Tag: J.T. Mahany

In honor of the pdf release of Urban Shadows, I wanted to share a custom Archetype I’ve been working on.

In honor of the pdf release of Urban Shadows, I wanted to share a custom Archetype I’ve been working on.

In honor of the pdf release of Urban Shadows, I wanted to share a custom Archetype I’ve been working on. The Elemental is a barely-contained inferno, an unstoppable force of nature who’d wreck this city if they weren’t so easily manipulated by the powerful. Maybe there’s more to life, though, than just hurricanes and plagues? Only one way to find out.

This is far from a finalized version, and there are a few moves I’m still a little unhappy with, so any sort of feedback would be appreciated. Also, if someone ends up using this Archetype in play, let me know! That’d be awesome.

I just wanted to drop by and say I really, really dig the new Tainted.

I just wanted to drop by and say I really, really dig the new Tainted.

I just wanted to drop by and say I really, really dig the new Tainted. I’m all about this dude now. We’re going to be good friends, me and the new Tainted.

In the future, if you were able to gather writers/resources, do you see yourselves making/releasing more city guides?

In the future, if you were able to gather writers/resources, do you see yourselves making/releasing more city guides?

In the future, if you were able to gather writers/resources, do you see yourselves making/releasing more city guides? They sound really cool from what I’ve read about them, and I can think of some cities I’d really love to see a game take place (Buenos Aires, Paris, Reykjavik, Johannesburg, Mexico City).

So, I was wondering about one of the options for Escape, specifically the option where you mark Corruption,…

So, I was wondering about one of the options for Escape, specifically the option where you mark Corruption,…

So, I was wondering about one of the options for Escape, specifically the option where you mark Corruption, specifically I was wondering what this option is supposed to represent fiction-wise. Is it that you have this moment of shame over your cowardice? Does anyone have any examples from games they were in where someone chose this option?

Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

I really like everything I’ve read & seen in/about Urban Shadows, but I’m a little confused on the Fae’s powers. Namely, Firestorm and Ice Blast, which don’t seem to fit particularly well into the tricksy nature of the Fae. I like Wither because of the life/death aspect of it, and because it gives you the opportunity to be deceptive, but the other two feel like straight-up elemental attacks. Maybe we are just drawing on different sources of inspiration for faery magic, but to me they lack the evocativeness of what the Fae is all about. I was wondering what the reasoning behind them was?

So, the different categories in the Powers Profile are just for the fictional positioning of using one’s powers, yes?

So, the different categories in the Powers Profile are just for the fictional positioning of using one’s powers, yes?

So, the different categories in the Powers Profile are just for the fictional positioning of using one’s powers, yes? If you’ve got it written down, you don’t need to Push, etc. Does this extend to the Impossible category as well? Or is that just to set an upper limit on what you can do, so as to define one’s abilities through a negative lens?

I’m almost done with another Skin, so I thought I’d share my working draft, introducing someone who you probably…

I’m almost done with another Skin, so I thought I’d share my working draft, introducing someone who you probably…

I’m almost done with another Skin, so I thought I’d share my working draft, introducing someone who you probably don’t want to hang out with for very long: The Shade. This kid’s a moody downer who’s really a drain on everyone around them, and they just end up making you feel bad about yourself. Best not to be too giving, or they’ll take and take and take.

So I’m working on a new Skin.

So I’m working on a new Skin.

So I’m working on a new Skin.

It’s not finished yet. There’s plenty more that needs to be written up and tweaked and figured out, but I thought I’d post the work in progress here in hopes of getting feedback and critique to help hone it on its way to being something fun and playable.

You know how when you’re a teen, and it feels like you’re invincible? Like you’ll never die? Like nothing but the now exists?

Do you remember when you first realized you would die? When the realization of your own mortality drained a bit of the color from your dreams? Do you remember the sinking dread of thinking everything you’d accomplished would be for naught, or worse, that you wouldn’t live to accomplish everything you were going to set out to do?

The Returned does. They got a second chance, and now they’re going to seize live by the horns.

Even if it keeps killing them over and over again.

So I was wondering, what program do you guys use to make your Skins all beautiful and official-looking?

So I was wondering, what program do you guys use to make your Skins all beautiful and official-looking?

So I was wondering, what program do you guys use to make your Skins all beautiful and official-looking?