Aother RPG Bundle - Blades in the Dark 2

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This is a second offer of material for the Blades in the Dark system, an expanded subset of the Apocalypse Engine system.

Blades in the Dark 2

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BladesSecond

This Blades in the Dark 2 Bundle is a new sequel to our December 2020 offer featuring the rulebook and play aids for Blades in the Dark from One Seven Design Studio, along with many recent Forged in the Dark standalone games based on the Blades System Reference Document. One of the most acclaimed and influential RPGs of the past decade, Blades fine-tunes the Apocalypse Engine system, adding rules for clocks, stress, and Devil's Bargains that ensure fast play and suspenseful choices.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of some of these files are unobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Blades in the Dark 2 offer's designated charity, the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program. Each year, the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, amplifies the voices of up-and-coming game designers by featuring them during an expenses-paid visit to Gen Con. The global Emerging Designer Program focuses on creators from marginalized communities.

The total retail value of the titles in this Blades in the Dark 2 Bundle is US$162. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all six titles in our Blades Collection (retail value $72) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Blades in the Dark core rulebook (retail price $20); four Blades in the Deck print-and-cut card decks (retail $10 each) from Evil Hat Productions – Characters, Crews, Deals, and Factions & Locations; and another card deck, Heists in the Dark (Shields Up Publishing, retail $12).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $29.95 to start, also get our entire Forged Collection with six more games and supplements worth an additional $90, including Court of Blades (A Couple of Drakes, retail $25), along with its Companion Zine and Community Zine (retail $5 each); Mountain Home (Ideagonk, retail $25), a tabletop take on Dwarf Fortress; Diogo Nogueira's dinosaurs-in-space extravaganza Kosmosaurs (retail $15); and the single-player dungeon-delving game A Torch in the Dark (Not Writing Games, retail $15).

 

Blades/Forged in the Dark resources

• The Blades in the Dark website, its free downloads page, its long list of fan creations, and the Forged in the Dark license
• Blades designer John Harper''s list of Forged in the Dark Games on itch.io
• The itch.io "Unusual Suspects" playbook jam, Sept-Oct 2020 (120 entries)
• Wild Hunt Studios Blades Resources page
• A breezy Forged in the Dark 101 introduction and a sophisticated post-Actual Play analysis, "Band of Blades and Recompiling Code," both by Paul Beakley at Indie Game Reading Club
• In 2017-18 on his blog The Walking Mind, Rob Donoghue of Evil Hat Productions analyzed Blades to a depth few recent RPGs have enjoyed (or endured). The Walking Mind Blades category lists nearly two dozen lengthy posts, newest-to-oldest; start with his introductory May 2017 post.

This is a very popular system (although I do know people who are not fans) and it looks like you're getting a lot of fun stuff for the money. If you liked the previous bundle it's definitely worth a look. As usual, though, think carefully about how much of it you need - it may be cheaper to cherry-pick just the things that interest you. For example, I think I'm mostly interested in the Dinosaurs in Space game Kosmosaurs, which sells for $15 on its own, much less in any of the others.