Our inaugural episode where we decide our name, what we are doing and we start our read through of John Harper's Blades in the Dark. We cover a lot of ground but not a lot of pages and stayed mostly on topic. Mostly.

https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel

https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives

Things heard in this episode:

- Dark Souls legal trouble

- Determining our name

- Episode numbering controversy begins

- Mission statement

- Reading begins

- Art, setting, flavor

- Overview of playstyle, risk in reward

- Nature of the game

- Subjectivity of rolls

- Reverse Chicken Bone Mechanic

- https://www.rush.com/albums/roll-the-bones/

- Game cooler than it's own intro

- Bullet points

- Playbooks overview

- Taking a break

- Filling in gaps

- Crew sheets

- Player engagement and buy in

- GM section, Page 3

- Touchstones

- What you need to play

- Page 5

- Concept of player input the story

- Don't waste content

- Singing Chimney Sweeps

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