Transcript
Thomas Manuel of the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indie’d podcast joins me to talk about Secondary Missions, a mechanic from Band of Blades by Off Guard Games.
In Band of Blades, a grim military fantasy forged in the dark game, you and your party go off and do missions. Meanwhile, there’s a whole other squad out there doing a whole other mission! What’s up with them? This mechanic tells us. It’s such a change in the mouthfeel of Band of Blades compare to other forged in the dark games.
We get into how it supports the genre and themes of the game, all the tough choices it puts in front of players, and how mechanics like this one that couldn’t exist in any other game are often our favorites.
It’s a classic Dice Exploder deep dive this week. Enjoy.
Further reading:
* Blades in the Dark
* Malazan Book of the Fallen
* Band of Brothers
* Darkest Dungeon
* The Watch
* Dream Askew // Dream Apart
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