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A review by tiggum
Urban Shadows: Political Urban Fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse by Mark Diaz Truman, Andrew Medeiros
3.0
The setting seems cool and the rules seem easy enough to pick up. I'm not 100% convinced actually running a game in the extremely freeform and unplanned way they suggest would work out as well as it could - I'd probably want to at least have some Threats worked out in advance and some ideas for pointing the players in the right direction - but I guess it's written that way to emphasise the difference to people who are more used to running more rigid systems like D&D.
The book's writing style is mostly fine, but the frequent profanity seems a bit pretentious. Like the author is trying too hard to convince us that this is a mature game for grown-ups where we can say rude swears like "shit" and "fuck". Sure, ok.
The book's writing style is mostly fine, but the frequent profanity seems a bit pretentious. Like the author is trying too hard to convince us that this is a mature game for grown-ups where we can say rude swears like "shit" and "fuck". Sure, ok.