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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7622837" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>One of the things I like best about <em>Blades in the Dark</em> is how it surfaces information. The PCs know their standing with each faction, and they know their wanted level and heat (how much the law is actively investigating them). And in general I get the impression you are supposed to tell them when an action they take will affect these things. E.g., "Sure, you can slit his throat and dump him in the river, but your heat will increase by 2." People love to gossip, so it's really hard for a faction to keep their feelings towards anyone hidden for very long.</p><p></p><p>What the players don't know is the exact consequences of these numbers. Just because your faction status goes down by 2, that doesn't mean the faction is coming to get you... yet. It's kind of like knowing which areas of wilderness are rumored to be full of which kinds of monsters: the players are not sure what random encounters you'll roll, but they know that the table in bucolic farmland is different than the table used in the undead-filled volcanic ash-wastes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7622837, member: 12377"] One of the things I like best about [I]Blades in the Dark[/I] is how it surfaces information. The PCs know their standing with each faction, and they know their wanted level and heat (how much the law is actively investigating them). And in general I get the impression you are supposed to tell them when an action they take will affect these things. E.g., "Sure, you can slit his throat and dump him in the river, but your heat will increase by 2." People love to gossip, so it's really hard for a faction to keep their feelings towards anyone hidden for very long. What the players don't know is the exact consequences of these numbers. Just because your faction status goes down by 2, that doesn't mean the faction is coming to get you... yet. It's kind of like knowing which areas of wilderness are rumored to be full of which kinds of monsters: the players are not sure what random encounters you'll roll, but they know that the table in bucolic farmland is different than the table used in the undead-filled volcanic ash-wastes. [/QUOTE]
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