
Just be careful not to become one of the many ghosts that haunt this delightfully dangerous world. It’s a unique, high-concept criminal playground. As soon as players start to get to grips with Doskvol, they can choose their aims, friends, and enemies in a bleak Victorian setting. To start with, GMs can think up ideas for their players to build up a gang’s notoriety or money. Drug runs, assassinations, or slick heists, the choice is yours. This haunted Peaky Blinders setting blends perfectly with the game’s Ocean’s Eleven style adventures. The setting is a world called Doskvol, a haunted version of a gritty urban center during the Industrial Revolution where the dead can’t pass on.

Instead, John Harper’s masterpiece rewards players for acting fast, breaking things, and figuring out how to get back out alive.īlades sets its players up as criminal underdogs making their way in a world where the odds aren’t in their favor. Sessions are less about thinking through every angle before rolling the dice.

Unlike the immensely popular Dungeons & Dragons, Blades in the Dark, an award-winning tabletop role-playing game, values speed and improvisation above all else.
