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Blades Add-Ons
More Playbooks!
Host: Justin Ford
Link: https://itch.io/jam/unusual-suspects-a-playbook-jam/entries
Over 100 fan-made playbooks for Blades in the Dark, thanks to the Unusual Suspects playbook jam, hosted by Justin Ford.
Steelweaver's Rebellion
Author: Mable Harper
Link: https://mabelharper.itch.io/steelweavers-rebellion
Status: Complete
Steelweaver's Rebellion is an unofficial Blades in the Dark module where you and your scrappy revolutionary crew must band together with other working-class factions in order to claw Coalridge back from fascism.
Doskvol Street Maps
Author: Tim "Old Dog" Denee
Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307609/Doskvol-Street-Maps--Detailed-Maps-for-Blades-in-the-Dark
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QO8XzVlnS0FUCV6xCmqdPEbQ03KvX29q/view (Lost District)
Explore the haunted city of Doskvol as never before with these highly detailed street-by-street maps for Blades in the Dark.
This package includes a complete high-resolution map of Doskvol with over a thousand individually named features (streets, parks, canals, caves, and more). Every district from Whitecrown to Dunslough is included, as well as fringe areas like the Lost District and Old North Port.
District Handout Sheets
Author: Ben Morgan
Link: http://ad1066.com/bens-character-sheets/blades-in-the-dark-playbooks
Status: Complete
I’ve done up my own custom laybooks for the game. They’ve got fancy backgrounds (which can be toggled off to save your printer if you want), and they’re form-fillable.
Academics
Author: Sean Nittner
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Status: Complete
Outside of the Imperial City, the greatest universities in the empire are found in Doskvol. From the high walled towers of Whitecrown to the merchant class guilds of Charterhall, if there is a mystery to be solved, a philosophy to be extolled, or a schematic to be designed, some student of Doskvol is toiling late in the night to gain course credit for it.
Johnstone's Iruvian Playbooks
Author: Johnstone Metzger
Link: https://redboxvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/alt_iruvian_playbooks_20171121.pdf
Johnstone's reimagining of Iruvia with nine original playbooks.
Radicals Crew Sheet
Author: Michael Atlin and Tim Groth
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0IrYKSJRl46bTNTZklQSWpuMFE/view
Play a crew of subversives, rebels, and guerilla fighters. For all your revolutionary needs.
The Mate
Author: Sean Nittner and Karen Twelves
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kqblj23mawr8nwu/AAA9FEPdtJ-Z5zAthzn69Qzqa?dl=0
Sean watched Young Offenders and then felt like being silly on April Fools. Apparently this is a functioning playbook. Who knew?
The Artist Playbook
Author: Renaud van Strydonck
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/
An uncanny artist and illusionist driven by mad visions and a egomania
Remnants of War
Author: Ben Scerri
Link: https://redworldpress.itch.io/remnants-of-war
For those who served in the Unity War. Includes A new crew type The Legionnaires.
Samaat Playbook
Author: Mistletoe_kiss
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/
A manipulator of essence and force
Ben Morgan's Custom Playbooks
Author: Ben Morgan
Link: http://ad1066.com/bens-character-sheets/blades-in-the-dark-playbooks
Underground Maps & Passkeys
Headed up by @SamD with contributions from @Michael @Mistletoe_kiss @rrayy @ZapDynamic @Dissonance @Tom of Condotto & HoW @Joms @Hieron_II @Eric @JasonB @Sully5443 @DrakeandDice @Navi @mikeyhamm
Link: https://mythopoeia.itch.io/bitdcharityzine
Underground Maps & Passkeys is a collection of alternative starting situations for Blades in the Dark, along with other odds and ends, written and compiled by members of the official Blades Discord community.
Hacks
Court of Blades
Author: A Couple of Drakes
Link: http://courtofblades.com/
Status: On Kickstarter Now
Court of Blades is a game of game of nobility, treachery, politics, peril, magic and manipulation. In Court of Blades, we take on the roles of retainers of a newly risen House of the Esultare…
Brinkwood: Blood of Tyrants
In Brinkwood, you take on the role of renegades, thieves, and rebels struggling for freedom and liberation in a castylpunk world controlled by vampires. Radicalized by tragedy, you have taken up arms and fled into the forests, where you were taken in by unlikely allies - the fae, forgotten creatures of myth - who offered a different path and the means to fight back against your oppressors.
Mask up. Spill blood. Drink the Rich.
Link: https://erikthebearik.itch.io/brinkwood
Mutants in the Night
Author: DC
Itch.io Link: https://dungeoncommandr.itch.io/mutants-in-the-night-early-access
DriveThruRPG Link: http://drivethrurpg.com/product/243501/Mutants-in-the-Night-Early-Access-v10
Status: Early Access
It's the year 2044. Mutants have been struggling to survive since humanity divided into two, 10 years ago. They now live in Mutant Safe Zones; rundown slums and ghettos surrounded by mighty walls, to placate humanity's fear of the unknown. The law stands against them. Enforcers stand above them. Opportunity stands before them. Join together at the table to experience this Forged in the Dark game where you can use your abilities as an Empowered Mutant to traverse this complicated world, and find out what it means to fight back against a system that's built to keep you down.
Misbehavin’
Author: Allie Bustion
Link: https://www.patreon.com/madpierrot/posts?tag=misbehavin%27
Status: Alpha
You and your gaggle of misfits have pretty limited legitimate options in Prohibition Era America. You can try to eke out a miserable existence the way you’re supposed to or you can do something a little less legal and maybe make something a little better for you and yours. You’ve got some product or service people want; you protect and distribute it; you make bribes to the police, local and federal government, and supernatural courts to avoid unfavorable ends; and you maybe get more tangled up in a mess of history and bad blood than you ever wanted to be. All of it comes with the territory. Try not to go broke or, worse yet, owe the wrong people for too long. Try not to get caught. Try to get through to the other side with more than you started with. Stay alive, stay fighting.
Desks in the Dark
Author: David Rothfeder
Link: https://bitd.gplusarchive.online/2015/07/24/so-here-s-v003-of-desks-in-the-dark/
Status: Pre-Alpha (v0.03)
Desks in the Dark is a role playing game taking place at a mysterious boarding school. What makes this school mysterious? That’s up to the players to decide. The point is that there are mysteries about ready for the meddling students to discover, exploit, and otherwise cause mischief, so that the players can create a story of young students sneaking around the school grounds causing trouble and learning secrets they were never meant to.
Mortally<O>Bankrupt
Formerly Known As: Household Renovation of Great and Terrible Power
Author: Adam Sexton
Link: https://www.patreon.com/DarkLavenderVoid
Status: In Development
MORTALLYBANKRUPT is a game about bankrupt mortals with nothing left but personality, passion, and high fashion. It’s also about the invasive Horrors whose transceiver-tendrils will groom them into hollow, photoshopped Reality Stars. We’ll watch their symbiosis destroy our humanity through the episodes of a Reality Show with cinematics that burn eyes and special fx that hack physics.
Glow In The Dark
Author: Adam Schwaninger
Link: DriveThruRPG
Status: Released
This is the whiteline nightmare of the Cold War brought to halflife, a mythical doomsday that never was. Twisted metal rusts away under shifting dunes. Maniacs kill for food, for fuel, or for fun. You are part of a crew a gang of postapocalyptic scavengers and warriors desperate to survive. We will play the game to find out if your crew can flourish despite other hungry gangs, forgotten prewar threats, the unforgiving elements, and their own dark impulses.
To Boldly Go
Author: Logan Shoup
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j53c
Status: Quickstart v1.0
To Boldly Go is a game about a group of brave officers coming together as the crew of a United Federation of Planets exploration vessel. There are tense negotiations, daring maneuvers, dangerous combat, and a wide galaxy of potential. We will play to find out if this green Starfleet crew can mesh into a highly efficient and discerning team while facing previously unknown threats, powerful Klingons, devious Romulans, forgotten technology, new phenomena, and strange beings all while retaining the dignity that makes them exemplars of Starfleet.
Runners in the Shadows
Author: Mark Cleveland Massengale
Status: See itch.io page
Runners is about a group of daring shadowrunners building a reputation on the ill-fated streets of a near-future, cyberpunk world. This work is inspired by Shadowrun.
The Final Frontier
Author: Mark Cleveland Massengale
Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwzNN7yL3u8NNkxxdFVBTno1NE0
Status: alpha (still adding features as of 12/21/2016)
The Final Frontier is about the voyages of the crew of a starship on a mission through the universe. This work is inspired by Star Trek.
Harbingers of Twilight
Author: Ben Wright
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ID2-NhNP6Ug-a0yL0msN5lsUsYCMZCGw7JjOL00BqlE/edit
Status: Alpha Playtest
Harbingers of Twilight is a game about a group of intrepid mages building a supernatural endeavor in a renaissance-era fantastical region. There are mysteries, traps, dangerous bargains, sinister feuds, deception, betrayals, victories, and death.
We'll play to find out if the neophyte circle can thrive amidst the teeming threats of rival societies, powerful families, vengeful creatures, the Guards, and the idiosyncrasies of the mages' own vice.
Laws of the Dark
Author: Roe Portal
Status: Alpha (very early playtest)
Laws of the Dark is a Blade in the Dark hack that let you play in a world heavily (heavily) inspired by the craft sequence, a book series written by Max Gladstone “set in a postindustrial fantasyland: gods with shareholders’ committees, necromancers in pinstriped suits, and soulstuff as currency.”
Mothlands
Author: Justin Ford
Link: https://moth-lands.itch.io/
Mothlands is a science-fantasy setting focusing on Bronze Age cultures living on two worlds once inhabited by the same post scarcity civilization. It’s a game of wilderness survival and world exploration. Players will be challenged with harsh environments, mysterious ruins, and the ever-present threat of the moths - the supreme alien predators.
Sea of Dead Men
Author: Joe Adkisson
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive
Status: v1.2
The tentatively-titled Sea of Dead Men is a pirate-themed hack that aims to be flexible enough to handle the whole range of the piracy genre - from high adventure swashbuckling (Captain Blood, Pirates of the Caribbean) to gritty realism (Black Sails, historical piracy).
Copperhead County
Author: Jason Eley
Link: https://zzzwizard.itch.io/copperhead
Status: Early Access
Copperhead County is a tabletop RPG about organized crime, political corruption, and the nature of the modern southern United States. Players build a criminal empire spanning the city, small towns, and hills of a fictional county in present-day Tennessee, all the while surviving against the competition, the authorities, and their own hellbound ambitions.
A Nocturne
Author: Calum Grace
Link: https://thysane.itch.io/a-nocturne-play-test
A NOCTURNE is a hard sci-fi RPG that casts the players as the crew of an interstellar spitter craft - a vast, weird, scarred old spaceship - and charges them with a simple task: make Profit by any means necessary. Will they be smugglers and thieves? Scavengers? Diplomats? Con artists? Or mere war-criminals, leaving nothing but dust in their wake? Will they let their Damage consume them and their craft, or will they rise above it and retire to some peaceful world, rich as kings? Will they even survive 'til the next inhabited system?
We play to find out what happens.
Blades of the Inquisition
Author: +RoosterEma (Emanuele Galletto)
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-list-of-my-18351909
EMPEROR PROTECT!!!
Blades of the Inquisition adapts the grim darkness of Warhammer 40’000: the PCs are a group of Inquisitorial Acolytes, torn between the sacred duty of serving the Emperor, and their own weaknesses and corruption. While their Inquisitor master may be untouchable, the PCs are little more than an expendable (but capable) team. Will they purge the Enemy from the sector, or will they succumb to the dangerous power plays of the countless factions warring for power?
Remember: even a man who has nothing can still offer their life. Fear is temporary… duty is eternal.
Blades of New Crobuzon
Author: Calum Grace
Link: https://twitter.com/thysane/status/1190724490738765824?s=19
Blades of New Crobuzon adapts China Miéville’s vast, cosmopolitan city for use with John Harper’s Blades in the Dark.
Game of Darkness
Author: Manuel ‘TheDuriel’ Fischer
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmLeiRxlzXvTWt5VzJjTTV2bHc/view
Game of Darkness is a game about guilds of adventurers, heroes, merchants, and politicians, trying to leave their mark in the merciless political landscape of a late medieval world. They will have to fight their enemies, unearth ancient treasures, negotiate peace treaties, and foresee deception and betrayal at every corner.
Blood Red Blossoms
Author: Rooster Games
Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/248706/Blood-Red-Blossoms
A fantasy horror hack set in ancient Japan
Ninety years ago, Lady Himiko fought the demon armies at Twin Rivers. She drove them away from the Sparrow Coast, and has been Queen of our people ever since.
The land is far from safe; unquiet ghosts stalk the ricefields at night, and demonfires lead travelers astray. Foxes and crows haunt the woods. Queenguards patrol the Princess’ Way and hinterland, but rural villages are often left to fend for themselves against dangers, otherworldly or else. In Blood Red Blossoms you play the role of a Red Hat, a pilgrim who swore -by choice, or to escape an even darker fate- to wander the land and protect its people.
Replicant or Lesbian
Author: Johnstone Metzger
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lWogjHFsi5PkyrKf3xPJTRKC3_fP-9P7/view
This is a Blade Runner inspired hack.
It's for near-future, cyberpunk-ish sci-fi spec fic, but the main divergence is that the PCs aren't a gang, and they do individual scores in and around the same situations.
Streets of Passion
Author: Levon Jihanian
Link: https://www.patreon.com/forkfrenzy
You are the bad boys and girls of New Angeles. Crooks, punks, satanists, or maybe you’re just misunderstood heroes. The point is, nobody wants you except for when they need you, and baby, you’ve got what everyone needs. The city’s got everything: Drugs, dirty politicians, cybernetically enhanced cops and robbers, ninja clans, and satan worshippers.
You run an operation in this city, gaining reputation and money. To get ahead, you’ve got to bring down other groups and institutions. Choose your enemies wisely, or if you’d prefer, unwisely.
A Fistful of Darkness
Author: Stefan Struck
Status: Released
Link: https://productivemonkey.wordpress.com/portfolio/a-fistful-of-darkness-2018/
A Weird West hack.
Imagine a world with the magic and mystery of the frontier: wide open plains and the Old Wild West in all its beauty and madness, where violence and sacrifice dominate every single day. Now add the Hellstone rush, underground mayhem in mines and brand new sciences & machines. Don’t forget immigration, injustice, telegraphs and railroads, vigilante justice, outlaws, gunslingers, slick talkers and setting suns.
Will your posse make it to the top of this powder keg before the impending war with the demons rips it apart? Let’s play to find out!
The Messengers
Author: Erik Bernhardt
Status: Seeking playtesters
Link: https://messengersrpg.tumblr.com/
The Messengers is about a group of psychically-intertwined spies, hackers, and punks fighting an ancient, secret war against evil in the shadows of a modern world dominated by conspiracy.
The Typhoon Atolls
Author: Galen Pejeau
Status: Quickstart Playtest v2.4
Link: https://assemblyrequisite.itch.io/the-typhoon-atolls
The Typhoon Atolls is a game about mythical heroes in an island world haunted with restless spirits. We will play to learn about myths surrounding the heroes, the growth of the islanders’ culture, and their dramatic dealings with the spirit realms. Along the way they battle elements, cross roiling seas, steal hidden secrets of nature, and protect the islanders from calamities. These tricksters, sages and hunters need their stories to be told, and to remain memorable. For heroes of folklore, to be forgotten is worse than death.
You the player will take up the mask of a Pellikoi and build the mythology of your people as a boatbuilder completes their work. Together with your fellow heroes you will shape the keep that is your Home Island. In sessions you will add plank after plank as you go on Journeys to discover, steal or negotiate for the resources, inventions and wisdom that your people will need to thrive in this harsh archipelago.
No Place Like Home
Author: Mikey Zee
Status: Early Access
Link: https://quantumdot.space/no-place-like-home.html
No Place Like Home is a surreal horror/mystery game based on the Blades in the Dark system. It's about exploring the secrets in small communities hiding behind well-meaning smiles and closed doors, in a world that’s a little weirder than the one we live in. Fill your community with personalities, places, and a history, then investigate what's made it fall apart. Take risks in the pursuit of answers, and keep the nightmares from taking you and your friends. Can you find out the truth before your town is lost forever?
Our Lonely Worlds
Author: Zak Waters
Status: Playtest V1.1
Our Lonely Worlds is a game about Rebelling against Authority, Finding yourself, and using supernatural powers to do so. The players are Outcasts, Rebelling against a Authority that seeks to control and oppress the world. Will you break? Or stand up and fight?
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnk-b0tbRaREH4GBquZ0vPz8fNs2iNFwbhyRbD41KzE/edit#heading=h.nqyyu2812ie4
Frontier Kingdoms
Author: BJK White
Link: https://bjkwhite.itch.io/frontier-kingdoms
Demigod-avatar magical princesses balance tea parties and giant monster attacks to grow their kingdom.
Slugblasters
Author: Mikey Hamm
Link: www.slugblaster.com
Itch: https://mikeyhamm.itch.io/slug
Crews of small-town teenage hoverboarders sneaking into other dimensions to film tricks, go viral, get sponsorships, and avoid the problems at home. Kickflips, circuit-bent rayguns, giant bugs, teenagehood, and trying to be cool.
Swords under the Sun
Author: Alice Loverdrive
Status: Open Beta
Link: https://loverdrive.itch.io/swords-under-the-sun
This is the game of faith. This is the game of dangers, struggles, darkness, and corruption. This is the game of hope, heroism, self-sacrifice, and friendship, forged in blood and fire.
Players take on the roles of the heroes, risking their lives at every turn to make sure that their world or even the world at large lives to see another day.
Blood and Sacrilege
Author: Tom Clark
Status: In Development
Link: https://rayuko.itch.io/blood-and-sacrilege
Welcome to Blood and Sacrilege, a Forged in The Dark TTRPG about vampires and their rise to power.
Children of Midnight
Author: Gavin and Aine Moore
Status: Quickstart Released (September 16, 2021)
Link: https://quickstart.childrenofmidnight.com
A gender inclusive Forged in the Dark game where players take the role of Wyld Witches and their Familiars who form a Coven for mutual support in a dark and harsh modern world. The fae-folk, a witch-controlled military, demon hunters, mythic creatures, other cults and covens can be allies or adversaries depending on your coven's goals and beliefs.
Studies in Darkness
Author: Nate Johnson (aka Hooligan Labs)
Status: Complete
Link: https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/studies-in-darkness/
Your submarine is gripped by giant tentacles! You are in a battle of wills with a murdered classmate! You play as every scoundrel in this fantasy heist. Steal a dark power… Escape with your soul!
Scores
Blades in the Dark
Gaddoc Rail
Author: Sean Nittner
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Status: Complete
The northbound Argonaut from Wintercliff clattered into Gaddoc Rail Station, its cattle catcher ablaze with electroplasmic lightning. On it was your mark. Nobody left the station after it pulled in…No one has left the station since.
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Charterhall University
Author: Sean Nittner
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Status: Complete
The Noble Order of Crows is an institution which claims its origins date back to the Emperor’s gift of Deathseaker Crows to Bellweather Crematorium in year 492. They are a benefit society pledged to elevate the status of their members and of the Doskvol Devil Hunters…Yesterday charges were brought against your chapter. You’ll be expelled if you are lucky, joining the Deathlands Scavengers if you’re not.
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Scurlock Manor
Author: Sean Nittner
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
Status: Complete
On behalf of a patron who offered enough to make it worth your while, you bypassed Scurlock’s external defences, made your way into the manor, and got your hands on the score. That’s when all hell broke loose.
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
The Electric Rose
Author: Alan Hodges
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzUTkdniNXM1TFJ1aENGbXZpN2c/view
Status: Complete
You’ve come to be the owners of a purportedly “haunted” bathing house. But now you’re locked into preserving that mystique -- and actual ghosts have started visiting too.
The Soul Merchants
Author: Ziv Wities
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tA5tivR0OP2RSFzPbj4IlyBXDCYs8oNBXPc5I56jhRs/edit?usp=sharing
Status: Complete
Some vices are stranger than others. You don’t judge. And if there are those who are addicted to being possessed by ghosts… then you’re the ones who can get them their fix.
It’s a small market, to be sure, but a profitable one. And if anybody tries to muscle in and take it from you, well, you’re just going to need to go show them how this business works.
One-shot/scenario with pregen characters.
Doskvol Riots of 847
Author: Sean Nittner
Link: http://www.seannittner.com/blades-in-the-dark/
You were woken by shouting in the street, torches lit, and the crack of a gun shot. Whatever was stirring under the surface has erupted…and your crew is right in the middle of it.
Spirit Warden Escape
Author: Benjamin Herder
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAHBCT1yGlXW-tuncVDNa3E-5hUBUrxz/view
‘Leviathan’s Blight’ has swept its way through Doskvol, prompting mass deployment of Spirit Wardens to contain it. This has drawn a majority of them away from Bellweather Crematorium in Chaterhall and a number of factions have their eyes set on this sparkling prize.
Darque's Ledger
Author: Ken Lowery
Link: https://bannerlessgames.itch.io/darques-ledger-blades-in-the-dark
Darque's Ledger: Five Unofficial Scores for Blades in the Dark offers five ready-to-go Scores for crews of all types including patrons, prizes, complications, notable figures, and clocks. Make a few rolls, sharpen your blades, and take 'em for all they've got.
Miscellaneous
Pregen Blades in the Dark Characters
Author: Andrew Shields
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1eu66ZB0JgcaElldDM0NkJOUkk
Pregen Scum and Villainy Characters
Author: Duamn Figueroa
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8NRdE-ENo3hY05nS3hZRFZDbzg
Leviathan Hunting 101
Author: Multiple but specifically see posts by Benjamin Hamdorf and Ben Wray)
Link: https://bitd.gplusarchive.online/2016/07/14/leviathan-hunting-101/
World of Blades
Author: Duamn Figueroa
Link: https://mrdrhobo.itch.io/world-of-blades
A simplified version of Blades in the Dark designed to bring BitD to either inexperienced/casual players or improvise a quick one-shot. It's an simplification of the game (very much like World of Dungeons was a simplified version of Dungeon World).
Here's to Crime
Author: Jimmy Meritt
Link: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/252431/Heres-To-Crime-A-Guide-to-Capers-and-Heists
A D&D 5E guide to capers and heists, inspired by Blades in the Dark.
Roll20 Clock Guides
Author: David "Red Eye Ragnarok" (he/they)
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByWQnIjgK12Fcklrajl4TTFiX1k
A guide to creating clocks in Roll20.
Twitter Bots
The Doskvol News: it's what's happening in your city: @doskvolnews
Doskvol Scores: A Twitter bot by @BryantD for all the scoundrels of Doskvol: @doskvolscores