So the apocalypse I am running will probably creep into the lines of unusual creatures as threats.

8 thoughts on “So the apocalypse I am running will probably creep into the lines of unusual creatures as threats.”

1. I tend to put creatures as Afflictions or part of a Landscape’s Custom Moves.

   Grotesques, Brutes, and Warlords are fundamentally human in base AW. They’re people or people like enough that not treating them as people should be uncomfortable. A slavering beast or the like is a different thing.

   Or another way of thinking about it, if you don’t care about the contents of its heart it isn’t a Grotesque.

2. I see. So if I were to give a creature it’s own agenda and enough self awareness to have one, it could fall into a grotesque?

3. Yep! One of my favorite fronts was a Landscape hillside that wasn’t sentient but sure did have a taste for human flesh rolling around on it, preferably with a little blood. Lots of bramble bushes and soft moss and prickers.

4. Yeah, I have done a sentient copse of trees that way as well as brain slugs! In the same campaign no less 🙂

5. Awesome, exactly what I was looking for. This will indeed help me. Thanks.

6. I have done a game using BPRD: Hell On Earth as my setting. I did use landscape and grotesque. I think you just use whatever seem to fit on the fly…

7. I made a huge bestiary for my San Pablo AW game, but they were mostly flavor,. They weren’t actively moving on the Hold or anything, but they were a liability for scavenging expeditions. I probably did them wrong.

8. Whenever I use wild animals or crazy mutant threats I default to the Brute moves. A pack of wolves works really well as a Family, it can make “a show of solidarity” as it phalanxes a character, or while chasing a fleeing character it can “defy reason” as it suddenly appears in front of them.

   Devon Apple Not at all! That sounds like “barfing forth apocalyptica” and “announcing future/offscreen badness.”

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