Random question because I’m curious: Who has used non-core or fan-made Skins in their games?

Random question because I’m curious: Who has used non-core or fan-made Skins in their games?

Random question because I’m curious: Who has used non-core or fan-made Skins in their games? Which ones? How did it go? What kinds of stories got told?

23 thoughts on “Random question because I’m curious: Who has used non-core or fan-made Skins in their games?”

  3. As for stories, The Angel ended up kind of being the villain of our game. I didn’t really dig the mechanics (I used Angel-specific moves barely a handful of times over six months of play), but I enjoyed being literally holier-than-thou. I had a really great end at the hands of the Slayer er, Chosen.

  4. I have seen more from Second Skins than fanmade. I have at one time played Doppleganger, Hollow, Incubus. Wyrm, Cuckoo and Unicorn from Second Skins. I have seen the Beast in play from Topher Gerkey’s Skins for the Skinless and saw Calaca and Fury played from the same. I have also been in stories with Sasquatch, Heir, Mummy (not sure if that is the skin name) and a few others.

    My rich-kid Wyrm in love with an Heir, while the Heir was in love with the Mummy and the Fury infatuated with the Heir. What a mess that was – story did not have a long run as conflicts were rather harsh with all the tangled love interests.

    Incubus (Bryanna Hitchcock) saw two different campaigns, both in boarding schools. One campaign had him lusting after both an Infernal and a Fae at the same time, while the other had him being far-more gallant while romancing a Giant-ess.

  7. I played in a game with a Shadow. The story was basically “Shadow gets to mess with other PCs and avoid being found out or realize he was doing anything.” It wasn’t until the second season that the other PCs got to even realize what was going on and that only occurred because I happened to use Watching when he was his Darkest Self.

    To be honest, a lot of the fan-skins out there aren’t as good as the ones from core and Second Skins. Can’t really think of one that I like as much.

  9. Adam Goldberg I’m playing in a game with a Sasquatch and there’s no way to count how many awkward conversation Icebreaker’s started. My favorite might be the moment when my Cuckoo character blurted out that he made out with the Witch, who’s the Sasquatch’s girlfriend. It’s an incredible move.

  10. Nachiket Patkar Really?! The Shadow’s my playbook! It’s sorta cringey to look back on (I hadn’t played Monsterhearts when I made it), but there’s a quasi-revised version (probably) coming when MH2 launches.

  13. Jeremy Kostiew Yeah, the issue is the move “Whispers in the Dark.” The Shadow can hand out their condition really easily, without doing anything in the fiction (the other person just has to do something to get a String on them). Then the other person gets their next Gaze messed with and since the move always applies if you Gaze about the Shadow directly, there’s no real recourse even if the PC suspects something in-character. One of the PCs was a Fae who was his friend and she often suffered with not being able to do Gazes because as a Fae, Hot is her good stat and she used Turn On frequently. So the Shadow would give her a String, the condition Shadowed was given out, and her next Gaze was effectively a failure. It was kind of frustrating for her, and as a fellow PC who highlighted Dark because I wanted to see how it looked when she Gazed, not that great for the rest of the group. It leads to players trying to avoid interacting with the Shadow if they want to be able to use a basic move. A lot of the skin moves seem to rely on giving out/the other character having Shadowed or having a String on the Shadow, so it makes it so that the Shadow can’t do much with their own moves.

    Darkest Self and that move also let the Shadow pass the responsibility for their actions in a way no other Skin does. “It wasn’t me who was messing with you,” is something the Shadow gets to say and be true. Every Shadow with that move I’ve seen always has it be that their Shadow is messing with the Gazes and they’re just an innocent bystander. So it’s like if an Infernal got to say what their Darkest Power did and demanded of them – it doesn’t really deliver on the “kid with a supernatural friend that tries to control their life” thing it describes since the player controls a lot of it.

  14. Nachiket Patkar Yeah, it’s a mess. The update will make sure it’s clear that the Shadow and the character are the same entity, even if the human half doesn’t agree.

    And there’ll be some slight more dangerous-for-the-Shadow moves. I definitely see how troublesome it could be.

  15. I’ve been running some scenarios recently. I’ve had the Frozen, the Succubus, and the Kitsune come into play and they’ve all been wonderful. I’ll definitely keep them available in my 2E games.

  22. Hello, I have been using the skin “Ice Queen” to be the villain of my plot. I’m in love, I found her a lot of power play, so I made her more humanized.

  23. I let my players choose whatever they wanted so I ended up with a calaca, angel, Sasquatch, unicorn, gargoyle, and hollow. It’s was definately interesting. Unicorn was dating the sasquatch, the hollow was effectively mewtwo and needed to learn litterally everything. The angel and gargoyle were best friends untill the angel killed the gargoyle surragate father. And the calaca’s parents had a sex dungeon that the ghost visited. My game got really weird really quick lol

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