So, that Rat clock from Blades?
Tonight is the night
Tonight is the night
This is a gift to the universe, but most especially for @strasa
So far tonight, Pewter has eaten a rune and a lot of hallucinogens, Streak has started a fire, and Packer and Scars teamed up to roll a taser cage onto a cat.
Quoth the players: "I want to watch this cartoon"
Scars has seen things that no rat has seens
He has tasted the forbidden blood.
And, the game wrapped successfully. The Rats escaped the lab, trashed the shop, terrified the cat, and found their way to freedom on the city streets.
The player, BTW, had no idea this was coming. I started out by having them each pick a word (the rat names) and then giving them that rat.
Mechanical Notes: Pewter ended up having more options in play, and Packer fewer than ideal. Should have given Packer more control. Pewter self corrected when the time came to do rat things. Poorly.
Separating Deduce (Understand human stuff) and Control (use human stuff) diluted dice pools and also made it harder to do one of the most fun rat things (repurpose stuff cleverly) so that needs reworking.
Blades suffers when the skill list gets that abbreviated. High risk of samey-ness. I probably should have gone shorter and broader, but I wanted it to be recognizably blades-ish.
The mode of play? Worked like a charm. Band of rats plays fantastically.
Turned out today was Packer's player's birthday, so this ended up being something of a special treat, which was enough of a bonus that I wish I had planned it that way.
Streak was well suited to do what Streak did (Run fast, be distracting).
Streak's *player* will likely be burning their dice after tonight, so the actual result was mixed.
Streak's *player* will likely be burning their dice after tonight, so the actual result was mixed.
Anyway, I think that everyone had a blast. I am SUPER looking forward to the crew coming back to their burned and wreck shop. :)
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