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Looking for some feedback, and hoping that the literary nerds here could lend a hand.

Looking for some feedback, and hoping that the literary nerds here could lend a hand. I’m going to run a game based on authors living in 1910 hunting supernatural creatures. Each author will have a class assigned to them for the players to choose from. What do you think of my pairings? Are their any authors I would kick myself for missing? And if this were a TV show what would you call it?

Mark Twain – The Wronged (An old man seeking revenge for the loss of his team)

H. P. Lovecraft – The Expert (Like Giles in Buffy, someone who knows about spooky stuff)

Victor Appleton – The Mundane (An ordinary guy who knows how to deal with the ordinary world

Langston Hughes – The Divine (A man in conflict with his religion, but who gains power from it none the less)

Daschiel Hammett – The Crooked (A kid with criminal skills)

H. G. Wells – The Chosen (Like Buffy in Buffy, a man given power to battle by destiny)

Agatha Christie – The Professional (Someone with an array of combat skills)

Katherine Ann Porter – The Flake (A conspiracy theorist who sees the secret world)

Zitkala-Sa – The Initiate (A woman well connected with the resources of a shadowy organization)

Beatrix Potter – The Spooky (A woman with strange psychic powers from a dark origin)

Dorothy Parker – The Spell Slinger (Much like Harry Dresden, a wizard of some skill)

Virginia Woolf – The Monsterous (A werewolf who works for our side)

Hey All, was hoping to get some help/advice from the community on a campaign idea.

Hey All, was hoping to get some help/advice from the community on a campaign idea. Looking for PbtA games that have a good selection of mundane character books (so no magical powers or adventurer style heroics, more investigators and normal folk). This would be like a Call of Cthulu game, but it would spread out over a century or more with players making new characters on the regular so I’d want to have a wide variety.

The idea for the game is this. Starting sometime in the mid to late 1800 a group of people hear about a town being terrorized. Some sort of monster is killing people (the details of the monster are unimportant). This monster is very powerful, and it’s weaknesses will be very difficult to determine, so it’s likely that that first group will die in the attempt or flee. The game would then pick up 25 years later with new PCs (and possibly 1 or 2 from the previous group if they escaped). They would investigate how to defeat it, and ultimately either succeed, die or run away again. If they die pick up 25 years later….you get the picture. Any suggestions, thoughts or possible pitfalls in a campaign like this would be much appreciated as well.

Hey All, I’ve got a friend who’s interested in running her first game now that she has a few years experience under…

Hey All, I’ve got a friend who’s interested in running her first game now that she has a few years experience under her belt and she’s asked me to help her choose a system. She’s a massive Harry Potter fan and given all of the PbtA games out there I know there must be at least one designed for that sort of story. Does anyone know of a Wizard Boarding School PbtA game?

Looking for some Monster of the Week advice.

Looking for some Monster of the Week advice. I’ve only played in one PbtA game, and I’ve never run the system. I’m planning on running a one story game (2-3 sessions) for my players to introduce them the the Apocalypse Engine. My idea is the players will all be prominent authors in 1920, a zombie Mark Twain, a wronged Charolette Perkins Gilman, a flake H.P. Lovecraft, a spooky Edward Stratemeyer, an expert Agatha Christie, and a mundane H.G. Wells.

I was looking for some advice/help on two fronts. 1) What are some of the challenges I should expect for a groups first PbtA experience. One player and myself have story game experience, the rest only trad games. 2) Does anyone have any suggestions for customer moves, or other playbooks that may fit the authors better or just be more fun?