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Where can I find rules on territory or have I missed something vital?

Where can I find rules on territory or have I missed something vital? Looking at the wolf´s PB I see “add trouble: obligations” and “add blessing: influence”. I have no idea what this means… ELI5 please. Thanks!

Error on the DriveThruRPG files for Dark Streets: the download for the playbooks has to be manually changed on your…

Error on the DriveThruRPG files for Dark Streets: the download for the playbooks has to be manually changed on your computer into a .pdf file to function, as it currently downloads without a file type.

Excuse me, but where can i found printable-friendly Dark Streets playbooks? Or they even exists?

Any word on when the new archetypes (Immortal, Dragon?) might be released? I’m very excited about them!

I’ve been thinking about running a Secret World game based off of the mmorpg, the system we chose was the nWoD from…

I’ve been thinking about running a Secret World game based off of the mmorpg, the system we chose was the nWoD from White-Wolf/Onyx Path, but now that Im thinking on it, I think that Urban Shadows would work better, do you have any suggestions on how to possibly put this into action?

What kind of usic do you guys recommend for US?

What kind of usic do you guys recommend for US? I was thinking something ambient/horror/dark fantasy or psychill/ambient stuff. Any other ideas?

Hey guys!

Hey guys! First time MCing US in a couple of weeks and I am stoked! I have a question about the Spectre. How does a spectre portray itself in the world? As I understand it a spectre has to manifest to be able to interact with the world. How do you guys play your spectres?

Thanks.

Hi guys!

I’ve created my first city (Bellingham, WA) and are preparing the start of my first Urban Shadows campaign after the Danish summer holiday has ended.

I’m not short on ideas, creativity or experience with either improvisation or PbtA.

So everything should be fine. If it wasn’t for the Factions. They tend to confuse me a bit, and therefore I seek your experience and help.

I’ve decided to allow all Playbooks, just for the diversity and freedom of choice. (We like freedom of choice in Denmark.)

My questions are …

1. Do you force players to be part of the same Faction?

2. If not, how do you handle their different interests, and how do they manage to work together?

In my version of Bellingham, Power and Night are the leading Factions, with Vamps, Wolfs and Wizards being the major forces. (I think this is a classical setup.)

Hope my ramblings makes sense, and that you will share your experience with me.

It is time for a big climactic battle. The setup:

It is time for a big climactic battle. The setup:

– The demon Ornix walks the earth, reborn in unstoppable mortal form. The ley lines in the city were taken down as a result, and are being restored by the PCs to cage him in allowing for him to permanently die if his essence has no where to escape to – one remains.

– The feds (“Black Badge Division”, thanks Wynnona Earp) and some old world watchers (“The Oci”) have been brought together through PC action, to begin work on a massive banishment ritual

– Ornix doesn’t care about the mortal plane, he just wants vengeance against a faerie king, the Fae’s monarch, and is seeking the Fae to open a portal to the fae lands.

– The Fae personally, privately, summoned Azazel, another prince who hates Ornix, to the mortal plane – it was ghastly and definitely would have been “veiled” in other company, but it worked well here. He’s personally grossed out by Azazel now, but still wants him to help kill Ornix

– A trap has been set for Ornix, drawing him to where the Fae will be. The Fae has privately called Azazel for the same meetup. A local wolf pack (antagonists for most of the game) have been persuaded to keep Ornix’s underlings mostly at bay. The Wizard has the tools to restore the final ley line and complete the cage at any moment.

– The Fae has his own private goal of closing off the fae lands for good in this area, and is working with local terrain and weather spirits to help. The last requirement is to leech some of Ornix’s power to close it off for good, but he has to get close enough to shove the metal spike that the Veteran created into him

And this all goes down next session. I have some clocks, all interestingly tied up quite well. What I want to do is make some custom moves, obstacles, and things like that, that each risk ticking a clock, or preventing a tick.

So I need some ideas and help here to mechanically and thematically make this battle interesting. What obstacles will the banishment spell face? How will Azazel continue to build power to fight Ornix, assuming he still wants to? What will stop the Fae or the Wizard from completing their tasks?

Help me brainstorm, plussers

Unleashing as a Wizard

Unleashing as a Wizard

So one of my players is a Wizard, and I suggested that they could Unleash with magic to chuck a fireball at someone (or a lightning bolt or whatever; fireball is just a specific example from the book that the Tainted does at one point). He answered that he didn’t think he could since there’s a specific Channeling option for that.

So I went back to the book for guidance, and I’m getting conflicting messages. On the one hand, there’s stuff like the above example of a Tainted conjuring fire without going full-on demon form. There’s also the Dark Arts corruption move which suggests that battle magic should be a thing. But in the playbook advice section, it says you have to Channel to cast a spell, and if you use Elementalism you then have to Unleash on top of that.

My interim judgment is that the Wizard can still Unleash with magic without that channeling option, but the Channeling option allows them finer control over the effects. I.e., with Elementalism they can always choose to deal 3-harm or 2-harm area; with general magical Unleashing the tags are in the MC’s hands. I just finished a long-running Masks campaign with him in it, so the comparison I’m drawing is that Channeling is like the Nova’s Flares: specific permissions with slightly altered mechanics, but not strictly speaking anything you couldn’t do with the basic moves alone.

How have y’all handled it? Does this scan, or do you tackle it another way?