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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9620996" data-attributes="member: 7025508">It is an incoherent convoluted mess? I don't know, it has been decades since I last played it, and I never player much of it.All games of course have random elements and old school D&D often had notoriously lot deadly and untelegraphed randomness. Not fan of that. But how Blades work is that most rolls have some negative consequence and as there is no solid local myth (i.e. this is the floorplan, trap is here, four guards are here, direplatypus is here, the reinforcements arrive at four o'clock etc.) any roll can basically have any sort of bad consequence the GM can make seem plausible at the moment. Like it is sorta pointless to check in Blades whether a safe is trapped for example. Whether it is or not, if you roll consequences when you're trying to open it something bad will happen regardless. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I don't know, to me it just feels different. Like in D&D I feel I can try things, explore and use the things I learned to my advantage more than I can in Blades. And this doesn't mean it is a bad game, and I took "reckless" as my first trauma and stopped worrying about it. But at first It was frustrating when I tried to play it smartly and cautiously. Now I just enjoy the mayhem.</blockquote>

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