I do like the idea of having a comparison between ship sizes (2 sloops make a frigate, or some such)… that could add a lot more interesting details to fleet design, and would be a nice guideline to reference when GMing. That means that the Scale metrics I’ve been working with have been about numbers of ships rather than sailors, and I’ve been handling differently sized ships in fights by focusing on the difference in potency. In general, I’m trying to make crew advancement be about improving the ship you already have rather than jumping to a bigger one I’m a big fan of the ship-as-character vibe that things like Firefly or Pirates of the Caribbean have, so I don’t want players to be shifting to a new ship every time they go up a Tier. That said, Scale doesn’t have to advance – if you want to stick with a single ship and have a small but elite crew, that’s easily doable. There isn’t a direct relation between Scale and Quality – you can have a large fleet of crappy ships or incompetent sailors – but they both tend to grow as a crew advances. – I would say that Scale and Quality are both pretty tightly wrapped around Tier – as you become more well-known, you can command a larger crew or more ships, and you have access to better equipment to outfit them. I’ll probably work in a section with some guidelines in the next version (similar to the “Using Ships & Systems” section in Scum and Villainy), but the normal Blades tools of position, effect, and clocks have served me pretty well thus far.
– There aren’t any rules specifically for ship combat, except for the ship’s harm track my thinking is that the standard Blades rules work pretty well without adding on another subsystem. It just didn’t make as much sense genre-wise for a pirates game, since you don’t really stake a claim to territory. – The cohort increase on the sheet is a typo it should cost 2 crew upgrades to convert to a fleet. Author Joe Adkisson Posted on DecemMaCategories Blades in the Dark: Hacks and Add Ons Tags Joe Adkisson From here on out my work is going to be mostly improving layout, writing detailed faction/setting information, and fine-tuning rules and playbooks as I keep playtesting. The system should be fully playable at this point, though it does rely on knowledge of the basic Blades rules. – Rules for upgrading your flagship and building a fleet
– A modified heat/entanglement system to better fit the pirate genre – A list of factions – both individual pirate crews and larger fleets and organizations
I’ve spent the last few months putting together the rules document for it, and the initial draft is finished and ready to be sent off into the world. Sea of Dead Men is a Blades hack about daring crews of pirates making their fortune in a dangerous and lawless ocean.
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