#bandofblades — Public Fediverse posts

I'm so busy recently running #BandOfBlades and catching up on other RPG stuff that I don't have time to engage neither here not on my blog. I'm also detoxing myself from short form content which means I retract even more from Discord and end up even less connected with larger hobby.

I'm quite happe though, I finally have a mind to not be bored by essays and other long form media.

ale powiem wam, że smartfony to zło. Jak sobie poważnie ograniczyłem użycie to się okazało, że całkiem dużo mogę myśleć i zastanawiać się o rzeczach erpegowych, tak jak obecna kampania w #BandOfBlades czy moje niezbyt konkretne plany na Blades in the Sand czy inne luźne projekty

okay, starting mission of #BandOfBlades done. We were split between taking Shreya or Zora as our Chosen but in the end my vote elected Shreya, the Chosen of healing goddess. I basically imagined our game to be around Zora or The Horned One so to challenge myself I took the other option. As for the Broken we play with the setup I planned from the start - bodyhorror of Blighter and totalotarian horror of Render. We took psychological horror of Breaker out.

Ayer jugamos la sesión 17 de Band of Blades. Resistiendo al ejército del Rey Quemado. Mucho más que una partida de rol. #lodelrol #bandofblades #ttrpg

I'm free again! I finally finished months long campaign of #BarkeepOnTheBorderland with #TroikaRPG

It was thirteen sessions, due to some questionable decisions early on it was shorter than it could've been but I'm not mad. It was fun but again I find myself at odds with buying adventures when I still need to do the heavy lifting.

Now I'm free to be a player in someone else's game (#ApocalypseWorld) and then I'll probably host grim military drama of #BandOfBlades

@Imperor oh I have a lot. What system
/world do you want. In #shadowrun we had a lowtech gang and a pirate campaign. In #hunter I wrote an hurt spirit in a small USA town. In my own rpg #MAGUN i let my players be conquered nobels leading a rebellion in the region. In #DnD I liked the „beyond the wichlight” book. (My only campaign I did not wrote by my self) and I liked the #bandofblades campaign (I was player here). We played a more regional mod.

considering for my group it takes six sessions of #BarkeepOnTheBorderlands to get to first half of first day (out of six!) I need to adjust my predictions. People said it takes around eight sessions for the whole adventure!

I guess our #BandOfBlades will take more than predicted 12-16.

Final del sabroso "aperitivo" de #BandofBlades que dirigió con precisión quirúrgica @tatxu.bsky.social, en el que nos mostró a @regik.bsky.social, @kaoticaeris.bsky.social, @d4niello.bsky.social y a mi de lo que es capaz este Forged in the Dark de gran escala. Exigente pero muy satisfactorio. #rol

@herrold Band of Blades, a descendant of Blades in the Dark, has an entire strategic level role devoted to maintaining arms and material for the army as a whole, which you are playing. Long-term projects can even develop entirely new forms of weapon or defense, as well as concentrate on maintaining the quality of arms available.

Much like Ironsworn, you can have complications that arise from partial successes that you interpret to mean a failure of equipment.

B.O.B. generally shifts the focus of such things to the wider scope of the whole army, which makes it less tedious to deal with...because that portion of the game is specifically segmented for that sort of thing.

https://evilhat.com/product/band-of-blades/

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@auguryignored Two immediately come to mind.

Band of Blades has it very intricately embedded in the game loop with long-term research, and it does so surprisingly well. It's an important part of gameplay as the protagonists are part of an army on the losing end of a fight, marching effectively a forced retreat. And they have to improve their weaponry, create new alchemic support, and simultaneously figure out more about what's going on.

https://evilhat.com/product/band-of-blades/

While most of the Forged in the Dark ( #FitD ) lineage involves a long-term research/construction system, Band of Blades really integrates it into the course of play in a way that is intimate and almost a necessity.

#TTRPG #BandOfBlades

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@btravern One could, and I would argue that is a war game mechanic that has an excellent position within the luddic space. The obvious derivative of this is to make character ownership not a one-to-one relationship anymore; you have a group of characters under your control/command, and they are "your character." This also gives you significantly more flexibility when it comes to signaling dangerous gameplay experiences in terms of potential death.

I would definitely suggest looking at Band of Blades to see a fine example of that in action.

https://evilhat.com/product/band-of-blades/

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@konahart I'm afraid we're going to need a fair amount more information than that to help out much. In particular, which specific instantiation of the rules are you using?

For example, in Blades in the Dark, you would probably do it with a combination of Sway, Consort, and Flashbacks, blended together in a lovely smoothie.

Conversely, if I'm playing Starforged it's generally going to be a Gather Information or Compel move – and still might involve throwing down a flashback just for the joy of it all.

If we go all the way back to Apocalypse World, then what you want is to read a charged situation (Read a Stitch), which lets you ask the MC questions directly.

If we fast-forward to Band of Blades there are a ton of examples of how to use Research.

So you're going to have to be more explicit and specific.

(Honestly, sitting around doing research is not really the mode for playing PbtA games. At least not modern ones. It's less intrusive and more effective to get into the meat, get into the play, and then use flashbacks to deal with HAVING researched the thing that's currently opposing you.)

#PbtA #TTRPG #BitD #Ironsworn #BandOfBlades #AW

We finished my first campaign of @evilhatofficial's Band of Blades, a TTRPG about a company of mercenaries on a fighting withdrawal from an army of the undead. I've been eager to try troupe-play for decades, and this game let us be the command structure, the specialists, or rookies, exchanging characters as the need arose. The mechanics for logistics and morale kept the tension high, especially on that final run toward safety. We barely made it. #TTRPG #BandOfBlades #ForgedInTheDark #FitD

@taichara Have you seen Band of Blades (https://offguardgames.itch.io/band-of-blades)? While the mechanical lineage comes through FitD, it is surprisingly crunchy on the strategic management of warfare side of things. But sadly – no solo rules, or I might be playing it even this very moment.

(A lot of FitD games can be played solo with just a little bit of automated GM – but this is not one of them. There's enough going on that you really want four people at the table, minimum. Otherwise it's fantastic.)

#TTRPG #BandOfBlades

#RPGaDAY2023
[31] Obviously, there is no such thing as a favourite RPG OF ALL TIMES, because people change.
But I nominate #BandOfBlades . I don’t know if I’ll ever play it again – but I’ll probably annoy everyone for the next decades by talking about how awesome it is. ^^

@Bartimaeus Bei uns hat's (meiner Meinung nach) vier Sitzungen gebraucht, bis das Ganze lief. Wobei sich eine Szene, von der unser GM immer noch schwärmt, schon davor ereignet hat. #BandOfBlades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8T-c4_sTGU&list=PLJdf5CrImXUmVgMJ3fY53cdKaWfo66rXQ&index=28

#RPGaDAY2023
[23] Coolest looking RPG book … so, today is #MörkBorg day, right? I never played it nor am I especially interested, but it’s the first to come to mind. Great #coffeetable RPG.
But actually … most RPG books I own are beautiful. If they were not; I wouldn’t have bought a physical copy.
#Spire #Agon #BitD #BandOfBlades Engel

@awinnef Bei Wicked Ones werden sie das flexible Magiesystem so viel mehr lieben ;-)

- #Spire
- #HotSpringsIsland
- Eine West Marches-Kampagne probieren
- #BandOfBlades
- #SwordsAndWizardry #YoonSuin
- #KoenigreichDerDornen für #SavageHeXXen
- #LegendsOfTheFiveRings ggf. aber mit #SavageWorlds
- #Dolmenwood vermutlich mit #SwordsAndWizardry, weil es mein Retroklon daheim ist.
- GDQ Kampagne
- #Deadlands
- #EyesOfTheStoneThief entweder mit #SwordsAndWizardry oder #SavageWorlds :D

My #RPGaDay #RPGaDay2023 catchup continues - 3 first game bought this year.

It was #BandOfBlades , #FitD game. I was enhancing my own Warhammer Fantasy #FitD #hack and found out that Band of Blades had some kind of corruption mechanic as well, so I wanted to check it out.

Seems like an interesting game overall. Maybe I should test it out some day :)

#TTRPG #BladesInTheDark #WFRP #WarhammerFantasyRoleplay

#RPGaDAY2023
[8] Not my favourite char of all times, but one that really surprised me:
She was the bandit queen from #BandOfBlades , the antagonist of a special mission, but we recruited her and someone had to play her.
I volunteered unenthusiastically, but then it clicked. The char just WORKED, though it was very much out of my comfort zone. She was more of a comic relief character, and I’m usually not a big fan of those.
I’m still fascinated, because I don’t know what made her different.

After nearly a year, we finished our #BandOfBlades #campaign and this is our result. #Spoiler #Thread #pnpde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6p6PBRUFvg&list=PLJdf5CrImXUmVgMJ3fY53cdKaWfo66rXQ
We took the northern route over the mountains. Our Chosen was #Shreya, our Broken were #Blighter and #Breaker.
We spend a very long time in #Plainsworth preparing for the mountains (four or five rounds, I think) and only left when the mayor of the city betrayed us because he was blackmailed by the Broken.

Panyar Heavy talking to freshly promoted Orite Officer, nickname „hummingbird”
Heavy: “So … hummingbird … is this a big dangerous bird?”
Officer laughs: “Not exactly. It’s very small and colorful. It can easily be mistaken for a butterfly. But it’s super fast and it has a long, pointed beak – just like my rapier!”
Heavy: “Oh, than it’s a good name for you.”
#pnpde #BandOfBlades

Unsere Legion ist auf #Skydagger Keep vorgerückt. Nächste Woche dann Finale!
#BandOfBlades #pnpde

200 Folgen #BandOfBlades #ActualPlay !
Wir sind gerade in Fort #Calisco angekommen, aber wir haben noch ein bis zwei Dinge zu erledigen, bevor wir nach #Skydagger Keep weiterziehen können.
Ich schätze, insgesamt werden es knapp 250 Folgen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3QU4XaESY&t=630s

@moonmoth Hey cool, dann hatten wir für unser #BandOfBlades #ActualPlay das perfekte Timing, wenn die Übersetzung schon so weit ist.
Dann haben die Leute, wenn es rauskommt, schon ein deutschsprachiges Actual Play, wo sie sich anschauen können, wie sich das System in der Praxis spielt.

Die #InnCon2023 gestern war ziemlich cool. Habe am Vormittag #BandOfBlades geleitet und wieder vier Spielern mehr die Großartigkeit von #FitD Systemen nahegebracht. ; )
Außerdem viele alte und neue Freunde getroffen.

The 2020 Blades in the Dark bundle was resurrected @ Bundle of Holding!
And again, I am a humble member of the glorious group of my ancestors as far as Forged in the Dark is concerned (theres Blades itself, Band of Blades, Scum & Villainy, Hack the Planet, Glow in the Dark, and more!)

... and Fistful of Darkness (of course!)
Check it out:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Blades2022

#bladesinthedark #forgedinthedark #fitd #aFoD #bandofblades #scumandvillainy #hacktheplanet #glowinthedark

Jumping on the bandwagon!

Currently Running: #Dolmenwood #OldSchoolEssentials #WildSea

Currently Playing: #Ironsworn #Starforged (Solo game)

Most Played: #OldSchoolEssentials #DnD #SavageWorlds

Want to Try: More #PBTA, #Knave 2e, #WizardsAndTheWastes, #BubbleGumshoe

Want to Return To: #MausRitter, #BandOfBlades, #TheOneRing

@haedor war erst unsicher, da ich verschiedene Meinungen hörte, aber da wir jetzt Wicked Ones als #FitD Spiel spielen, bin ich überzeugt, dass #BladesInTheDark, #Brinkwood und #BandOfBlades etwas für mich sein könnte :)

This is fun and I said I would try to post more on here. That #ttrpg 5 things running and want to play thing.

Last 5 played:
#bladesinthedark (weekly)
#faterpg (monthly)
#boldlygo (Star Trek inspired rpg)
#tachyonsquadron
#weusedtobefriends

Next 5 I want to play:
#bandofblades
#jiangshi
#HardWiredIsland
#shadowrun
#Pendragon

TTRPGs I'd like to play next(-ish):

#Lancer
#Mausritter
#Pendragon
#BandOfBlades
#UVG / #UltravioletGrasslands
#Spire / #Heart
#PsiRun
#GhostsOfElPaso

and TTRPGs I'll run at the drop of a hat:

#Masks
#BrindlewoodBay
#TheBetween
#TrophyDark / #TrophyGold
#TheEmpireNeverEnded
#WizardsGrimoire
#CBR+PNK
#DownWeGo

... and so many more. I love running new things for new people, and, as the kids say, my DMs are open. (I think—are there DMs here? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Redoing this since I messed up the formatting!

#introductionTTRPG
To help make #TTRPG connections name…
Last 5 #ttrpgs you played
AND
Next 5 you really want to play!
AND
Next 5 genres/game systems you enjoy!
Then, boost this post so others know to do the same!
_Last Five_
#TheOneRing
#CyberPunkRed
#StarTrekAdventures
#StarWarsEdgeOfTheEmpire
#HeartsOfWulin
_Next Five_
#IronswornStarforged
#GOZR
#TheOneRingStriderMode
#Coriolis
#BandOfBlades
_Enjoy_
#cyberpunk
#fantasy
#SpaceOpera
#PBTA
#BITD