The Lost Archives: Inventions and Rituals for Blades in the Dark

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Library Itch.io
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Platform Physical
Release Date 10/31/2025
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Do you ever find yourself stuck trying to think of a cool, dark arcane ritual for players to find after clearing a cult compound? Has a player ever swept through all the blueprints in an inventor's lab, and now wants to know what all they found? Coming up with these on the fly during a score is hard! That's where the Lost Archive comes in.

The Lost Archives is a collection of 73 inventions and rituals for use with the Blades in the Dark roleplaying game. These are perfect rewards for a score, as starting points for your own creations, or even the basis of a whole season of play! This printable PDF can easily be printed and cut into cards to hand out to your players, and include a full description of each ritual and invention, answering every question posed by the crafting rules in the core game.

These creations cover a wide variety of needs, from binding a character's soul temporarily to an animal, to trapping demons, to even tracking fissures from Deep Cuts! Game Masters can pick and choose which they want for their game, and players can choose to research or modify their favorites for their Whisper or Leech characters (or anyone else who dabbles with the unpredictable and supernatural)!

Will your crew utilize a Dread Decoy to throw off the Spirit Wardens after a high profile murder? Will they craft a Bloodhound lantern to trace who's been stealing their shipments? Is a rival faction slipping into their dreams, exploiting their subconscious?

This is unofficial, fan created content. Blades in the Dark was written by John Harper, and is published by Evil Hat.