Tag: Andrew Medeiros

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!

Started a new community for Technoir fans to discuss the game. Come check it out if it tickles your cybernetic fancy.

Need some insight on something. 

On more than one occasion a player who is rolling+trust to interfere with a fellow player has expressed a concern with the mechanic. Rolling+Trust to help someone, gather resources or hit the streets seems great, but when it comes to that interfere, something is jarring.

“I don’t trust this guy’s faction, so why am I hindered in trying to resist their moves?” It’s a valid question. When I first designed this section I meant Trust to be how much you and a faction’s member trust one another and how much you understand the other. I think the wording of Trust is misleading and leads a player to interpret this as their character’s Trust in a faction solely.

So, how do I fix this? Do I simply change the naming of the system to something like Affiliation or Rapport or Kinship? Or do we change the way Interfere works. I’ve had it suggested that when you Interfere with a player, you invert your score. For example, if you’re Trust in Wild was -2 and you were Interfering with a Fae, it would change to a +2 for these purposes but remain a negative number when rolling Help or the other Faction moves. This may work, but I feel like adding in a negative/positive switch-up like this is going to confuse players, especially the less rules-intrigued ones. Less is more after all.

Any input would be appreciated. I’d rather make a change with other points of view considered. Thank you.

Had my brother-in-law and his friend over yesterday afternoon. They had never played an RPG before and wanted to try it so I offered to run them a game. I gave them about 6 game choices and to my pleasant surprise they chose Urban Shadows as the game to try.

I was super nervous about it, I had never run a group of newbs before.

They chose a Tainted and Specter to play and the session went very well. They both took to playing in character quickly and with almost no hesitation and before we all knew it we had created a wonderfully complex relationship map between them and their family/friends and we had a fun session. They would like to play again and bring along one of their sisters next time who is also interested.