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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9621184" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I agree that Blades fundamentally is depicting a world where just surviving is hard and almost anything can go bad. I think the skill is thus not focused on how to cover all your bases and be safe. It's more around managing your options, having a backup plan, orienting in threat space so that the bad stuff runs into your strongest capabilities. My Cutter character took the "expend your armor box to perform a superhuman feat, or negate an opponents scale." As soon as the badness came, his twin swords were out and milling the problem to mincemeat with cranked dots of skirmish. When stuff got weirder, I got the option that let me fight spirits with a sword. If I was playing a spider, then I would play to those strengths. Beyond that it's a game that rewards players for coming up with solutions which are thematic and preparing to deploy them, etc. You have to balance out how to use your downtime, do I heal, indulge, tick some clock to get a project finished, etc. And then there are the crew level choices, do we grab territory, start a war, make peace, which fractions do we align with? I agree, in the end there's always some danger you cannot avoid by play, but you sure can roll a lot more dice if you play well!</blockquote>