The Ghoul – Alternative backstories

The Ghoul – Alternative backstories

The Ghoul – Alternative backstories

Here are a couple of suggestions for alternative backstories for the Ghoul. What are yours?

Your hunger grows particularly strong around someone.

Someone was close to you before you died, but now you keep your distance to hide how you’ve changed.

The String economy – what does it represent? Does it work?

The String economy – what does it represent? Does it work?

The String economy – what does it represent? Does it work?

Recently, I’ve had doubts as to what the string economy is adding to the game? I would appreciate people’s thoughts on:

– What they feel it’s trying to represent?

– What they feel it actually represents?

– Does it work at either?

The Ghost – Alternative backstories

The Ghost – Alternative backstories

The Ghost – Alternative backstories

Here are a couple of suggestions for alternative backstories for the Ghost. What are yours?

You sense that someone is close to death.

You wanted their attention when you were alive, but never got it. Now you do.

The Fae – Alternative backstories

The Fae – Alternative backstories

The Fae – Alternative backstories

Here are a couple of suggestions for alternative backstories for the Fae. What are yours?

You’re leading someone down the wrong path.

Someone knows your true name and the power it has.

The Chosen – Alternative backstories

The Chosen – Alternative backstories

The Chosen – Alternative backstories

Inspired by some recent G+ posting around adding more variation to the starting relationships, I would like to gather suggestions for alternative backstories for the core skins. I’m not going to worry about the actual string distribution (whether you take or give strings on them).

Also, let’s not worry about critiquing other suggestions or worrying about duplicating what someone else has already suggested. Let’s get a bunch of ideas down and we can go through them later.

Kicking off with the Chosen, here are a couple of suggestions. What are yours?

You have a mentor whom you trust.

You’ve fallen for someone on the other team.

I played my first game of Monsterhearts last night with Kathryn Jenkins, Dom, Ven, Robin Poole and Victoria Allin,…

I played my first game of Monsterhearts last night with Kathryn Jenkins, Dom, Ven, Robin Poole and Victoria Allin,…

Originally shared by Oli Palmer

I played my first game of Monsterhearts last night with Kathryn Jenkins, Dom, Ven, Robin Poole and Victoria Allin, ran by Scott Dorward. It was fairly bizarre, that’s for sure.

I’m playing the Ghoul skin. Cole Harrison used to be a decent lacrosse player till he was involved in a car crash. Rumours abound said he died that night but his dad is the local chief surgeon and evidently very good at his job as he managed to stitch Cole back together.

Cole has not been the same since, dropping out of lacrosse and becoming quite withdrawn. This didn’t stop him however from lobbing a corpse up a tree to try and hide it, raining blood down on all his class-mates.

Hugely looking forward to next week to see the next episode unfold!

(quick photo mash-up to give an idea of Cole, image taken from Jeffrey F. Bill / The Baltimore Sun before being edited into an abomination of a human life)

Rob and I talk about what we feel is great and less-great about Monsterhearts in this podcast episode.

Rob and I talk about what we feel is great and less-great about Monsterhearts in this podcast episode.

Rob and I talk about what we feel is great and less-great about Monsterhearts in this podcast episode.

Originally shared by Richard Williams (Epistolary Richard)

We close out the first season with the Ric and Rob talking about their favourite games. In this penultimate episode of Across the Table, Ric & Rob talk about Monsterhearts, the game of the messy lives of teenage monsters.

https://axthetable.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/episode-seven-monsterhearts/

Listen through iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/across-the-table/id1050414710

https://axthetable.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/episode-seven-monsterhearts

Some applicable stuff for running Monsterhearts here

Some applicable stuff for running Monsterhearts here

Some applicable stuff for running Monsterhearts here

Originally shared by Nathan Black

Me and Ross Cowman sit down and talk about Apocalypse World, some of our pet peeves with MCs running it poorly and tips for playing better.

Unfortunately we got cut off by technical issues before the end of the hangout. Hopefully we can do a part two, and maybe take questions from the community.

http://youtu.be/bIK3q7h-lY8