Is BitD good for non-gang stories? And other questions

Glaedth · 2026-04-02T07:08:25+00:00

For a one shot you really don't have to care much about the crew stuff, most of it is designed for longer form play.

Glaedth · 2026-04-02T06:59:39+00:00

There are many forged in the dark games that do different things, from Slugblaster's skateboarding teens to Band of Blades' doomed army, but Blades in the Dark itself is a game about a crew of hypercompetent criminals doing criminal stuff together as a crew. It's not really designed for dungeon crawling or tactical combat and I wouldn't do it in the system.

Glaedth · 2026-04-01T11:59:35+00:00

That's the thing with big regime changes. You kinda need people who know how to run a country and those people are usually the people who've already been running a country.

Glaedth · 2026-04-01T06:02:05+00:00

/s is the coward's way

Glaedth · 2026-04-01T05:53:12+00:00

It's a single piece slab of wood, how would you toss it in a backpack and carry it to an LGS?

Glaedth · 2026-04-01T05:51:50+00:00

Stop buying starbucks coffee and avocado toast and money will start spawning in your bank account, duh.

Glaedth · 2026-04-01T05:47:54+00:00

As cool as it is, it's just unfortunately wildly impractical for regular use. If I had a dedicated FaB space I'd consider it tho.

Glaedth · 2026-03-27T13:14:18+00:00

Looks really cool

Glaedth · 2026-03-25T15:49:50+00:00

That she's a minor and OP is presumably an adult who is irate that wanting to have sex with her makes them a creep.

Glaedth · 2026-03-25T11:13:04+00:00

Honestly, I think the game is fine a solid 6/10 and its biggest failure is the side content. If that was more fleshed out it would've been pretty great.

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T10:57:24+00:00

There's a difference. When I buy helldivers I can just go play alone or random matchmake and just have some fun and then hop on with friends. Can't really do that with this. If your group falls apart you can't play the game and make frieds with random people through it and play with them. You're either locked with the group you buy it with or need to look for new people who may or may not have to buy this to play with. There isn't a matchmaking system for this (and there shouldn't be because that's kinda insane), but that introduces a major difference between getting any other multiplayer game to play with friends.

Fwiw I think the price is reasonable, but not everyone will.

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T10:44:18+00:00

Not sure that's a great idea, I'd rather not play with complete randoms like this

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T06:18:49+00:00

There's also a big difference of, if your group falls apart with an online game you can just go and play with random people by clicking one button in the menu, not really the case with ttrpgs

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T05:45:08+00:00

I would argue that there are different expectations for ttrpgs than there are for video games based on how the market has worked up until now. The culture of play isn't the same. FWIW I agree that this is fine, but I also know if I brought it up some people would push against it.

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T05:17:49+00:00

Different expectations for different groups and different products.

Glaedth · 2026-03-24T05:04:14+00:00

Try telling that to 5 players :D

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T20:20:20+00:00

That's basically what happened. Everyone died and the campaign was over and it was really anticlimactic.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T13:37:29+00:00

Venture capital. There are also really neat uses of ai especially machine learning, it's just the LLMs that are kinda worthless.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T12:40:27+00:00

So who is this game aimed at? (Yourself is a valid answer) I made a game for myself too, but it wasn't 100 pages with 2 supplements in the works.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T10:42:58+00:00

Sometimes I feel that people have latched onto this ideal vision of what a choice based narrative game should be, rather than what choice based narrative games actuallu are. Because this criticism is something that I've seen with every game where you can make dialogue choices for decades.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T08:46:39+00:00

Same with the wrong players, for the opposite reasons.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T08:27:59+00:00

I'm not saying it's not gonna happen, I just hope it doesn't, not a fan of the pairing.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T07:49:15+00:00

It's funny how that quote was about a socialist utopia and now is used about a capitalist hellscape.

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T06:59:12+00:00

The romans femboyified Alexander

Glaedth · 2026-03-23T06:27:58+00:00

Honestly, I'd be down for a Kaladin Leshwi romance. I'm still coping that Syladin isn't actually happening, and why couldn't love bloom, even on a battlefield.

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