Running another play-test session on Monday. It’s a holiday here in Canada and I want to do some gamin’! :)

Running another play-test session on Monday. It’s a holiday here in Canada and I want to do some gamin’! 🙂

Running another play-test session on Monday. It’s a holiday here in Canada and I want to do some gamin’! 🙂 

Originally shared by Andrew Medeiros

Urban Shadows is a table-top role-playing game set in a modern urban setting with a dark shadow cast over it. In Urban Shadows, Vampires, Were-wolfs, Faeries, Ghosts and all manner of powerful creatures roam our world preying on humanity and it’s ignorance of their existence. But not all of them want to hurt or hunt humanity, some of them fight against their natures and expectations to try and live a life among mortality, constantly struggling to be a part of our world yet always apart.

But where there is life, there is hope. Humanity is not alone in their struggles, there are some who have seen the darkness, have let it in and choose to stand up and face the night.

In the game, you control a member of one of four factions in play around the world. Mortality, the humans with nothing to offer except insight, guile and resolve. Power, humans who have been imbued with awesome powers and heavy burdens. Night, those who were once human and now stalk the nights and hunter. Wild, creatures and being from outside our world who have come to stake their claim. 

Who will you be? Which side will you choose? Will you be strong enough to face the darkness without and within?

Urban Shadows is now in play-test mode. I am eager to see how the game plays  and am looking for players with enthusiasm and would love honest and useful feedback to create an amazing game that can be enjoyed by many. Experience with Apocalypse World will help you understand the game but players new to the rules will always present an extremely useful perspective as well, so all are welcome.

Can’t wait to enter the shadows and see what lurks there. I can take up to 5-6 players for this event.

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Due to some player feedback I have designed a new wound/harm system for Urban Shadows.

Due to some player feedback I have designed a new wound/harm system for Urban Shadows.

Due to some player feedback I have designed a new wound/harm system for Urban Shadows. It’s inspired from a few different sources and it’s a slightly more narrative damage system. Relying on descriptors and different tiers of wounds. Here my thoughts so far….

Thanks to Aaron Friesen for some helpful advice on this one.

What do you think is the Core Story of Urban Shadows?

What do you think is the Core Story of Urban Shadows?

What do you think is the Core Story of Urban Shadows? 

IF you look at the source material, DF is a lot more based on Harry reacting to stuff instead of going out to do something. 

In AW you have awesome people fighting against Scarcity

MH is Monsters wanting stuff in High School,

DW is cool guys getting into adventures

What exactly should US be about? It’s a bit of the same problem i have with Star Wars World. I can’t really see the fiction getting created as easily in those games. 

What do you do in a first session? Do you prep a lot more adventure fronts that come from outside? 

Thanks to Glenn Tally Aaron Friesen Steve Moore and Stewart Wyatt for a very fun playtest session of Urban Shadows…

Thanks to Glenn Tally Aaron Friesen Steve Moore and Stewart Wyatt for a very fun playtest session of Urban Shadows…

Thanks to Glenn Tally Aaron Friesen Steve Moore and Stewart Wyatt for a very fun playtest session of Urban Shadows last night. I had a really good time as your MC and found the genre exciting to play in. I think I may have found a new favourite. 🙂

As always, I welcome any insights or feedbacks from the players or viewers. I want to make this the best game I can, and I need your help to do so!

Not to toot my own horn to much but maybe you can swap out

Not to toot my own horn to much but maybe you can swap out

Not to toot my own horn to much but maybe you can swap out 

Unknowable from the Wolf for the Wrangler Move 

Primal Howl

When you howl like a beast that stalks the night you get the effects of going aggro on all enemies within earshot with the demand being “flee in terror”. If they suck it up they take s-harm.

Had to change the name of the rpg. Found out there is already a Dark Streets rpg out there. Ooops.

Had to change the name of the rpg. Found out there is already a Dark Streets rpg out there. Ooops.

Had to change the name of the rpg. Found out there is already a Dark Streets rpg out there. Ooops.

So for now we’re going with Urban Shadows. If you think you have a better title I am all ears. Thanks!