Author: Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Okay, since my original schedule is clearly scrapped. I’m just going to do two more one-shots this week, one for the Don’t Let the Sun Go Down scenario and one for the Tournament of Fate Scenario.

Tomorrow I want to focus on the Tournament of Fate Scenario.

So Posting this primarily to the Monster of the Week Community.

I can start somewhere between 6am to 12pm because I need to have sleep and I need to be off before 5pm for a normal game with regular friends.

That would be a start time of 4pm to 10pm Central Standard Time in the United States and lasting somewhere between 3 and 5 hours depending. It’s MotW so I don’t expect it to take too long. (I’ve run this scenario in 4 hours)

If anybody is interested please respond and message me an email to send an invite to, I just make a fresh Event at whatever time people are interested in playing.

(Also, I cleaned up the previous adverts…and this one will get cleaned up as well…if we get a successful session, the actual play will be linked in the Actual Play category)

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/09/tournament-of-fate-prep-page.html

So I was writing up some MotW stats for some characters from different franchises (and am still tempted to do more) and came across a couple of issues that caused me to tweak things.

For example Mai Taniyama from Ghost Hunt experiences growing psychic abilities over the course of the show. For example, she is often able to see spirits even when normal people can’t. But, for the most part, her greater psychic abilities only come fully in effect while she is asleep and dreaming. During such times she can often see the spiritual terrain for miles, have conversations with spirits who often give her clues as to what is happening and can frequently catch glimpses of whatever the source of all the trouble is.

So when I changed her Playbook to Spooky, I marked one of dark side issues as Sleep. Her other related mostly to her nature as an impulsive teenager with new powers and confidence issues. (Mood Swings, Impulse Control) I considered giving her Big Whammy because of the Nine Cuts invocation the Shintoist taught her, but she’s not all that confident with it and decided that was a use magic effect instead of a move.

Then there was Celty as the Monstrous. I could have marked her as the Summoned, there is some hint that her missing head might possibly spark an apocalypse if I remember, but I wasn’t sure on the Apocalypse thing and it wasn’t major, also she is generally liked by most everyone she talks too, even after revealing she has no head, so the Freakish move felt inappropriate. So I went with Monstrous. Which brought the issue of her curse. She’s not particularly vulnerable to anything, she doesn’t need to feed on people. That left Pure Drive and Dark Master. Pure Drive was problematic because normally she’s the most mature and emotionally settled/normal character in her cast. But she does have an obsession with finding her head. I figured that might count as a Dark Master in that she is normal most of the time and then suddenly catches a rumor about her head’s location and drops everything to chase it down. Then I decided to skip the whole thing by having her sixth advance be freed from the curse.

There was also Kate Freelander working for Sanctuary whose primary mission is to defend sentients regardless of whether they are human or not. So for one of her Red Tape issues I put in “Soft Hearted Regulations”

I also did a couple of places where the five given stat blocks didn’t match where I was going for. So did things like switch the positions of a +1 and a +0.

Does anybody else find themselves doing stuff like that?

What are some tweaks you’ve tried?

Also, now that I think on it, Celty might work better as the Divine.

The Monstrous and a couple of other Playbooks have unstated Moves giving them +1 to their traits (Weird for Monstrous).

When you shift Playbooks are those unstated moves picked up? And can we get a list of which Playbooks have those unstated moves?

So, a conversation elsewhere got me thinking and I worked this up:

Just for the hell of it: http://thrythlind.blogspot.com/2015/09/urban-fantasy-crossover-scenario.html

I say on that post that it’s too late to run this scenario this weekend, but it is conceivable that I could run this Friday 11pm to 4am my time (9am to 2pm Friday CST).

I could also try to run this Friday after this one since I’m already running 9 one-shots from the 18th to the 23rd.

The specific scenario would depend on just what characters are involved but it would be a cross-reality apocalypse prevention thing.

For no particular reason I added images to the roles for the Tournament of Fate one-shot.

Saber (Fate/Stay-Night) for the Conjured:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-conjured.html

Ron Weasley (Harry Potter) for the Friend:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-friend.html

Raiden (Mortal Kombat) for the Mentor:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-mentor.html

Tohsaka Rin (Fate/Stay-Night) for the Rival:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/09/the-rival.html

Karrin Murphy (Dresden Files) for the Soldier:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-soldier.html

Gourry Gabriev (Slayers) for the Wielder:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-soldier.html

On the Tournament of Fate one-shot, I have decided that the Wielder is NOT going to be a required role.

Of course if no one decides to be the Wielder that means all five artifacts fell into the hands of other people/things and your group has failed to get a hold of one (or lost theirs) to this point.