Shift-X is a superheroic roleplaying game Forged in the Dark. It is about a team of people with extraordinary powers trying to create and deepen their relationships while foiling the plans of devious villains.

Work in Progress

Shift-X is a work in progress. I am currently working to edit the Blades in the Dark SRD. (½ through "Basics")

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Touchstones

• The Marvel Cinematic Universe; especially the Avengers series.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Licenses

This Work

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Forged in the Dark

This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Blades in the Dark™ is a trademark of One Seven Design. The Forged in the Dark Logo is © One Seven Design, and is used with permission.

Outline

• basics
  • standard BitD basics
  • threat level and setting Position & Effect
  • powers
• characters
  • threat level
  • powers
  • background & origins
  • nemesis
  • relationships
• teams
• events
  • incitement
  • action sequences
  • transitions
    • stress relief
    • resource acquisition
    • gathering information/tracing
  • resolution
  • downtime

Folder Structure

• System
  • documents for the rules
• Atlas
  • an atlas of all things. People, places, things, and characters.
• Issues
  • the story so far