Blades in the Dark: Episode 1, Part 1

Blades in the Dark is coming to Kickstarter on March 7!

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a crew of scoundrels seeking their fortunes in a haunted industrial-fantasy city.

This episode features Adam Koebel, Sean Nittner, Stras Acimovic, and myself, John Harper (the designer of the game), playing a tutorial session.

Here's a PDF with filled character and crew sheets that you can reference as you watch: http://onesevendesign.com/blades/blad...

We demonstrate the core action resolution mechanic, the teamwork and planning systems, and advancement for the characters and the crew. I ran this game with zero prep (other than character creation) so you can see how the GM can get the game started without setting anything up beforehand.

Since this was a demo game, we explain everything as we go and try to show all the moving parts -- which means the pace is somewhat slower than normal. In a standard session of the game, you can expect to do two jobs and two development cycles.