City of Mist All Seeing Eye Investigations Starter Set

by Amit Moshe

PDF version of the updated starter set

Learn to roleplay in a city of ordinary people and legendary powers!

In City of Mist, myths and legends are born into modern-day individuals. Hard-boiled detectives and cunning mob lords hold the mythic powers of characters from the Sumerian saga of Gilgamesh, Greek mythology, German fairy-tales, the Bible, Fijian folktale, and more. But the mysterious force of the Mist makes everyone who isn't a legend forget their magic, leaving legends to terrorize the City from the shadows. Can your crew uncover the truth about who is really behind it all?

City of Mist is a detective role playing game in a gritty urban fantasy setting. This set is designed to launch your game group into the game with as little prep as possible, learning as you play.

Included inside:
A booklet for players, explaining the rules of the game through short learn-as-you-play reading passages

A booklet for the MC, explaining the role of the MC and containing the details of your first case, Shark Tank

Five beautifully-illustrated pre-generated character folios: Detective Enkidu, Tlaloc, Lily Chow & Iron Hans, Job, and Baku.

City of Mist is a role-playing game of film-noir investigation and super-powered action. It is set in a modern metropolis rife with crime, conspiracies, and mysteries. The protagonists are Rifts, ordinary people who became the living embodiment of a legend, their Mythos. While your Rifts may seek to strike a balance between the mysterious nature of their Mythos and their mortal aspirations, the powers within them always threaten to tear their lives apart. They have unwittingly become a part of a secret world of clashing stories, and soon other legends will come looking for them with demands.

City of Mist is based on the story-driven Apocalypse Engine, but it takes a step further into narrative gaming by introducing several new features:

Rich character motivations built around compelling Mysteries and Identities. Follow your characters’ themes to gain their benefits and evolve them or go against them to discover new aspects with a unique non-linear character evolution system.
Know no limits for powers, abilities, traits, gear, or allies. Everything in City of Mist is described by free text tags, so you can create exactly the character you want.

Full-on narrative engine, with an edge. Every action you take in the game is based on the interpretation of your tags, using moves to deliver dramatic outcomes that drive the story forward.

Status spectrums, a new system of ‘narrative damage’. You can use descriptors to create any imaginable setback or advantage so that every action in the fiction, in and out of combat, can have lasting gameplay implications.

Genres: Role Playing Games

91 pages, ebook

First published June 6, 2019

Reviews

[Marco · Rating 4 out of 5]

This starter set does a better job explaining how to apply the core mechanics than reading the main rulebooks did. That said, you still need those to make characters of your own.
But I think this is a very, very good introduction to City of Mist.
I have the box set and that also contains dice and status cards. Nice to have.

[Dom Mooney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the revised starter set for City of Mist and it restored my faith in the line. It is very well put together, easy to use and reference and a great counterpoint to the core book (s). Recommended.

(But don't read the case if you're playing my first game at Revelation)

[Bartosz Rokitowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

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