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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 9148963" data-attributes="member: 6993955"><p>Honestly, the overall lack of gear slots in Blades makes this seem a little bit like a tempest in a teacup. Plus, in no case are you choosing from a list anything like you might see on even a 1st level D&D character sheet either. Unless you're running heavy and risking a lot of notice while you walk about loaded down like Cable from a 90's comic book we're talking about a bare handful of slots and potentially even less actual gear given that some of it uses more than one slot. Having played rather a lot of Blades I can say with some certainty that conversations of this sort about which gear to check really don't come up that often. Having said that, and while I think my experience is broadly true of Blades play generally, it's also the case that there exists in the mechanic the constant possibility of having that conversation, and when it does happen I don't think you can call it anything but 'meta'. I'll leave off trying (pointlessly, IMO) to compare this to the amount of meta conversation at other tables using other systems. As I mentioned upstream the idea of meta or the feeling of meta often shows itself in the conversation at the table rather than being a stable referent of the mechanic.</p></blockquote><p></p>