# Bay of Villains tags: #game/rpg/bay-of-villains #game/rpg/forged-in-the-dark ![[Bay of Villains (cover).jpg|600]] **Bay of Villains** is a Forged in the Dark game that asks the brave question: what if **[[Blades in the Dark]]** stopped moping about ghosts and started throwing cars at T-Rexes? Set in the near-future year of 2007, Bay Megacity is a fractured, genre-blending metropolis where cyberpunk corporations, literal wizards, and alien refugees all struggle for dominance. You play the street-level villains — not the world-conquering megalomaniacs yet, but the scumbags clawing their way up the food chain. It's loud, violent, and assumes you have the moral backbone of a chocolate éclair. The core is the same Forged in the Dark action roll: roll a d6 pool equal to your action rating plus assistance and pushes, take the highest die — a **6** full success, **4/5** partial with a consequence, **1–3** failure, multiple 6s a critical — with position and effect set before the roll. Where it diverges from its gloomy cousin: characters are defined by a **Power Source** (Alien, Magic, Tech, Shift, or Training) that drives collateral damage and Heat, **Scale** matters enormously (one person fighting a Kaiju is in trouble), and maxing out stress triggers a **Traumatic Surge** — you can't resist consequences anymore, but you succeed harder and push for free until the scene ends, then gain a Trauma. It's a mechanic built for going out in a blaze of glory. The version history is non-Euclidean: the game rebooted from v1.x into the current **v0.6** refactor, which integrates compatibility with *Deep Cuts* and reintroduces the bombastic street-level supercrime feel. ## References - [Bay of Villains - itch.io (v0.6 and devlogs)](https://dyehardbard.itch.io/bay-of-villains) - [Bay of Villains is back in Version 0.6 - Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/bladesinthedark/comments/1oqe7ko/new_update_for_my_streetlevel_supercrime_game_bay/) - [Bay of Villains Character Creation and Items - Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/bladesinthedark/comments/1ahbjbp/bay_of_villains_character_creation_and_items/)