All the characters are in the school’s choir together
Insert Glee reference here
I had a thought recently that the game could gain some interesting dynamics if the characters are all part of one specific group. A sports team, debate club, the choir whatever. I will use the choir here because I interacted with some choir-teens recently.
Why is that a good idea? I gives all the characters a common thing that they (more or less) all want, something binds them together. If MH is too heavy on PvP for your tastes this can alleviate this somewhat. It also turns home-room into choir sections and you have most of your connections to people from that. You are basically forced to hang out with these people way more then students from the home room. It also let’s you put characters together interestingly because you have things like special practise camps etc as well as roadtrips with the choir you can use to get into all kinds of shenanigans.
And then you have in choir competitions and rivalry to play with. Only one of you will get the internship at the pop academy and become the next great star etc.
It’s worth a try at least. Would like to know how that changes the dynamics in play, if it even really does.
A great idea, made even greater by putting a Selkie or similar skin in the mix!
Great idea. This lets you pull in all kind of media inspirations. Even The Breakfast Club is similar — they’re all in the Saturday detention “club”!
My current campaign (not run with Monsterhearts, but similar) has the leads as the school yearbook committee.