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Actual Plays

An actual play is the play of a role-playing game that is performed as entertainment for an audience wider than the group of people who are playing it, generally recorded and broadcast over the internet. Actual plays may be performed live like a theatre show, by video recording, or as a sound recording (i.e. podcast). Some actual plays may be provided in several or all of these formats.

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The Adventure Zone: Steeplechase

The McElroy Family are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: While the whole podcast is not just BiTD, this campaign is. It's also set in an original world that's basically a dystopian theme park city-state.

Back Alley Charmers, A Blades in the Dark Dishonored Actual Play

ManaPot Studios are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: A Blades in the Dark actual play mini-series acting as an unofficial prequel to the amazing Dishonored video game by Arkane Studios!

Blades in the Dark - Umbral Means 🎥 Video

Third Floor Wars are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Does a good job of teaching and explaining mechanics as it goes

Blades in the Dark Actual Play | Only Goats and Hawkers | Blades in the Denizens

DenizensRPG are playing Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark: House of the Rising Sun

Distracted Elf and Friends are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Good example of play on Roll 20

The Bloodletters (Podcast) 🎧 Podcast

John Harper are playing Blades in the Dark

The Bloodletters (Video) 🎥 Video

John Harper are playing Blades in the Dark

Canticle of the Crimson Wake

The Tabletop Sandbox are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Podcast (audio only) options are available in their video descriptions.

The City That Never Dies

Clever Corvids Productions are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Spinoff of “The Magpies“ with new characters and a new setting (Imperial City) inspired by Prohibition-era America.

Court of Blades 🎥 Video

Third Floor Wars are playing Court of Blades

Note: Run by Shawn Drake, co-author of Court of Blades

Desperate Attune 🎧 Podcast

Desperate Attune are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Two seasons, using a South Asian take on the city of U'Duasha

Of Dice and Them 🎧 Podcast

Of Dice and Them are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Set in a wider world which is also used for other TTRPG systems (so not Doskvol). Learning the system for the first time so rules aren't always 100% but hitting the broad strokes.

Escape the Dungeon 🎧 Podcast

Escape the Dungeon are playing Scum and Villainy

Explorers of Elsewhere: Elysia Rising

Explorers of Elsewhere are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Elysia Rising is the second campaign in our Elsewhere world setting. In a city lost and floating in a sea of hungry, anguished souls for two years, a crew of smugglers must navigate the turmoil of tyranny, revolution and factional war.

Godzilla: King of the Cosmos, a Beam Saber actual play podcast 🎥 Video

Mayday plays are playing Beam Saber

Note: There is video and podcast format but I recommend the YouTube series because they add a lot of visuals that help understand the rules. Each episode is under an hour and a fun way to learn the rules.

Haunted City (Podcast) 🎧 Podcast

The Glass Cannon Network are playing Blades in the Dark

Haunted City (Video) 🎥 Video

The Glass Canon Network are playing Blades in the Dark

Kocie Łby 🎥 Video

Dobre Rzuty, Lans Macabre are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Only in polish

The Magpies, a Blades in the Dark actual play podcast

Clever Corvids Productions are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: A complete 4 season series about a small gang of thieves turned vigilantes who fight to defend the poor and oppressed of Duskwall. Great inspiration for stealing ideas.

Marielda, Twilight Mirage, PARTIZAN

Friends at the Table are playing Blades in the Dark, Scum and Villainy, Beam Saber

Note: The podcast uses multiple game systems per season (for example, Marielda starts with The Quiet Year for the first few episodes and is BitD for the rest of the season). Not every season features a Forged in the Dark system, but a few of them do.

Megacampaign: War of the Crow 🎥 Video

JimGoblin are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: West-marches style campaign of 4 gangs in a persistent Duskvol

The Occupod - Blades in the Dark

The Occupod are playing Blades in the Dark

Oxventure presents : Blades in the dark 🎥 Video

Oxventure / outside xtra are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: They are a little lite on the rules but very fun to watch!

The Professionals, a Scum and Villainy Actual Play 🎥 Video

Dustfire Media are playing Scum and Villainy

Note: They currently have two ongoing campaigns, one is scum and villainy and the other is Avatar Legends. They’ve also played Trophy in their Patreon exclusive show.

Quantum Kickflip, a slugblaster actual play podcast 🎧 Podcast

The Debutantes are playing Slugblaster

Rise of the Conduit 🎥 Video

MagiRPG are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Think of this ongoing series like an HBO drama. Large, diverse ensemble cast that swaps out players throughout. For Mature audiences (contains appropriate content warnings throughout the game)

Shadow Con: Scum & Villainy 🎥 Video

Happy Jacks RPG Network are playing Scum & Villainy

Note: Four episodes.

Synowie Mordrina 🎥 Video

Bastardzi are playing Band of Blades

Note: Only in Polish

Tales From Mauxferry (Season 1) 🎧 Podcast

Geekspective are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: Played in a homebrew high fantasy world called Mauxferry.

The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate

The Unexplored Places are playing A Fistfull of Darkness

The Unexplored Places: Tango Sector

The Unexplored Places are playing Scum and Villainy

The Unspoken 🎥 Video

The Wanderers Guild are playing Blades in the Dark

Note: The playlist linked above is incomplete - several other episodes exist but have not been added to the playlist yet. The series was intended to teach a new group of players how Blades in the Dark works.