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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9312044" data-attributes="member: 42582">I thought I would check out the BitD SRD: <a href="https://bladesinthedark.com/core-system" target="_blank">The Core System | Blades in the Dark RPG</a>This is what I found under Game Structure:The Game Structure Blades in the Dark has a structure to play, with four parts. By default, the game is in free play - characters talk to each other, they go places, they do things, they make rolls as needed. When the group is ready, they choose a target for their next operation, then choose a type of plan to employ. This triggers the engagement roll (which establishes the situation as the operation starts) and then the game shifts into the score phase. During the score, the PCs engage the target—they make rolls, overcome obstacles, call for flashbacks, and complete the operation (successfully or not). When the score is finished, the game shifts into the downtime phase. During the downtime phase, the GM engages the systems for payoff, heat, and entanglements, to determine all the fallout from the score. Then the PCs each get their downtime activities, such as indulging their vice to remove stress or working on a long-term project. When all the downtime activities are complete, the game returns to free play and the cycle starts over again. The phases are a conceptual model to help you organize the game. They’re not meant to be rigid structures that restrict your options (this is why they’re presented as amorphous blobs of ink without hard edges). Think of the phases as a menu of options to fit whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish in play. Each phase suits a different goal.This seems fairly straightforward.I also had a look at the bit on Gather Information:When you want to know something specific about the fictional world, your character can gather information. The GM will ask you how your character gathers the info (or how they learned it in the past). If it’s common knowledge, the GM will simply answer your questions. If there’s an obstacle to the discovery of the answer, an action roll is called for. If it’s not common knowledge but there’s no obstacle, a simple fortune roll determines the quality of the information you gather. Each attempt to gather information takes time. If the situation allows, you can try again if you don’t initially get all the info that you want. But often, the opportunity is fleeting, and you’ll only get one chance to roll for that particular question. . . . Investigation Some questions are too complex to answer immediately with a single gather information roll. For instance, you might want to discover the network of contraband smuggling routes in the city. In these cases, the GM will tell you to start a long-term project that you work on during downtime. You track the investigation project using a progress clock. Once the clock is filled, you have the evidence you need to ask several questions about the subject of your investigation as if you had great effect.Given that Scores can also include the following:Stealth - Trespass unseen. Detail: The point of infiltration.I would expect that some information-gathering - like, learning where and how your rivals protect their most potent and valuable artefact - might itself require a score to obtain.Given the remarks about the GM's authority over gathering information, I would expect that it is the GM who decides whether an attempt to gather information is a single action in free play, or a downtime surveying project (like the smuggling routes) or a score (like my example).</blockquote>

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