Category: Monsterhearts: Skins

It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here is my latest version The Awakened, who is the kid that wants to…

It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here is my latest version The Awakened, who is the kid that wants to…

It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here is my latest version The Awakened, who is the kid that wants to grow up too fast and rails against the limitations of their body and society, not understanding that the laws and such in place are really there for their protection. I should maybe do more with that last part. Anyway, I’d love to hear what you think- what you like, what you don’t like, what you might wanna see- or how it goes if you playtest!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxDSdw0nHQqKV1JzWjdBR21ubDg/view?usp=sharing

The problem with custom Monsterhearts skins is when they start with a monster and then retrofit a teenage problem…

The problem with custom Monsterhearts skins is when they start with a monster and then retrofit a teenage problem…

The problem with custom Monsterhearts skins is when they start with a monster and then retrofit a teenage problem into it. Start with the problem and then find a monster that fits that theme. Right? Wrong?

Alberto Muti

After reading Rivers of London (not particularly MH, but very distinctive urban fantasy) I can’t help but ask if…

After reading Rivers of London (not particularly MH, but very distinctive urban fantasy) I can’t help but ask if…

After reading Rivers of London (not particularly MH, but very distinctive urban fantasy) I can’t help but ask if someone’s come up with a “Location Spirit” skin? Like, The Kami or something? (although to be fair, The Selkie is a pretty close match to the river spirits in the book)

Humans are the real monsters.

Humans are the real monsters.

Humans are the real monsters.

The Stranger https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JZpBBTzr7eLMpJxcTQzkmPzjP_IXUZLNfsIONjiOTyk/edit?usp=sharing

The Loser https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0e2wFJPXUdOE7qTrpNRaaWoDH26_LZbAZHV6hNpEo4/edit?usp=sharing

The Genius https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvyHfDGjYZ1MpKuFXOHLNLrynkc9gsZ_1LjIxRQRE8w/edit?usp=sharing

Workshopping welcomed, and needed.

The Stranger was previously the Shadow, with elements that have now been split into a separate Skin, the Loser. What both have in common is that I wanted to create a Skin where the player could act as a Big Bad to the Chosen’s Buffy– the cultural/institutional abuse of the Stranger, the caustic self-destructiveness of the Loser. I don’t think the experiment ultimately succeeded, as both Skins end up being pretty vague in terms of what kind of monsters they are. The moves could be more metaphorical, too, although I do think they lead to interesting situations in play.

The mad scientist Skin has been attempted a few times, and this is my stab at it.

After play testing this skin for a couple of weeks, and developing it for even a longer period of time.

After play testing this skin for a couple of weeks, and developing it for even a longer period of time.

After play testing this skin for a couple of weeks, and developing it for even a longer period of time. I think now is a good time to unveil it to the Monsterhearts community. I reveal to you ‘The Ice Queen’. I hope you guys enjoy the skin, if you have anything to say about it just comment down below 🙂

I’m very interested in the Proxy, but could someone maybe flesh out the concept for me a little bit?

I’m very interested in the Proxy, but could someone maybe flesh out the concept for me a little bit?

I’m very interested in the Proxy, but could someone maybe flesh out the concept for me a little bit? Like could you possibly give me some examples from moviestvother fictions?

I gotta ask, I’m making a skin, and I’m pretty much done with everything for the exception of the picture.

I gotta ask, I’m making a skin, and I’m pretty much done with everything for the exception of the picture.

I gotta ask, I’m making a skin, and I’m pretty much done with everything for the exception of the picture. For those of you that did make custom skins how did you make the pictures for them?

Question on the Faery Contract move.

Question on the Faery Contract move.

Question on the Faery Contract move. Forgive me, as I don’t have the move right in front of me. If someone breaks a promise to the Fae, the Fae gets a string on them. It also gives a couple additional options when spending strings.

Working on the basis that the character has to have broken a promise to spend strings using this move, can the Fae only spend strings gained from broken promises in this manner? If say, the Fae has 3 strings on an NPC and the NPC breaks a promise, giving the Fae 4 strings, can they spend all of those on balancing the scales?

If the latter is true, how would you balance this? Putting it to the MC and the group to decide when the scales have been balanced?

Here’s a Skin concept I’m working on: The Sphinx.

Here’s a Skin concept I’m working on: The Sphinx.

Here’s a Skin concept I’m working on: The Sphinx. It’s unfocused and needs a lot of polish, so thought I’d throw it up for fresh eyes.

Basically, the idea is the brainy, cynical alterna-nerd, two parts lit geek and one part conspiracy buff: convinced of her intellectual superiority, scornful of all the stupid people around her, yet of course horribly insecure underneath. Intellectual rather than emotional manipulator who enjoys confusing and playing head games with the “stupid mice” without them being aware of it. In her Darkest Self she goes full-on Lecter, figuratively or even literally devouring those who don’t measure up. 

Like I said: unfocused at present. There are too many Moves and they’re all over the place, but I think there’s the germ of a good Skin in here. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XM_zCm8gCuZjNMalNYelA5Tnc/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XM_zCm8gCuZzVKUm5FZzRpUjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Anyone know what font is used for the Monsterhearts headings?

Anyone know what font is used for the Monsterhearts headings?

Anyone know what font is used for the Monsterhearts headings? Or does anyone know where I could find a template to create official-looking Skins.

I’ve created a pseudo-Skin for players who join a game mid-Season, that allows them to play as an apparently ordinary human teenagers for a session and pick their Skin by the end – potentially they can actually be an ordinary teenager who gets changed by the events of that session (perhaps through receiving some sort of gift, or curse, or by dying) but with he option that they were actually a Skin already, in the guise of a human. It’s a way to allow a new player to hit the ground running, without having to integrate themselves into the established setting outside actual play.

I’m also still trying to scratch that Constantine itch too, by creating something like the Witch or Infernal, but something that’s more like a trickster, fool, or loveable rogue, who isn’t half as clever as he makes out and usually only gets out of the trouble he gets himself into by burning bridges and friendships.