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A write-up of the first two episodes of a Monsterhearts campaign that I’m currently playing in.

It’s a relatively long read and isn’t really descriptive of mechanics (although if you look hard enough, you might be able to guess what was going on, play-wise)–but hopefully it gives a an idea of one type of story that Monsterhearts can tell.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T54hOd7m1RkPA1gd6ZNkgLKUUwEit4x

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T54hOd7m1RkPA1gd6ZNkgLKUUwEit4x

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T54hOd7m1RkPA1gd6ZNkgLKUUwEit4x

24 Hours Worth of Monsterhearts. That’s a lot of teen drama. 

Two Sessions legit equated to one day game time. A day full of murder, kidnapping, sex and more. 

about 3 sessions….ish left. maybe. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T54hOd7m1RkPA1gd6ZNkgLKUUwEit4x

#monsterhearts

#monsterhearts

Originally shared by Adam “Bison Court” D

#monsterhearts  

Last night, at Clifftop Academy:

Zachariah returns from traveling in Europe with his mother and Alessandra, whose family has “mysteriously disappeared.” Chloe gets in even deeper with an ever-more-desperate Dr. Morton/Connoisseur, who somehow know that his heart has been found and wants it back. She searches for Danae, who is still nowhere to be found. Nixon prowls around creepily at night, and meets the Caretaker, who convinces him to help her dig up bodies, drive silver nails into trees in Gatineau Wood, and stalk the boundaries of the Hydrus estate, clipping padlocks to the wrought-iron fence. Burton starts feeling like he’s losing control of the Hive, as the Artifact stops talking to him, and Heath breaks up with Kelly. Perhaps choosing Dr. Morton as an enemy was an even more rash decision than it seemed on the surface!

Zach entreats his mother to allow Chloe access to the Seeress, the eldest of the female Hydri, and the only one who can calm the Elder Serpents when they stir. Chloe, desperate to rid herself of Morton’s influence — and the ever-stalking presence of Primus, the Doctor’s familiar — agrees to the meeting, once she can find a suitable sacrifice.

Burton tries to report his successes to the artifact, and in return is granted a chilling vision of a wooden box, buried under an old maple, filled with malevolent power, and guarded by a silver wolf… and a familiar black dog.

Zach, too, sees a vision of the future: Alessandra, carrying a wombful of snakes, becoming more fully-transformed by the blood of the Failing Dynasty.

Heath asks Chloe to the Valentine’s Dance, and Serina asks Nixon, offering to “goth him up” a bit.

A little perfect(?) Monsterhearts moment

A little perfect(?) Monsterhearts moment

A little perfect(?) Monsterhearts moment 

In the last session Mika the Infernal wanted to shoot Ray the Queen because they had thought shelter in her home and her Dark Power (her dead Mom) said Ray needed to be removed from this family. Both Mika and her twin brother Luca were part of Ray’s gang at that moment. 

Based on a few botched rolls Mika did shot Ray but also shot her own brother by accident. 

Both are blaming each other for that happening and Luka later died in the hospital. 

We skip a bit forward to the day of the rememberance of Luka and Ash (who died in the same session). 

Mika got into all kinds of trouble earlier and is leaving the school to not have to deal with the ceremony and with seeing Ray again. Lilli the Vampire and her (former?) best friend follows her. Lilli is in her darkest self. She earlier told Ray how she can’t stand being close to Mika after what she did. 

She comforts Mika by telling her what an ass Ray is and how she can’T even look them in the eyes anymore. Mika is still upset though but Lilli makes her feel beautiful by reminding her how proud her family always was of her and that the best way to move forward is to honor that and do what her mother would have wanted. 

This was of course me wanting to push Mika into confronting (and killing) Ray again because that was the last thing the Dark Power told our Infernal. 

Mika goes home, waits for her father to go to bed (he was seeing someone new that Mika hurt earlier for revenge) and then suffocate him with a pillow. She then kills herself so that her whole family can be together in dead. 

She will come back for the last session as a ghost. 

TL;DR

After the Vampire made the Infernal feel beautiful (to manipulate her) she goes home and kills her father and then herself

Mika played by Regine Bernhardt 

Ray played by Philipp Neitzel 

MC of that game Sascha Müller 

Also in it as Cal the Selkie Markus Wagner 

Lilli the Vampire, played by me

Would anyone be interested in a monsterhearts campaign?

Would anyone be interested in a monsterhearts campaign?

Would anyone be interested in a monsterhearts campaign? I’m a fairly new GM and I would love the chance to practice and run. I have one person interested already so I just need 2-4 more that can all agree on a day and time. I am open to every two weeks or a weekly game.

I don’t mean to brag, but I’m kind of famous now.

I don’t mean to brag, but I’m kind of famous now.

Originally shared by Kris Miller

I don’t mean to brag, but I’m kind of famous now.

Kidding. Anyway, I was in a fantastically fun Monsterhearts game earlier today, and the stream was captured and put up on YouTube! So if you’re the type who enjoys watching Actual Plays, here you are! Teen drama in all of its awkward glory, with the added bonus of everybody being monsters!

A Werewolf, Vampire, Ghoul, Ghost, Witch, Coyote, and Selkie, hanging out and making friendships (and hated enemies) that will last a lifetime. Though I’m not sure that lifetime is going to be all that long …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcnsgeLWKPM

https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/25531/one-shot-monsterhearts-heartache-and-school-days

https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/25531/one-shot-monsterhearts-heartache-and-school-days

https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/25531/one-shot-monsterhearts-heartache-and-school-days

Hey Guys, 

So, I’m looking to run a one-shot/potentially once a month-ish maybe series of Monsterhearts, starting this Saturday at 8pm GMT+1/WEST or otherwise known as 3pm Eastern Standard Time (for those more america centred), or 12 noon cali time. Over Roll20 and Google Hangouts (voice necessary, video optional)

Anyways yeah, looking for as many players as I can get my hands on. Treat it as a oneshot, treat it as a series, whichever, whatever. 

LETS DO THIS!

Please leave a comment at topic in the link above to receive a campaign invite.

Cheers Guys!

Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell ’em all. 🙂

https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/25531/one-shot-monsterhearts-heartache-and-school-days

In Session 1 and 2

In Session 1 and 2

In Session 1 and 2

(Session report originally by Regine Bernhardt 

hasty and weak translation by me)

Cal the Selkie

– kissed the Queen, was in a fight with the Queen and got declared “weird” by the Queen

– explained fluid mechanics better then the physics teacher Mrs. Grey (by using weird selkie glyphs and experience instead of actual physics). Mrs. Grey didn’t care though

– turned on another guy by deepthroating herings

– Asked tons of questions because he doesn’t understand how to human

– Pissed of the Queen by mentioning that he want’s his pelt clothes back, by not accepting/understanding her gender role and because he mentioned that he is used to kill disabled people where he comes from 

– Took the last name of Shawn’s because he doesn’t have one of his own 

– after a lot of turning on, moved in with Shawn for the week as long as his parents aren’t there

Ray, The Queen 

– suspects the Vampire of taking drugs and blames the Selkie

– brought the drained Vampire to the nurse and made out with her on the way

– helped to safe the life of the bleeding Nurse (not knowing where these bite like wounds come from)

– Fought and kissed the Selkie and then declared him weird/hopeless 

– Got detention by confronting drugdealing student Douglas in the cafeteria and taking his drugs away

– threatend to expose the relationship between Douglas and the principal 

– Confronted Andrew (also involved with drugs) by hitting him in the face and took all his drugs 

– got his phone back from the Selkie (the phone has a little crown/tiara and says “QUEER”)

Lili the Vampire

– got her shirt soaking wet by being to close to the Selkie

– got her picture taken by Jaqueline, showing Lili halfnaked and in a compromising position with the Infernal

– got send to the nurse because she looked super sick (needed blood)

– Made out with the Queen when he brought her to the nurse 

– feed of the nurse and got blood all over her

– asked the Queen for help in the aftermath, saying she had no idea waht happend to the nurse

– spend the rest of the day in a way too big jacket of another student to not walk around in just a bra all day

– confronted Jackie about the picture but didn’t get much done

– stopped the infernal from her “let’s just make out in the cafeteria for everyone to see and they will stop talking about the picture” plan 

– Got told by the Infernal’s brother that the picture is no big deal

– decided to go swimming with them, to wash of the blood she still feels on herself

– gazed into the abyss to know why everyone is suddenly hot for her

– got super down of the realization and attempted to get a goth/emo outfit together to show that

Mike the Infernal

– tried to figure out what is up with the Vampire (they are besties) but didn’t made much progress

– promised Mrs. Grey to look into joining the student newspaper

– gave the Vampire her jacket so that she wouldn’t need to walk around in only a bra or wet shirt all day

– got her picture taken by Jaqueline, implying she and Vampire are more then just friends

– confronted Jackie but was more turned on by her then anything

– nearly kissed Jackie

– got pissed because the Selkie was making sweet with the guy she thought was into her brother

– got calmed down by her brother about the picture

– learned, through spooky powers, that Sharon (who is in a wheelchair) doesn’t actually need her wheelchair

– got an invitation to apply to the Columbia River Society for gifted young Scholars (they are a big deal)

– also learned that their “recruiter” Alexander actually is cheating/bribing his way into staying in the CRS because his grades aren’t good enough. 

Livin the Blackwood Nightmare

Livin the Blackwood Nightmare

Livin the Blackwood Nightmare 

We (Regine Bernhardt Markus Wagner Philipp Neitzel  and Sascha Müller) are starting a game of Monsterhearts! Hooray. 

Last session we got together to set up the town and area the game is set in (as well as talk about the content we are comfortable with and triggers)

We used the setting question by Richard Williams.

The game is set on the fictional Island of Blackwood, close to Cape Disappointment.  Blackwood is mostly a tourist town with people coming for health tourism, business conferences/workshops and for whale watching. Besides the tourism industry there isn’t much going on though. Mostly fishing. Most kids leave right after finishing Blackwood High but most come back after they are done studying so this town is missing the whole college population, making the graduating class in school the coolest kids in town. 

Important locations are

The Old Lighthouse – make out point or party location

The two beaches (one is privately owned by some tourism people, the other is far away and not as cool) 

The harbor wall – as the main meeting place and lounging about area for teens

The not fully named ice caffe – main place for “first dates” and stuff like that. Owned by my characters family. 

A main inspiration for Blackwood was Lovecraft from the Locke & Key comic 

http://www.loseternautas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LockeKey1-18-e1302783891467.jpg

There is a lot of diversity on the island because a lot of the tourism people that developed Blackwood are not white. There are no native americans on the island though, that is one of the reasons settlers settled on this island originally. Natives always stayed clear of the island because of a curse or something like that. 

You need to take a ferry to the main land, it takes about 45ish minutes. The ferry owners are an important and rich family in the town. 

Once a year there is the whale festival and that is a big deal. 

Blackwood High is “ruled” by the 

Columbia River Society for gifted young Scholars 

a study group/elite type of deal. Set up by the ancient Blackwood they get a lot of founding and only the really rich AND intelligent/dilligent students can enter. They are the upper class of students because they can regulary get out of Blackwood and bring back contraband and stuff. They go to state and nation wide contests and stuff. 

The Drama Group all got killed in a ferry accident about half a year ago. 

Up there also are the jocks and cheerleaders (Go Orcas Go!) who think they are on top because that is what society and media tells you. 

There is a local circle of witches that are pissed off because they built a basketball court/hall directly on their ancient ritual ground. 

other groups within Blackwood High are the Emos+Goths, Student Newspapers, EcoFriendlies and then the lower class children of fisherman providing the white trash and the children of newcomers (many of them not white) that are the up coming class. 

We talked a bit about the characters we want to play and we have

A Queen that leads a StraightEdge clique that all look highly androgynous and can be rather violent. Played by Philipp Neitzel 

A Selkie curious about humanity. Played by Markus Wagner 

An Infernal whose Dark Power is her mother who died last year. She communicates with her with the dairy she got when she tried to get over the trauma. Played by Regine Bernhardt  

A freshly (vampire) bitten cheerleader (not that kind of cheerleader) that just got over a break up. Played by me. 

If I forgot anything, please add. 

http://www.loseternautas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LockeKey1-18-e1302783891467.jpg

A month ago my group started our game of Monsterhearts, you may have seen my witch players drawing of the characters.

A month ago my group started our game of Monsterhearts, you may have seen my witch players drawing of the characters.

A month ago my group started our game of Monsterhearts, you may have seen my witch players drawing of the characters. Well, a month later and the witch ended up in the body of our ghoul, who is covered in blood, trying to convince our angel it was her inside his body, whilst said angel was wearing a dress.

In the middle of the night.

In the woods.

I love this freaking game.