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Systems where DMs don't get to roll is so depressing

These ttrpgs you bring up sound interesting, but they also seem either way too simple or way too needlessly complex for my tastes. I think I'm still sticking to Pf2e with its hp rules, don't care if it's "outdated" it works perfectly enough for me and my group when it comes to the type of games I run. Also in defense of the "well you get stronger, but your enemies get stronger so what's the point?" Your enemies don't necessarily get stronger, you just fight stronger enemies. For example say a group of level 5 players fight a level 9 dragon, that is going to be a VERY tough fight with most players being 2-3 hits from dying. But now the same party all at level 9 fight the same dragon, because of how the leveling system in Pf2e works, the fight is going to be a cakewalk as the party wipes the floor with the dragon. That feeling of getting so strong that you turn what would be boss enemies into lowly minions will never not get old for me. Which is why I'll pretty much always stick to Pf2e.

I love your tutorials. Ill never play cypher but it's good to know.

Brilliant primer. Thank you so much. I"m going to try running a game in a fantasy setting starting next week. Look very narrative. I've made sure to select players who are creative and will contribute. Wish me luck.

HP is great. It just needs to be lower than recent DnD editions.

I mean ... some things were not rules as written (like the bonus die from the gather info of the spider and some other minor points), but Blades is a pretty flexible game and is heavily homebrewed by a lot of folks anyway. Besides that ... a great video!

The BEST video I’ve seen on understanding PbtA. Thank you!

I want to thank you, i'm new to this game and this video helped me a lot to spread out the mist of confusion, well done! :)

18:35 Actually, RAW you **can** buy it, it's just that it means you're rapidly selling shit off, and you're probably going to be eating ice soup and bread sandwiches for a while afterwards

Where is Savage Worlds??? Simple wound system, has negative effects, and has an injury system!

I am so so happy you are doing these videos, they are so invaluable

Thank you for this video, it's very well-done and informative. I've owned Blades In The Dark for more than a year, and have been honesty too anxious to try it with players. I'm on the autism spectrum - I like hard rules and guidelines for how a game works. I find myself "paralyzed by freedom" when I think of how to run this game. The example I keep returning to is when it's time for a player to fight someone (because combat is the easiest scenario to default to in any TTRPG). If my player says they want to "beat this thug up to get past them" that could be handled very simply with a single roll and result (as the Cutter example in your vid with the two guys in the car). OR I could make a clock out of it that mimics HP of the thug and player and do a roll per punch attempt. Am I thinking about this correctly? When would you tend to favor one approach over the other?

Thanks. Between this and Natertot I've got the basics

Prefered your way of talking at the end piece. Felt more natural. Calmer. More just you without the too much caffeine pitch.

True20. No hp. Just toughness saves that can lead to deteriorating effects.

Look, just play BRP and relax.

Patiently waiting for Savage Worlds 🙏😬

The best game of FitD that actually teaches you how to use Position and Effect correctly is actually Quietus by Oli Jeffrey, which is funny because it’s actually very bare bones and purposefully gutted FitD game but it has a very nice explanation on how to use position properly.

Não tem Dice Pool =(

Were you dropped on your head as a child? Alchemy is a steaming pile of garbage.

I just started a FATE series myself and this is amazing!

Thank you for this video! I'm watching a lot of tutorials and actual plays with FITD games to try and improve my MCing of those (currently on a renaissance-fantasy hack named Court of Blades). Your example score is very detailled and helps me a lot to get the structure :D

One of the greatest ttrpg guides ever

This is a FANTASTIC video! Super helpful! Thank you so much for making it!

I'll be using this guide tonight, first time my table will be playing this!

Came here because of Mystery Flesh Pit USA RPG since it uses the Cypher System. :D

One idea a friend of mine and I schemed up to make resurrection spells more weighty is that instead of instantly reviving, you throw down a barrier that temporarily traps the reaper carrying the creature’s soul. If you want that soul back, you gotta fight the reaper for it or lose your own soul trying. It would use a modified version of an Avatar of Death stat block from the deck of many things based relative to the party’s level. You reduce the reaper to 0, it dissipates and the soul flows back to the body. If it reduces you to 0 no death saves, it yoinks your soul too. The lower level spells that can res always summon the reaper, but the higher level spells let you roll a percentile die that reaper doesn’t attack because something of higher value has been presented as a material component in exchange for the soul.

I've been trying to play blades in the dark for nearly 6 years now. Finally got to try it last year but we struggled to get it down and there wasn't much in the way of high quality instructions. This has really helped, thank you.

Awesome video and very helpful for my group's first game of Blades in the Dark! Couple quick questions though -- 1) When the cutter takes her action to knock out the guards, why is the locked door addressed with the same skirmish action? Why didn't she have to take a separate action to get the door unlocked, then use the skirmish action to fight the guards? 2) Are the positions determined on an action-by-action basis? For example, when the cutter changed the position from controlled to risky as a consequence of her action, is that the new "crew position"? Or is that just for the cutter? Excited to play! This video has been beyond helpful, especially for a group of people that have been pretty much DnD-exclusive for close to 8 years now.

good video

Glad to see you back with this video about a great game I had the opportunity to try out at a festivale! I highly recommend it if you like dark and horrific atmospheres ;)

I played Joyville 2 and loved the Star, great work❤

I don’t have a question, but I have to say, I recently played Joyville 2 , and the Star was my favorite character, and then I realized you were the one that played him, amazing job and I hope you have an amazing day❤

Lets gooooo! One of my favorite rpg professors posts in time for christmas.

Congratulations on the video, only from Brazil and I loved all the explanations, your video helped me a lot on how to narrate and how to explain to the players how this incredible system works!!!

Hello, you were my favourite Character in all of Joyville! I reviewed the game in one of my vidoes! :D

This is what hes doing when he's not dancing

Great. Great . Great video! Thank you for making this.

Great video. Thank you for doing it. Now, I just have to figure out how to translate it to my group...

Imagine a Divinity in their domain, constantly seeing followers popping in and out because of all the raising being done all the time...🤔

I can't remember the name of the game but I remember one wherer you stack a condition 3 times to defeat your ennemies or to be defeated. The most straight forward was stacking the wounded condition but there was a fear condition, fatigued etc. I really like it but I can't find the name

On a different note to Blades, I know you dig Fate and Cortex. As a rando in the comments throwing out unsolicited requests, I'd love a video about modernizing older Fudge games into newer editions of Fate. I was a big fan of Star Blazer Adventures and The Legends of Anglaire, but the sheer amount of crunch around juggling 10 aspects and building stunts got difficult. Another idea is a video on shortcuts/advice to adapting novel settings to a system (like cortex). For instance, I've always been a fan of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera books and thought it would make a fun campaign world, but I've always been daunted by how to adapt its magic system without it becoming a huge project.

As someone who already enjoys the system, this was a nice video. I always had a few issues with figuring out position and effect. I personally would love a follow up for new player points of friction. For instance, I had a player using the whisper playbook, and they had a hard time coming up with cool magic stuff because they were so used to games with spell lists, and I had a hard time helping in a way that wasn't just giving suggestions on how to play their character. Also, the world lore is intense, and while I know people say start small and only focus on what you need, it's really hard for me to do that because I need to see the big picture and then zoom in, not the other way around. Mike Shea (Sly Flourish/Lazy DM) was really excited to run this a while back, but I remember him saying he struggled with GMing it and cut the campaign after 8 episodes compared to the much longer campaigns he runs for D&D type games. I was really surprised because he's very capable, and it would be interesting for someone with decent system mastery to look at why an experience DM like him might have bounced off it.

Have you ever gone over Fantasy World? It's a really cool system and I've ran it before, but it'd be nice to see someone explain it in English.

As a person who has recently decided to learn and be a GM for BitD, this video is exactly what I need! Do not worry about the supplement, it might be better to cover it separately, as some people are still figuring out the basics :)

This video is a phenomenal summary and the example game at the end is extremely helpful. Great job. Its also very timely as I am running a one-shot soon for some friends after having not run the game for a couple years and I needed a refresher on the basics that I have long since forgotten. I'll be sending this to my players because, even though I already went over the basics and we made characters, this video reminded me just how much stuff I forgot to cover with them. I really don't want to turn a one-shot into 2 sessions because I have to spend most of the first one going over all the rules I forgot to cover in our session 0. I never comment on videos but I can tell a lot of hard work went into this. Thanks very much!

Well, I'm beyond sold. I NEED to play this now

A masterful demonstration! Thanks a lot for this illuminating vid

Very timely, a friend of mine want to run Blades, cause he has this idea of a story where a Batman and Joker like character are at war, and we're the goons still trying to pull off jobs while this is going on. I'll send it his way since he likely might need some basic stuff down for it.