A way back, someone suggested a cool idea for a game: play a game of Monsterhearts, then follow up with a Monster of the Week game in which you are hunting down the player characters from the first game.
Well, yesterday I did that at a minicon (with Daniel Steadman co-GMing). Daniel ran Monsterhearts, with me playing, and we swapped for part two.
It was a lot of fun!
Kind of messy, which is to be expected, especially with a larger group than we had planned on. But the basic idea of using the end of the Monsterhearts game to build a Monster of the Week situation worked just fine. And everyone really enjoyed the monster hunters discovering the fallout from what their teen monster characters had done – including slaying some of them.
The plot ended up being centered on the Infernal and Vampire in the Monsterhearts game – they teamed up (and the Infernal was vampirized as well) by the end, so they formed the central problem in the MotW mystery – the Infernal’s master was using them to reawaken an extra-dimensional evil. The monster hunters put a stop to that, at least!
Oh, and three of the teen monsters were left in town: a Chosen, a Witch, and a Werewolf. The things they were getting up to just weren’t high enough profile to get hunter attention!
I love games that lead into one another like this and the suggested series of nano-game plays in Sundered Land.
To say nothing of the fairly universal Microscope + [any game] combo.
Nice! I’ve been wanting to try something like that too!
I’m curious as all heck how you did this. Seems to me that the poor Monsterhearts characters would just get owned by the Hunters. Unless you rebuilt them all as “proper” MotW monsters.
I played the Infernal, and when we came across our monsters from Game 1, I suspect that it was really just the concept behind them that had transitioned, not their base rules. Mechanically speaking, the MotW hunters were far more powerful. Would you agree, Michael Sands?
Yes, I ran them as MotW monsters with the powers that they had in the Monsterhearts game.
That said, I’d say MotW hunters are definitely tougher than Monsterhearts teens in any case.
That’s what I imagine would happed. MotW Hunters seem a lot more capable and resistant than Monsterheart teens. I mean MotW Hunters are all about tracking down and killing supernatural baddies, while the MH teens… aren’t. 😛
Still, it’s a very cool idea. I think I’d make the MH teens into proper, scary MotW monsters to give the Hunters a real challenge. 😉