Has anyone run Urban Shadows set in the UK?

15 thoughts on “Has anyone run Urban Shadows set in the UK?”

1. Excellent question.

2. Check out the Tokyo city guide in Dark Streets for some suggestions on how to handle guns in non-gun crazy countries. 😀

3. Thanks!

4. It is indeed a problem. I just got players to ignore the gun options unless they were (gun-)crazy.

5. Rob Brennan Which city did you set it in?

6. er, just like every other modern RPG set in the UK – there aren’t really any guns, and certainly none carried around routinely. There’s lots of other ways to inflict Harm available to the PCs and their opponents.

7. Dublin, not the UK but close enough! 🙂

8. Rob Brennan

   Stylish Weapon: Hurley

9. I have but it never came up…

10. Guy Milner Oh sure, I know hoe to handle it in fiction, mechanically that feels like the characters are losing an option from their sheet, especially for archetypes who gain access to more weapons.

11. Eadwin Tomlinson Did you just ignore it at character creation?

12. I think none of the playbooks we picked had those questions but I’ll take another look at the notes and let you know.

13. Many archetypes have non-firearm options on their list (a sword or machete or something). It also seems perfectly reasonable in a specific setting to just rewrite the list of options for anyone who has guns substituting knives or whatever seems more common in your area. Even if guns are rare, I’d personally still let the Hunter have them as their exotic weapon since that is a special move of theirs and is explicitly exotic.

    Pg 155-157 give good information about how to define weapons, so reasonable substitutions should be easy. The main impact is probably that a rarity of ranged weapons slightly improves the moves (like the elementalism spell) that provide ranged attacks, but that impact seems pretty minor.

14. Charlie Collins Yeah, I’d say the hunter can have all the weapons they want. Some criminals in the UK have guns of course, so it’s not like they’re non existent, but the idea of arming yourself as self defence is alien over here.

15. We have the same problem here in Spain, but when creating characters we just take into account that they are not “normal people”. Just think how every character option fits in the fiction, and that includes every single option: aspect, name, items, weapons…

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