u/atamajakki

I feel like every single campaign I read about online involves the player Crew initially taking the Lampblacks' side. It probably doesn't help that none of the Red Sashes' allied Factions have their own write-ups in the core rulebook (though the Faction Deck and Deep Cuts alleviate this), and the Vigilantes expansion even adds the Bloodletters from John Harper's AP as an additional anti-Red Sashes Faction!

Has anyone here ever run or played a game where the party took the Iruvian side here?

Howdy y'all!

I've seen quite a few threads here talking about the rules updates and changes in Deep Cuts, but almost none about the wealth of other material in the book: new higher-tech items, new Factions, and a whole campaign framework around "the Other World" to optionally use.

Have your scoundrels crossed paths with Rowan House, rode a plasmocycle, or solved the mystery of where Strangers come from? I want to hear about it!

I had an interesting conversation with some friends recently about the direction Blades in the Dark's non-core material has skewed in the nine years since release, and figured it might spark some fun chatter here as well.

Blades is, at its core, a game about scoundrels pulling off daring crimes in the name of growing their gang, paying for their vices, and hopefully funding an eventual retirement. While the Imperium's government, military, and police are all sources of oppressive pressure, the city is full of bastards of all stripes, so the player Crew being selfish isn't terribly jarring.

But the supplemental Vigilantes Crew takes a different approach, and Broken Spire outright gives you the tools to assassinate the Immortal Emperor. Blades '68 has both Militants and Utopians among their list of Crews, with a dedicated Radical playbook available for characters; recent videos from Evil Hat have said that the Dagger Isles book has been refocused to really center anti-colonial rebellion against the Imperium in that part of the setting. In the third-party scene, you've got works like Steelweaver's Rebellion and The Unity of Skovlan taking aim at Doskvol's dystopian status quo.

Thus, my question to you all - how much of your BitD play has been about trying to tear down unjust authorities, rather than just trying to climb the ladder yourselves?