A downloadable RPG supplement

Regardless of your need for support to GM Blades in The Dark, or play it alone or with a group without a GM, Omens in The Dark contains many tables and resources that will help you run better games set in Duskwall!

This Supplement contains:

  • Tables for fortune rolls that will answer yes and no questions you'd make for your GM when playing, both for Forged in The Dark and Powered by the Apocalypse games, with matching probabilities for result likelyness;
  • Rules for introducing involved factions, twists and complications in the middle of your scores by using fortune, action and resistance rolls. With these rules, you can start a score without knowing any of these aspects of a score and be surprised in media res!
  • Rules for determining NPC dispositions and the result of your initial interaction with them, the latter of which takes into account faction status, if any;
  • A npc generator table, which will supply name initial, relationship type and relationship targets customized for Duskwall.
  • Obstacles trouble rating for helping you envision how to set you position and effect when making an action roll for overcoming an obstacle.
  • A consequences generator specified by position of the action roll that resulted in it, so you can generate consequences when you are unsure of what consequence to pick!

This project is a work in progress that began when examining some of the resources found online for solo-play using pbta and fitd games and I found the need to tweak it to my liking. It will remain always in pay what you want format, and if you want to support its development you can download it, review it, give feedbacks either in private or commenting here, and, if you are able and willing, some bucks will go a long way to motivate my neurodivergent ass.

StatusPrototype
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
AuthorGuilherme Monocores
GenreRole Playing
Tagsbitd, blades-in-the-dark, GM-Less, Solo RPG

Download

Download
Omens In The Dark.pdf 4 MB

Install instructions

Just download it and play it! There are instructions for using yes and no tables for solo play in many youtube channels, and you can private message me if you need any further clarifications.

Thank you for downloading and stay safe! <3

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how do you use the consequence generator?

You'll use the first table on page 3, pertaining to the topic Messing Up and then you'll make a roll using the number of d6s as indicated by the rightmost column of the table, under "fortune roll" (there you'll see indicared 0D, 1D, 3D ignore criticals etc).

When you roll the dice, take the result as you would in any blades normal roll and find it in the numbered list that is right below. 

i.e. Let's say I need to generate a risky consequence by rolling 4 on a action roll and roll in the consequences table, using one die that lands on a 5.  This leads me to the complications table. Knowing I'd use standard complications for risky consequences, I select that table and roll again, landing on a 3. My action has brought unwanted attention, and I take 1 heat, justifying it in my notes as to how evidences were left or a reliable witnessing of the event happens.

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Is this material licensed the same as Blades in The Dark itself or some other way? I'd like to include some of the rolls/tables as part of JavaScript library one could use to build a Discord bot or some other tool but I'm not sure if it is available and how to best credit you.

Hello! It is neither licensed nor finished, actually. I'm hoping Harper won't try to take it down atm, but feel free to pm me @ discord if you have further questions.


monocores#9775