You can easily play an alien race as well. If you moan and groan at the thought of such blatant referencing, I can understand that but remember that this is a game that strongly leans into its influences. Many of the characters will have cliches running through their veins: the scoundrel has an ability where they can shoot first for instance (can’t think what that might be referencing) and another called ‘Don’t tell me the odds’. You may choose to handle that differently and like Blades there are numerous ways you could go about emulating such a situation. For our own ship we never really determined who was in charge and that role flipped between players depending on the situtation at hand. but interestingly there is no role such as Captain. When you get around to crewing your ship each player will be taking up a particular role on board: pilot, mechanic, stitch (doctor but with a pulpier name) etc. It also makes offering Devil’s bargains a little less meaningful, which you may embrace or hate. This feels like a really pulpy addition to the game as it makes it much more likely you will succeed at those crucial roles when you are out of resources to pump into getting extra dice. These are a pool of extra dice that you can add to any roll and any character can use. Unlike the crews in Blades in the Dark, ships have their own stats in Scum & Villainy meaning that when it comes to piloting your ship through a firestorm it can lend its muscle to determining how that comes out. You can run one shots for sure but the games only shine when played as a series. It doesn’t look like this but it may as well do It is worth reiterating before we go any further that Blades and it’s progeny are really best played as a campaign. This is a nice touch that reinforces the sort of campaign you are going to play and ties you to the ship from the off. On top of this you also get a different starting situation, what gets your crew into the game, depending on your ship. Each ship comes with its own specialities, giving you some choices right off the bat about exactly what sort of jobs your vessel is kitted out for. The other two ships cover being a gang of intergalactic bounty hunters or rebels against the Hegemony, the governing body in these particular parts of space.
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Scum & Villainy takes a different bent on this right from the start, setting you up in one of 3 different ships that will guide the sort of stories you want to tell.įor my money most people will probably end up starting with the Stardancer as this is the closest you are going to get to something like Serenity (Firefly TV series) or the Millennium Falcon (Star Wars). Blades in the Dark puts you in the shoes of bad people and makes no qualms about it: you are not the heroes of the city, you are trying to better your position by engaging in criminal enterprises. It’s no secret that I adore Blades in the Dark: a game of thieves, cults and smugglers in the dark fantasy city of Doskvol doing dirty deeds, but hoping to make a profit from it. Still here? Climb on board! Had to be done If the title of the game alone doesn’t fill you with ideas of sci-fi imagery, desperate actions against impossible odds and melodramatic turns of phrase, then this is probably not the game for you. Scum & Villainy is the first Forged in the Dark game, using the system first seen in Blades in the Dark (Blades) to give us a game of daring scoundrels, determined bounty hunters and crews of rebels flying across the galaxy. Scum & Villiany was designed by Stras Acimovic & John LeBoeuf-Little with art from Brett Barkley, Tomasso Renieri, Juan Ochoa, Michaela DeSacoo and Tazio Bettin. ‘You will never find a more wretched hive of Scum & Villainy’ an iconic line from a classic film and one that the most recent release from Evil Hat Productions and Off Guard Games leans into with all its might. I have also used a physical copy of the book during play but it did not belong to me. This post contains affiliate links for DrivethruRPG. I used my own money to pledge to the campaign.
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This review is based of a PDF copy of Scum & Villainy I received from backing the Blades in the Dark Kickstarter Campaign.
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