I would love to read your experiences with Torchbearer, as I have none.

WRT Blades in the Dark free play, I’ve been running it weekly for over a year but we can only play for 2 hours at a time. Being able to play it like “Boom! score! Boom! downtime! Boom!” is a tremendous selling point for us. I don’t know if that helps or hinders.

Andi Carrison is being too modest. All those people on Scum & Villainy are great, and their AP really does involve a lot of “free play” stuff where they’re bouncing their characters off one another. It is on the group to make sure the scoundrels you make will be fun to bounce off each other, though. The core Blades game doesn’t explicitly create characters with the kind of tensions you see on S&V: Stardancer. Blades’ll do that for the faction game, though.

Finally, I humbly offer up my Glow in the Dark hack as a potential way to get BitD with AW together. Obviously, if your motivation for AW is because you want actual AW, this is not a good suggestion, but if it’s the post-apocalypse thing you want in general, maybe it’s an option. It skews a little less grim and a little more Gamma World.
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