Monster of the Week

Monster of the

Week

Monster of The Week

By Michael Sands

Illustrated by Daniel Gorringe

Edited by Steve Hickey

First edition, June 2012.

ISBN (print edition): 978-0-473-20466-2

ISBN (PDF edition): 978-0-473-20467-9

For Amanda and Zelda with love, for their support and tolerance over

the very long time this game was in development.

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to many people who helped me with this game. Firstly, to

Vincent Baker for Apocalypse World, and for not minding that I took his

rules and changed them all around to fit my vision.

Also, to the many playtesters who indulged me by joining in and

hunting monsters over four or five years of development (especially

my regular Monday night crew: Scott Kelly, Bruce Norris, Andrew

McLeod, Jason Pollock, and Stefan Tyler).

Steve Hickey, who edited the game, was one of my first enthusiastic

fans, the first Keeper (aside from me), and has provided great feedback

throughout the process. Thanks to my other early fans: Jenni Dowsett,

Sophie Melchior, Hamish Cameron, and Stefan Tyler.

Daniel Gorringe for the art: he was on the same page as me instantly in

terms of style, and his work is fantastic.

Thanks to Amanda Reilly, Todd Furler, Patrice Hede, Stephanie Pegg,

and Peter Aronson for finding typos above and beyond the call of duty.

Thanks also to everyone who contributed to the game's fundraising

campaign: the game would have been much rougher without you.

And, finally, to my wife and daughter. As the dedication says, they put

up with a lot while I was writing, and were supportive all along.

Play-testers Roll of Honour

Final edition: Andrew McLeod, Scott ¡°It'll be fine¡± Kelly, Jason ¡°Dark

past¡± Pollock, and Stefan ¡°Unstoppable¡± Tyler, Steve Hickey, Sophie

Melchior, Hamish Cameron, Jenni Dowsett, Svend Andersen, Celeste

Mackintosh, Wayne Ulyate, Dale Elvy, Karen Wilson, Stephanie Pegg,

Ellen Couch, Andy Millar, and Nick Cole.

Many more people playtested earlier versions. Thanks to you all.

Funders Roll Of Honour

Thanks to all of you who contributed to the preorder campaign:

Peter Aronson, Lester Ward, Alasdair Sinclair, Sophie Melchior,

Malcolm Harbrow, Colin Jessup, Dev Purkayastha, Marco Andreeto,

Hamish Cameron, Shane Mclean, Jamas Enright, Jeremy Tidwell, Rohan

Smith, Ian Raymond, Morgan Davie, Stephanie Pegg, Andrew Millar,

Robert Oglodzinski, Herman Duyker, Todd Furler, Luke Walker, John

Harper, Jonathan Davis, Avram Lewis, Fealoro, Martin Gray, Eirik Kildal

Stangnes, Emma-Jean, Jason Pollock, Antoine Fournier, Sevag Bakalian,

Steve Dempsey, Rich Rogers, Marcus Constable, Yraga?l Malbos,

Nathan Roberts, Joseph Le May, Linda Larsson, Vincent Baker,

Jonathan Bristow, Stuart Chaplin, Robert T Roy, Marc Majcher, Kevin

Lindgren, Nick Reynolds, Dale Elvy, John Ryan, Mike Olson, Brian

Allred, Ken Finlayson, Guns_n_Droids, Alan Jackson, Scott White,

Matthew Edwards, Guillaume Carr¨¦, Svend Andersen, Stefan Tyler,

Paul Wilson, Florian Hoheneder, Peter Borah, Bryan Chavez, Dag

Sverre Syrdal, David Bowers, Paul Edson, Jason L Blair, Marcus Bone,

Jeremy Friesen, Phil Garrad, Adam Waggenspack, Tim Ireland, Sevag

Bakalian, Nathan Riddell, Richard Rogers, Derek Grimm, Julianna

Backer, Ferrer Jean-Olivier, James Iles, Katrina Allis, Nicolas Brian,

Sean Dunstan, Chris Norwood, Mark Harris, Gary Anastasio, Felan

Parker, Steve Hickey, Noah Doyle, Karen Wilson, Sven Folkesson, Gino

Moretto, Frank Pitt, Chris Moriarty, Jenni Dowsett, Neal Dalton, Alden

Strock, Reid San Filippo, Zoe Tsang, Christopher Weeks, W. Mark

Woodhouse, Ben Wootten, James Gabrielsen, Aurynn Shaw, Alex Abate

Biral, Jason Pitre, Justin Koopmans, Ren¨¦ John Kerkdyk, Diogo Curado,

Gr¨¦goire Pinson, Brett Easterbrook, Wayne West, Nicolas Ronvel, Alex

Fradera, Noam Rosen, Mark Shocklee, Scott Kelly, Will A Wright, John

Machin, Peter Edwards, Guy Milner, Joe Beason, Joe Mcdaldno, Gerry

Saracco, Jim Sweeney, Carl Rigney, Jonathan Walton, Keith Higdon,

Scott Bennett, Joshua Cupp, Parke Hultman, Bryan Rennekamp,

Andrew Rosenheim.

Table of Contents

There Are Monsters Out There.........1 Healing................................................ 66

Resurrection....................................... 67

What You've Signed Up For...................1

What You'll Need..................................... 2 The Luck Counter...................................68

When You Run Out Of Luck...............68

What You Should Read...........................2

Gear.......................................................... 69

Feedback....................................................3

Getting New Gear...............................69

The Hunters.........................................4

Weapons.............................................. 69

The First Session...................................... 4

Armour................................................ 71

Team Concepts......................................... 5

Other Gear...........................................71

Team Customisation............................6

Example Team Concepts......................6

Gear Tags.............................................72

Custom Gear Moves............................72

Before You Create Your Hunter............8 Leveling Up............................................. 73

Moves.................................................... 8

The Ratings......................................... 10

The Chosen..............................................11

The Expert...............................................16

The Flake................................................. 21

The Initiate............................................. 25

The Monstrous........................................30

The Mundane..........................................35

The Professional.....................................39

The Spooky..............................................44

The Wronged..........................................49

Get Ready For Action.............................54

Introductions...................................... 54

History.................................................54

How To Play............................................ 55

Hunter Agenda................................... 55

The Game Is A Conversation.............55

Moves.................................................. 56

The Basic Moves................................. 59

Improvements.................................... 73

Advanced Improvements..................75

Advanced Moves................................76

Summary: Hunter's Session.................79

The First Time Only...........................79

Every Game......................................... 79

The Keeper.........................................80

What You Do...........................................80

How It Will Play Out........................... 80

Before Your First Game.........................81

Think About Style..............................81

Get Into The Keeper Mindset............82

The Keeper Agenda............................ 82

The Keeper Principles........................82

Creating Your First Mystery................83

An Example Mystery: Mongolian

Death Worm Attack............................83

Preparing Your First Mystery...........86

Mystery Countdowns......................... 94

Summary: First Mystery Creation....97

Big Magic.................................................64 The First Session.................................... 98

Fights....................................................... 64

Hunter Creation.................................98

Unarmed Attacks And Improvised

Running The First Mystery................100

Weapons.............................................. 65

The Game Is A Conversation...........100

Harm........................................................ 65

Keeper Agenda.................................101

Monsters and Harm...........................66

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