Give ’em A Little Free Play (opens in new tab)

My Blades in the Dark campaign is due for some free play soon. After every four or five Scores, I do one whole session that is just free play. No scores. Every character gets their own mini-story for the evening. This is in contrast to where our score sessions are a self-contained story, where the crew does some planning (only a little, this is Blades in the Dark after all), a score, and has some downtime. The free play sessions are more work, but they are a valuable part of our whole campaig...