Had my brother-in-law and his friend over yesterday afternoon. They had never played an RPG before and wanted to try it so I offered to run them a game. I gave them about 6 game choices and to my pleasant surprise they chose Urban Shadows as the game to try.
I was super nervous about it, I had never run a group of newbs before.
They chose a Tainted and Specter to play and the session went very well. They both took to playing in character quickly and with almost no hesitation and before we all knew it we had created a wonderfully complex relationship map between them and their family/friends and we had a fun session. They would like to play again and bring along one of their sisters next time who is also interested.
How did the Specter play? I think that was the first play through for the PB.
BTW, that is awesome to hear.
Yea it was the playbook’s premiere. It went well. We had to do a lot of narrative ques for the Specter allowing him to have both a physical state and traditional invisible ghostly one. It worked out nicely and didn’t over-power anything at all.