The Mechanist

Under lamplight and in the heat of a forge you do your best work. Metal bends to your will, and electricity courses through capacitors, giving a semblance of life to your creations. Encased in armour that augments your strength and carries your weaponry, you are more than human, and more than machine. And the city holds no secrets, no limits, over your ingenuity. 

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The Mechanist is a steampunk inventor playbook for Blades in the Dark by John Harper. Forge and don a suit of armour or wearable gadget packed with cutting edge technology of your own devising, and wreck, tinker, and outwit your way to fame and fortune.

This is not a complete game, and requires a copy of Blades in the Dark to play.

This is my first foray into designing for Blades in the Dark and the Forged in the Dark system, so feedback is extremely welcome!

Playbook template by by Aesopian, mkudn.itch.io, lightly modified.

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I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people and the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional owners of the land on which the majority of my work takes place. I pay respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.