MGibster
Legend
What were the better urban modern fantasy books when D&D was first published?
D&D General Why Fantasy? Goin' Medieval in D&D
Not sure if there were any.
Modern Urban fantasy has the same problem as SciFi to an even greater extend. People know how the modern world works which limits the power fantasy before it breaks versimilitude and the chance to run into things you want to escape from while gaming is bigger.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
That's an issue with "urban", not with fantasy, medieval, or science fiction. As soon as you remove your PCs from "civilisation" the problem goes away. Many medieval societies where far more structured and authoritarian than our world, and you can't depend on "well, the players are ignorant".
Yes but when you go full Harry Potter parallel world, whats the point of calling it modern urban?
Paul Farquhar
Legend
The usual approach to doing urban is to make the PCs outlaws (and the society dystopian so they don't have to be villains). Then the city becomes the wilderness. That works the same if the PCs are shadowrunners or Robin Hood.
Dracula and Frankenstein was when?
That's the beauty of it. You don't play any fully normal people in urban modern fantasy BECAUSE you know they are weak.
And now I might have to look some of these early ones up...
en.wikipedia.org
Urban fantasy - Wikipedia
That is usually called superhero game and not modern urban fantasy.
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