A look at the Big Picture - an urban fantasy game

It occurred to that I've been immersed in the details of this game setting, but haven't talked about the more generic side of it. So let's take a look. The novels that are our source material are housed in a new genre called "urban fantasy." They're first and foremost fantasy fiction - wizards, magic, monsters, swords, faeries, etc. They happen to be set in a modern day setting. And thus the genre label.

Our game will probably be the same. Because I'm familiar with our play styles, I know the focus will be on action & adventure, with just enough intrigue and mystery thrown in to keep the characters moving. Since the game is set in the modern day, there'll be guns, cars, computers, and modern sensibilities and moder gear. But there'll also be lots of supernatural elements hiding just inside the shadows. So one of the PCs might have a Sig Sauer in one hand and an enchanted sword in the other, while another PC reads from a musty tome from inside a protective circle. Meanwhile a third character triggers his Changeling blood and morphs into some kind of werebeastie.

The field is also wide open for the characters. During character generation, we'll create enough backstory to explain who the PCs are and why they hunt monsters together. Or whatever it is that they do. The PCs might be a die-hard group like the A-Team or Buffy's Scooby Gang; or they might only come together to solve the occasional mystery, which is more what we see in the Dresden Files. And with you guys, I have no idea what kind of characters you'll put together. There might not be ANY wizards in the group, or you might ALL want to play mages. And either extreme is fine with me. This game is going to give us the opportunity to have a lot of fun, very different from all the D&D we've played most recently.

And that's where I am now with game prep: I need to know what you guys are interested in, both in terms of what you want to see, and what kinds of characters you want to play. Expect an email from me shortly.