my background and childhood and stories that I heard. So I realized that ever since I was a kid the sort of fantasy settings that I read about had like witches that could kill you … undead warriors, and curses, and all this other stuff that doesn’t really appear in the slightly more cleaned up, heroic fantasy that you see in novels these days. I came to this understanding that I grew up with fairy tales that were … slightly different than the fairy tales you read or have Disneyfied versions told to kids here, right? And so I grew up hearing all sorts of very dark Eastern European tales where a lot of people were based on historical figures and actual historical events. This is kind of a cool thing to talk about game development: I didn’t actually know why it was a passion of mine until we made this thing. There are different drives to different projects, and dark fantasy has always been a passion of mine. So I gave it to Harper, and he was like ‘wow this is amazing!’, and I put it on the Blades forums. It became the Legion, because, uh, John has a little bit more military-fu, he grew up as a military brat, so like a lot of the lingo and stuff from that angle kind of came in from his side. I wrote this, like, 6-8 page short story or something which was essentially what I envisioned the game to be – a piece of a nonexistent novel about this group, which I believe at the time was called The Company. So we sat down and talked a lot about what existed, and how the game would change, and then when Harper ran the Kickstarter he asked for pitches.
if you’re going to make a fantasy game, what makes it different than any other fantasy game that’s out there? One of the things that I was talking about was, I wanted a dark fantasy setting that was a bit like Warhammer, but that reflected like, I don’t know, some of my own personal family’s experiences particularly with WWII and whatnot. John’s a big fan of this question, which is before you write anything you should always ask ‘why?’. and we were talking about fantasy heartbreakers. and we were in a restaurant, eating lunch.
“So, very practically, John Harper was running the Blades in the Dark Kickstarter, and at the time I had just moved out – might have even been before I moved out – of Boulder. So, how did this whole thing get started?
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I was lucky enough to get to interview Game Designer (and Fierce Commander) Stras Acimovic about the game (which is also, as it happens, a full campaign). Hopefully not literally stuck on the pointy end, but, well, the Broken (also picked from a list of options) might have something to say about that. No, while they can help the Legion greatly (and how they can help is determined by which Chosen you choose from three options), you my friends are going to be playing the legionnaires stuck on the pointy end. However, what you’re not doing is playing the Chosen. Cut off from the other armies of the east, the legionnaires will have to undertake deadly risks to have any chance of making it to the Keep and making a difference in the war and the ultimate fate of humanity. Two of his Broken, Chosen who he somehow managed to corrupt, are in hot pursuit. but the Cinder King won’t let them go that easily. Accompanied by a Chosen, a hero blessed by a deity, they have to reach their goal before winter makes it impossible to reach. it’s going to be a hard campaign for this Band of Blades from Off Guard Games and Evil Hat Productions!īand of Blades is a standalone Forged in the Dark roleplaying game of dark military fantasy, starring the mercenary band known as the Legion in a desperate cross-country fighting retreat after what was supposed to be the glorious Final Battle blew up in their faces. But the Broken are in pursuit, and winter is closing in. If it can be reached, the Legion might just be able to hold the undead back long enough for the Eastern Kingdoms to find some way to save humanity. Command has decided that the company’s only hope is to march back east, making for Skydagger Keep. Now the Legion is a mercenary band all on its own – except for a single Chosen who helped to pull it out of the fire. Some of the Chosen were Broken in the previous conflcits, and no one was prepared for the horrors they’ve created for their new liege. A great host of armies from the Eastern Kingdoms marching west, led by the divinely-blessed Chosen, to strike down the Cinder King and his undead host once and for all. The Battle of Ettenmark was supposed to be the end of it.
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