{"slug":"a-fistful-of-darkness","title":"A Fistful of Darkness","url":"https://www.ttrpg-games.com/item/a-fistful-of-darkness","agentUrl":"https://www.ttrpg-games.com/api/games/a-fistful-of-darkness.json","summary":{"blurb":"A Weird West hack of Blades in the Dark by Stefan Struck, complete on its own since the 2024 Full Game Edition. A posse of gunslingers, scavengers, outlaws and spirit-touched misfits fights over Hellstone in a frontier town the group builds together, while Doom rises and the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride closer.","atAGlance":"Weird West Forged in the Dark • d6 dice pools • Runs, engagement rolls and flashbacks • Grit, Doom and the four Riders • Hellstone claims and Mutations • 12 playbooks, 4 posse types • GM + 3 or 4 players","whyItFits":"Pick A Fistful of Darkness when your group already likes Blades in the Dark, or wants to try it, and would rather ride into a cursed boomtown than a haunted city. Players build Mudwater and its factions with the GM in the first session, then run jobs for Hellstone while deciding how much darkness they will bring into the world to get ahead. It is a campaign game: the Doom track and the arrival of each Rider give the story a direction and an end."},"constraints":{"playerRange":null,"sessionRange":null,"setupMinutes":null,"characterCreationMinutes":null,"prepLevel":"Medium","priceModel":"Paid"},"fit":{"beginnerFriendly":false,"newGmFriendly":2,"oneShotFriendly":false,"campaignFriendly":true,"soloFriendly":false,"improvBurden":"High","structureLevel":"Open","contentIntensity":"High"},"scores":[{"key":"complexity","label":"Complexity","value":4},{"key":"new_gm","label":"New GM Fit","value":2},{"key":"roleplay","label":"Roleplay Focus","value":4},{"key":"combat","label":"Combat Focus","value":3},{"key":"tactical","label":"Tactical Depth","value":2},{"key":"campaign","label":"Campaign Depth","value":4}],"availability":{"quickstartAvailable":false,"pdfAvailable":true,"physicalBookAvailable":true,"vttReady":false},"recommendations":{"bestFor":["Groups who like Blades in the Dark and want its job-and-downtime loop in a Weird West setting","Tables who enjoy building the town, its factions and their own contacts together in the first session","Campaigns that want a clear end, with an apocalypse track the players push forward or hold back"],"avoidIf":["You want a historically grounded western with little or no supernatural content","You want tactical gunfights with maps, ranges and turn-by-turn initiative","You want lots of ready-made adventures; the core book has none, and the GM improvises from faction clocks"]},"facets":{"genres":["Horror","Supernatural","Western"],"systems":["Forged in the Dark (FitD)"],"mechanics":["Campaign","Heist","Narrative-Driven","Rules Heavy","Team-Based"],"themes":["Cinematic","Dark"],"decisionTags":[]},"links":{"websiteUrl":"https://monkeyecho.itch.io/a-fistful-of-darkness?ac=YUqaLN4pVvG","reviewsUrl":"https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/307391/a-fistful-of-darkness?affiliate_id=1659151"}}