Category: Monster of the Week Roadhouse: General Discussion

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.

So my brother’s Shadowrun campaign has been stretched past his planned completion due to work schedules and such, so I’m still prepping for my MotW campaign.

Since they originally said they wanted something like X-Com I’ve done up a list of 100 prefixes and 100 suffixes with which to create random operation names similar to X-Com Enemy Within.

For further fun I’ve attached situational complications to each prefix and a significant person, place or group to each suffix as ways to add a bit of extra color to my plans.

The first session is set to be Operation Subtle Mason.

The base idea is that magical/temporal fluctuations going on have brought a nest of stirges into the area which are just about to hatch.

The location is this abandoned mining town that was left sitting since the 80’s after financial situations shut it down. (Based on a real life Canadian town).

The players are going to be sent to investigate the location for “reasons” (one of the troubles they selected for the M-Com agency is cryptic missions but the agency has good intel.)

I was originally going to have the trouble just starting with mysterious attacks and caretakers of the property being put comatose by stirge attacks, Then I rolled the operation name and looked at the situation and person the name indicated.

Subtle – the situation has been engineered.

Mason – a visionary of some sort is involved.

Recently, the Canadian ghost town I’m basing this on was purchased by a entrepreneur who wants to use it for some reason. There’s my visionary.

And I figure M-Com wants the site for its isolation and presence at the site of a temporal/dimensional anomaly. So the anomaly was deliberately tweaked to bring something over which would cause enough problem for the entrepreneur to be pressured into selling and leaving the organization with a new base including facilities and living quarters in good condition.

So the players are getting sent to investigate before the trouble has happened now.

Now all we have to do is get past these last couple of Shadowrun missions.

Okay, well here’s the Tournament of Fate prep page…I’ll eventually put this scenario/campaign for sale on my drivethru I think.

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

Okay, how to handle the playbooks for online gaming.

Currently I’m thinking about making individual pages for the page books which I will only have include the full stats for the event itself and then will have the stats taken down after the event is over. Otherwise it will have a general description of the playbook.

Is there any other suggestion?

Possible Schedule for One-Shots on my 5-day break in mid September, Japanese Times Listed (UTC +9)

Friday 18th (unknown at this time)

Saturday 19th 12pm to 5pm – Loss of Life: GUMSHOE

Sunday 20th 11pm to 4am – Just a Game: Powered by the Apocalypse

Monday 21st – Slot 1 – 10am to 3pm – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down

Monday 21st – Slot 2 – 5pm to 10pm – Tournament of Fate: MotW

Tuesday 22nd – Slot 1 -12am to 5am – Just a Game: Fate Core

For the following four slots, I will either repeat something or I will take suggestions on other games from the list below which might be possible to one-shot.

Tuesday 22nd – Slot 2 – 12pm to 5pm –

Wednesday 23rd – Slot 1 – 12am to 5am –

Wednesday 23rd – Slot 2 – 11am to 4pm –

Wednesday 23rd – Slot 3 – 5pm to 10pm –

Proceed to collapse and sleep until work the next day.

Games:

Divine Blood – FAE – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down

Divine Blood – GUMSHOE (Trail of Cthulhu mostly) – Loss of Life

No Particular Setting – Monster of the Week – Tournament of Fate

Undecided Setting – Just a Game: Fate Core – Undecided Scenario

Undecided Setting – Just a Game: Powered by the Apocalypse – Undecided Scenario

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Other Games/Scenarios

Gods and Monsters – Fate Core Game – (Characters are Gods in the early days of the world)

Venture City – Fate Core Game (Superheroes with a Shadowrun vibe)

Divine Blood RPG – Day at the Fair (Comedy/Civilian Scenario)

Urban Shadows – Powered by the Apocalypse

My Zodiacs setting – Use Fate Core (Heroic Fantasy with cowboys, samurai, witches, vikings, mongols and other such things)

I considered HERO, BESM or Mutants and Masterminds; but I’d need to make Pre-Gens for those and it’s really short notice. Maybe next time.

I’m not comfortable doing 5e because I only have the PHB.

My average online one-shots run 3 to 5 hours, but my convention slots are planned for five hours so that’s what I’m basing this around.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html