Agreed and the bonus detail is that the rain is only visible in the lanterns lights.

Yeah I find that these "flexible" systems often really very heavily on the GM's skill and narrative ability, which is why in every single case I've tried something other than D&D the game ends up devolving into a fiesta over time because nobody can keep this up consistently. There's nothing stopping you from doing this in D&D, but the base game mechanics leave you a more substantial basis to fall back on if you're not able to consistently come up with plot devices like this one

A good GM with imaginative players should never have trouble coming up with plot hooks for a session. Usually it's just using the backstories of players or paying attention to dumb stuff they did. No, what's hard is keeping the players on one thread. It can be like herding cats. You spend ages concocting this interesting plot hook for them, but instead they get distracted by your gnome shopkeeper because you made the mistake of giving him a funny voice. Now they want to spend all their time harassing him >:(

@Captanblue This is why I like making events pass in real time. In all the campaigns I've been in and run I've always loved there being consequences for ignoring the hard to deal with or darker parts of a story.

@@MrThewooter Yes, this is the way. You wanna keep picking at my Gnome? Fine, my rival gang of adventurers are busy raiding that castle YOU were supposed to be handling and now you get to hear people singing about them at the next bar you go to.

This is actually how Devil's Bargains are designed; they add an additional consequence regardless of the outcome of the roll, they don't change the outcome. In other words, if you succeed you still succeed, but you take the consequence discussed in the Devil's Bargain (and it really can be a discussion; it's not always the GM coming up with the Bargains, players can too, or the group as a whole can brainstorm one). If you roll a success with a complication, you succeed but take a complication from the roll _and_ the complication from the Devil's Bargain. If you fail the roll, you don't achieve your goal, but the complication from the Devil's Bargain still occurs. I think more often than not my players end up taking Devil's Bargains not because of the extra dice, but because they find the consequence to be really interesting (even though they're usually negative). I suppose in a way, that comes back to the 'drive your characters like a stolen car' mentality that's become a bit of a motto in the Blades community. Having your character succeed isn't really your primary objective; creating an interesting story is.

Yeah this is a very high quality tutorial, really went above and beyond/gen

wow, that's a really cool idea honestly. I personally have never done any text-based online rpg's but now that you suggested using this system for that purpose, I'm very excited to think this through and maybe gather some people to try it

yeah there's a good potential to be suuuuper light on the rules if you need it to be

It also works quite well in text-driven videogames. Citizen Sleeper (a Disco Elysium-like RPG) uses a variation of this system.

@@bonzwah1 my friend has run a play by post game with Forged in the Dark games for years. Go for it champ.

You're right in your assessment, but I do not understand the use of "alternate"? Is baseball an alternative to football? Is rock an alternative to pop? Systems are systems, there's no "main" and "alternates".

@@Dudae_ Main: D&D Alternate: anything else not from Lizards of the Coast

The Adventure Zone newest Season Steeplechase is based on this game mode and it is amazing!

Same! One of my favorite games is Monster of The Week

Yeah dnd is so heavily built for straight combat it always annoys me how many people hate it

it is not a system it is pbta

Can you shoot people?

​@@johnxina1681 forged in the dark isn't a pbta, ryan's right that blades has its own system

@@pleep1887 yes. every character has a gun on their sheet iirc. they are mostly singleshot slow reloading ones tho. But you can choose to bring more to get around this, choose a special ability from the hunter sheet, modify your weapon artificer style or tinker up an entirely new weapon as a long term project (if you can spare enough of your precious downtime).

@@johnxina1681 it's not pbta..it's another system

"Flashbacks" are another cool idea in Blades; really getting the game off to a quick start, and fill in the details later. 👍

I'm in love with the Stress system - having a way to push yourself, for a resource cost to add a die for 2 stress, or aid an ally for 1 stress is great, and the role playing consequence of exceeding your stress and taking a trauma is GOLD.

@@nathankirk1545 Bibliophile Stressed PC, "I'm just going to the bookstore to do a little retail therapy." Narrator, "Three Days Later..."

I don't see how it's necessarily any smoother than any other type of "I'm trying on do a thing" roll in an RPG. You can set a DC and apply advantage/disadvantage/bonuses/penalties to a 5e Persuasion check just as easily as happened in this video. I do like the having a mixed success being integral to the system, though the same thing can be accomplished elsewhere easily too.

Blades has some of the most elegant game design out there

Heh why does that seem so Darkest Dungeon to me :D

@@OhNoTheFace Because Attrition Games are so rare and niche in both video and table top that the basic idea of "You don't top off after every chunk of things" starts to feel more like a Twist than a Design Decision.

@@OhNoTheFace I've been mucking about with mashing Blades in to Darkest Dungeon 😄 The artwork in DD is such a great match for the grubby, down-at-heel side of Blades. 👍

​@@euansmith3699 I was honestly surprised Darkest Dungeon *wasn't* listed as one of the inspirations for Blades in the rulebook's introduction.

@@Dafuqinator7 blades happened before darkest

Fuckin rad! Give us a highlight!

Him doing a 3 hour long on m&m character building

Where was his other one?

This is such a solid video too. Shows off the cool mechanics framed in a fun story