Old news, yeah, but I figured if anyone missed out they'd still like to know, and it's a nice way to see who else is still checking this old board.

You can bet I'm taking this to KublaCon 2017. My Monsterhearts games from previous years have had to turn folks away, they attract a lot of interested players.

Very cute and in the spirit of the game!

Hello all.

I'm sure there must be a thread like this, but I need help. This would be my first time running Monsterhearts at a con, so I'd like specific dos/don'ts ("This skin really doesn't work in con play... Try to run this kind of scene... Common pitfalls are... ")

I'm fairly experienced with running AW at a con, so I'm mostly concerned with knowing how to 'shift my gears', as it were.

I'd like to see more of this concept, fleshed-out as more of it's own character than a prop for leader types. My favorite aspects of your first version are respawn and I am the cavalry, I'd like to see those (or a variation on them) make it to the final version.

I know that Monsterhearts is only loosely similar to Apocalypse World in terms of how the characters get connected via stats (i.e. Hx vs Strings), but this reminded me of the playbook The Mortal, which I think shows some similarities in that both they and the Redshirt get power by becoming vulnerable. There's some other moves from that game that might work for a Redshirt as well. I just copy/pasted all the Mortal's moves here for convenience, but I think something similar to Mess With Me, Mess With Him and Sympathy is My Weapon could work well in keeping a dependent character, but adding a little more of their own self outside of the leader.

Mortal Moves - You get this one, and choose two more: True Love You always have exactly one lover. The first is chosen during your backstory. If you ever fall in love with someone else instead, give them a String and they become your new lover. You always carry 1 forward to earning your lover’s heart or fancy.

Mess With Me, Mess With Him When you use your lover’s name as a threat, add 2 to your roll to shut someone down or hold steady. Your lover gains a String on you. Sympathy is My Weapon Every time you forgive someone for hurting you, and excuse their base nature, take a String on them. Excuses Are My Armour When you ignore some blatant problem with your lover or how they treat you, mark experience. Downward Spiral When you gaze into the abyss, you maycause yourself 1 harm. If you do, add 2 to your roll. Down the Rabbit Hole When you go poking your nose in affairs not meant for your kind, someone involved in the situation gains a String on you, and you mark experience. Entrenched If you and another character have a total of 5 or more Strings on one another, gain 1 to all rolls against them

An important part of being the Gunlugger (also to an extent, the Driver) is building solid relationships between the other PCs. My favorite Gunlugger was awkwardly in love with our oblivious Angel. Having zero stats or moves to make stuff happen is what made that character interesting, in addition to being a badass when those opportunities arose.

It might come down to a roleplay style thing, but that's why Hx is a mechanic in AW - all the characters need a connection, but more so for the combat wombat who needs a stake in the action, even when it's not a violent scene.

Anybody got cool websites/blogs/junk that they browse for inspiration?

I only gots a few to share, myself: Post-Apocalyptic Fashion, Abandonedography (photos of abandoned places), and People of Earth (photos of different folks around the world). I also have a Tumblr page where I collect images and stories, here's a few things from real life, and I have a lot of inspiration for landscapes.

Dungeon World has something that seems like what you're doing here. My memory somewhat fails me, but you can basically 'act under fire' in that system, using whichever of the 6 stats work for the situation. As for the munchkins, I wish I had more constructive advice aside from 'choose a less descriptive system'.

If you need a mechanic that balances a dynamic stats, maybe a cap on moves/stats? Like, one chip per stat. Once you use that stat, you can't again for that scene/session. Or maybe when the stat gets used, you get a temporary adjustment, like a -1 forward until you rest? Maybe this is all a bit too far from the core system.

I'm glad we've got a feedback thing going, Mikael. A lot of stuff about your move just didn't 'click' for me, until I read and re-read this thread a few times.