We’re starting a new Urban Shadows mini-campaign soon and the players have picked their playbooks: The Aware, The Wolf, The Spectre, The Immortal, and The Tainted.
This raises an important question. Can the Aware see the Spectre without the Spectre manifesting? How do people normally play the Spectre with the various Mortality Playbooks? Do they qualify as ‘Regular people’?
Did you ask the players? What answers did they give?
Not yet – but I will 🙂
At the moment all we’ve done is pick a date and choose playbooks (all by email).
Having said that, when I do ask at the table I may make it a more loaded question? Something like: “Under what circumstances can you see the spectre?” or “What do you need to do to see the Spectre?”
It seems to me that of course the Aware can see and interact with the Spectre. So, also ask the Spectre something like “What happened the first time the Aware saw you?” or “What was the most embarrassing thing the Aware caught you doing?”
Its questions like that which make me look forward to the 1st session, and knowing my players the answers will be dynamite 🙂
I usually go with whatever the group at the table decides would be most interesting, but my default is that no protagonist is a ‘regular’ person so the Aware and other Mortal Archetypes can see the Spectre. This falls in the trope of ‘those who have had their eyes opened cannot close them again’.