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Blades '68 Pre-order

Created by Evil Hat

Blades ’68 is an official supplement for Blades in the Dark, moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s. Rewards expected to ship out August 2026.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

New option for EU fans!
about 2 months ago – Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 09:59:37 PM

Just a quick note for fans in the EU who want to support the project and get the limited exclusives we're making for this campaign.

While we cannot ship directly to the EU, Sphaerenmeisters Spiele has set up a pre-order page where you can reserve the physical rewards from the campaign.



They will then include those items in their BackerKit retailer order, have them shipped to their store in Germany, and ship the items to you.

If you are in the EU, this is the best way to get copies of the Limited Edition rewards.  Several of these items (like the Doskvol 68 City Map, Score Pad, and Faction Deck) will not go into international distribution. Sphaerenmeister can only get them because they use a freight forwarding service.

Visit the Sphaerenmeister Spiele pre-order page for Blades '68 here.

Note that if you choose this option, we won't be able to send you the digital stretch goals unlocked by the campaign. Those are on their own development timeline and the logistics simply don't work. We do expect to put them up for sale as a separate PDF some day in the future.

So if you're keen to get the 25 digital stretch goals we're putting in The Palace Dossier, we suggest backing at the $25 PDF level.

You can find a more detailed explanation of this pre-order program here on the BackerKit page.

Sphaerenmeisters Spiele has long been a champion of our games and makes an extra effort to get exclusives that other stores overseas can't order through traditional distribution. 

We're very happy to work with them to support our EU fans and hope to have other retailers jump on board. Stay tuned.


An ELECTRIC first day!!
2 months ago – Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 03:48:18 PM

Hello backers, We're proud to announce that Doskvol now has 2700 more citizens! We just crossed $200k in funding!!

This wasn't just the best opening day we've ever had on BackerKit, it's more than double the next-highest performance. Thank you! We were optimistic about the enthusiasm for Blades '68 but your support has really blown us away.

You've also blown away a TON of stretch goals - 18 as of this counting, with more on the way!

We're organizing all our digital stretch goals into a bundle we're called The Palace Dossier - bits of ephemera and intelligence picked up around the hectic (and sometimes sinister) streets of Doskvol 968.


Right now the dossier includes:
  • The Faction Deck in PDF with at-cost POD coupon code
  • The Player Gazette in PDF with at-cost POD coupon code
  • The Trouble Deck in PDF with at-cost POD coupon code
  • The Score Pad in PDF
  • New Factions from the Dagger Isles by Pam Punzalan
  • Short fiction about a Daggerite student from Caro Asercion
  • A 60s-style advert from illustrator Naomi D Castro
  • Dive into Hollywood hijinks with a new Cold Open from Sam Dunnewold
  • A Turbofighter Catalogue from Ema Acosta
  • Character artwork from Avery 'Matte Bat' Andruszkiewicz
  • An expose on The Color Blind Project from Austin Walker
  • The dimension-spanning Mirror House from Jim Rossignol and Marsh Davies
  • Echo Projection artwork from Carly A-F
  • A birthday party at the Blue Bath spa goes awry in this short fiction piece from Jack de Quidt
  • Play a Class VI Metadimensional Entity in The Demon Playbook from Navi Drake
  • Strap on your plasmaskates and get ready to throw down with The Team crew from Shawn Drake
  • Take a fresh look at Bluetime with artwork from Lorne Colt
  • Explore the haute couture of modern Doskvol with this collection of factions, inventions, and assets by Briar Sovereign
  • Learn newly-discovered psychic combat techniques with Top Secret insights from Takuma Okada
  • Bend your mind and your eyeballs with psychadelic artwork from Cris Viana

And we have more items on deck from Morgan Davie, Sarah Terman, and John Harper.

These items will be going to everyone who backs at the $25 level and up. You can help get us there faster by spreading the word!

(And remember: We produce stretch goals on their own separate timeline. They will not slow down our ability to turn the book over to the printer and they will not extend our delivery date in any way.)

It's been a wild ride, and we can't wait to see where the autopod takes us.

Thanks again for your support and stay tuned as we release more stretch goals throughout the campaign.

Welcome to the Electroplasmic Revolution!
2 months ago – Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 08:12:00 AM

Thank you to all the backers of Blades '68! The Backer Prototype PDF and Roll20 Quickstart are available right now to all by selecting the Manage your pledge link at the top of the campaign page and scrolling down to Instant Access Rewards.  It's everything you need to start playing the game right now!



The Backer Prototype PDFs contain the full text and rules of the game. The most significant work remaining is finishing the art, and indexing. With that in mind, you will see blank placeholder spaces and pages in the Backer Preview PDFs where that art will get fitted when it comes in.

Spot a typo or error? While we've done extensive copy-editing on Blades '68 we might have missed something. If you spot an error, please report it here: https://evilh.at/68-typos 

Any questions? Let us know. We love questions! Join the BackerKit community discussion area for this project, or email us privately at [email protected].

And thank you as always for your support—it means a lot to us!