Also, i wanted to post the MC Principles and moves, and the Invader Principles and moves.

Also, i wanted to post the MC Principles and moves, and the Invader Principles and moves. This material goes a long way in determining how a game is run and seen by the players. It brings out all the character and flavor of the game.

The Principles:

•   Address the characters, not the players

•   Make your move, but never speak its name

•   Be a fan of the characters

•   Think offscreen

•   Sometimes, let someone else decide

•   Leave bread crumb trails of hope

•   Tomorrow must be earned

•   NPCs are the most delicious

•   Everything has a cost

•   Complacency is the enemy

•   The living are rare

•   The dead are plentiful

•   Bring the splatter

•   Ask questions and take notes

•   Stay in the fiction

The MC moves

•   Get someone in the dark

•   Get someone who is alone

•   Crash the party

•   Drag someone off

•   Eat the supplies

•   Display a Horror

•   Deal harm or stress as needed

•   Distract with an enticement

•   Bang on the walls

•   Bring good news

•   Put something shitty in the way

•   Funnel them someplace bad

•   Make it a project

•   Turn their move back on them

•   Listen to the Invader

Invader’s Principles

•   Never refer to them by name

•   Describe how they look, smell, sound, and act 

•   Give clues to how the Invader feels or doesn’t feel, but never say it explicitly 

•   Allow the PCs to discover new truths and thus, new terrors

•   Reinforce the most inhuman aspects of the Invader

•   The Invader is ever-present

•   They know where you are, and they are coming for you

•   they are a humongous collective unconscious

•   they cannot relate to people

•   murder, mutilate, and consume at all times

Invader Moves

•   Come out of the darkness

•   Show up at the most inopportune time

•   Snatch someone up

•   Organize a huge mob

•   Crowd the scene

•   Make someone change sides

•   Bring out the worst in someone

•   Just be there, around the corner

•   Smash everything

•   Announce their approach

•   Follow the signs of the living

I’ll be making the whole thing available as a free PDF pretty soon!