Author: Tommy Rayburn

John Layton and I just finished all of our existing books for our WoD add-on to Urban Shadows.

John Layton and I just finished all of our existing books for our WoD add-on to Urban Shadows.

John Layton and I just finished all of our existing books for our WoD add-on to Urban Shadows.

This includes: Vampire the Masquerade,  Mage the Awakening,  Werewolf the Forsaken, Hunter the Vigil, Orpheus and Slasher.

There are plans to add Changeling and Demon at some point …. but we have no time frame. 

The only thing I am not 100% sure with is the XP system I have put in. I went with one similar to one of the variations of Dark Ages, but it may be to many things to track.

I also may make a few visual/layout tweaks (fonts and such) after US is released, to slightly match in style.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Hhx1yXlz-OTXdwemE4aVNqRWM/view?usp=sharing

Looking to restart my playtest for the World of Darkness add-on to Urban Shadows in the next few weeks now that…

Looking to restart my playtest for the World of Darkness add-on to Urban Shadows in the next few weeks now that…

Looking to restart my playtest for the World of Darkness add-on to Urban Shadows in the next few weeks now that Urban Shadows is clsoe to finalized. Was hard to work on y add-on when so much was being changed. Will be playing a variety of books to playtest the docs, starting with Vampire the Masquerade.

You must have access to the latest Urban Shadows play docs.

Dylan Clayton, you may be interested.

What do you guys do if I am trying to read a new NPC? Are they lying? What’s different about them, ect.,..?

What do you guys do if I am trying to read a new NPC? Are they lying? What’s different about them, ect.,..?

What do you guys do if I am trying to read a new NPC? Are they lying? What’s different about them, ect.,..?

My initial desire was to just make a new move for it, but I would like to hear everyone else out to see what they do first?

Would love to see someone run US at LUG Con next week.

Would love to see someone run US at LUG Con next week.

Would love to see someone run US at LUG Con next week. Anyone interested? I asked Andrew Medeiros and Mark Diaz Truman, but there time does not permit.

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I would run one myself, but I am running the ‘Hood.

Had a blast night running a very tweaked version of MH for a Harry Potter game with Jen Stevens, Anton Dominic, and…

Had a blast night running a very tweaked version of MH for a Harry Potter game with Jen Stevens, Anton Dominic, and…

Had a blast night running a very tweaked version of MH for a Harry Potter game with Jen Stevens, Anton Dominic, and Chris Riexax. Still takes quite a bit to balance out and alter the Sex moves, but everything else fit in nicely.

Started off introducing characters while in Daigon Alley and how we got there, what we were doing. So we RPed while we introduced characters and it was one of the best beginning sessions I have ever had.

I am also pushing forward with everyone as MCs and Players, and it worked amazing with just 4 people. We kept jumping in and adding fiction, was awesome. Not too much toe stepping, def. need the right group, but worth doing if you can.

I released a doc a few weeks ago, but it will ave been rewritten greatly by the time I release again as we playtest out some items.

Had a wonderful three session LongCon at #gencon2014  this year with that was co-MCed with Andrew Medeiros.

Had a wonderful three session LongCon at #gencon2014  this year with that was co-MCed with Andrew Medeiros.

Had a wonderful three session LongCon at #gencon2014  this year with that was co-MCed with Andrew Medeiros.

We ran 8 people (Vamp, Fae, Aware, Hunter, Wolf Jason Parachoniak, Oracle Jeff Dunnett, Spectre and Wizard) that started off as two factions with the initial intent of destroying each other before they became pacifist with the determination of not letting the two waring werewolf factions destroy the city. They combined into one large group with this goal, and was paid back by our Immortal NPC almost destroying all of them. The third session had the newly formed team dropping their newly pacifist ways with the determination of destroying the Immortal who was using everyone from the players to various factions of NPC;s to do his dirty work …. and they were done with it.

Highlights:

-Emotional Vampire who fed off of intense emotions killing a man during his climax.

– Hunter willing to sell his soul to kill the killer of his Mentor

– Wolf and Oracle pretending to be someone blind with their seeing eye dog to get into a house.

– Fae promising her body to obtain video footage from a news Cameraman

– And so many more ……

Thanks a bunch for a great series of games.

Andrew Medeiros, good question from the Vampire at the #gencon game.

Andrew Medeiros, good question from the Vampire at the #gencon game.

Andrew Medeiros, good question from the Vampire at the #gencon game. He took the corruption move that allows any other AT’s corruption move.  He wanted the Fae’s move that lets them take additional Fae Powers, but it says take the rest of the Fae Powers. Being that he hasn’t taken any, makes it confusing.

I personally think it should be rewarded for the Fae, take X amount more powers. Yes, that may be the rest of the powers, but it solves two issues. 1.) if you are making new powers as a hacker and this problem with the Vampire or any others than have such lingo.

I also wanted to point out, that a few people expressed confusion when having to choose X negatives? They couldn’t initially tell if they were choosing X number of moves to keep the MC from using or X number of moves that they would then isolate the MC too use.