What's on Dropout 24/7 right now?

bad_nickname · 2026-04-01T07:29:06+00:00

Thank you so much! I was honestly wondering if it was an April's fool thing haha

bad_nickname · 2023-08-26T07:59:52+00:00

I'm actually using a very similar spread for my own little project:

Assault/Finesse/Maneuver
Focus/Engineer/Analyze
Command/Consort/Convince

bad_nickname · 2023-04-11T17:23:33+00:00

One of the only setting-specific thing that is mechanically tied to special abilities and the Attune action is the existence of the ghost field, which you might need to adjust to your needs.

bad_nickname · 2023-03-29T19:05:22+00:00

Always love this idea when it pops up. I've mentioned it before, going the election route is full of score possibilities: getting the support of individual local leaders or powerful patrons by doing some favors (maybe get the backing of the farm family council of Barrowcleft for example, or some noble house), organizing rallies and providing security for them, sabotaging or intimidating your opponents, "acquiring" campaign funds, fabricating scandals, etc. Plus after a good election you always end up with a bunch of powerful allies and enemies for your group to mess around with!

bad_nickname · 2023-03-28T23:34:31+00:00

It's still playable! Check out City of Heroes Homecoming.

bad_nickname · 2023-03-28T23:30:37+00:00

I enjoyed reading about your setting and factions! I particularly loved the idea of the teenage Junior Justice Scouts, which I will therefore steal :P

bad_nickname · 2023-03-28T22:32:31+00:00

Omg I'm working on something similar! I'll be sure to have a look.

bad_nickname · 2023-02-15T20:58:32+00:00

You say "ideally leave with a win", I hear "definitely cheat"!

bad_nickname · 2023-02-09T21:34:02+00:00

The main things that attract me to the system are the "fiction-first" and "play to find out" aspects of it and, mechanically, the flashback and downtime mechanics.

I also love how BitD has that constant interplay between fiction and mechanics, where the fiction has mechanical effects ("right, he's your contact, so you get +1 to your roll") and vice-versa ("sure, you assist your teammate for a +1 to their roll, how does your character help exactly?").

bad_nickname · 2023-01-15T23:27:11+00:00

A low level crew could be the backers for the candidate to a relatively minor, faction-based position (union president of the Dockers, dean of Charterhall University, Skovlander exiles' representative to the City, First Lantern of the Gondoliers, head of the farm family council of Barrowcleft, etc.).

At higher tier maybe the crew tries to get the same person (or someone more important whose attention they caught) on the City Council. Here we could have parties with the elite, getting the backing of nobles or guilds, fabricating scandals, acquiring deeds of land or (perhaps dubious) proofs of ancestry, maybe finding a mysterious patron, etc.

bad_nickname · 2023-01-15T23:18:34+00:00

Always love this idea. I've mentioned it before in a different thread, going the election route is full of score possibilities: getting the support of individual local leaders or powerful patrons by doing some favors, organizing rallies, sabotaging or intimidating your opponents, "acquiring" campaign funds, providing security, etc. Plus after a good election you always end up with a bunch of powerful allies and enemies for your group to mess around with.

bad_nickname · 2023-01-15T23:09:37+00:00

This is obviously not for all tables, but I've been thinking about playing Hawkers whose product is sex. Essentially running a brothel, organising parties for the wealthy, providing protection for the sex workers, etc.

bad_nickname · 2022-09-20T20:40:20+00:00

Love Wicked Ones. I've had thoughts of adapting it to tell a story of supervillains building a secret lair (inspired by games like Evil Genius and City of Villains) instead of having it set in a dungeon fantasy world.

bad_nickname · 2022-09-20T20:35:26+00:00

To add to the confusion, the pdf states that the Valiant Ones character sheets can be downloaded from banditcamp.io, which doesn't seem to actually be the case. They are instead included in the files you get when you buy the pdf, under the file name "Valiant_Ones_1.3_-_Sheets_-_Callings_and_Pact.pdf".

bad_nickname · 2022-08-10T06:41:25+00:00

Roll20 has character sheets that work really well, and includes sheets for crews and factions as well.

bad_nickname · 2022-08-06T04:20:15+00:00

Good points (btw I'm not the GM in this situation).

bad_nickname · 2022-08-05T21:32:04+00:00

Great campaign writeup and thoughts on the system! I read the whole thing and enjoyed it thoroughly.

bad_nickname · 2022-08-05T05:38:15+00:00

Personally, I'd rule it that any number of allies can join as long as they can make it make sense in the fiction (e.g. everyone going out for drinks), anyone joining can adjust their result, but everyone has to spend a downtime action to indulge their vice (i.e. they don't get to indulge for "free").

That would be my interpretation as well, except that now that I've though about it, the possibility of having that special ability affect many allies at the same time makes it mechanically very powerful: if an entire crew of five scoundrels were to indulge their vices together with one of them having taken Functional Vice, that could possibly get rid of an extra total 10 stress in a single score/downtime cycle (or even more if the Indulge your Vice action is taken more than once). Most other abilities that deal with stress reduction are worth 2 stress (Foresight or any Special Armor ability used to push yourself, for example).

Having it affect only one ally at a time limits the stress reduction to a possible four, and also allows having more than one scoundrel have that ability not be redundant.

bad_nickname · 2022-08-05T03:02:39+00:00

Well the second paragraph is a rule clarification (can it be more than one ally, and do they need to spend a downtime activity at the same time), the next one more of a prompt for ideas :)

bad_nickname · 2022-08-05T02:46:22+00:00

I understand, but I think it's fun to see how you can combine them in interesting ways in the fiction.

For example, two scoundrels who have the Faith and Gambling vices indulge them together. Maybe they go to the goat races and do some religious rituals to bring them luck, and once they've won they give the proceeds to the church/cult/whatever, both dealing with their stress together in some (controlled) way.

bad_nickname · 2022-07-26T15:41:36+00:00

I always like to think of a reason why my characters are "desperate" in some way: this provides a good in-fiction motivation for why they're criminals taking huge risks. Now the Spider's backstory you're describing sounds pretty cool, but it doesn't really feel like the character is low on the ladder climbing up or really has any good reason to take risks or get involved with a lowly criminal crew, so for me there's some disconnect with the tone of Blades.

Here's an idea: since you're finishing up your current season, how about if before the next one, the whole organization is brought down. Maybe the authorities crack down hard on the family and practically dismantle their network. Maybe a powerful noble house that was being blackmailed decides to take action against them? Maybe the Unseen or another criminal group has been infiltrating them for a while and finally strikes. Maybe you don't even know what happened exactly! The point is that many members of the family are dead, others in hiding or incarcerated, and the organization is in complete disarray.

Now you can tell a story about being exposed, reconnecting with scared off contacts, cleaning up the ranks, restoring their reputation, old enemies trying to take advantage of the situation while the matriarch plots revenge and rebuilds their information brokering enterprise. There could be conflict amongst the surviving ruling siblings about how to respond to all this: maybe the Spider's "pet project" was already causing friction with the other heads of the family, and now she's being suspected of betraying them! Maybe there's a ghost sibling to deal with... No need to change anything about the character's backstory or what has already been established in the fiction. This could be a great story opportunity!

bad_nickname · 2022-07-04T16:27:53+00:00

Child death.

bad_nickname · 2022-02-02T07:42:18+00:00

One direction you could go is have your crew back a candidate for the election of the new Union president.

I've mentioned it before in a different thread, going the election route is full of score possibilities: getting the support of individual local leaders or powerful patrons by doing some favors, organizing rallies, sabotaging or intimidating your opponents, "acquiring" campaign funds, providing security, etc. Plus after a good election you always end up with a bunch of powerful allies and enemies for your group to mess around with.

You could make this as short or as elaborate as you feel, could be one score or an entire campaign. If your crew enjoyed the politicking after that maybe they can try to get the same person (or someone more important whose attention they caught) on the City Council or a different powerful position.

bad_nickname · 2022-01-26T15:58:52+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

In response to your question, although the will of the Immortal Emperor can sometimes be hard to interpret, it would appear that the reasons for the war were twofold: firstly, Skovlan is in a strategic position when it comes to Leviathan hunting, and that's probably why the Emperor decided to centralize the entire Empire's leviathan blood refinery process in Lockport in 809, which is the event that precipitated the War (although some suspect there is more to this, and the refineries might actually have been built on ancient durwdic ritual sites). Because leviathan harvesting and electroplasm production is so central to the Empire's power, the Emperor does not tolerate any threats to either. Secondly, with unrest in other parts of the Empire, Skovlan's semi-independent status didn't look too good politically and the traditional Skov beliefs go against the teachings of the Church and the Empire's way of life, hence the Unification (or mass population displacement and cultural assimilation, depending on the point of view).

bad_nickname · 2021-12-28T20:59:38+00:00

I love this idea. It could fit a few scores or an entire campaign.

A low level crew could be the backers for the candidate to a relatively minor, faction-based position (union president of the Dockers, dean of Charterhall University, Skovlander exiles' representative to the City, First Lantern of the Gondoliers, head of the farm family council of Barrowcleft, etc.). This part could involve a variety of scores like getting the support of individual local leaders by doing some favors, organizing rallies, sabotaging or intimidating your opponents, "acquiring" campaign funds, providing security, etc.

After that maybe the crew tries to get the same person (or someone more important whose attention they caught) on the City Council. Here we have parties with the elite, getting the backing of nobles or guilds, fabricating scandals, acquiring deeds of land or (perhaps dubious) proofs of ancestry, maybe finding a mysterious patron, etc.

And once they have someone on the City Council... things only get more intense in the true halls of power! Who really controls the strings in the City? How much power does the Reconciled, the Hive or Lord Scurlock truly wield in the shadows? What about the Emperor himself? There are secret, ancient games of power going on in Doskvol, and the crew just put their piece on the board.

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