The Bookend Playbook for Blades in the Dark

An esoteric collector and scholar of things long forgotten

The World has been dead for a long time. Since the shattering of the sun, and the release of demons from their vaults, the thing that was the world, has died. And humanity? Reduced to creatures scuttling along its corpse trying to survive. Many of its bones and relics have already been picked clean, taken by scavengers now long dead, but what of the marrow within? The ones who would search for where none have thought to look are known as Bookends.

When you play an Bookend, you earn xp when you address a challenge with knowledge or obscurity. Find what is buried beneath. Leave no stone uncovered. There is a lesson to be learned from everything, and you’ll be damned if you aren’t the first one to figure out exactly what it is.

Do you look for these objects out of some belief that people must learn their history or do you simply prefer airing dirty laundry that people had long thought dried out? Do you care about how people are affected by your snooping, or do you just do it for the sense of superiority you feel whenever you look over your beloved collection?