Category: Urban Shadows RPG: Kickstarter Feedback

How do you guys handle debts in the fiction?

Do you write down for each debt what it is owed for? If yes, do you integrate this into the fiction each time a debt is cashed in?

Or are debts, once taken, just a mechanical currency that is simply counted and spent for a mechanical effect?

My guess is: Somewhere in between both extremes. But what should I aim for when playing the game for the first time?

What is the “Satus Quo or Revolution” question for each threat on the MC sheet about? Does this replace Impulse from AW?

On the Kickstarter website, it says: “As your character gains new corruption abilities, you will face a difficult choice: will you give up what you’ve gained to save yourself?”

Does this refer to the “erase corruption” advances only or is there another way to reduce corruption levels?

I’m afraid I don’t fully understand the debt/faction systems.

So I owe a debt to Vlad the vampire of the Night faction. He wants me to help him with some dark deed and cashes in the debt to offer me an XP. I refuse. The debt is spent, I don’t mark XP. At the end of the session, because I interacted with the Night faction, my faction rating with Night goes up by one.

So by refusing to pay a debt to Vlad, I lose nothing but the opportunity to mark XP and my standing with the vampires is improved? Surely that cannot be correct! But that’s what the Kickstarter preview seems to say.