Category: Urban Shadows RPG: Discussion

I’ve had this song in my head for days now! I think it would make a good theme song for Urban Shadows. What are your thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we_czU9sJ3g

Pavel Berlin pointed out a typo on a sheet today that got me thinking.

The advancement option I gave to each playbook (minus The King of course) indicates that you join a group of some sort, which is essentially membership into, or possibly even leadership of a group of people who have resources you can gain access to.

What do you think of this advancement option? Does it excite you as a player for your protagonist to be able to enlist in a group like this?

Here are the group names I have so far sorted by Archetype.

Aware – Resistance Group

Dragon – Tribe of Wyrms

Expert – Guild

Fae – Faeire Court

Hallowed – Group of Believers

Hunter – Hunting Party

Immortal – Ancient Order

Oracle – Seer’s Circle

Specter – Body of Ghosts

Tainted – Cult

Vamp – Vampire Clan

WIzard – Council of Magi

Wolf – Wolf Pack  

The ones I’m luke-warm on are Guild, Cult, and Group of Believers. Got any suggestions? Also, do you like that they have names and an implied direction/membership or would you prefer something open-ended, like “You join a group of ___“?

Started a new short campaign of Urban Shadows last night. Had two players, a Tainted and an Aware. The Tainted grew up in a catholic run orphanage and was made to believe his powers are evil and he must repent for them (oh and his biological father is also his Priest). The Aware is a local bartender who is dating a Vampire who feeds on people’s pain and misery.  So a lot of unhealthy relationships out of the gate but it made for some great scenes and loads of good drama.

First session dealt with the Tainted’s best friend coming back to town, apparently he’s now a werewolf and is back in town to find the wolf who bit him, although all of this is unknown to the Tainted. They caught up and a few creepy things happened to both of them throughout the session.

The Aware was business as usual. As a bartender in the best bar in town loads of people come to her. She met a newcomer to town from Ireland who was keeping a close eye on her co-worker and friend and there seems to be some sort of family resemblance there.

So yeah, a great day in the life of session culminating in a near bloody bar brawl between the vampire boyfriend and the Tainted, with his werewolf buddy to back him up.

Good times. Looking forward to next session. It’s nice to be back in the MC seat, feels good.

Finally finished up The Dragon. A once mighty creature now reduced to human form. A master of manipulation, greed and power. 

Need a new name for my nearly complete Dragon archetype. Was gong to go with The Wyrm but Monsterhearts is about to add in a Wyrm skin and it would be nice to use a different name. So i was thinking maybe Dragon, Drake, Wyvern, Dragonborn, Basilisk, etc.

Thoughts?

Thinking of changing the play-test to a closed model soon. If you’d like to officially be a part of the playtest and want access to the new links, let me know, k? I will probably send out an email blast with the links for those who I know are currently playing the game and create a mailing list for updates and questionnaires. Thanks!