Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game (ttrpg) about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of a Victorian industrial-fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and, above all, riches to be had—if you’re bold enough to seize them.

We’ve structured this as a widely available drop-in/drop-out ttrpg hosted at Cardboard Corner Cafe. Anyone is free to participate with no experience required.

Several game masters (GMs) will be running crews in a shared world. GMs will set their own schedules and run separate crews. Players can pick up and play in any crew and can come and go as necessary. When a crew takes a score, the effects ripple out, touching every other crew and faction in the city. One crew’s triumph could easily be another crew’s disaster, and blood isn’t coin, but it sure makes the loss easier to stomach.

If that sounds like your poison, come to the intro session to dig further into this massive campaign of Blades in the Dark.