Author: Captain Kobold

Sitting down and reading the PDF!  Just wanted to say that these are some of the coolest, most evocative examples I’ve ever read in an RPG.

I’m coming in on playing Urban Shadows with a group of completely new roleplayers and I realized that I hadn’t planned anything.  The reason for this is that with my regular group of gamers, they provided such richness to the world and happenings through the rumors that I felt like putting in my own plot-threads would have been doing them a disservice.

Has anyone run with completely new players yet?  How much prep do you do for Urban Shadows games either with newbies or in general?

Had a great first session of Urban Shadows!  I did come up with one question, none of the four players actually checked off all four factions in the course of the session.  The session was maybe 4-5 hours long and got through a good amount of the rumors that they provided in the beginning (3 out of 4 ain’t bad).

Two players were 1 faction away (different factions missing) and the other two were 2 factions away.  I know that the beginning of the next session will make two of the players ding, but wasn’t sure if this was other people’s experience as well.  From Apocalypse World and Monsterhearts I expected slightly more advancing, but it’s highly possible the group was just playing oddly!

How often do you folks find players are advancing?

I’ve not yet played Urban Shadows, but I’m very excited to get a chance to try it out!  I see that there are options for a softcover and a hardcore version for pre-order, but I was wondering if there are any plans for a pdf and where I may be able to buy that.  Thanks!