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New Podcast available on iTunes.

New Podcast available on iTunes. Leveling Up will talk about games, issues in gaming communities, and lots of other topics. I plan on talking about Urban Shadows on a coming episode

http://www.highlevelgames.ca/podcasts/leveling-up-episode-1-gaming-as-empathy

THE UNTAMED.

Urban Shadows is a world of frail alliances, delicate diplomacy and hidden rivalries.

The Untamed doesn’t give a shit to all this.

Why tip-toe your life and tremble in fear when you can revel and roar? She came to rend you free – but it will not be easy. Do you see all those obligations and loyalities? They will hurt like hell, when she’ll rip them apart.

So, the Untamed is a really loud, primal Archetype based on all the “Mother of Monsters” and “Wild Man” archetypes of mythology .

The Untamed gives power to others if they are brave enough to be free and monstrous. But it’s not all talk and motherly (or fatherly) attitudes – she can also break hell in civilized society!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qu2HZ8iFP0yxwBnqXmNf3u0Gdm7_h8HkRS7Mxxsib2s/edit

As usual comments are more than welcome (especially about my horrible grammar), and if you’ve some idea of characters that may fit the archetype, please, post it as a comment!

Hello Community

Hello Community,

I am planning to run a game of Urban Shadows set in Current-Day Rome. As I want my game to be more than a few overdone cliches of Pizza and Mafia I want to ask around if anybody here has some nice ideas for background plots and threats set in the Italian capital.

Currently I have the following topics written down:

– Catholic Church

– Corrupt Politicians

– Mafia (can’t do without)

– Immoral industries (probably connected to mafia and politics)

– youth unemployment

– Roman Gods and Spirits

– Immigration and human trafficking

We will have our first game on the next sunday, and I want to be prepared to ask more leading question that ties the characteres deeply into the setting, so that the game “feels” Italian.

What are your ideas for such a game? Any topics that I missed? Tips and tricks that I should remember? Do you know any urban legends about Rome?

I am eager for you responses.

Are intimacy moves intended to activate only in a PC-PC interaction?

Or also with a PC-NPC interaction?

The human eating demon dressed in the meatsuit of a little girl in a white dress has asked the Veteran for help.

The human eating demon dressed in the meatsuit of a little girl in a white dress has asked the Veteran for help. Someone is hunting demons and killing them truly, not just sending them back to the underworld.

It culminates in a car chase, the killer speeding down the road in his Oldsmobile, the Veteran chasing in his beat up truck. He Keeps His Cool well enough [7-9 result] to hold the chase but can’t quite catch up to him.

“Well that’s why I installed this…” he rips open a panel on the dashboard exposing a big red button with “Nitro” written on it. Slamming his fist down, the truck jerks forward, catching the Olds in a pit maneuver – spinning and T-boning it. [Let It Out=12, chose seize control of his car and +1 forward from the wreckage confusion, taking corruption].

At the moment of the crash, as the windows shatter, the killer reveals it’s true form, unfurling a set of wings that rip it from the wreckage like a parachute. It lands twenty feet away in full demonic form. There’s no way the Veteran can fight this thing toe to toe… unless… The last point of corruption put him over. He takes the “Pack Rat” corruption move.

“I reach into my jacket and pull out a pouch of white powder. It is the ground bones of cherubs, and incredibly painful and acidic to demons.” He tosses it into the air, as the demon screams, swatting at its face and body as the skin sizzles and bubbles. [I rule this a reduction of his 2-armor to 0, as he did take corruption to do this]

Unleash with the +1 forward, terrible harm, no armor. Dead. Poor demon.

Veterans seemed like such a boring character to me at first. I’m loving this guy.

Has anyone created their own city for the game?

I know the thinking behind using a real-life location, but I’m curious if anyone’s done it, and what their process and experience was.

Howdy.

I’m currently getting a game of US together, and can’t wait to play.

I do have a question on the Wolf. His Corruption reads: “When you begin the hunt for someone, mark Corruption.”

The Bloodhound move reads: “When you hunt someone…”

Am I correct to assume the Corruption move is fed by the Bloodhound?

If so, seems a little harsh, compared to the other playbooks. As if being penalized for using the Wolf’s character move.

A couple questions:

1. Has anyone tried using a school (and places nearby) as the game’s “city”? I’m intending to run a short campaign set at a high school with weird goings-on, and so far can’t see any reason it shouldn’t work well. The band room where the Fae kids hang out, instead of the Winter Queen’s penthouse; the vamp homecoming queen with all the standard popular-girl retinue, instead of the vampire gang running the local drug ring.

2. Will it break things to use Unleash an Attack for verbal attacks as well as physical attacks? It makes a lot of sense for the setting. Could be with a whole new harm track, or just use the same for both.

To be clear, I don’t want to run Monsterhearts with this; strictly the same sort of story Urban Shadows is made to tell, just in a much smaller and more specific context.

Hi, Nth question about the Vamp’s Web.

We know that it activates during play, that is, debts earned through character creation don’t count.

Both PCs and NPCs can enter a Web, and when they do, they owe a debt to the Vamp.

What about if a PC/NPC asks direclty for a favour? They enter the web and owe one, or two (one for the faour, one for the move)?

And, what about if a PC cashes in a debt with the Vamp?

Let’s say my Orcale friend calls me (comes to me) to find who wants to murder her, cashing a debt I owe her. Now, she looks like Salma Hayek, so I would help her anyway, but rulez iz rulez…

Which move is this? Cashing in? Enter the Web? Or both?

In the end, we decide to erase MY debt, and make her enter the web, plus she owes me one.

I’d like it to be this way, showing how parasitic the Vamp is.

I see now that Apocalypse World has recently received a second edition.

I see now that Apocalypse World has recently received a second edition. Will Urban Shadows get a second edition now with the newer rules?

Also, How well does Urban Shadows play? I recently almost got into Vampire the Requiem but was put off by some of the writing. I really want to do something that is a cross between the politics of Vampire the Masquerade, the urban fantasy of The Dresden Files, and the interpersonal drama of Forever Knight.

Can Urban Shadows do all of this well?