RollPlay: Blades - Week 1, Part 2 

At 19:11 A very cool thing happens, and I think it's totally worth shining a spotlight on as an example of great play. We have this very common situation. The players all have characters who are consummate bad asses but for one reason or another (in this case it was social status) an NPC is looking down on them and treating them as lesser. John didn't lay it on too thick, but Iramina clearly though of herself as better than the scoundrels. And so many times I've seen this particular interaction trigger a result where the players need their PC to prove the NPC is wrong, a jerk, less, etc. It's a status game and the player is determined to walk away with high status, thus starting some kind of conflict. But in this case, what Aldo did was brilliant, because he didn't try to insult or awe Iramina, instead he tried to find a common ground to connect with her. Yes, he did want to show her that he had educated tastes, but it wasn't to insult her. He praised her and gave her an opening to praise him. And yes, she was awkward about it too, because he caught her off guard, but she had no reason to walk away thinking Aldo was a jerk, or someone who was trying to jump up to her status, just someone who appreciated some of the same things she did. I think this is a fantastic example of a player finding a way to connect with an NPC rather than a way to humiliate, manipulate, or otherwise control them. Three cheers to @Ezekiel_III

I cannot help imagining Duskwall as an island on the Sunless Sea. Which makes me really wanna find it there.

17:27 - Story setup for the roll 19:11 - character interaction in how to approach the situation 20:02 - Defining types of rolls 21:35 - "the PLAYERS choose the action roll" 23:45 - The roll 24:25 - The result 25:25 End explanation. 31:23 - The "Friction" of a score 33:40 - Discussing how to start a score 35:57 - end of base score explanation 36:00 - Stress explanation 37:05 - End stress explanation 38:55 - Start of score planning Out of Character (OOC) 39:42 - Player World Building 41:05 - In Character Plannibg 45:50 - OOC discussion of plan 48:10 - Back in Character 49:03 - The Consort Roll 50:45 - The result of the roll

I'm 9 minutes in and i have to say. This world , the characters and the structure of this game is awesome. I'm so damn intrigued right now:)

I remember playing a one shot of Shadowrun where we ended up spending a lot of time planning and then went "Wait the evening is nearly over, let's do the run real quick." I love the way Blades fixes that problem. It was only natural for a Shadowrun hack to be built based on the Blades rules.

I'm very happy that Geoff finally gets love for a character. I've noticed so often that people hate or dislike his characters like Vincent or Mr.Sicarian (though I'm not saying everyone does) but I'm glad people like his new characters like Janus and Carriless

Oh the Kinclaith family... we love them so much.

More geoff more geoff MORE GEOFF MORE GEOFF. And the others too. Everyone is awesome

Hunting for gigantic underwater demons in a pitch-black botomless sea sounds like the worst time imaginable..

I love that the whole boardroom thing happened so much in Mirrorshades that it was no longer shadowrun and relationships happened

I fucking love Zeke's character so far.

Getting super Dishonored vibes from this game xD

Wheats Irish accent has got better since swan song

"Tale as old as Time, Beauty and the Beast" Aldo and the Noblewoman

Once more Geoff will have my favorite character

Methinks each kind of plan needs a clever thief/conman jargon associated with it like the "Lost In Translation" scene in Oceans Twelve, for example.

Aldo is so good xD

Oh yeah i totally get what john is saying about board room meetings. Saw several DnD groups like that which spent more time making these complex plans rather than actually doing anything. On everything. Really ruins the flow of the game, and it's even worse when your character is on the timid side because you can't really just go headfirst into the problem and force them to actually play the game.

The lair looks like the library from the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

This is simply brilliant!

Blades in the Dark seems like a mix of Thief and Dishonored.

Ezekiel's charecter is so awsome lol

Cast and gameplay are awesome. I just found BitD recently while I was looking for something to replace D&D; can't wait to give it a try. The only thing I could wish for is better art in the book. Now the art in this video is just gorgeous (example at 40:00). Seriously, I will buy another copy of the game at an increased price if you use this artist's work.

So I'm loving the cast, ruleset, theme.....but has anyone else noticed how the rolls looks in the Roll20 window during the dice rolls?!?!?! Man, this only Part 2 of the 1st Ep....but damn this is getting good.

favorite rpg plan charge with 176 goats

I know I'm late. But hot damn, I think I found an ezikal character I like. Reminds me so much of Tom hardy

Blades is so freaking cool! ❤

Mercilessly dragging Adam Koebel!

Well I was hesitant about a new GM/DM it took me a while to get used to Adam. (( not that he was bad, people just have to grow on me.)) I avoided watching all the new shows until now. I must say - I love him already! =)

how does he get all their webcams in the video and have the extra windows when they go to roll?

This is so awesome

IF this goes well, I think it will go REALLY well. One thing only, I hope zeke gets a better microphone :P

here come mine weat. what up!!

heh Is that Laphroaig I see behind John?

This sounds like a really interesting ruleset. Ive seen the early access version on drivethrurpg, does it have a formal release date?

If Aldo has to become a butler at some point, I'm just done.

abyone else feel like they hasnt given rune a chance for character development so far?

Is there a place to find all of the screenshots for the different districts?

Is it Duskwall or Doskvol?

what time period is this supposed to be set?

I'd look for relations of the target, eg take his daughter hostage to get his consent to the duel

5:12 so shamelessly Dishonored?

Hey Wheat I love you man, but not all RP characters have fake scottish accents.

First... Cause I Can

tried to watch this again, and the uhm and uh counter is trough the roof, almost every sentence is punctuated with a uh or a uhm

You are spending too much time telling stories to players. They are here to play for gods sake

man harper is expositing very slowly and not really getting the game going quickly. also loads of uhing and ahing. So far not really impressed by this. granted im only 12 minutes in so far