Monster of the Week
Monster of the Week Revised – Playbooks
Monster of the Week Revised – Mystery Worksheet
Monster of the Week Revised – Keeper Reference Sheets
Monster of the Week Revised – Hunter Reference Sheets
Form Fillable Playbooks (unrevised)
Form Fillable Playbooks (revised)
Tome of Mysteries
Monster of the Week – Tome of Mysteries Playbooks
Updated Monster of the Week Playbooks with Tome’s New Luck Moves
Tome of Mysteries Reference Sheets – New Weird Moves and Phenomena
Online Resources
Generic Games (additional material form prior edition)
Greetings!
I love the new artwork and the new content! I have a bit of bad news, though: On the Revised Playbooks document, the Divine Improvements is a copy/paste of the Crooked Improvements. (The version in the rulebook is correct, however.)
Be Seeing You;
–Dain
I guess having five people look at the doc isn’t enough to catch something like that. I’ll look into getting it fixed and replaced in (sigh) eight different locations, but probably not today.
Hi Fred, great additions to a great game! The new playbooks are great and looking forward to getting my hard copy.
Hey there Dain, we’ve uploaded a fix to the Divine playbook. Thanks for pointing out the problem!
Thanks for the prompt update!
So if I wanted to run a Supernatural campaign, which playbooks would I use for Sam and Dean?
Also, why is a player group limited to only a single instance of a perticular Playbook per group?
Sam is probably a Spooky (at least in the early seasons), Dean is a Wronged, in all likelihood.
The single instance thing is — from a game design perspective — somewhat about niche protection. But from a story perspective, it’s because you’re not “a” Chosen or “a” Divine character, as a PC; you’re THE Chosen, THE Divine. The apex. That’s what the playbook’s about. You’re the archetype.
Hey Fred, just wanted to drop in and say I LOVE this game. My friends and I are having a blast playing it, and really love the updated rules. Also I was wondering if the indiegogo mysteries will be released to the public eventually? I unfortunately missed the campaign and would love to have them. I already bought the extra playbooks on drivethru and would love to buy the mysteries as well.
No idea about those mysteries! You’d need to talk to Generic Games (Michael Sands) about anything from the IndieGoGo campaign.
Picked up a copy at Tribes comics in Austin, the reason I picked it up? because of these peoples podcast https://plus.google.com/communities/104672702589306017985 they talk about Monster of the Week a lot and “sold” me on it . Thanks the Gauntlet and thanks Evil Hat
I’m really liking what I’ve seen of this game so far, and I’m plotting a Roll20 game in the not too far distant future. To that end, I am working on a Roll20 ‘character sheet’. In an ideal world, I’d like to include most of the information from these playbooks, allowing players to pick their moves and just check them off (rather like on a physical printout) rather than having to type them in themselves.
Is that alright, from a legal/use standpoint? I wouldn’t be including any information that isn’t already publicly available.
I’d call that fair use so long as nobody’s making money off them being offered in this venue. If someone’s making money, it should be a licensed use with Evil Hat (and by proxy Michael Sands) getting a cut.
Well, I’m sure not making any money off it, and I don’t think Roll20 has any fees that correspond to the ability to use character sheets (as opposed to being able to customize them).
Enjoyed playing in this game. Enough that I bought the book on the most “tenuous” of reasons 😉 Reading through it now and loving it.
Hi! I’m reading through the rulebook now, and I’ve noticed a typo on pg 99: “1 + 2 + 5 = 9”. It actually equals 8!
Good catch Megan. Thanks!
Question regarding the Professional playbook, specifically “Battlefield Awareness,” the rule reads: you always know what’s happening around you, and what to watch out for. Take +1 armor (max 2 armor) on top of whatever you get from your gear.
This could be interpreted as, no matter what armor you are wearing the maximum armor with this bonus is +2, but then why put down the phrase “on top of whatever you get from your gear”?
It could also be interpreted as add up all your gear, then add +1 (or perhaps +2 if you have another move such as the Wronged’s “Safety first” +1 to armor.
Please advise, as we would love some clarification.
Hi Dustin,
It means take your gear armour, and if that’s 0 or 1 then you get the +1 armour effect. Any other armour you have – from other moves as you suggest, or magical effects, or whatever, would then be added in on top. The idea is that the Pro has an eye on things enough to dodge some extra harm, but only enough that you can get away without wearing heavy protection.
Heya, I absolutely adore this system and cannot wait to use it. I was just wondering, the move Use Magic is a basic move. This means that it’s available to all hunters? Could you explain that a little please? For hunters like Spell-Slinger or Spooky that of course makes obvious sense but would it be something that the likes of a Crooked or Monsteous would be able to do or would they only be able to use that move to use a magic item or something like that?
Yep, all hunters can do Use Magic — just like Sam and Dean can cast all sorts of ritual spells on the TV show Supernatural, despite “being a mage” not being what sort of character they are. That said as the GM you’re in rights to enforce fiction-based reasons for there not being access to that move unless folks have what they need to be able to do it.
This RPG is great! Thank you for all these resources.
I have translated the playbooks and the moves to Spanish (castillian Spanish), and I would like to ask you if I could share them with the Spanish Powered by Apocalypse G+ group.
These playbooks do not include art, and I think it could tb a very good way to show this fantastic game to the Spanish speakers.
Thank you and regards.
Ernest, you’re welcome to share your translated play materials, as long as it is free and non-commercial.
Thanks
Michael Sands
Thank you very much, Michael.
I’m sure Spanish people will enjoy your game as much as me.
Ernest P.
@Elliot Owen-Griffiths:
I had a very similar question quite a while back. Maybe my question and answer here (https://rpg.stackexchange.com/q/71930/696) will help?
@Fred – if you would like to chime in, that’d ROCK obviously!
@Fred –
I’ve been thinking of doing some fairly major surgery on this game.
Are extensive hacks permissible, as long as they are freely available? Or should I start from scratch with my own boogey-hunting PbtA design?
Thanks!
It is done:
It is done: you can find the Spanish translation of Monsters of the Week in this link:
https://orgullofreak.blogspot.com/2018/09/monster-of-week-libretos-y-movimientos.html?m=1
Thank you and regards.
@gomad – Based on Michael Sands’ answer to another similar question above, I imagine you are correct, but Mike is the ultimate arbiter as he is the rights holder for MOTW. We are just the co-publishers.
As for RPG Stack Exchange, I have stopped posting there because I “do it wrong” and the right way to do things there strikes me as itself wrong. Rather than continue to frustrate myself I’ve just stopped looking at threads there. But after a quick glance it looks like you’re already getting good answers.
I think i have a pretty good idea for a hunter type, is there an empty playbook template i can download somewhere to fill out for your consideration?
I just had a quick question. Where do I look for the additional classes like the Big game Hunter and the Snoop
Daniel — Alas, no.
There are a number of additional playbooks available elsewhere.
The official ones PWYW at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/130278/Monster-of-the-Week-Reinforcements
There are some fan made hunters at https://www.genericgames.co.nz/files/ (and you can download the official ones for free there too)
What does life drain actually do?
Paren, my interpretation is that life drain means that whatever amount of harm the attack does, the creature making the attack reduces the harm it’s taken by the same amount.
Do you have any plans to release portrait versions of these by any chance? I am making up binders for my players and it is kind of awkward to have to turn it sideways to read the sheets. I’ve been scouring the internet and I haven’t found any third party sites or posts where people have modified these to be in the other orientation.
No current plans. Playbooks are meant to be folded, like brochures, to an extent, so the landscape format is very deliberate.
why is there an oubliette and the protection spells? the spells seem pointless when the oubliette exists…
No idea what the context is for that question.
Hi I just bought the Tome of Mysteries and I noticed that in the Special Moves portion it mentions the Exile, Hard Case, Action Scientist, and other classes that aren’t included in the revised playbook. I remember seeing them before however I believe that was for a previous version. Have those classes been updated anywhere? Or were they just mentioned for people still playing the older edition?
Far as I know those haven’t been updated, and were included for completeness.
What is the difference between the Playbook PDFs re: the new Luck Moves? I can’t find a single difference between the two documents.
Thanks!
-a
Hi Alex,
Some playbooks already had luck moves; others did not. The updated version has luck moves for *all* of the playbooks. For one point of comparison (there are more) look underneath the Luck track, first/left column on the playbook, for the Divine, between the two.
Thank you so much!
-a