I’m sure this has been asked before, but does anyone have a good PbtA game in the Harry Potter world? I’ve seen the Houses and Wands document, which I’m still looking over, but just curious if there’s any other option?
Asking for a friend. 😉 (Actually really am, but I wanna know too!)
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I have seen one, but it needs Monsterhearts to run. I was literally looking at it like two days ago, just can’t remember what it was called. Bear with me.
plus.google.com – With Fantastic Beasts opening up last weekend, a few people have hit me up…
I believe Chris Longhurst is working on one, though I don’t know if he’s at a share-with-the-public stage yet.
Pigsmoke is more ‘loosely, distantly inspired by Harry Potter’ than an attempt to capture Harry Potter in PBTA form. But if you want a look drop me a line at potatocubed at gmail dot com and I’ll fire you a copy of the unedited draft.
There is a neat one-page game called (iirc) Magic & Mischief that captures the feel quite well. I’ll try to find the actual name.
I ran a Monsterhearts game that could be style converted. It was based on a terrible made for TV movie called Descendents featuring the kids of Disney’s greatest villains. All I did was make the setting the Island of Arebon or wherever it was. I wrote up a brief bio for the characters parents and the pressures that brought to bear on their offspring. I asked them to chose monsters that spoke to them as likely subjects (Cruella might be the Mortal or Werewolf, Ursula might be the Selkie or Witch etc.)Then I just ran with it, adding narrative colour like fairies tending the gardens etc. That worked pretty well.
Thanks everyone for the responses!
Toby Sennett I’m surprised by how easy that seems to work. I would’ve thought the bridge between Monsterhearts and Hogwarts too wide, but this actually looks promising. Thanks!
Chris Longhurst I’d love to look at Pigsmoke just out of curiosity, but I think my friend is more interested in a direct HP recreation. I’ll email you though. Thanks!
Daniel Steadman well now I want to play this too!
Well here is a link to the villains if you want to use them. All the other notes were scribbled on paper so I don’t have a copy.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxrJzCfaeFcwRHJ4UFdXeE93X1k
Thanks Toby Sennett for posting my work. Adam West, I ran a number of playtest with it and worked well. I will be making updates when MH2 is finalized.
The Magic & Mischief game Meguey was talking about is available here:
drivethrurpg.com – Magic & Mischief