Tag: Andy Hauge

Just realized that MOTW by default supports a three-act structure.

Act I: the hook, where we’re introduced to the problem

Act II: the rising action, where the monster is investigated and its minions confronted

Act III: the climax, where we fight the monster and sort out loose ends

That’s pretty cool, because of how naturally it does that.

Hey-o! Question for all. I’m looking for a source of photos for my upcoming convention game of MotW. I want to be able to plop down pictures of NPCs when players meet them. Nothing much is set in stone so far.

The game will itself be set at a convention (how meta!), and so I’ll mostly need young adults. I’m considering grabbing some pictures off of cosplay sites (because, convention!), though part of me feels a bit weird about using them, even though it’ll just be in-person stuff and not online or anything.

I’ll probably also need some staff members.

Just watched the first couple episodes of Fringe. Now I’m pondering how I’d tweak the standard MotW formula to handle a mystery like that.

There was no Kick Some Ass evident in the mysteries; the point was to figure out what was going on, then contain the problem before it could spread. There wasn’t actually a monster to kill. Naturally, there was plenty of Investigate A Mystery, and we had techno-flavored Use Magic of a sort.

Any thoughts? Michael, I know you briefly touched on this, and I’m sure that X-Files (if not Fringe itself) was definitely a style of game you had in mind, as a type of mystery to run.

Had a greatly-successful session last night, though I very quickly decided that 3-armor was a very bad idea to throw against starting characters. Even with a dragon. (I should really have noticed that most attacks don’t do that much damage.) I told everyone that I was going to knock it down to 2-armor, especially because the night was growing late.

Next session? I think I have my idea. Two words: scarab zombies. Oh yeah. Now to write them up.

(Also, I absolutely love the Expert’s “Dark Past” move, as a Keeper. The hunters were piecing together who was responsible for a burglary of a Manhattan townhouse. Guess who gave the dragon the idea to raid the townhouse, some time back?)