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Last week I did a thread about how in Band-Aids & Bullet Holes you can change the whole genre of the game from John Wick to Constantine by giving someone the calling card "the fairy king's true name". I got a bunch of contributors to write new card packs like this, and I wanna show them off!

@johnharper.bsky.social's doing a list of vehicles - I pitched him on this after seeing what he's cooking up with Ride or Die. John Wick has a car, but when everyone's got a ride you get something like a Fast & Furious mashup. Or you just get one loon who never gets out of his firetruck, both work.

When @seaexcursion.itch.io pitched me a Roger Rabbit "Toon Town" playset I laughed out loud. John Wick Roger Rabbit, I mean lfg. My favorite part of this one: it's the only playset that wants a list of custom Wound calling cards:

@wilkiescandylab.com's doing "neo-Western," like Fargo or Hell or High Water. What if "the City" was instead "the state of Texas?" I love Mikey's innovation of calling cards as bits of dialog. Not pictured: "save a cow, eat a cowgirl"

@notwritinggames.bsky.social is doing cyberpunk. It's so easy to make BABH cyberpunk it's almost unsettling to me. Also why do most of these genre-changes still have an associated Keanu movie? Who can say. Some favs from the venues list not pictured: hover car traffic jam, pawnshop full of limbs

Finally @thesamroberts.com is doing street-level superheroes. This one's going to want custom characters and powder-keg (aka relationship map), but I think the flexibility of calling cards will makes this a great system for superpowers. Can't wait to get this one in front of people.

And then @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social is doing a Triangle Agency playset! I talked about crossover sets like this in a thread last week where I also showed off a Blades in the Dark playset: