Update #11: The Witch Playbook Unlocked!
about 4 years ago
– Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:26:42 AM
We have finally added the Witch! This journey has been incredible and because of your generous support, we have reached yet another milestone in the campaign. We can't thank you enough for your support and for sharing the project, and we're so excited to bring this game—and so many cool stretch goals!—to life with your help.
Urban Shadows has always been filled with provocative supernatural creatures and crafty mortals. The Witch now joins the lineup, as our first new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E...
UNLOCKED - $125,000 PDF The Witch Playbook
At $125,000, we’re creating a brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E: The Witch (Mortalis). Heartfelt and burdened, the Witch is a solitary practitioner of hedge magic and forgotten alchemy, a mortal who has mastered magic in an attempt to heal and comfort those wounded by the shadows.
The Witch is our first brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E! We are thrilled to expand Mortalis with an awesome new playbook, and The Witch will allow you to play characters like Chloe (The Last Witch Hunter), Sophie Deveraux (the Originals), the Halliwell sisters (Charmed), and Constantine (DC Comics).
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Witch playbook for free!
Upcoming Stretch Goals
LOCKED - $150,000 Urban Shadows Pin Set
At $150,000, we’ll create a full set of four pins for you to showcase your devotion to Mortalis, Night, Power, or Wild...or you can wear all of them to keep your admirers guessing to which Circle you belong.
We’ve long wanted to give fans a way to declare their allegiance to Mortalis, Night, Power, or Wild. For each Circle, we’ve created a unique symbol to represent that community, one that members of the Circle might use to mark a building as a place of power or tattoo on themselves to show their allegiance to a supernatural group. We hope you love them as much as we do!
Backers at the Core + All Stretch Goals pledge level and up receive the Pin Set for free!
Cash in a Debt with Your Allies!
Thank you so much for your ongoing excitement and support. We’re grateful for every share, back, and shout out you’ve given us! Let’s keep it going and continue unlocking stretch goals!
Update #10: Updates, Designer Diaries, & Interviews
about 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 06:42:31 PM
It’s been an amazing journey with you as we get ever closer to unlocking the Witch at $125k. Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm. Like you, we can’t wait until we officially add a brand new playbook to Mortalis! Read on for a brief summary of why we’re so excited about the Witch and a bunch of new interviews and designer diaries about US2E!
LOCKED - $125,000 PDF The Witch Playbook
At $125,000, we’ll create a brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E: The Witch (Mortalis). Heartfelt and burdened, the Witch is a practitioner of hedge magic and forgotten alchemy, a mortal who has mastered magic in an attempt to heal and comfort those wounded by the shadows.
The Witch is our first brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E! We are thrilled to expand Mortalis with an awesome new playbook, and The Witch will allow you to play characters like Chloe (The Last Witch Hunter), Sophie Deveraux (the Originals), the Halliwell sisters (Charmed), and Constantine (DC Comics).
The Witch is an important playbook to us because it speaks to the community focus of the game, the way in which archetypes are always in conversation with the people around them. The Sworn has an oath of fealty; the Fae has a Faerie Court. The Witch could pursue a position in the Power Circle, but she’s committed to helping people everyone else might overlook. So spread the word! We’ve got less than $1,000 to go before she’s unlocked!
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Witch playbook for free!
Marissa & Mark on Plot Points
Ben Riggs of Plot Points recorded an episode with Marissa Kelly and Mark Diaz Truman, co-owners of Magpie Games and the core designer team behind Urban Shadows 2E. Check out what they had to say about Urban Shadows 2E here:
https://plotpoints.libsyn.com/urban-shadows-2nd-ed-is-happening-ep-214
Designer Diary: Factions vs Circles
We’re excited to share some of the behind the scenes design process with you! We’ve started sharing Design Diaries on our official Magpie Games Reddit. The first one from Mark Diaz Truman talks about the change from Factions (1E) to Circles (2E). Take a look and join our Reddit community for rules clarifications, AMAs, Designer Diaries, and more!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagpieGames/comments/jpav2i/design_diary_factions_vs_circles/
Wanna try Urban Shadows 2E? On November 14th, we’re hosting a community play day on our Discord! You can join our Discord and check it out! Spots are limited so join the Discord and sign up for your chance to play in a one-shot of Urban Shadows 2E!
https://discord.gg/RUFWCbC
Rules Questions?
If you have rules questions or feedback on the Quickstart, we would love to hear from you! We encourage you to jump into our Discord (https://discord.gg/RUFWCbC) for a live conversation with other fans and our design team or join the Magpie Games subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/MagpieGames/) for clarifications and design diaries.
Consult Your Contacts!
We can’t thank you enough for all your support! Your enthusiasm and excitement have helped get us this far! Keep sharing the Kickstarter so we can unlock the Witch and reveal even more stretch goals waiting in the shadows!
Update #9: Skid Row City Hub Unlocked & Quickstart Update!
about 4 years ago
– Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:40:41 AM
$110,000!!! This is so exciting! We never thought your support would keep going and get us this far. It’s so amazing to have all of you as part of our community, sharing our own excitement and enthusiasm for expanding the world of Urban Shadows 2E.
It’s important to us that Urban Shadows 2nd Edition be filled with evocative places to explore, dynamic characters to play, and compelling stories to tell. Unlocking new City Hubs is part of that, giving you and your players new ways to engage the game.
Thus, we give you...
UNLOCKED - $110,000 PDF City Hub: Skid Row
At $110,000, we’re creating a new City Hub you can add to any campaign of Urban Shadows 2E: Skid Row. The urban slums next to the railroad tracks don’t look like much, but—for Night—they are the perfect hunting grounds, hiding place, and trafficking territory. What will you do to control what’s yours on Skid Row? And who will you hurt to keep it?
Each of these new City Hubs greatly expands your game, offering new neighborhoods and institutions around which you can build a game. If you’ve ever wanted to run a game of Urban Shadows in the rough part of town, the spots where Night and Mortalis contend to hold sway, Skid Row is the City Hub for you!
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Skid Row City Hub for free!
Upcoming Stretch Goals
LOCKED - $125,000 PDF The Witch
At $125,000, we’ll create a brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E: The Witch (Mortalis). Heartfelt and burdened, the Witch is a practitioner of hedge magic and forgotten alchemy, a mortal who has mastered magic in an attempt to heal and comfort those wounded by the shadows.
The Witch is our first brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E! We are thrilled to expand Mortalis with an awesome new playbook, and The Witch will allow you to play characters like Chloe (The Last Witch Hunter), Sophie Deveraux (the Originals), the Halliwell sisters (Charmed), and Constantine (DC Comics).
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Skid Row City Hub for free!
Updated Quickstart
We’re so grateful for all your feedback thus far on the Quickstart! It has just been updated with corrected typos thanks to your help! You can download the quickstart from DriveThruRPG! New changes will keep arriving as the campaign continues. If you have feedback on the Quickstart, please email it to [email protected]
Hit Those Streets!
Thank you for your enthusiasm and support for the project! We are so excited to watch it grow and bring you more incredible stretch goals. Please share the Kickstarter far and wide!
Update #8: Dice Tray Unlocked!
about 4 years ago
– Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:18:24 PM
Thank you so much for your continued support of this project! We’re so excited to hear your feedback and reveal further stretch goals as we keep growing! Without your incredible support we wouldn’t be able to bring you these new additions to the game!
We want to just take a moment to note how exciting it is to get to $100k. This is a huge milestone for any campaign, but to see Urban Shadows reach this level is nothing short of amazing. We’re coming up on three times what the first edition campaign raised in total!
So… without any more delay:
UNLOCKED - $100,00 Dice Tray
At $100,000, we’re creating an Urban Shadows dice tray! The tray will be square neoprene and rubber back (approximately 8”x8”), featuring Urban Shadows 2E art and plastic button corners. Never lose your dice again!
Backers at the Core + All Stretch Goals pledge level and up receive the Dice Tray for free!
And now, our next two stretch goals…
Upcoming Stretch Goals
LOCKED - $110,000 PDF City Hub: Skid Row
At $110,000, we’ll create a new City Hub you can add to any campaign of Urban Shadows 2E: Skid Row. The urban slums next to the railroad tracks don’t look like much, but—for Night—they are the perfect hunting grounds, hiding place, and trafficking territory. What will you do to control what’s yours on Skid Row? And who will you hurt to keep it?
Each of these new City Hubs greatly expands your game, offering new neighborhoods and institutions around which you can build a game. If you’ve ever wanted to run a game of Urban Shadows in the rough part of town, the spots where Night and Mortalis contend to hold sway, Skid Row is the City Hub for you!
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Skid Row City Hub for free!
LOCKED - $125,000 PDF The Witch
At $125,000, we’ll create a brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E: The Witch (Mortalis). Heartfelt and burdened, the Witch is a practitioner of hedge magic and forgotten alchemy, a mortal who has mastered magic in an attempt to heal and comfort those wounded by the shadows.
The Witch is our first brand new playbook for Urban Shadows 2E! We are thrilled to expand Mortalis with an awesome new playbook, and The Witch will allow you to play characters like Chloe (The Last Witch Hunter), Sophie Deveraux (the Originals), the Halliwell sisters (Charmed), and Constantine (DC Comics).
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Skid Row City Hub for free!
Persuade Your Circle to Join
Thank you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm! We couldn’t make this campaign a success without you! Let your faction and circles know about Urban Shadows 2E! Let’s get the word out!
Update #7: PDF The Angel Playbook Unlocked!
about 4 years ago
– Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:42:39 PM
Thank you for another incredible day in this project! On our third day we’re still going strong and can’t wait to show you what all we’ve got in store! Thank you for your excitement and support!
And now, our unlocked Playbook!
UNLOCKED - $90,000 PDF The Angel
At $90,000, we are completing and releasing a new playbook, the long-awaited archetype:
The Angel (Wild). Beautiful and lost, the Angel is a powerful holy force, an otherworldly creature sent to earth to accomplish a divine mission they do not yet fully understand.
The Angel is based on the original draft of the archetype written by Jenn Martin in 2016. Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of The Angel playbook for free!
Our next two stretch goals are…
Upcoming Stretch Goals
LOCKED - $100,000 Dice Tray
At $100,000, we’ll create an Urban Shadows dice tray! The tray will be square neoprene and rubber back (approximately 8”x8”), featuring Urban Shadows 2E art and plastic button corners. Never lose your dice again!
Backers at the Core + All Stretch Goals pledge level and up receive the Dice Tray for free!
LOCKED - $110,000 PDF City Hub: Skid Row
At $110,000, we’ll create a new City Hub you can add to any campaign of Urban Shadows 2E: Skid Row. The urban slums next to the railroad tracks don’t look like much, but—for Night—they are the perfect hunting grounds, hiding place, and trafficking territory. What will you do to control what’s yours on Skid Row? And who will you hurt to keep it?
Backers at the All PDFs pledge level and up receive a digital copy of the Skid Row City Hub for free!
Get the Word Out
We really can’t thank you enough for your support. It’s been an incredible three days. Keep being amazing, and helping us spread the word that Urban Shadows 2nd Edition has come to town!
