John Harper Heck yeah, man. Kick ass game you made here.

Wowsers. That’s amazing.

Any link to the podcast, please?

I know Right :D

There's a very active Discord

ronibob Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion. I’ve flirted with play examples in some videos but haven’t formally embraced them for every video. I’ll definitely consider doing more on that front.

@@DaveThaumavore Very well! Thanks for taking a viewer's opinion into account!

FWIW, Forged in the Dark games are less class centric than you might think. You can take skill upgrades from any class after creation and no class has a monopoly on any special abilities.

there are games by onyxpath and whitewolf, but they suck are what they try to do to the point. Check out Atomic Highway or Ninja Crusade 2e

@@DAEDRICDUKE1 I was well into White Wolf back in the day, but haven't bothered with any of their newer stuff. I've got a free copy of Atomic Highway, looks pretty good. Gives me Dark Future and Car Wars vibes. Thanks for the suggestions.

Yes

There's a number of skills your character can use to "attack" an opponent, so it's largely up to what your character can and/or wants to do. Does your character like to use magic? Attune would probably be the way to go. Are they melee brawlers? Rolling the Skirmishing skill might be sensible. Is your character a duelist with a rapier? Finesse might make sense, in a 1v1 fight. Does your character prefer to fight at long range with a rifle or a hand gun? Hunt would be the go-to. Does your character prefer to sneak up on enemies to attack them? Skirmishing could work (it's your generic "fight" ability), but Prowl also works, as Prowl is the skill used for sneaking, sneak attacks, as well as your general "athletics" skill.

Thanks!

Having ran Blades in the Dark, it's not super board-gamey since everything is maid to facilitate roleplay. It's actually pretty "free", it's just that there are lots of rules that help to facilitate the story in different ways depending on what you're doing when. You can basically do anything within reason and the game has rules to facilitate that story

The ability for players to use Flashbacks to make a narrative justification for how they prepared for a situation is not something I've seen anywhere else. The phases of play are still very much about RP, but with different frameworks.

@@Zarathinius Shared narration actually existed in other games before. For instance, in Brigandyne the same mechanic was used to describe the effect of divination spells.

Fair enough!

I agreed until I started focusing on Downtime as the focus of play. There are a few friction points (such as yours) where it needs some tinkering, but once you lock down those bits, it’s a dream. An example I have is Hunting Grounds for Assassins. It doesn’t make sense. Other Crews can have a section of the city they pull jobs on, as those jobs are self-generated. For Assassins, self-generating jobs turns you into serial killers, not paid killers. So, I created “Preferred Prey” to reflect the type of social strata you’re more proficient in hunting. I base each on the social strata you can choose from, such as “Noble” or “Military”. You gain the benefits of a Hunting Ground to hunt said prey, gaining a new type each time your Hunting Ground would grow. If you pay Coin to hold said Hunting Ground, that’s reflected with Preferred Prey in the narrative by things such as bribes, clean-up crews, etc., all handled off-screen. I also allow any cross-Crew benefits to be purchased with an Advance, such as gaining hidden weapons from the Smugglers Crew type when you’re Assassins. A final thing I changed is you don’t always steal Claims from others, sometimes gaining them by doing Scores for a non-hostile faction. You do gain the enmity of the “gifting” faction’s enemies. As an examples, i if you gain an Arcane Obelisk from Lord Scurlock for a Score, you may lose status with the Dimmer Sisters, citing any number of reasons in the narrative.

I fail to see how that's an issue. Not every RPG needs to be suitable for every kind of story.

T. Ruf I appreciate the feedback.

I like the icons.

Yes, your video icons and ridicilous clickbaity titles are just terrible and kinda embarassing. You really dont need to do this, your videos are already very, very good. Dont try to make them something they're not.

@@MrAttentionHorse The titles aren't changing. But I've removed the prefix emojis. Thanks for your feedback.

Ah yes, my favourite part of dishonoured was getting to hire a crew of arcane madmen to possess a ghost so my friends and I could destroy a crime syndicate and steal all of their goods. The only reason you feel this way is because Dave used its art and gameplay as background info while explaining the game, the only real similarities are the aesthetic and role of the characters, but Dishonoured didnt invent that. Gentlemen Bastards was listed as another influence and that came out years before Dishonoured and has a lot more in common with this then Dishonoured does

Do you mean the videogame or awful ttrpg that no one plays?

@@bobhill-ol7wp Both lol