Urban Shadows - London 404 [ EDIT ]

Urban Shadows is a political urban fantasy roleplaying game. When you play it, you and your friends (or acquaintances) tell a story together, a tale of supernatural drama and political intrigue set in a modern-day city. Some of the characters in this story are mortal, but they might also be touched by otherworldly forces, transformed into ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and wizards and locked into a world of supernatural debts and obligations.

Above all else, Urban Shadows is a game about cities, the people who live in them, and the machines that make them run. It's a political game, one that challenges our preconceptions about conflicts between communities, and asks us to navigate complex identities in a demanding social structure. It is personal and political for mortals and monsters alike. It drives hard toward these ideas and asks players to reflect on their own experiences and ideals.

Urban Shadows isn't just a game about race relations at City Hall or tax code regulations on the docket with the city council —although maybe those things will come up in your story. It's a game about monsters —creatures of legends, folklore, and modern-day myths— and the cities they inhabit. It's a game in which you get to decide if you're a hero or a villain, not just once but over and over and over. It's a game that asks "What would you give of yourself to serve your community?" and "What would you give up to get what you want?"

A City of Stories
Like any urban fantasy story, Urban Shadows tells the tale of individuals who have crossed the line between the mundane and supernatural worlds. Living together in a metropolis filled with opportunty and danger alike, the politics of these supernatural communities is the secret heartbeat underlying the truth of the city's real identity.