Category: Monster of the Week Roadhouse: General Discussion

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Reposting to my circles rather than the City of Mist community I erroneously posted to first:

So. The IGoA with Richard Rogers , Alex Prinz and Julia Nienaber is running another campaign at last and it’s going to be Savage World’s ETU setting using Monster of the Week rules.

As with a lot of streamed campaigns I’ve watched recently I’ve thought about what sort of character I would play (it’s becoming a common contest on the Alpha forums of Geek and Sundry to say what character or campaign you’d run in X game/system). To be fair, I likely wouldn’t play ETU. I’ve read the plot point campaign and run it partially so the joy of discovering what’s up might not be a thing but still I like to imagine characters.

I’d likely play The Changeling playbook. To tweak I’d say the character was in transition rather than finished emerging and thus not aware yet that she’s not human but the unusual features she’s already displaying might have brought a suspicion of infidelity and twisted a fragile marriage to divorce which hits the concept that the Changeling has been ostracized from family.

I’d probably go with the following stats:

Ophelia Winston

Woman, Alluring Face, Odd Colorations, Casual Clothes

Charm +1 Cool -1 Sharp +1 Tough +0 Weird +2

Glamour, The Uncorrupted, Nurture over Nature, Inhuman Talent: Dreams

Unknown Heritage: Reputation, Sensory Bombardment, Alienation

Gear: Old pickup truck, baseball bat, journal, childhood toy

The way I’d see it is she’s a succubus in development hasn’t yet developed wings or other signs yet but her hair has turned a natural lavender and her pupils have a strange shape as well as unusual colored eyes. Her skin is also getting redder as she gets older. She tries to hide this with make-up, contacts and dyes but it’s been hard to find dyes that actually stick and contacts that don’t fall out (when her glamour is revealed the dyes and make-up sort of evaporate off her hair and skin). Her only supernatural instances are the hyper realistic dreams she has and the way they sometimes seem to belong to other people. Idea being that before they became agents of temptation the succubi were guides in the dreamlands and she’s a pure uncorrupted succubi as they were originally intended to be.

If Changeling was barred I’d instead go with the Flake or tweak Sidekick as a way of working toward Changeling.