Editing Monsterhearts

{{Game Infobox
|name = Monsterhearts
|picture = [[File:Monsterhearts.jpg|200px]]
|type = [[RPG]]
|publisher = Buried Without Ceremony
|system = Powered by the Apocalpyse
|authors = Avery Alder
|year = 2012,2017
|awards = 2013 Origins best rpg
}}

What's that, [[World of Darkness]] isn't sexual enough for you? Now there's a game for you! Based somewhat loosely on [[Apocalypse World]], this game allows you to choose an archetype from teen supernatural media, and has mechanics for "sex moves" when you sex at NPCs or other player characters, and a "darkest self" for when you want to personify your self-loathing.

This is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game, or maybe True Blood, or Ginger Snaps.   Watching sexy beautiful people and the slow-motion car crashes that are their love-lives.

See also: [[Monsterhearts Quest]]

== Mechanics ==
Uses [[Powered By the Apocalypse]] rules, so every player gets a playbook (called "skins") with prescribed moves, every roll is 2d6 (6- fail, 7-9 success with consequences, 10+ success), and the GM never rolls dice just throws ninjas at you and gets to do "hard moves" if you roll 6 or less.  Characters get tokens that represent influence over other characters, called "strings", that can be spent for a bonus after a roll, provoke the target character, or just flat out hurt them.

Sex moves only trigger if you sleep with a player character or a significant NPC.  They don't trigger if it was rape, asshole, gotta be a mutual fuck(-up).

Stats are:
* hot - excite other people (provoke them to action, esp. to get them horny)
* cold - suppress other people (demoralize, halt, discourage, hold your own cool)
* volatile - your own extreme actions, your fight, and your flight
* dark - spooky shit, "gaze into the abyss" and your skin's supernatural junk

Everyone gets four hitpoints, but really you gotta worry about filling up on "conditions": tags that are penalties on your rolls until you can clear them.
You only need five XP to level up, and you get to add a new power from your "skin" right away even in the middle of combat.

Skins are:
* The Chosen - Buffy the vampire slayer.  Sex move: full heal, and gain a string if they regret it, or give a string if regret it.
* The Fae - Titania or Oberon weirdo.  Sex move: cuddle naked and you can ask for a promise ("faerie contract"), else they give two strings.
* The Ghost - haunt some shit with your trauma. Sex move: both players can ask a question about the other character. The non-Ghost must answer honestly.
* The Ghoul - iZombie, the hungry dead.  Sex move: fucking someone adds "fuck {name} again" as one of your unnatural appetites and repeats will award XP.
* The Infernal - warlock, pimped out by Satan. Sex move: the Devil loses a string on you but gains a string on whoever you fucked, so it turns you into a Demonic STD.
* The Mortal - you sexy codependent little bitch.  Sex move: start your lover's Darkest Self episode
* The Queen - bossy bitch.  Sex move: they get a condition tag that marks them as one of your gang
* The Vampire - you domineering asshole.  Sex move: gain a string when you say "no" to someone who wants the vampire D.  lose all strings on them if you say "yes"
* The Werewolf - you violent bastard.  Sex move: you go steady with them, and gain +1 to defend them, and you know the instant they sleep with someone else breaking it.
* The Witch - you dangerous nerd.  Sex move: You get a personal item from them (and they're oddly okay about it), which represents having a string on them.



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