Originally shared by Michael Sands
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!
It was pretty fun. It was also interesting for me to run the first game with the knowledge in the back of my mind that a bunch of rambunctious hunters would be rolling into town shortly so one of my priorities was making sure that the teenage monsters stood out like sore thumbs!
That was me! I’m glad it was fun.
Maybe the chosen and werewolf, but the witch was 100% bad news. Not big on helping people so much as toying with them.