The award-winning tabletop roleplaying game of political urban fantasy returns with a bold new edition!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
The Finalized Immortal!
about 1 month ago
– Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 07:48:27 PM
Hello friends!
We hope you’re staying safe, warm, and playing great games this year! We’re back with another update and a finalized Immortal playbook!
Finalized Immortal
After carefully going through feedback, we’ve updated the Immortal playbook and finished the full playbook write up, similar to the advice for the playbooks in the core book! Overall, not much has changed from the last draft, but the full write up should answer most questions and provide some good guidance for players and GMs who include the Immortal in their games!
We’ll be releasing each playbook to you via DTRPG codes when we start uploading them as products for purchase. Until then, they’ll be in your digital downloads!
You can get your copy of all the Immortal via Backerkit’s digital download system. We’ve already pushed out the files to your account, and you should have received an email letting you know that the files are ready for download. If you didn’t, you can access them directly from Backerkit here:
As always, we’ll be back when we have more finalized versions and DTRPG codes for you to add these beauties to your library there. Thanks for your continued support as we get these stretch goals finalized!
Final Stretch Goal City Hubs!
3 months ago
– Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 10:41:58 AM
Hello friends!
The end of 2025 is upon us—the last throes of this year's darkest nights are behind us, and the future can only grow brighter. We've got one last update for the year. It's time for final stretch goal city hubs!
Final Stretch Goal City Hubs
You've been asking when the stretch goal materials will be finalized, and we're excited to bring you the final versions of the four City Hubs—the Block, the Docks, the Street, and Skid Row! Each of these has gotten feedback from fans, and we've included advice on using each City Hub in your game. Enjoy!
You can get your copy of all these releases via Backerkit’s digital download system. We’ve already pushed out the files to your account, and you should have received an email letting you know that the files are ready for download. If you didn’t, you can access them directly from Backerkit here:
We’ll be releasing these to you as DTRPG codes in January when we start uploading them as products for purchase by non-backers. Until then, they’ll be in your digital downloads!
Coming Soon
We’ll return in January with more final releases of the stretch goal playbooks! Until then, we hope you have a safe and happy holiday, eat amazing food, play great games, and enjoy time with your loved ones!
Last Chance for Algiers & Angels plus Hub Generators
5 months ago
– Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 11:58:14 AM
Hello friends!
Now that spooky season has fully arrived and we all prepare for devilish apparitions to manifest shortly, we’ve returned with the final aspects of the stretch goal hubs! The generators!
Urban Shadows: Algiers & Angels supplement is a 30+ page, softcover booklet, 8.5" x 11" full-color expansion for the second edition of Urban Shadows, featuring a new city guide (Algiers), a new playbook (The Angel), and a new City Hub (the Memorial District).
The supplement will include a full write up on playing the Angel, much like the playbooks have in the core book. This part of the book will be sent to you as a free PDF to thank you for your patience for all the delays this project saw. The majority of the book is a full city guide to Algiers and the city hub—the Memorial District.
Hub Generators
We recently released three city hubs to you: The Block, The Street, and Skid Row. While these included the information you needed to add these hubs to your game should you want to, they lacked the generators that would allow you to randomly roll to include locations, NPCs, and factions in your game from these hubs.
We’re thrilled to say we have the generators ready for your playtesting! You’ll find updated versions of each of the hubs in the Digital Downloads part of Backerkit that now include the generators.
We’d love any feedback you have on the hub generators, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put US2E Hub Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the city hub generators!
You can get your copy of all these releases via Backerkit’s digital download system. We’ve already pushed out the files to your account, and you should have received an email letting you know that the files are ready for download. If you didn’t, you can access them directly from Backerkit here:
Much like before, our goal now is to wrap up any feedback we’ve received and create the final versions of each of the stretch goals. As those are finished, we’ll update you here and provide downloads to the final files!
The Block, the Street, & Skid Row
6 months ago
– Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:14:27 PM
Hello friends!
As Autumn creeps closer, so do the final stretch goals for the campaign. We are thrilled to announce that we are releasing the previews of the final three stretch goals!
The Block, the Street, & Skid Row
We’re so excited to FINAL new stretch goal hubs to you!
These three city hubs expand your options for a new Urban Shadows campaign to include a Mortalis neighborhood struggling to defend itself (The Block), a financial district controlled by the echelons of the Power Circle (The Street), and the roughest part of the city where Night rules ascendent. Like our release of Docks, these early versions don’t yet include the generators.
We’d love any feedback you have on the hubs, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put US2E Block Feedback, US2E Street Feedback, or US2E Skid Row Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new city hubs!
You can get your copy of all these releases via Backerkit’s digital download system. We’ve already pushed out the files to your account, and you should have received an email letting you know that the files are ready for download. If you didn’t, you can access them directly from Backerkit here:
We know we promised to be launching this excellent supplement this month, but due to a few conflicting issues with scheduling, we’ve delayed the project until October 14th to be part of the RPG Party Gamefound is hosting!
The project has remained the same, with a full write up on the Angel, a brand new City Guide with Algiers, and a new hub! To follow along and be alerted at launch, and to join the RPG Party on Gamefound, check out the project page!
Future Endeavors
Now that the preview files of all the stretch goals are in your Digital Downloads, we’ll be wrapping up the final versions of everything and releasing those to you as we resolve any playtesting issues. Stay tuned for future updates when we hand you the final files!
The Anointed & The Docks
7 months ago
– Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 09:29:51 AM
Hello friends!
We have returned from the city streets of Indianapolis with some new stretch goals for you! If you joined us for Gen Con, we hope you had a fantastic time. If you weren’t able to join us, we hope your August was easy going and filled with games.
As we move through the final stretch goal material, we aim to have everything to you as soon as possible. We had hoped to finish everything by the end of summer, but it looks like we’ll have it wrapped up in September instead. Almost there!
Read on for a new playbook, the first stretch goal city hub, and news about a brand new city guide on Gamefound!
The Anointed & The Docks
We’re so excited to the final new stretch goal playbook to you: the Anointed.
The Anointed is a revision of an US1E playbook (the Hallowed), but it’s been virtually reworked from the ground up. Rather than focus on an anonymous collection of followers, the Anointed instead refocuses the playbook onto the leadership—you’ve been anointed by someone to remake a faction, and you might have to break a lof that faction to do it.
The Anointed is modeled after a number of real life organizers and rabblerousers, but it’s also based on Deacon Frost from Blade—a vampire so eager to change things that he turned himself into a blood god. We hope you enjoy a similar journey when playing the Anointed (minus Blade getting in the way of all of your plans)!
We’re also excited to release the first stretch goal city hub to you: the Docks.
The Docks is a Wild city hub—like the Art District—so it’s filled with opportunities to connect with the outsiders that have found their way into the city. Rather than focus on dreams and expression, the Docks are focused on transport and passage—smuggling, immigration, and more.
We’d love any feedback you have on the Anointed or the Docks, especially playtesting feedback. Please email your feedback to [email protected] and put US2E Anointed Feedback or US2E Docks Feedback as the subject line! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new playbook and city hub!
You can get your copy of both releases via Backerkit’s digital download system. We’ve already pushed out the files to your account, and you should have received an email letting you know that the files are ready for download. If you didn’t, you can access them directly from Backerkit here:
Besides the new city hub and playbook, we’re very excited to announce Urban Shadows: Algiers & Angels. Urban Shadows: Algiers & Angels supplement is a 30+ page, softcover booklet, 8.5" x 11" full-color expansion for the second edition of Urban Shadows, featuring a new city guide (Algiers), a new playbook (The Angel), and a new City Hub (the Memorial District).
The supplement will include a full write up on playing the Angel, much like the playbooks have in the core book. This part of the book will be sent to you as a free PDF to thank you for your patience for all the delays this project saw. The majority of the book is a full city guide to Algiers and the city hub—the Memorial District.
If you’re excited about a brand new city guide in a beautiful printed booklet with an extra City Hub, Algiers and Angels will hit Gamefound on September 16th. You can follow along here:
As we head toward the final stretch goals and explore Algiers, we’re excited to begin finalizing the playtesting playbooks we’ve released to you and sending back the final versions. We’ll be back next month with more stretch goals and updates on how Algiers & Angels is going. Till we meet again…
