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I’m fairly sure everyone who wants them has them already, but here’s the deal: Send me proof you donated at least $4…

I’m fairly sure everyone who wants them has them already, but here’s the deal: Send me proof you donated at least $4 to a transgender charity, and I’ll send you a copy of either my Kitsune or Oni #Monsterhearts #ttrpg Skin. Your choice. Sharing this post is both appreciated and encouraged. 💖

Japanese Mythology

Japanese Mythology

I’ve finally gotten around to updating my Oni and Kitsune #Monsterhearts Skins. Each one is only $4 and the .zip file contains both the 1e and 2e versions. They’re available at either http://payhip.com/hyvemynd or http://hyvemynd.itch.io 💖💖💖

I’d call that a “scenario.”

Originally shared by Adam “Bison Court” D

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https://io9.gizmodo.com/riverdales-veronica-lodge-becomes-a-literal-bloodsuckin-1823835086

At long last the Monsterhearts Second Skins are available to all!

Originally shared by Jackson Tegu

At long last the Monsterhearts Second Skins are available to all!

Please find this 7 Skin expansion for Monsterhearts 2 and original Monsterhearts on my newly redesigned website:

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Thank you to my backers and to all who’ve added their brilliance to this project. More Monsterhearts goodness yet to come!

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Originally shared by Adam “Bison Court” D

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Last night, at Clifftop Academy:

Zachariah returns from traveling in Europe with his mother and Alessandra, whose family has “mysteriously disappeared.” Chloe gets in even deeper with an ever-more-desperate Dr. Morton/Connoisseur, who somehow know that his heart has been found and wants it back. She searches for Danae, who is still nowhere to be found. Nixon prowls around creepily at night, and meets the Caretaker, who convinces him to help her dig up bodies, drive silver nails into trees in Gatineau Wood, and stalk the boundaries of the Hydrus estate, clipping padlocks to the wrought-iron fence. Burton starts feeling like he’s losing control of the Hive, as the Artifact stops talking to him, and Heath breaks up with Kelly. Perhaps choosing Dr. Morton as an enemy was an even more rash decision than it seemed on the surface!

Zach entreats his mother to allow Chloe access to the Seeress, the eldest of the female Hydri, and the only one who can calm the Elder Serpents when they stir. Chloe, desperate to rid herself of Morton’s influence — and the ever-stalking presence of Primus, the Doctor’s familiar — agrees to the meeting, once she can find a suitable sacrifice.

Burton tries to report his successes to the artifact, and in return is granted a chilling vision of a wooden box, buried under an old maple, filled with malevolent power, and guarded by a silver wolf… and a familiar black dog.

Zach, too, sees a vision of the future: Alessandra, carrying a wombful of snakes, becoming more fully-transformed by the blood of the Failing Dynasty.

Heath asks Chloe to the Valentine’s Dance, and Serina asks Nixon, offering to “goth him up” a bit.

Today I cooked up the Animator.

The inspiration was trying to create a necromantic skin that could cover both Anita Blake the Vampire Hunter and Ned the Piemaker from Pushing Daisies. It ended up focusing on the power fantasies of a kid who lost someone close to them in a traumatic and scaring way.

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Hey, I managed to squeak this in before January is over!

Originally shared by Topher Gerkey

Hey, I managed to squeak this in before January is over! It’s my new #Monsterhearts skin, The Muse, a crazy genius who just wants you to succeed…at any cost. And the first person to quote Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrics at me gets a chandelier dropped on them.

This one (and the next one) will be added in to Skins for the Skinless at some point next month. You’ll notice that the playbook is actually in this file twice; in keeping with my new policy it’s got two different pieces of artwork so you can choose a girl-type or boy-type Muse.

I’ll probably run a quick poll to see which new skin I should finish up and post next month, so watch for that. In the meantime, enjoy this one, hit me with your feedback, and feel free to share it around wherever you like.

Has anyone toyed around with adding a second player/character resource to #Monsterhearts? Besides Strings?

For some reason, ideas for a Changeling: the Lost hack (that I had given up on) started popping back into my head last night (while I was trying to get to sleep). But this time the idea to introduce a new resource showed up for the first time. Completely out of the blue.

In C:tL, the Lost can harvest glamour from the emotions of mortals, which they then use for various supernatural effects (like powering Contracts, activating special abilities, opening gates into the Hedge, etc.). While Lost can “feed” passively by just being around strong emotions, it’s easier to try and evoke that emotion from a target.

That sounded like it would be a great move, as all kinds of things can go wrong when a Changeling is getting someone all worked up to “feed” from them. You’d want players to harvest emotion fairly often so that their lives are constantly interesting, so you’d have to give them an incentive to do so.

My original idea was to allow characters to clear Conditions or take +1 forward after harvesting emotions. Sort of like a healing move, but that didn’t exactly line up with the fiction I imagined. You don’t heal from harvesting glamour, you just have it to use. Then I thought about giving characters a number of hold they could use to trigger special effects. This seemed like a better idea, as Lost can hold onto glamour to use at a later time, rather than it being a “use immediately” kind of thing. From there my mind went to giving them points of a whole new resource (glamour) that they could spend to activate or enhance special abilities. There would be some basic moves that all Changelings had access to, that cost a point of glamour to use. Each Skin would also have special things the player could spend glamour on, making them all feel different from each other.

Of course this means tracking both Strings and glamour. That might get complicated or clunky, or just be more trouble than it’s worth. So I’m curious if anyone has done something similar, and if so, what happened.