The Dead End Detectives – Details, episodes & analysis
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As the Dead End Detectives our main goal is to read through a TTRPG book and then proceed to play that game with a read-as-written stance. This is about exploring the game setting and system, using it's main book as the primary word to run it.
Do we always get it right? No, but we make improvements.
Do we always agree? No, but we respect opinions.
Do we always have fun? Yes, this is the real goal.
Ultimately the point is to have fun, we hope you have fun too!
Slowly, past episodes will be updated with edited versions but the entire show is largely unedited.
We try to post a show every second Saturday and you might even hear me mess up the lead in sometimes :)
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🇨🇦 Canada - games
17/04/2025#54🇨🇦 Canada - games
12/11/2024#98🇨🇦 Canada - games
11/11/2024#56
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 05
Season 1 · Episode 5
samedi 2 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:19:59
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 04
Season 1 · Episode 4
samedi 19 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:20:15
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 03
Season 1 · Episode 3
samedi 5 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:02:11
Episode 3 of the reading, hope you enjoy!
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives
Things heard in this episode:
- Pants check
- Bedtime!
- Stress is your friend
- There are 8
- Skyrim reference!
- Yearning for railjacks
- Progress clock trivia
- Action rolls
- Risky Business is a thing
- Commanding bodies of water
- Are you sure?
- Reading the rolls
- Knife fights are dangerous
- Dominant factors
- Dynasty Warriors reference!
- Trading position for effect
- Street Cents reference!
- Future consequences
- Can crack and a dad joke
- Even more position and effect
- Consequences and harm
- Hit a Dude
- The fuck up clock
- High kick arrow block
- Bold catastrophic permanent consequences
- Resistance and armour
- Future Load
- Death, finally
- Death is not the end
- Clerks reference!
- Krull reference!
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 02
Season 1 · Episode 2
samedi 21 septembre 2024 • Duration 56:06
We work our way further into the book in fine detail.
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives
Things heard in this episode:
- Mere moments ago
- The core system
- Fire brigades
- Command the door
- No love for 5th Ed
- Rolling the dice
- Degrees of success
- How much fun can you have failing?
- Grinding fun cooker
- Action roll
- Bread and potatoes
- Meat and butter
- Fortune roll
- Roll-ception
- Resistance segue
- Free Play
- Bonne Cop, Bad Cop
- Smooth talking players don't roll
- Player expertise IRL vs the game
- Downtime phase
- Free play is only mostly free
- Actually the action roll
- Position and Effect
- The only example of position
- Dice pools
- Resistance roll redux
- Player buy in
- Stress
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DED Actually Plays Blades in the Dark - 05
Season 2 · Episode 5
samedi 5 avril 2025 • Duration 02:37:58
Actual play episode 5, we hope you enjoy it!
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives
Things heard in this episode:
COMING SOON
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DED Actually Plays Blades in the Dark - 04
Season 2 · Episode 4
samedi 22 mars 2025 • Duration 02:24:19
Actual play episode 4!
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives
Things heard in this episode:
COMING SOON
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 06
Season 1 · Episode 6
samedi 16 novembre 2024 • Duration 31:30
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DED Reads Blades in the Dark - 01
Season 1 · Episode 1
vendredi 20 septembre 2024 • Duration 56:23
Our inaugural episode where we decide our name, what we are doing and we start our read through of John Harper's Blades in the Dark. We cover a lot of ground but not a lot of pages and stayed mostly on topic. Mostly.
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
https://www.patreon.com/DeadEndDetectives
Things heard in this episode:
- Dark Souls legal trouble
- Determining our name
- Episode numbering controversy begins
- Mission statement
- Reading begins
- Art, setting, flavor
- Overview of playstyle, risk in reward
- Nature of the game
- Subjectivity of rolls
- Reverse Chicken Bone Mechanic
- https://www.rush.com/albums/roll-the-bones/
- Game cooler than it's own intro
- Bullet points
- Playbooks overview
- Taking a break
- Filling in gaps
- Crew sheets
- Player engagement and buy in
- GM section, Page 3
- Touchstones
- What you need to play
- Page 5
- Concept of player input the story
- Don't waste content
- Singing Chimney Sweeps
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DED Actually Plays Blades in the Dark - 03
Season 2 · Episode 3
samedi 8 mars 2025 • Duration 02:46:06
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DED Actually Plays Blades in the Dark - 02
Season 2 · Episode 2
samedi 22 février 2025 • Duration 02:24:58
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