Finalized Angel & Scholar
9 days ago
– Sat, May 30, 2026 at 06:03:25 PM
Hello friends!
We are thrilled to return with an emissary from a defiant and dangerous god and a clever dealer of magical artifacts. We hope you’ve been playing games and surviving the helltide that seems to be around every corner. Shall we explore the Angel and Scholar?
Finalized Angel & Scholar
After carefully going through feedback, we’ve updated the Angel playbook and finished the full playbook write up, similar to the advice for the playbooks in the core book! The Angel did not see major changes to the mechanics, but the feedback we got helped to inform all of the playbook advice. We hope it makes things clear, and we’re looking forward to hearing what you think!
The Scholar has had several major changes; we’ve rewritten most of their let it out abilities, as well as revising several moves to be more active. We want the Scholar to be a schemer and manipulator, but they also need things to do—like tracking down leads—when things get quiet. The playbook advice also dives into the kind of magical items that show up regularly in Urban Shadows games to help the MC conceptualize what might be a good fit for their campaign.
We’ll be releasing these to you as DTRPG codes shortly when we start uploading them as products for purchase. Until then, they’ll be in your digital downloads!
You can get your copy of the Angel and Scholar 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:
https://urban-shadows-second-edition.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards
Future Endeavors
We shall return as we continue to playtest and finalize each of the playbooks. While this process is a bit lengthy due to playtesting, we are excited for these playbooks to be done and in your hands!
The Finalized Immortal!
3 months 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:
https://urban-shadows-second-edition.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards
Future Endeavors
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!
5 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:
https://urban-shadows-second-edition.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards
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
7 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!
Last Chance for Algiers & Angels
It’s the last day for our Gamefound project of Algiers & Angels, a brand new city guide and city hub for Urban Shadows!
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:
https://urban-shadows-second-edition.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards
Future Endeavors
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
9 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:
https://urban-shadows-second-edition.backerkit.com/backer/digital_rewards
Urban Shadows: Algiers & Angels
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!
