs well via online play.
Even if you don't think you can sell your players on the theme, check the game out anyway, there's tons of awesome stuff to crib for your other games (the concept of clocks, downtime action suggestions, steal a whole faction if you wanna)
I just wanted to say thank you for contributing to the bundle, John! I've wanted to check out Blades for a long time, and this gave me the perfect excuse to dive in. All the best!
Hi! Just picked this up in the bundle, and I'm excited to check it out. Would you say it works with online play? And if so do you think it would require roll20/FG or just work over discord?
I've run it over Zoom and I think it generally works well. It's not reliant on specific positioning or maps as some other games, so it works well online with minimal tooling.
Thanks, John. For this awesome game, and for contributing to the bundle. My friends and I just started playing a crew last weekend. There's no doubt we'll all donate to this great cause.
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Hi John, I got the Bundle for Racial Equality, and I found this title in the list of products. How do I claim this? Thanks!
Go to the bundle page: https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality then click the "Download" button, then on the next screen, "Search by title" to get to Blades in the Dark.
Wow I feel silly. Thanks so much! Really cool of you to go out of your way to help my dumb butt. This looks like an incredible game! Thanks for all your hard work to give us a great experience!
I know it's a long shot, but are there versions of the PDFs that are editable in Illustrator? I would love to modify the maps of Duskwall to fit my own fantasy city, but importing the documents to Illustrator totally breaks the formatting.
This is genuinely one of the best TTRPGs ever made, and it speaks to me on so many levels. Big fan, bought the book, money well spent.
No, there aren't any directly editable versions of the maps. The full-page maps in the Player's Kit (https://bladesinthedark.com/downloads) are vector-based, and you can get to the "parts" in AI, but yeah, the formatting of text gets turned to outlines.
All good. Thank you so much for the personal reply! Again, this is a really wonderful collection of rules. Absolutely love it.
An imagintive world in a dark, foreboding style rarely seen. (The game does cite the Dishonoured video games as an influence.) The mechanics are simple, so if you have imaginative group of new to TTRPG players this could be the ideal game. You do not need to go in with detailed plans, you need to be prepared to take a lot of notes as both the GM and players .
Also check out its space opera sibling, Scum and Villany.
I figured that I'd throw up a comment and say that this probably my favorite game to GM of all time. The book is written expertly, and gives the GM tons of mechanics to sink into that make GMing super easy and low prep compared to a lot of games (Looking at you, DnD). It's powered by the apocalypse, and as such, it runs well via online play.
Even if you don't think you can sell your players on the theme, check the game out anyway, there's tons of awesome stuff to crib for your other games (the concept of clocks, downtime action suggestions, steal a whole faction if you wanna)
I just wanted to say thank you for contributing to the bundle, John! I've wanted to check out Blades for a long time, and this gave me the perfect excuse to dive in. All the best!
Hi! Just picked this up in the bundle, and I'm excited to check it out. Would you say it works with online play? And if so do you think it would require roll20/FG or just work over discord?
I've run it over Zoom and I think it generally works well. It's not reliant on specific positioning or maps as some other games, so it works well online with minimal tooling.
Yep! It works well online, and the Roll20 character sheets are very good.
Thanks, John. For this awesome game, and for contributing to the bundle. My friends and I just started playing a crew last weekend. There's no doubt we'll all donate to this great cause.