Author: Seth Harris

What’s the best hack of AW no one’s playing right now or you’re not hearing a lot about? I’ve seen there are a lot of them, but looking for one that’s high quality.

Got be a player in a Monsterhearts game today and it was so much fun. I’m playing a constructed Ghoul who hungers for chaos and fear. In my mind he’s like the original Frankenstein’s Monster, intelligent and calculating. It was a 5 hour session and damn it was fun. So many rich story hooks born out of this first session, I can’t wait to see where it goes.

Ran my first game of Monsterhearts tonight on G+ (both first experience at all with the game and I was the MC). It went off incredibly well. What helped was I got to play with a group that is really story game oriented so I knew they would be eager to go with my direction and take the reins when they needed to. We ended up with a werewolf, a vampire, a fae and twin sister witches. I worked to really provoke detailed responses during the set up phase so we have a pretty clear picture of where things were going. The game play lasted about three hours and by the end I had made sure to tangle up these relationships into a nice dramatic mess. The group were unanimous in wanting to continue past this first session so now I have some threats to design and will probably look at tinkering with a couple custom moves. Loving those MC principles, its like perfect pedagogy for running a story game.

I have not yet played AW but when I finished reading it last week I was buzzing with excitement about getting an opportunity to. I would love to participate in any G+ hangouts where AW is being played, both to just play it and get a taste of how the MC/Player relationship works for when I run it with my group of gaming friends.