Urban Fantasy B-Plots List & PnP Cards

This deck offers tools  for secondary stories and hooks both weird and mundane. use these for downtime or to spark new plots. It is useful for GMs and players of ttrpgs like Monster Hearts, Urban Shadows, World of Darkness, Apocalypse Keys, and beyond. Each card of the sixty has three prompts broken into categories:

• Friends & Family: Problems and entanglements for NPCs in a player character's circle. Each is written loosely enough to be adaptable to all kinds of characters. 
• Personal Life: Things which happen in the day-to-day life of the PCs. These can be tweaked depending on if the character has a public identity or a daily grind job. 
• Supernatural Life: Events connected to the larger world of factions, magics, and arcane politics.
  

These are based on my Supers B-Plot set, with 80% new prompts and the remaining 20% tweaked to fit. Because of the nature of the genre, I've written these to be flexible. Some terms can be used in several different ways. Hunters refers to any group pursuing the PCs. Bloodlines can refer to a family, order, or even type of supernatural (vampires, werewolves). Factions refer to authorities, in particular the person or people who give a particular PC their orders.

These prompts can be used by the GM to generate new plots and events, or players can draw an select from a story idea which appeals to them. Ideally One or two players each week can have a B-Plot which may or may not get resolved that session. It's a great device for covering downtime.

This set includes the text of the cards, a pdf table, and a Print & Play version of the card deck. The text is shared as Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution 4.0. The material here is not AI generated and permission is explicitly not given for generative AI use.  Art by grandfailure (via Adobe Stock)