Tim Denee On Bringing The Swinging 60s to Blades in the Dark

Narrative Damage · Sep 17, 2026 · 50m

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Tim Denee is a graphic designer and TTRPG creator who has created resources for games such as Blades in the Dark, as well as developing his own games such as Deathmatch Island, Odyssey Aquatica and, most recently, the Blades in the Dark supplement, Blades '68, which takes the world of Blades 100 years into the future into the swinging 60s.

We had great fun chatting with Tim, hearing about how he first got into TTRPGs and then how he began designing for them. We chat about what makes games like Blades so different from more traditional TTRPGs like…