Monsterhunting 101 || Learn To Play/Try Out Monster of the Week

About the adventure

Newcomers to the TTRPG space, welcome! Previous MOTW players who want to try out a different class, welcome back! Whenever I talk to folks about TTRPGs and they say they're intimidated by D&D, I always point them to Monster of the Week. This is a lightweight system with only 5 main stats to keep track of, and for which you only need two 6-sided dice, which you can find in almost every board game you might own. Like I say up top, the way it plays and the different types of character you can be is most comparable to playing through your very own version of Buffy, X-Files, Scooby-Doo, Supernatural, etc-- if it's an episodic show about hunting a different monster every week or so, you can draw a direct comparison to MotW! The purpose of this repeating one-shot is to give folks who have never played Monster of the Week (or perhaps never played a TTRPG at all!) a way to try out the game system and learn what's what. I absolutely adore this game, and I love showing it to people so they too can experience how cool yet easy it is. [[[[SESSION BREAKDOWN:]]]] We will of course be taking breaks, but those aside, here is the hour by hour breakdown. This may vary depending on how many folks we have signed up, but expect it to go approximately like this. HOUR 1 - SYSTEM. We'll be going over how familiar the group is with TTRPGs in general, then talking through how the game system works in Monster of the Week. This will be about rolls, Moves, and the broad strokes of what you can mechanically expect from this game. I’ll also be going through your familiarity with the genre— this’ll help me give you some touch stones or points of comparison as I explain the system. HOUR 2 - HUNTERS. Here we'll be going through the different types of character you can be, and how they work. I'll be giving an overview of each, going through some of the coolest highlights for each one, and offering examples for each from the media you’re most familiar with. Be sure to note down which ones you feel most drawn to! At the end of this hour, I’ll be giving you a pre-generated character to play our test game with. (Or, if you're a returning player that wants to brush up on the basics, feel free to create your own character during this section!) HOUR 3+4 - PLAY. And now we play the game! Note: This will be a little more roleplay-lite than my usual style when running MotW due to time constraints, but ultimately you'll get a chance to see how it feels to play this game. (If you enjoy yourself, I usually have a motw game running, or feel free to book me!)