It's not easy to pull off a Job under the best of circumstances, and the City Watch aren't the only group a criminal needs to watch out for. Find out more about the groups and individuals that oppose the cartels, and how they can make life difficult for the Right Kind of People.

To make it easier for the Judge to present challenges and keep the pacing of the game moving forward, Dusk City Outlaws uses a resource system called heat. Heat builds up as the crew is on the Job, and when the Judge spends heat the city's law enforcement and other cartels pop up to cause problems.

Players in Dusk City Outlaws take on the role of a crew of criminals, and they create their characters by combining the choice of their cartel with their specialty on the Job. The mechanics of each are presented on cardboard cards, which are placed next to each other and contain everything you need to know to run your character. Find out a little more about how this character system evolved during development.

Dusk City Outlaws came into being through a spark of inspiration blending three basic ideas I'd been working on for a while: a simplified narrative dice system, an urban setting with colorful criminal factions, and a desire to make a game that made making characters and starting to play fast and easy. Today, I'm going to talk about the dice system.