Does anyone see a problem with running Urban Shadows in 17th or 18th century America?
Does anyone see a problem with running Urban Shadows in 17th or 18th century America?
Does anyone see a problem with running Urban Shadows in 17th or 18th century America?
I’ve run 19th century America and it went quite well.
It might be TOO interesting.
That would be fantastic!
The only problem I can see that you might run into is population density if you try to run it in the frontier. Assume for a moment that you want each Faction to have at least 2 organized groups of NPCs (vampire family, werewolf pack, demon cult, fae court, coven of witches, whatever) and that you want each group to be maybe a dozen strong so that it’s easy to define new NPCs that fill a niche. That can put you in the 80-100 supernaturals range and you probably want most of the population to still be clueless humans. So a frontier town of 200 may be too small, but any city of thousands should be just fine.
People obviously don’t have the cars and cellphones listed on their sheets, but those lists provide a clear sense of “how wealthy is this archetype” that can be mapped onto the wealth of the setting.
And don’t forget the potential for mobs with torches and pitchforks!
Charlie Collins – I’m thinking it would be in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore those places. No problem there. If we were exploring the west indies then maybe there could be a problem but then again maybe not if it’s temporary.
Christopher Meid – ha! I’d like to see them try. If it’s 17th century sure. 18th century they will be too busy and sophisticated for that. Lol.
Heh. I think you’d be surprised at what the unwashed masses are capable of.
Christopher Meid I totally know they could. I’m thinking though that even in those days the supernatural are smart, sophisticated and have the patronage or enthralled those in power. Imagine a werewolf working for Washington while actively opposing a fey that works for General John Burgoyne, and a hunter working for Washington but secretly working for the French.
Oooh. I bet Keith Mageau would be all over this game.
This does appeal to me!
Is this going to be a thing? Maybe an online game? If so, I would be interested in playing.
I would like to play it also!
Maybe it should be. I’m running dungeon world next but maybe after that I’ll run Urban Shadows.