The Desperate and the Daring: A Blades in the Dark Campaign
Seek your fortune and build a legacy as a daring scoundrel in a haunted industrial-fantasy city.
$20.00
/ Session
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Weekly / Tuesday - 5:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3 hours
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About the adventure
Steal from the rich, assassinate the powerful, summon otherworldly horrors, and make your enemies fear the very mention of your name in this narrative-driven campaign set in a haunted city at the height of its industrial revolution. Play as a criminal, leveraging your stress to pull daring scores and make enough coin to see you living a life of luxury before your traumas catch up to you. Build a legacy by growing your crew from handful of criminals trying to make it through the next day to a city-wide enterprise with fingers in all of the pies. Blades in the Dark offers a system for quickly planning your score, leveraging the fiction to allow your creativity free-reign, encouraging teamwork, working with and against factions, and mechanics for building, running and improving your crew.
Game style
West Marches
Theater of the Mind
Realm Building
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(26)
3 years on StartPlaying
424 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Teacher
About me
Hi, I'm Sara from Cape Town, South Africa and I'd love to play some RPGs with you. I began my TTRPG adventure by running the AGE system for some friends at the start of 2020, and then adding D&D 5e, Blades in The Dark, Numenera and Pathfinder to my wheelhouse, with most of my games now being run in D&D 5e. Running games in a variety of systems has given me a larger number of tools to draw from when playing. I love learning new techniques and adding them to my GM-style if they make the game better for my players. Growing up in a country with 11 official languages and all of the many cultures those represent, living with chronic illness, and having a background in education (10-13 year olds) has given me an appreciation for providing accessibility options and embracing diversity at my table.
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Creating your character
I will help you make your first character using the rules from both the Blades in the Dark handbook and its expansion, Deep Cuts. Pre-made characters will be available.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a Discord account and a microphone set-up ahead of time.
What Sara brings to the table
I will provide you will detailed maps of the city of Doskvol, detailed and simplified rules documents and setting information.
Homebrew rules
I am using all of the rules from the Deep Cuts expansion, besides Threat Rolls.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Sara creates a safe table
You will be able to make use of safety cards in Foundry VTT. There will be a break roughly halfway through each session.
Content warnings
Safety tools used