Arcane as in the League of Legends Netflix show (first few episodes mainly).
I’m not big on the sort “oppressive, endless darkness/ever encroaching void” vibe of the default Blades setting. But while watching Arcane I can see how well it could mesh with the system.
Thing is, I’ve never actually run a Blades game before. Mostly listened to podcasts, read some of the book and played a session of Scum & Villainy.
How easy is it to tweak the “vibe” of the default setting? Reading through the book is not doing much to inspire me, but I like the system a lot and think I could get into the setting if I could just make it more of my own.
Should be noted that I’m not looking to play in the world of Arcane verbatim. It’s just a touchstone.
I think one of main issues is that Runeterra (world of Arcane and League of Legends) has fantastic races like Yordles, while Blades is humans only game.
The pathfinder city of Alkenstar I think has some really good analogues for piltover. Its a desert city where magic doesn’t work. “Inventor” is the primary profession. Steampunk + fantasy alchemy with a good dash of early gun-smithing wild-west mixed in. You could ignore the wild west bit. There is a system-agnostic source book out there somewhere. I would pull from that personally.