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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 8677108" data-attributes="member: 6686357">Yeah, there's definitely a sliding scale between horror investigations and hidden superhero investigations. I would say there's a sliding scale between horror and urban fantasy too. E.g. Buffy definitely became more urban fantasy as it went on, especially in the comics.There's been a bunch of urban fantasy games and associated settings that take very different approaches. There's contemporary world with hidden magic like Urban Arcana, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk like Shadowrun, alternate history like MagiTech, occult investigations like Nephilim, high school drama like Monsterhearts, really surreal stuff like Invisible Sun...Unlike what D&D did with fantasy, there's never been a single RPG created with the intent of replicating urban fantasy as a whole using a shared rules base and then producing a bunch of campaign settings for different flavors like those I mentioned. The urban fantasy genre among ttrpgs is very fractured, with like 99% of the market taken by WW's highly specific legacy products and squeezing out everything else. I really had to dig to find those other games, especially years after they were originally published.</blockquote>