Urban Shadows (A New Apocalypse World Game)

4 June, 2014

Not long after having ranted about how much I dislike Monsterhearts in Episode 32, in one of my regular trips through the wondrous world of Kickstarter, I stumbled across this project:

Urban

There are 25 days left on the project at the time of me writing this. Urban Shadows is “a dark urban fantasy” and pretty much appears to be everything that I wanted changed in Monsterhearts. You get to play a whole range of supernatural templates, and there’s no revolting teenage angst in sight (WOOHOO!). The different races have various alignments to help provoke some friction, and there’s even a corruption mechanic in there too.

On a more aesthetic level, I quite like the look of the artwork – black and white, stylised very much like the original Apocalypse World rulebook, and more recently, Tremulus (yes, I’m aware it should have a lower-case “t” in Tremulus, but the grammar Nazi part of me hates the title not being capitalized!). There’s options for hardback and softback. I’ve pledged for hardback as that’s my format of choice – paperbacks get damaged too quickly I find. Also, the hardback comes with a set of custom dice for the game. I have a nicely growing dice collection and I’m determined to find some dice that like me!

Essentially, from the description, Urban Shadows feels a lot like the World of Darkness, but using the Apocalypse World mechanics. I’m certainly willing to give it a try (especially if there’s no sex moves in there!). I’m looking forward to seeing what stretch goals are funded between now and June 30th.

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4 comments on “Urban Shadows (A New Apocalypse World Game)

  1. We can always improvise the sex moves if there aren’t any in the rules.

  2. Ok Matt.. you got me to back this….reminds me of a game a good friend of mine made up and we played at College in the 80’s.

  3. Matthew Sanderson Jun 5, 2014

    WOOHOO! Great news, Dave 🙂 They’ve been pulling quite a few people in over the last couple of days. Up to 300% of their funding target now. And, it looks like if we get to $14k, Ken Hite will be writing up a guide to Chicago. Fingers crossed!

  4. Seems like they will make it to Chicago at this rate…so Matt you will get your wish. I am glad that New York was already unlocked!

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