Just as the player characters have triggers for gaining advancement based on playing to their character type, the crew too encourages playing in a style befitting the narrative archetype of the criminal organization that they share. The crew can gain territory, advance in organizational tiers and gain special abilities. The crew advances of its own in response to the player's abilities to accomplish capers and gain influence in the underworld providing a common set of boons to be invoked by the table. The players are unified around a shared crew or criminal enterprise, having its own communal character sheet. For example, the mechanist/ alchemist character type the Leech receives additional points when addressing their challenges with technical skill, while the fighter character type the Cutter receives additional points towards advancement for utilizing violence or threats. Player characters are chosen from a selection of broad character archetypes each with their own playbook, and each playbook has their own triggers for further character advancement points based on actions taken in play, encouraging the player to play the characters in a way that fits the narrative archetype. Players take the role of members of a criminal organization such as thieves, smugglers, or merchants of some illicit goods, and grind their way up the criminal underworld by seizing money, territory and infamy. An industrial world under perpetual night, long after some great catastrophe has relegated the sun to storybooks, and resulted in the ghosts of the dead lingering in the world. The default setting of Blades in the Dark, Doskvol, is a roughly 19th century level of technology combined with urban fantasy. The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2015, raising US$179,280 from 3,925 backers. Tabletop fantasy role-playing game Blades in the Darkīlades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper, set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction.

World darkness character sheet program