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Deep cuts: Streamlining the resistance roll even further for fast paced action I experimented with something in order to avoid making another roll when resisting a consequence (which i thought slowed down the game): Instead of an attribute roll, they simply choose which dice they want to alter to push it over to the n...
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Monster Hunter in the Dark? Had a sudden burst of inspiration, curious to see the response/if anyone can see shortcomings I can't. I had a thought about how FitD/Blades might be bizarrely perfect system for emulating MH. Scores become Hunts, Playbooks become Armor-sets. Tier is based on armor, and how many Special Abi...
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BitD-themed dice my wife has been painting!
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[Free Resource] Searchable Databases for Blades in the Dark (Now with custom gear!) https://preview.redd.it/wmrcidyv4vne1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=6592ec385a8cf4570a6e8ffdabc7efa49259ee03 # Hey fellow scoundrels! Just wanted to make sure everyone knows about these free Airtable databases I've built for B...
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Any used Quest Portal for Blades? I was just fed the IG post about Quest Portal and I went further down the rabbit hole. It looks pretty cool and interesting. Intuitive, looks easy enough to create scenes and NPC’s on the fly. I’m running a campaign on Roll20, which we all know is nothing special and interested in this...
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Anyone have a game over discord or in Las Vegas I can join? I'm not sure if this is the place to post this but there's not a whole bunch of BitD communities. I'm hoping to join a game if anyone has one. I've DMed a couple of games but I haven't been a player for BitD. I'm a 27 M forever DM who has been playing TTRPGs...
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Pen and Paper or VTT? I'm going to be running Blades in the Dark for my group and I'm seeing a lot of online tools for it that have been created for the community. I also have a Foundry license, and we play in person so going with pen and paper is an option as well. I'm hoping to gather insight into what online tools ...
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Simple tracker web app First-time poster here—just wanted to share something in case anyone finds it useful! I put together a small, AI-generated lightweight web app to help GMs manage Blades in the Dark campaigns. It's intentionally simple and straightforward, avoiding complex rule integrations because our group fou...
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Hunting Pet, Ghost Hunter - What is Mind-Link and Arrow-Swift? Hound's Special Ability "Ghost Hunter" says the pet gets one of the abilities "ghost-form, mind-link, or arrow-swift." So ghost-form I can find on the Ghost Playbook but the other two I can't find. What do they mean? Also, how does this work with Veteran?...
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What's the most recent John Harper run Blades actual play? Has he run anything since way back in the day? One shots are fine. I've run 100 hours of the game but not in a while and I'd like to see how far my play has diverged from his style and presumably his intentions for the game. Hopefully there's something more rec...
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When do Ghost Contracts end? So in my first session of blades in the dark I thought it would be cool to play the spider and make deals that I complete and "trap" the other contractor into a simple reasonable demand. E.G "I retrieve your money you leave my family alone" But I don't set the timelimit so does the Contr...
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Tomorrow is Session 1 of in Gotham! Mostly just wanted to celebrate! The mechanics fit really well to port this system over to DC's Gotham, where we're playing as average henchmen who rise through the ranks to become Rogues So I've been building Factions, asking Loremasters, finding players... And now we have too m...
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[V20 Release] My Blades in the Dark Lite VTT now feels like a REAL app! (No more accidental sheet breaking!) https://preview.redd.it/75x9vgs235ne1.png?width=3420&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b8c2b4094733c795694fc265f3fae11e6577906 Just wanted to share that I've updated my Google Sheets-based VTT for Blades in the Dark to *...
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Ideas for A One-Shot Score for 6 Players? Title says it all. A bunch of my friends wanna play a BitD game for a one shot, issue? There's 6 of them. Anyone got a nice, fun score that could work with 6 players in a 3-5 hour timespan?
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Can anyone recommend some more generic fantasy playbooks? - Looking to run a Mordheim game. So essentially I've had the idea to run a BitD game but set in Mordheim. So it's Warhammer Fantasy setting and as such would need your more typical classes like wizards and clerics etc But other than the playbooks being very ...
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S&V vs A Hive of S&V?
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It might be downtime in this podcast episode, but that doesn't mean there's no danger. After angering a gang of ruthless dockers, our Hawkers are victims of a break in, and discover something worrying through one of those fancy new cameras.
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RISKY STANDARD - The Division of Silent Accords - A Scum & Villainy actual play podcast mini-series Howdy, posting here on behalf of the actual play podcast [Risky Standard](https://www.risky-standard.com/), where we play a variety of ttrpg's to tell compelling stories in original worlds with a special fondness for Fo...
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Is the rulebook chaotic or will I end up getting used to it? I'm getting started on Blades in the Dark, as I was captivated by the premise of playing as a crew of criminals beyond the sum of the players. While it's a concept I've explored before, I've never seen it approached in such a narrative way. The thing is, rea...
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Module-by-module configurable character sheets & VTT (Vanilla/Deep Cuts)
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Furvus Muridae Most crime RPGs put you in the shoes of human crews pulling off heists, but what if the underworld was something deeper? What if you weren’t just fighting for money—you were fighting for survival? Furvus Muridae is a tabletop RPG where you take control of a rodent crime family—rats, mice, moles—trying ...
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Star Wars Scum & Villainy Question…
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Custom Faction Token in Roll20? Is there a way to add custom factions to the faction list in Roll20?
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Curated Score List for Players? So, I'm getting a batch of new players that are new to both Blades and ttrpgs, so I'm looking to, at least until they get a feel for the game, have a list of scores they can do. I'm having this framed almost like a quest board displaying available jobs for them to take on in a Thieve's ...
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Songs For The Dusk: Daybreak now released - advanced threats and new playbooks!
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Idea for a campaign and looking for some tips, "The Plague and the Blood" I had an idea of how to run a campaign for Blades that the city is at the dawn of a pandemic, and the "Villain" of the story is behind it. This idea of a campaign takes ideas from Dishonored, Pathologic and Darkest Dungeon, the Crimson Court to ...
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New GM here, I need help with the transition into the score. Hello everyone, I've gmed 2 sessions so far, and both times I've had a similar problem with the transition from free play into the score. TLDR: I'm bad at figuring out the initial situation after the engagement roll. Any advice is appreciated. Long context an...
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Module-by-module configurable character sheets Happy day folks! A number of us have wished we had character sheets that could adopt deep cuts, but on a module-by-module basis. That way you can keep the Vanilla stuff you like, but add the deep cuts spice too :). I have a prototype ready for testing. It isn't ready for...
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shot in the dark here but are there any groups out there looking for a new player? I’ve listened to a few actual plays and really wanna dive into this game. My usual TTRPG group isn’t super interested in learning a new system right now (unless I GMed it) and I’d love to find a group I can get to be a player in. I have...
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What can I have the crows do? I'm running my first game. We're doing war in crow's foot. My crew is a cult of hippie gardeners. They really want to make peace, but don't care about taking control. We're a few scores in, and they've made tier I so the other gangs are taking notice. The crew has done a couple jobs fo...
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How to fix jail I love blades in the dark but the one system I don't like is jail. I like how heat and wanted level work and i know there should be some way to get rid of it but i feel like jail just doesn't work. there is a threat of trauma which is huge (but then there are also ways to completely prevent that) but t...
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For the love of God, please help me. What the heck are Legion's Values and how Lorekeeper setep them at the start of the game? I am helpless on this one :/
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Unexpected scores? Hi all, my crew (Bravos) is in an interesting situation and I would like some opinions on how to apply the mechanics to my fiction. Recently they stole some weapons from the Crows, only minutes before the Red Sashes showed up to find the cargo gone and their ambush fooled. They know the Red Sashes ...
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Am I GMing to easy??? BitD Hey guys, my background is coming from DnD with a group I played with, not DMing, but I have done that for DnD in the past. Came to Blades because it sounds pretty awesome and a real different change of pace than DnD, where the characters are heroes. The gritty, dangerous ascetic really won m...
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Deep Cuts sheets and systems So Deeper Cuts comes with a number of new modular systems and new sheets. I would like to use a few of the new systems, but we now have two sets of sheets - ones with all old systems and ones with all new ones. Any way to mix and match them without resorting to copy-pasting bits from one to...
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+ Skirmish Innovation? What are some creative ways to use Skirmish? Unlike Finesse or Prowl which can be applied to so many different scenarios (Sneaking, Picking locks, Killing, pick pocketing, climbing, drugging, stealth kills, duels, etc.) Skirmish feels stuck in the everyone knows where everyone is "hehe big figh...
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What is the nature of Death in Doskvol? Hi all! Big nerd, being nitpicky on in game ontology. I know Blades verse is supposed to be vague, but the exact nature of how/what a ghost is confuses and bugs me. It seems like they are a conflation of both "life force" and the soul, which they also feed upon. Like, when a pers...
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Why mark non-load items? What's the point of marking off items that don't take any load?
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Blades game from a con So... I run a little con, boutique and bespoke. My buddy wanted to run some blades. He was nervous so I offered to help him get his reps on online. Same scenario. The one from the book. A scenario I've run as gm. This is why I love this system. A couple of choices from the players and you c...
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Need help with character name. So technically this is for Court of blades but I need help with picking a name for my character. She is a Knack who focuses on illusions. She is from Altori so I would like something with a French essence. She’s a thief and loves causing mischief. I just have no ideas for her name.
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My own Blades in the Dark map
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CANNOT Improv for the life of me - Help? I love BitD, and always will. But I get so frustrated when I literally CANNOT role play and do what I want in the moment. Getting my intentions to actually work in play has always been a big barrier for me. My group thrives off of improving and making the most hilarious bits a...
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Anyone got good ideas for linked scores? So, by linked score, I'm refering to a big score that we can essentially break up into 3-4 separate scores in order to set up and execute. Anyone here has cool ideas on how to make one? Cause I wanna run something like this for the big finale of our game, but I'm having trouble...
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First time running and players are struggling without detailed maps. I am running BitD for a group of friends that have been in many games with me. We mostly have played stars without number and I give them rich and detailed maps to use. This also helps me track loot locations and enemies. I overall love BitD so far b...
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Community Stuff/Desks in the Dark I can't find any of the community stuff that's supposed to be in the official website. In particular, I was looking for the hack Desks in the Dark.
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what is planning What do you consider planning. My players do a lot of debating "what ifs", do you allow that. If you do, how long. ("What if she gets mad, what it they retaliate, etc) After like 15 minutes I paused my players for planning rather than acting. They said they struggled with knowing what planning is and ...
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Citizenry I'm curious to know how you guy handle the average citizen of Duskwall. I know the underlying premise of the game is everyone can be bought and everyone is morally ambiguous at best, but I just have a hard time imagining a society like that functioning. I have a hard time believing the average person just tr...
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ARCANE - LEAGUE OF LENGENDS Now, I know very little about league of legends, but I did watch the entire ARCANE series on netflix, and it strikes me that this would be a pretty awesome alternative setting for BitD. Anyone else ever look into that? Any hacks out there to this effect? Anyone got ideas about playbooks...
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v3.1 of Deep Cuts lite VTT makes Threats visible to all players With Deep Cuts' Threat Rolls, it is important for the GM to clearly state the Threats to the PCs. v3.1 of the Lite VTT added a spot on the GM tab (left panel, just above the major Clocks) where they can list Threats. These are then mirrored to all of the P...
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Blades in the Dark - Interactive Landing Page
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What should I prepare? I'm playing Bitd with my friends for a weekend. We are all experienced roleplayers. I have prepared a crew and characters (that's what the others want) - I have read and understood the rules. I have an idea for a score. How much and what else should I prepare?
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Is foresight a good first ability for a spider? (bitd) First time player and I’m making a sort of face/mastermind leader of the group. Foresight seemed like the best one to start but I was curious what more experienced players think
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how do I convince my friends to play this system? We've been playing dnd for about 4 years now and have begun looking into new systems recently? Im already asking them one by one what appeals to them in a ttrpg and seeing if this has it but is there anything specifically about blades in the dark that I can point out t...
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What do you think the districts from the eastern expansion project would be like? In deep cuts it talks about The foundation wanting to expand the city Eastward reclaiming the lost district (New horizon district) and making 3 more (Dawncrest, Gaddoc, and Bowmore district). Since they're basically concepts of districts...
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Episode 12 Perilous Pastures Born to Die is an actual play Blades in the Dark podcast following the adventures of a gang of hooch-peddling youths (and reluctant cultists?) in the elf-punk fortress city of Glimmer Falls. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnOsn7SgulQ Also check out Born To Die on Spotify and Ap...
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Do you let players repeat the same action towards a clock? The toughest part I have is in social challenges. Like, let's say they're having an intense deliberation, trying really hard to convince a high-ranking person to give them something. They can't use threat or physical force, so it's just talking. I start a cloc...
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Thieves rigging - only for tools and gear? The thieves rigging allows 2 slots of gear and tools to be carried without load. What is meant exactly? Must the name of the item contain the word "gear" or "load"? (E.g. climbing gear yes, binoculars no?)
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Cohorts / Crew Hello! I ran the Sea of Dead Men hack for about a year for a group of mates, one thing we all particularly loved was the pirate crew mechanic. Choosing your crew types as if the crew itself is a character. I am now starting an S&V game- and realising it’s a lot closer to BitD than the pirate hack. Has ...
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[Scenario] Electric Dreams
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TTRPG Survey I'm a grad student studying education in the US. Right now, I'm doing some research about hidden curriculum (which like education-caused social control) and how schools could borrow some of the hidden curriculum offered by TTRPGs to spruce up our current traditions in schools. I'm also a writer working on...
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Claim for Vigilantes (DC) I GM for a group playing Vigilantes. We are using the Deep Cuts rules. One of the Claims on their map is Local Heroes: You get +1d to indulge your vice. If you overindulge with your obligation vice, you get +1 rep in addition to the normal consequences. With the new rules in Deep Cuts, I'm t...
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InDesign Deep Cuts playbook template You can find an InDesign playbook template for both original Blades and Deep Cuts here: [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q1INAi9-jaMsSGh0xIqMcIKpap-uRaPu](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q1INAi9-jaMsSGh0xIqMcIKpap-uRaPu) You'll need these typefaces: Alegreya, Alegr...
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Mother playbook updated for DC I updated my Mother alternate playbook to have both an OG and a DC version. [https://smallcoolgames.itch.io/mother-playbook](https://smallcoolgames.itch.io/mother-playbook)
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Forged in the dark for kingmaker [FitD) Hi, I will run a Kingmaker like campaign and would like to use , which rule book could I use. To my knowlege "Blades against darkness" never got finished. There will be politics and sword and sorcery fighting. Any ideas what to use?
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Fighting with "fine wrecking tools' The wrecking tools contain a fine crowbar. Can I go full Gordon Freeman and use it with "wreck" in a fight? Or would you guys decrease the effect / position?
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Devil's Bargains Cards Thank you u/Consistent-Tie-4394 for the doc of cards. I tinted them and asked ChatGPT to help with a different back. I ordered a deck from makeplayingcards. They turned out pretty nice :) Looking forward to using them. [https://imgur.com/a/bitd-devils-bargain-deck-2Iwon7K](https://imgur.com/a/b...
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In our latest score, our gang of Hawkers try to muscle into turf owned by a vicious gang of Skovic dockworkers. On the way, they stumble into creatures out of folklore, terrified refugees, and try and exploit the whole situation for as much coin as possible like good Hawkers should.
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Anyone know where to find editable PDFs of the Playbooks? My players are having trouble with other versions of the Playbooks
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Mechanics for Custom Villains in a Nautical/Pirate hack Good afternoon, everyone! It's me, the person who posted that first location art for my upcoming Dark Fantasy pirate game of Band of Blades/Forged in the Dark. The reception was so amazing I'm back and counting on those familiar with the mechanics of Band of Blad...
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High audio quality actual plays Hiya - do these exist? I’ve been spoiled by the old Campaign Podcast and now my threshold for actual plays is unrealistically high - but I’d love to listen to some BitD for some inspiration for an upcoming S&V game I’m running
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News Post: Blood & Tears - A forged in the Dark Vampire Game
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Girl by Moonlight: Are there options for solo play? I am very interested in the themes in Girl by Moonlight, but I would like the option to play it as a solo adventure if possible. My schedule is a bit full these days, so meeting with a group consistently is pretty much out of the question. Is solo play an option for t...
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Is there a tool for showing position/effect to players? Some months ago I tried out CBR+PNK and the GM had a website or app on his phone with a position/effect grid he could use to negotiate with the players. The app might have also had other functionalities, but that was the main thing I'm interested in. This was on ...
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The Dagger Isles - an unofficial expansion? Several years ago, one of our crews visited the Dagger Isles for a few scores. My partner and I took an interest in that part of the setting and we started to develop a fan-made supplement about it (in Italian), detailing several districts and NPCs, and even drawing an exce...
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How would you run internal conflicts of other gangs? Prefacing this by saying my group transitioned into BitD from another system and the Italian Mafia is already established. Originally, I wanted there to be different families in the Mafia who have overlapping but not necessarily exactly similar activities. Dealing ...
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City of Whitehollow - free fan expansion I recently published a free Blades fan expansion with my interpretation of the Akorosi city of Whitehollow. Feel free to download it and check it out to liven up your campaign across the deathlands from Doskvol! [https://rpggeek.com/filepage/293726/the-city-of-whitehollow-fan...
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Blades in the Dark Roll20 I did it. I bought the whole pack for 30 dollars to set up for my friends to play. But there's only one small problem: I have no idea how to run Roll20. I've done the tutorial, watched some YouTube videos, and I cannot for the life of me find a simple map of the city to put on the screen. Are ...
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NonPlayer Choas: Ep 0 Character Creation (Blades in the Dark - Deep Cuts)
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Ran my first social score My crew of hippy gardners (cult) wanted a rental contract so they could open a bookshop. This is their first turf expansion, and it's the first game for all of us. I gave them a way in to the party where the rich building owner would be willing to discuss business. Then, I set up competing c...
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Recap of my group's last Blades session. RIP Lord Ventro...
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How to Consort with strangers Scenario: You need to get some info out of a stranger. Perhaps they're a local barkeeper, or a low level clerk at the City Council. They won't suffer at all for sharing this information with you, but also have no reason to share it with you. If you were to Sway, you could probably be qui...
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Location Art for Dark Nautical Fantasy/Pirate Hack of Band of Blades
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Custom Deep Cuts playbooks? Does anyone have any good homebrew playbooks made with the new Deep Cuts character sheet layout, for consistency with my other players?
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My Arcane Forged in the Dark supplement is Available
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Mother of Bones “Mother of Bones... Mother of... oh! You mean that ghost story that’s been floatin’ around lately?” the rancher said, lifting his hat to scratch his head. “Sounds about right. Can you tell me anything about her?” the hunter asked. “Afraid not friend, don’t pay much mind to ghost stories.” “Don’t believ...
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Introducing the Strange Forces to a Crew I'm running a Blades game for 3 PC's (one cutter, one hound, one leech - importantly, no whisper). So far everything is going great. I have a pretty ambitious crew of Hawkers who keep expanding their territory and are actively embroiled in a conflict with the Crows. Last sessio...
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how does tinker work? so a group im in are starting our first game together and im playing a whisper that taken actions in Tinker instead of Study bc of my character's backstory, but i have absolutely no idea how the game's crafting system works. everyone in our group is very new so what resources can i check to figur...
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Acquire asset question From my understanding during downtime players can acquire an asset like a vehicle, a service, or a specific dangerous gadget. My question is what would get players to do this? All of these things seem to be in prep for a score. But during the downtime activity they don't know what the next sco...
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Some Quick Portraits & Environments
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[Scum and Villany] help with action values Hi, on the manual on page 10 it is written that actions have a range from 0 to 4, but then on the game sheet you have only 3 triangles to fill... I don't understand: there is something that I'm missing? EDIT: thank for the answers, it seems to be a problem of my localization:...
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Should I refresh the number of usable items with a limited usage after the score? BitD So, yeh, specifically Leech, who has a pouch with 3 alchemical substances. On the one hand this pouch can be quite deadly, that pushes me as GM to offer him craft more of these between scores. On the other hand, in this case he is lo...
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How do I run a flashback score? Let me clarify: my crew of Bravos is trying to pull two jobs at the same time and came up with a cool idea. In the starting situation War on Crow's Foot, Bazso Baz asked them to do two different things: * scare the Cabbies away from their alliance with the Crows, bringing in the distri...
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Blades 68 Touchstones? I want to make myself a list of touchstones for Blades 68. Anyone have any suggestions that fit the tone (60s/70s, cold war espionage, detective action, thriller, etc.)? **Edit**: Thanks for the suggestions! Here's a list updated with media from this thread and from the Inspiration channel on th...
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Blood & Tears, A New Vampire [Fitd] Game on Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/notwriting/blood-and-tears](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/notwriting/blood-and-tears) Hey folks! I want to make a vampire ttrpg. Blood & Tears is a tabletop roleplaying game for 1-5 players about vampires who have li...
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What online tools do you use? It's finally happened! My regular DnD group has been on a bit of a Hiatus, partially due to scheduling issues and partially burnout. We've got a bit of time together, but aren't ready to resume the main campain. We've decided to run a few one shots, and my group has finally agreed to give ...
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Penalties for failed missions Here's a question. If you send a squad on a secondary mission, and they fail (1-3), you get nasty consequences (3 legionnaires die, 3pt wounds for all Specialists) but do you ***also*** incur the Penalty for the mission, as if you didn't even attempt it in the first place? How about if y...
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[History] Ruling classes don't like public transport (or why adding public transport may upset more than the Cabbies' Guild) Public transport was invented in 1662 in Paris by Blaize Pascal (yes, that Pascal, dude discovered and invented an impressive number of things for someone who kicked the bucket at the age of 39 (...
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Requesting feedback on cheatsheet (Deep Cuts + Vanilla) Howdy folks, I created a configurable cheatsheet. It lets your table decide which rules from Vanilla Blades and which ones from Deep Cuts you want to use, and puts ONE unified set of those rules in front of you. So if you want to stick with Action Rolls but also ...
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Randomization vs. Narrative Control: Different Approaches to Storytelling in TTRPGs
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Desperate Attune's House of Endings: The Finale! Hello! We're Desperate Attune, a podcast making Actual Play content set in a homebrew version of U'duasha. We've just dropped the two-part finale of our second season, House of Endings! This season means a lot to me personally. We used U'duasha as a setting to explore m...
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Hugging Face Hub page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/eriksalt/reddit-rpg-rules-question-classification

Row schema

Each example is a single Reddit post (as plain text) with three fields:

  • id (string): A stable identifier that also encodes the source file and line number (e.g. blades_posts.txt:755).
  • content (string): The post text used for classification (typically includes the post title plus body/description where present).
  • label (ClassLabel): Question (0) for rules questions, Other (1) for everything else.

Labels

The label column is a ClassLabel feature with the following integer-to-name mapping:

id name meaning
0 Question The content field represents a rules question about a tabletop roleplaying game posted to Reddit.
1 Other The content field does not represent a rules question about a tabletop roleplaying game posted to Reddit.

Splits and size

The dataset is published in Parquet format with one config (default) and one split:

  • train: 1,949 rows

Total: 1,949 rows.

Notable characteristics

  • Source hinting via id: IDs commonly look like blades_posts.txt:<n> or mothership_posts.txt:<n>, which makes it easy to trace examples back to the original extraction batch.
  • Wide length range: content ranges from very short titles to multi-paragraph posts (the dataset viewer shows examples up to ~16k characters).

Intended use

  • Fine-tuning / instruction-tuning a classifier (e.g., Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct) to output one of two labels.
  • Training/evaluating a cheaper routing model (e.g., fast filter → expensive model only when likely rules-related).
  • Building a rules-QA pipeline where only "Rules Question" posts get routed into downstream answer extraction.

Loading example

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("eriksalt/reddit-rpg-rules-question-classification")
print(ds)
print(ds["train"].features)
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