Just played a session of Monsterhearts as the Mortal.
Just played a session of Monsterhearts as the Mortal.
We didn’t solve (or even try to solve) the mystery of our dead classmate, but
somehow I got cheated on by EVERY OTHER PLAYER CHARACTER.
So I’m doing a Hack set in modern day Hollywood, and I wonder:
So I’m doing a Hack set in modern day Hollywood, and I wonder:
Is it necessary to have a “Examine the situation” kind of move? Right now, there’s a “Dig Around for info” and a “Put a name to a face” style move, but the general policy is “your character knows the biz better than you would, so if you don’t know, ask.”
Hack here btw:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6jEFShyNPxWqe9KmR98c_3X3NgjoZ4UlMlotRxl97E/edit#
Tonight my Golden Boy returned after the main event, but the crowd still booed massively.
Tonight my Golden Boy returned after the main event, but the crowd still booed massively. Has this happened with anyone else’s faces? Some female fans like him but the harder I push him the worst the boos get.
Never underestimate the power of showing up.
Never underestimate the power of showing up.
My Young One started at Audience 0, won two matches (including the main event), and thanks to a bonus advance, next week changes gimmick to The Ace.
She also won a car. #Dreams
Some Boston moves:
Some Boston moves:
*Shift the weather: unexpected snow, sudden balmy temperatures, and the only warning is the lights on the Pru’.
*Unleash a Discovery: MIT is the source of all kinds of technological threats, Harvard is unearthing the religious and the ancient, and Northeastern’s Huskies are out prowling.
*A racist, progressive city: Unleash unexpected hostility or tolerance.
So we had two mythic moments >in a row< during tonight's game.
So we had two mythic moments >in a row< during tonight's game.
The Warden, egged into a match he booked by Captain Justice, took a mic and entered the ring. Though he’d been bad on the stick all night, he connected with the crowd, explaining how Hard, Brutal Treatment was all everyone in Asylum Pro Wrestling deserved.
This was immediately followed by El Commandante being HURLED by his Mexican Security squad over the top rope and onto the Warden.
Neither of the two would end up winning the match.
“I don’t care if you can drink lava, you’re not the boss of me!”
“I don’t care if you can drink lava, you’re not the boss of me!”
“Amazagirl, you’re my hero.”
“Killotron is harmless! Come on, it can stay in my room!”
After a successful Masks campaign (and more sales of Sidekickin’ It), I’ve done another revision of The Youth. It’s the best one yet, and fully Masks v3 compliant!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Htnv5KQdEgOROsfkO7TbwvyfJTj6e43nf_t0vQcwhBM/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=gnkulDND9rE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=gnkulDND9rE
Real life wrestling has finally exceeded the weirdness of my WWWRPG games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=gnkulDND9rE
Even though Masks hasn’t come out yet, it’s still evocative.
Even though Masks hasn’t come out yet, it’s still evocative.
Especially when the moves come together.
My Outsider (Citizen 1) succeeded on “Belong in Two Worlds”, letting her borrow another move. She borrowed the “I’ll Save You!” move from the Janus. [The move lets succeed as if you rolled a 12+ as long as you mark a condition.]
You can also clear a condition if you act in a certain way for a scene. Citizen 1 marked the condition Hopeless.
The clearing condition for Hopeless is “fling yourself into easy relief.”
In gameplay, these systems interacted BEAUTIFULLY.
So what actually happened?
Our team, the Disasters (Citizen 1, Panther, Justice and Rook) fought a Giant Robot Bull. Panther cut the thing open with her claws and found a bomb. Justice kept trying to defuse it through luck…then Panther tried punching the wiring.
[Here, I borrowed I’ll Save You!]
Citizen 1 took the giant robot bull from her teammates it and flew it up to the skyline.
There, she defused it with her powers and realized that despite the fact her teammates were her best friends, they’d very easily die without her. And if she wanted to fight crime, she had to trust them with her life.
She looked over the city, burning with the signs of other battles. She ordered one of her Atlantean contacts to salvage bull and harvest its parts.
After the contact left, she got drunk. Easy relief.
Of course, the team called; they needed backup at the docks.
There was a giant mechanical sea serpent…
F@&^!
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The evenings events cascaded so that Citizen 1 and Justice made out, triggering one of Justice’s drives and a whole slew of other consequences.
Botched rolls are the best rolls.
Botched rolls are the best rolls.
In our first session, the Outsider (Citizen 1) got a mission, which turned out to be a media assignment. In the second adventure, what she thought was a socialist weekly turned out to be “Haly”, the city’s #1 teen magazine.
During the interview, she tried to play it cool and focus on the plight of the worker, the success of collectivism, and her team’s good works. Unfortunately, she failed to reject the interviewer’s influence, so she ended up dishing about the Bull’s attraction to a certain heroine named Gadget Girl.
This attempted romantic sabotage went completely sideways when the staff photographer asked the Teen Soviet for some foldout poster pictures. While her male teammates liked the photos, her handler demanded biweekly, in-person chats about how her mission was going.
On the plus side, she looked damn good.