Blades In The Dark

420 readers

1 users here now

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

future_meme@ttrpg.network

eerongal@ttrpg.network

How would you go about running a game in Arcane’s Piltover? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by burnso@lemmy.world to c/bladesinthedark@ttrpg.network

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Arcane as in the League of Legends Netflix show (first few episodes mainly).

I’m not big on the sort “oppressive, endless darkness/ever encroaching void” vibe of the default Blades setting. But while watching Arcane I can see how well it could mesh with the system.

Thing is, I’ve never actually run a Blades game before. Mostly listened to podcasts, read some of the book and played a session of Scum & Villainy.

How easy is it to tweak the “vibe” of the default setting? Reading through the book is not doing much to inspire me, but I like the system a lot and think I could get into the setting if I could just make it more of my own.

Should be noted that I’m not looking to play in the world of Arcane verbatim. It’s just a touchstone.

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

I think one of main issues is that Runeterra (world of Arcane and League of Legends) has fantastic races like Yordles, while Blades is humans only game.

[–] vdz@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

The pathfinder city of Alkenstar I think has some really good analogues for piltover. Its a desert city where magic doesn't work. "Inventor" is the primary profession. Steampunk + fantasy alchemy with a good dash of early gun-smithing wild-west mixed in. You could ignore the wild west bit. There is a system-agnostic source book out there somewhere. I would pull from that personally.