Check out Mark Diaz Truman talking Urban Shadows with Chad Parish & Satine Phoenix of the Game School podcast!
Originally shared by Chad Parish
Game School talks with Mark Diaz Truman, co-creator of Urban Shadows! In this episode we learn that when it comes to being supernatural, the super part is only half the story!
Hosted by Satine Phoenix and Chad Parish, and co-produced by Peter Bryant and Chad Parish. Let us introduce you to your new favorite game.
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Blaming hipsters for gentrification is a bit silly and your analogy of hipsters as demons actually shows that. Hipsters are the street level symptom of gentrification and not its cause. If you are looking for a better analogy in the context of Urban Shadows rather pick Investors / Power. Outside of Urban Shadows (where vampires unfortunately are street level as well) but in the urban fantasy genre I think Salem´s Lot by Stephen King can be seen as a brilliant metaphor of the powerful transforming a town and draining it of all life. Look at the way the super rich created areas in Inner London that are completely deserted at night because they only live there for a few weeks per year.
Horst Wurst – Cool points! Thanks!
I enjoyed hearing the background thoughts behind the playbooks for Urban Shadows. In particular, I hadn’t thought of the Wild as being like immigrants, or as the factions not being in direct competition.
The example about the wizard buying a building in the wolves’ territory was illustrative: the wizard really just wants the apartment on the third floor, but the wolves can’t really share it because fuck you territory. It’s not that they’re competing, exactly, but that they’re operating at cross purposes and thus can’t even really talk to each other about it.
Is that about right?
David Hayes – Yup! Exactly. And maybe they can come to an agreement if only someone can bridge the gap…