The crowdfunding campaign for Blades '68, an expansion to the Blades in the Dark RPG, enters its final three days on BackerKit. Created by Tim Denee, the 450-page supplement shifts the game's setting to a dystopian 1960s-inspired future in Doskvol, 100 years ahead of the original. Backers can still access rewards like limited editions and custom decks before the Thursday deadline.
Blades '68 builds on John Harper's Blades in the Dark, transporting players to a retro-futuristic Doskvol filled with revolutionary themes. The expansion, described by its creators as featuring "unruly escapades in a dystopian retro-future," introduces playbooks for saboteurs, radicals, and robots, alongside new revolutionary crews, factions, and heist mechanics. It emphasizes espionage and unrest, with mod aesthetics, cool suits, and the threat of plasmic fusion accelerating technological and supernatural challenges.
The campaign, launched on BackerKit, has attracted more than 5,000 backers and is approaching $500,000 in funding as of March 9, 2026. Tim Denee, known for Deathmatch Island, crafted this 450-page book with innovative rules. These include "Special Procedures" for gameplay, updated systems for Harm and Resistance, a Trouble Engine to monitor district developments and crew unrest, and expanded character progression options.
Backers have until Thursday to pledge. The "Hull Containment Unit" tier offers a limited edition of Blades '68, a Trouble Deck, Score Pad, physical City Map, Faction Deck, 32-page Player Gazette, PDF version, and a DriveThruRPG coupon for print-on-demand. This expansion reorients the core Blades paradigm toward subversive narratives, appealing to fans of the original game's crime-focused gameplay.
