Dark Streets / LE Playbooks Update – Jan 2015

Dark Streets / LE Playbooks Update – Jan 2015

Dark Streets / LE Playbooks Update – Jan 2015

Hey folks!

Since we get so many questions about Dark Streets and the LE Playbooks in this community (the archives aren’t really that searchable), he’s an official (pinned) update on these projects:

Dark Streets – We’re currently working through the City Guides and LE playbooks for the book. We plan on including the cities listed in the Kickstarter and The Vessel, The Revenant, The Scholar, and The Hallowed, along with a few essays about expanding the game in interesting ways. The depth of rules editing here has been substantial (we want to make sure everything really, really works), but we expect to have production news in the next month or so.

Other LE Playbooks – If you’re looking for LE playbooks that aren’t going to be in Dark Streets (The Dragon, The Immortal, The Angel, etc) stay tuned for more information. We’re likely to release those as standalone products when they are finished, sometime after Dark Streets is published.

Thanks!

96 thoughts on “Dark Streets / LE Playbooks Update – Jan 2015”

  11. Still grinding! We are actually going to release a bunch of new GM stuff for the main game tomorrow, then full sheets for the new playbooks. We’ll keep you posted!

  12. Maaaaark… Tomorrow was two days ago.  Just cause you and the rest of the crew are in the home-strech of a million-bajillion dollar kickstarter for some silly pirate game doesn’t mean you can neglect those of us that prefer vampire biker gangs and demon mobsters.

  17. We’ll have an update out at the beginning of April. In short, things are moving, but slower than we would like. Look for the playbooks first (early in the month) and hopefully the text will come together shortly after that. Lots of moving pieces here so it’s hard to pin down a deadline.

  21. Mark Diaz Truman Is there a newer version of the Immortal playbook that needs playtesting? 😉 As we start a new US campaign and wanted to play an Immortal this would be easily possible 🙂

  25. We’re grinding away on the pieces from our contributors and finalizing the last of the supplementary text for the playbooks. I think we’ll have an official update in early May. Thanks!

  28. I hope we’re going to see the full book soon, but if not, it would be really really cool if we got a preview of another city guide to tide us over.  I’ll selfishly suggest London, since that’s where the game I started today is set.

  29. Personally, I’d like to selfishly suggest somewhere in North America, where I daresay most games are set.  As the Brit John Lennon said: “If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”

  32. As KS backers saw previews for the LE playbooks during the kickstarter, can we expect to get them through the KS or will we need to purchase the LE playbooks separately?

  34. Yeah, I was just about to pop-back after seeing “and all digital stretchgoals” as part of my pledge. Anyhoo, looking forward to the finalized versions. Had a dragon in my campaign and it worked out pretty well.

  35. Awesome. One thing we’re doing with the new playbooks is really pushing how strong they are. We want each of them to stand up next to the originals. 😀

  39. Hey folks! Sorry for the delay. We’re still hard at work, but no fixed dates for when things will hit shelves. We should have an update soon with a bunch of new city guides and some finalized playbooks soon.

  46. YES!!!!

    Can’t wait to play more US. I’m eager to learn more about city environments and how best to utilize them. It has been a great influence on the game I’m developing about powers and prices.

  50. We are going to start a new Urban Shadow campaign on the 26th of November. Is there any hope that we might have access to the PDF version of the book (and thus the new playbooks) by then? Anyways, i am still super excited for your ideas how make cities “feel alive”.

  52. My apologies for asking, but is Dark Streets out? I recently purchased the game and am trying to get my group to give it a try. But if a new version, or new additional playbooks, are available or about to be released, maybe I will wait until I have everything. I am assuming the PDF will be available for general purchase and is not just for Kickstarter participants.

  67. I’m looking to start my first game next week. Would you recommend delaying it until after Dark Streets? If the new rules and new archetypes are substantial and hard to incorporate later on that would be a bummer, since i’m planning on running a longer game. We would only get 1-2 sessions in until the end of the month and maybe some players would rather play one of the new archetypes then.

  68. Tim Schaufert Hey. I was waiting for someone to reply to you, but it seems like no one has. Personally, I would strongly recommend not delaying your game until after Dark Streets. Delays are very common with Magpie Games, so I wouldn’t plan on Dark Streets until mid-February at the absolute earliest, possibly June-July at the latest. If you’re looking to get started sooner, I’d just go for it.

  69. I also was waiting to see who all was going to reply. I suggest starting now and just incorporating Dark Streets at a later time, that’s what I’m doing.

  71. Yup! I think we will have it processed around the end of the month (barring problems with proofing). Please start your campaigns now! Dark Streets can always be integrated later.

  74. We’ve had a short delay for some proofing stuff, but we’ll have it out soon, soon, soon. It will go up on DTRPG before it goes up on our website because we only do print stuff through our webstore.

  77. I’ve been waiting for dark streets to come out for about 14 months now. I hardly believe it will ever actually be released. It was supposed to already be out by January of last year

  78. Alexander Permann – Yup! They will be available as downloads from DTRPG.

    Andrew Hinkebein – While we’re sorry to keep you waiting… we’re almost there! It will be out on DTRPG as soon as we can turn around the proofing notes.

  80. I would like to give a short heads up to the crew behind Urban Shadows. We have another game going tonight and I am totally looking forward to this. Thanks for making this really cool game. We are enjoying it greatly!

    Sometimes it is easy to forget that you all do this in your free-time (i assume) and things just get delayed sometimes. Just be assured, I will buy Dark Street the second it enters DTRPG 😀

  81. Is there any chance we can get a time frame for how far out from Dark Streets that we can expect the other playbooks? I’ve honestly avoided getting into the game until now because I’m waiting for the Angel and Immortal.

  84. Mark Diaz Truman Oof, I need Dark Streets so bad. So many questions I’m hoping it answers. Just picked up a soft-cover copy of Urban Shadows at Mox Boarding House, and looking to start a campaign in the next few days- I really hope Dark Streets is up by then!

  86. Someone needs to make a screen shot of Chrono Trigger game over with a Dark Streets book and “The Future refused to change”

  89. James Friery – Wait for the Kickstarter to be over?

    Dark Streets will be available on DTRPG on Tuesday, March 21st. It’s been available to backers for about a week now, and we’re touching up the last few proofing changes that folks have caught before releasing it widely. Thanks for your patience!

  90. The KS for The Watch, since Andrew is involved in it. Very glad to hear that the date for the release has been set. I am a huge fan of both OWoD and ChoD, but at this point in my life want much more lightweight rulesets to work with, and Urban Shadows seems like a good fit for me

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