I just finished a two part chat with Michael Sands about his game Monster of the Week, a super cool, published…
I just finished a two part chat with Michael Sands about his game Monster of the Week, a super cool, published Apocalypse World hack.
If you like Buffy, Supernatural, Fringe, and X-Files, you will love Monster of the Week.
Part 1: Designer Michael Sands and Monster of the Week
Part 2: Michael Sands and Monster of the Week
Thank you, Michael Sands for your time.
Monster of the Week shirts for your enjoyment!
Monster of the Week shirts for your enjoyment!
Currently you have the choice of cover art and the generic games monster. I’ll add some of the hunters when there are more votes for which ones in the post below.
Monster of the Week merch!
Monster of the Week merch!
I’m in the middle of setting up a spreadshirt page with art from the game. I’m definitely going to have the cover art (which looks great on the sample I just got in the mail) and the Generic Games monster logo.
I was thinking of adding some for hunter classes, too, in case you need people to know you’re the chosen one, or otherwise dangerous to be around.
I’m going to add comments underneath for each hunter type. Please +1 your favourites, and I’ll put the most popular few onto shirts for you.
A way back, someone suggested a cool idea for a game: play a game of Monsterhearts, then follow up with a Monster of…
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A way back, someone suggested a cool idea for a game: play a game of Monsterhearts, then follow up with a Monster of the Week game in which you are hunting down the player characters from the first game.
Well, yesterday I did that at a minicon (with Daniel Steadman co-GMing). Daniel ran Monsterhearts, with me playing, and we swapped for part two.
It was a lot of fun!
Kind of messy, which is to be expected, especially with a larger group than we had planned on. But the basic idea of using the end of the Monsterhearts game to build a Monster of the Week situation worked just fine. And everyone really enjoyed the monster hunters discovering the fallout from what their teen monster characters had done – including slaying some of them.
The plot ended up being centered on the Infernal and Vampire in the Monsterhearts game – they teamed up (and the Infernal was vampirized as well) by the end, so they formed the central problem in the MotW mystery – the Infernal’s master was using them to reawaken an extra-dimensional evil. The monster hunters put a stop to that, at least!
Oh, and three of the teen monsters were left in town: a Chosen, a Witch, and a Werewolf. The things they were getting up to just weren’t high enough profile to get hunter attention!
A way back, someone suggested a cool idea for a game: play a game of Monsterhearts, then follow up with a Monster of…
A way back, someone suggested a cool idea for a game: play a game of Monsterhearts, then follow up with a Monster of the Week game in which you are hunting down the player characters from the first game.
Well, yesterday I did that at a minicon (with Daniel Steadman co-GMing). Daniel ran Monsterhearts, with me playing, and we swapped for part two.
It was a lot of fun!
Kind of messy, which is to be expected, especially with a larger group than we had planned on. But the basic idea of using the end of the Monsterhearts game to build a Monster of the Week situation worked just fine. And everyone really enjoyed the monster hunters discovering the fallout from what their teen monster characters had done – including slaying some of them.
The plot ended up being centered on the Infernal and Vampire in the Monsterhearts game – they teamed up (and the Infernal was vampirized as well) by the end, so they formed the central problem in the MotW mystery – the Infernal’s master was using them to reawaken an extra-dimensional evil. The monster hunters put a stop to that, at least!
Oh, and three of the teen monsters were left in town: a Chosen, a Witch, and a Werewolf. The things they were getting up to just weren’t high enough profile to get hunter attention!
I’ve just posted a breakdown of sales figures so far, for any of you who are interested in that sort of thing.
I’ve just posted a breakdown of sales figures so far, for any of you who are interested in that sort of thing.
http://gamesteratlarge.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/monster-of-week-year-one.html
On story-games, someone started up a thread for evil clown stats.
On story-games, someone started up a thread for evil clown stats. I added some for MotW, so throw this at your hunters if they are getting uppity!
(Just thinking about it creeps me out!)
http://www.story-games.com/forums/discussion/comment/411337#Comment_411337
Just to let you all know what my plans are for the game, I’m planning to put together a couple of free demo…
Just to let you all know what my plans are for the game, I’m planning to put together a couple of free demo scenarios to allow people to try the game out or demo it to friends. One will be my Scooby Doo style mystery “The Meddling Kids In: Too Many Draculas!” and the other will be a darker, serious mystery.
After that I am considering putting together a PDF supplement (possibly print too, I’ll have to consider costs for that) containing some premade monsters and mystery ideas to go with them,and discussion of different styles of game like Fringe or X-Files style mad science, without the same emphasis on magic and the supernatural.
In totally other news, I’m working on a new draft of my Patrick O’Brian style naval adventure game that has been in development (on and off) for several years. I’m currently adapting my mission-generator tables from that to go into the Dungeon World Grim Portents fanzine #2, and a scenario for the EPOCH one shot horror game set in the Winter War (Finland vs Russia, 1939) to go into a war-themed scenario bundle.
Welcome all Monster of the Week fans!
Welcome all Monster of the Week fans!
I’ve just left a single general discussion group for now, if it seems necessary I’ll add some more later.