We’re starting a new Urban Shadows mini-campaign soon and the players have picked their playbooks: The Aware, The…
We’re starting a new Urban Shadows mini-campaign soon and the players have picked their playbooks: The Aware, The Wolf, The Spectre, The Immortal, and The Tainted.
This raises an important question. Can the Aware see the Spectre without the Spectre manifesting? How do people normally play the Spectre with the various Mortality Playbooks? Do they qualify as ‘Regular people’?
I was thinking of writing a playbook which explored issues of parental abuse.
I was thinking of writing a playbook which explored issues of parental abuse.
It incredibly tough to pitch this right. Its a really thin line between addressing the issues in a forthright way and being unnecessarily vulgar about it. I know at many tables what I’ve written is going to cross lines. I wouldn’t think of bringing it to the table without discussing the implications of having the skin in play, and making sure everyone was okay with it.
I would like people opinions on what I’ve written. So far this is what I’ve got on virtual paper (initial playbook thoughts):
( Please: If this subject is likely to offend you / trigger bad memories leave the playbook alone. )
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15bT2Kx_1lu4Gn4HtFTjtcWRy1eVgCvEMutFTiLJtgOo/edit?usp=sharing
This is material I really would like to explore, but I don’t want to traumatise people in play. Has anyone any thoughts as to where to take this playbook? I’d like to find a less blunt approach to these issues?
Also I don’t want a playbook that derails the game. Hence it needs to work with all the other playbooks in a normal Monsterhearts game
I’m thinking about running a Monsterhearts game set in the early 1980s in a UK Borstal.
I’m thinking about running a Monsterhearts game set in the early 1980s in a UK Borstal. (http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/borstal-system.html#ixzz2iNC5iuyO , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borstal)
I’ve no actual experience of a Borstal, so my game will be based in the Fiction of a Borstal (in Film and Book), and the very nature of the place will probably be drawn more from player expectations than from any grounding in the reality of such places.
I do however have a concern. Borstals were correctional facilities for ‘delinquent boys aged 16 to 21′. As a result all the characters are going to be male.
Has anyone tried running Monsterhearts in a single sex environment? Did it work? What about ‘sex moves’ or ‘turning someone on’? What do I need to look out for / be aware of, that may not have cropped up when I’ve run Monsterhearts before?