The Brand
A downloadable custom playbook
Introducing the Brand, an impassioned arsonist and agitator.
In fine mansions the nobles boast that the city is a clockwork built by their
hands, and the common citizens are just so many cogs. Meanwhile in hidden
lairs and gambling dens, the gangs of the underworld think of the city as an
elegant web and themselves the spiders.The scoundrels commonly called Brands
know they’re both wrong. This broken and ruined city is a powderkeg—and if
it can’t be set right, perhaps it’s time to put it all to the torch.
The streets are filled with suffering multitudes whose hearts and ambitions are
tinder waiting for the right spark. Will you be their savior, or their destruction?
The Brand is a free custom playbook for Blades in the Dark, by John Harper, inspired by fictional revolutionaries with a fiery turn of phrase and a penchant for pyrotechnics.
The Brand is a useful addition to any Crew with a point they need forcefully made.
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I was thinking of a firebrand playbook that combined fiery speech, arson, and psychokinesis, but now you saved me the trouble of writing it. This looks great!
Very cool! I would love to see how a Crew would be transformed by adding this playbook.
A question: does the Brand not start with any of the Special Abilities? Or can they pick any one?
Same as a standard Blades playbook! The usual character creation rules apply—so step whichever is still “choose a special ability”.