YMMV / Blades in the Dark

• Friendly Fandoms: There's a fair bit of overlap with the Dishonored fandom, as might be expected given how much that game influenced Blades in its setting and aesthetics.
• Spiritual Successor: Blades is a love child of Ghost Lines and Bootleggers, two Apocalypse World hacks published by Harper in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The former introduced much of the Shattered Isles setting from the perspective of Rail Jacks defending electrorails from ghosts, while the latter shifted the narrative focus to criminal enterprises instead and prototyped a lot of the mechanics, with its 1930s booze-smuggling gangsters eventually becoming the Smuggler crew.

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