7:00 PM ET Wednesdays! We're running our first sessions of Blades in the Dark on Wednesdays! It's open table---you can make one session and never play again, or try to play a bunch of times. No experience with the system is expected or necessary, and it's pretty easy to just pick up and go. I'll email details to those playing, but we'll run it in a Roll20 VTT, so you'll need a free account with them. You can make a PC in advance, or pick from pregens we'll have. Excited to play with you all! You can sign up below---spots are first come, first serve. 3/25 Game: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B44AFA723A2FB6-63028606-blades 4/1 Game: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B44AFA723A2FB6-63029032-blades If you're unable to make that day and time, don't worry! We'll have other days and times we'll do intermittently so more people have a chance to play. I'll also be launching a poll tomorrow to decide what criminal crew type we'll be playing as. See you all there!

If you haven't popped into the Friday 11am ET Coffee Hour yet, you should! Had a great conversation about our games today, did some workshopping of member ideas, and talked about DNA as forensic evidence in court cases. - Some puzzles we can emulate across multiple sessions (not for the faint of heart!): greatpuzzlehunt.com/puzzles - What @Mark Petersen is painting right now: myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-vile-steel-dragon-gargantuan-size-114270 - Here's a thread from 2004 with Unknown-Armies-style rumors! forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/unknown-armies-plot-in-a-line-thread.120418/ - A guide (possible from Ginny Di originally?) for helping players thinki through their warlock/patron relationship: docs.google.com/document/d/1JXte43MW6LQUZ6spO1CWv8tguhjtn1ZJAtr4ICZ8dxk/edit?usp=sharing We also talked a lot about puzzles today and how to implement them in sessions. If you have any links I missed, drop them in the comments!

Here's the Session -1 we ran last night for our Blades in the Dark campaign! Signups will go live tomorrow for our first session. I'll also link this in the classroom today, and find some time soon to put that Session -1 doc up that I had. Thanks to those who were able to stop by!

Thanks to everyone who made it out today! Here are a few things we talked about: - An post with an excellent comment string by @Doug Peterman about play-by-post games (PBP games): skool.com/game-masters-laboratory/pbp?p=4b43a12f - A live-game events company in Pittsburgh that connects players and DMs at local spots: dungeonsndrafts.com/areaEvents/default - @Elizabeth Roberts 's new company for connecting local Pittsburgh players, DMs, and games: QuestYinzGames.com - @Jordan Peacock runs 10 paid games a week - for those of you looking to go semi-pro or pro, it might be worth checking out how he does it: linktr.ee/sortilege - A resources for quickly building balanced encounters: freshcutgrass.app - The Sablewood intro adventure for Daggerhear teaches the GM as well as the players as you go: daggerheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Sablewood-05-20-25.pdf - People will use DnD 5e to run anything... why?? For example: sw5e.com/

Hello all, I had to miss today's session as I'm not feeling well, but sign ups for next week are now live! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B44AFA723A2FB6-63188561-blades#/ Hope to see some of you there!