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Hello, just wanted to thank you for this beautiful supplement, itās got me in a very creative headspace and itās just an amazing collection of cool ideas and game content!
I had a question for anyone who has run The Tangletown Hustle starting scenario included in this work by @michael - What sort of wrongs did Mardin Gull want set right? Iāve been brainstorming on this and repeatedly hitting walls for some reason.
I so LOVE the idea of delaying the crew-creation process until after a sort of tutorial score where players feel out the game mechanics and discover what kind of jobs they like to pull. My problem has been coming up with things Mardin Gull might regret that could easily translate to several possible plans for the different types of scores.
I think I want to involve Tangletown, not as a āprove you can be a crew before getting the jobā type situation, but simply as the setting for one item on Mardinās list of regrets he wants fixed. His regrets would also lead them to other locations and into other districts. Ideally I think I want one fix-it job for each type of score. That way my players get a little sampler of Assault, Deception, Stealth, Occult, Social, Transport. Walk half a mile in the shoes of shadows, bravos, smugglers, etc. (Maybe combined down into only three or four separate scores?) Is this approach totally unfeasible? Iām probably over-complicating things.
If I wanted to give the players a checklist at the beginning of the campaign from Mardin Gull that says āhelp me right these specific wrongs and I will give your crew the Leaky Bucket pub, and its hidden lair & vault below,ā would that be a good way to introduce a group of D&D-Finder on-rail adventure path nerds to the wide open world of Blades In The Dark?
