Skins for the Skinless

A collection of new Skins for Monsterhearts

by Topher Gerkey
These Skins were all designed and layed out by Topher Gerkey. All artwork was
created by Topher Gerkey from original stock photography by a variety of artists
- see each individual Skin for stock photography credits.

Skins for the Skinless is meant for use with Monsterhearts, a roleplaying game
by Avery Mcdaldno, and was created with Avery’s permission. Thanks so much,
Avery, for giving us this great game!

Skins for the Skinless is dedicated to everyone who became my patron on Patreon.
Without them, most of these Skins would never have been published.

Special thanks to my inner circle of beta readers. You know who you are! Your
feedback is invaluable to me.

A note on the Skins: there are two versions of each Skin included in this document.
They are textually identical, but have different artwork - I wanted to make a
more diverse range of portraits available, so just choose the one you like best for
your character concept!
 Table of Contents
The Beast ... Page 4
The Calaca ... Page 8
The Creature ... Page 12
The Fury ... Page 16
The Gargoyle ... Page 20
The Harpy ... Page 24
The Minotaur ... Page 28
The Mummy ... Page 32
The Muse ... Page 36
The Proxy ... Page 40
The Unchained ... Page 44
The Unseen ... Page 48
Under the Skins ... Page 52
Sex Move
Immediately after you have sex
with someone, you become your
Darkest Self and lash out physically
at your partner. You may then
choose to keep lashing out or run
away. Your Sex Move doesn’t
trigger if you have sex with
another Beast.
Darkest Self
You are an animal. No trace of your
human body or mind remains, only
your most primal emotions - lust, fear,
anger, jealousy, hatred. You are drawn
to anyone you have such intense
feelings for, but your only means of
interacting with them is to savagely
attack them. If you can’t find someone
you know, any target will do. You
cannot escape your Darkest Self until
you take a life.
Advancement
m Take another Beast move.
m Take another Beast move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of a Bloodline of
Beasts.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Cathleen Tarawhiti
Playing The Beast
The Beast is all about repression.
You’re that kid who bottles up her
passions, who’s terrified of intimacy,
and whose emotions are so locked
away that when you do finally let
them out, they explode with a
horrible, uncontrollable intensity. In
this case, you’ve got a good reason,
because your passions turn you into a
killer animal.
The one aspect of your human
personality that never goes away is
your emotional connection to others.
It just turns twisted and malicious -
when you are your Darkest Self or are
Feral with no impulse control, you’ll
go out of your way to hunt and attack
that teacher who humiliated you, that
boy you have a crush on, or that girl
who flirted with the boy you have a
crush on. When you return to normal,
you’ll probably be horrified - but some
small secret part of you will have
enjoyed it, and can’t wait to be let out
of the cage again.
Be careful about taking the Moves
that make it easier to go Feral if you
want your transformations to be rare!
On the other hand, if you take moves
that give you extra options while Feral,
you’ll likely want to make it easier to
gain the condition.
If you take the advancement that gives
you a gang, you will discover a group
of other Beasts who also suffer from
your condition. Sex with another Beast
doesn’t trigger your Sex Move, which
might sound tempting - but if you
are part of a cursed bloodline, they’re
also at least somewhat related to you.
They might not care, and may pursue
you anyway, if this is a type of subplot
you’re comfortable playing out.
They call you frigid. A prude. An ice
queen. Your friends think you’re
just too uptight, and you’d be fine
if you’d just loosen up a little. Have
some fun. Let yourself like someone.
But you know the truth. When you
let go - when you lose control, even
for a moment - you can feel yourself
starting to change. The terrible
animal in you is always roaring at
you, always trying to claw its way
out. And when it gets out, people get
hurt.
And the worst part? Sometimes you
kind of like it.
The Beast
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Blake, Christina, Etienne, pristine, rigid, icy hot, sculpted, exotic
Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja,
Paul, Simone, Tobias intimidating eyes, glacial eyes,
demure eyes, conflicted eyes,
An exotic name, a sensual name, uptight eyes
a difficult name, a regal name, a
Origin
beautiful name
Animal Form Circle one:
Circle one: hexed, drank from a shapeshifter’s
pawprint, cursed bloodline, deep
big cat (panther, tiger, cheetah, etc),
hypnosis experiment, uplifted
wolf (or coyote, jackal, or fox), bird of
animal
prey (owl, eagle, etc), hyena, alligator,
bear, monitor lizard, gorilla, python
Name: Carry Forward Beast Moves
m Beauty and...
You can spend a string on someone to
You start with this one, and choose two
more: simultaneously turn them on and shut
them down. Roll once and apply all the
Stats l Caged Heat results; you may choose whether to
Add 1 to one of these: use Hot or Cold for this roll. On a miss,
Whenever you are turned on (especially
as a result of having turn someone on they choose one:
Hot 1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark -1
} They carry 1 forward against you.
Conditions
used on you), your inner beast begins
to assert itself. You gain the condition } They shut you down as if they’d
Feral, and for as long as you have that rolled a 10 up.
condition you may use Hot instead of } They turn you on as if they’d rolled
Volatile to lash out physically. You can a 10 up, triggering your Caged Heat
m
attempt to hold steady in order to move.
Hot remove this condition. Additionally,
m Tooth and Claw
(Turn Someone On, while Feral choose two:
Manipulate an NPC) If you are Feral and have lost your
} You mostly retain your human
Notes shape.
human shape, add 1 to your roll when
you shut someone down by frightening
m } You mostly retain your human
them or when you lash out physically.
Cold
intelligence and personality.
} You mostly retain self-control over m Fight or Flight
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) your violent and malicious impulses.
If you are Feral and have lost your
human intelligence, when you lash out
m m Green-Eyed Monster physically and roll 10 up you can pick
Your Caged Heat move is
Volatile
two options. Roll Cold instead of
Harm triggered by intense jealousy, Volatile to run away.
anger, or hatred in addition to by
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) being turned on. m Predator and Prey
If you are Feral and have lost your
Experience Points:
m m Scaredy Cat
impulse control, carry 1 forward
Dark mmmmm >> Advance
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense fear, shame, or sorrow
against anyone who has a string on
you. Take a string on anyone at whom
(Gaze Into The Abyss) in addition to by being turned on.
you lash out physically and inflict
harm.

Your Backstory Strings Other Moves

m Cat’s Eye
When you look into someone’s eyes
Two of the others have asked you and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up add
out in the past, but you turned them this option: You know their deepest
down. Take a string on each of them. fear or secret lust, and add 1 to your
roll when using that information to
You try not to have strong feelings shut them down or turn them on.
about anyone. No one else can start
with more than one string on you.
Sex Move
Immediately after you have sex
with someone, you become your
Darkest Self and lash out physically
at your partner. You may then
choose to keep lashing out or run
away. Your Sex Move doesn’t
trigger if you have sex with
another Beast.
Darkest Self
You are an animal. No trace of your
human body or mind remains, only
your most primal emotions - lust, fear,
anger, jealousy, hatred. You are drawn
to anyone you have such intense
feelings for, but your only means of
interacting with them is to savagely
attack them. If you can’t find someone
you know, any target will do. You
cannot escape your Darkest Self until
you take a life.
Advancement
m Take another Beast move.
m Take another Beast move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of a Bloodline of
Beasts.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
James Michael Romaguera
Playing The Beast
The Beast is all about repression.
You’re that kid who bottles up her
passions, who’s terrified of intimacy,
and whose emotions are so locked
away that when you do finally let
them out, they explode with a
horrible, uncontrollable intensity. In
this case, you’ve got a good reason,
because your passions turn you into a
killer animal.
The one aspect of your human
personality that never goes away is
your emotional connection to others.
It just turns twisted and malicious -
when you are your Darkest Self or are
Feral with no impulse control, you’ll
go out of your way to hunt and attack
that teacher who humiliated you, that
boy you have a crush on, or that girl
who flirted with the boy you have a
crush on. When you return to normal,
you’ll probably be horrified - but some
small secret part of you will have
enjoyed it, and can’t wait to be let out
of the cage again.
Be careful about taking the Moves
that make it easier to go Feral if you
want your transformations to be rare!
On the other hand, if you take moves
that give you extra options while Feral,
you’ll likely want to make it easier to
gain the condition.
If you take the advancement that gives
you a gang, you will discover a group
of other Beasts who also suffer from
your condition. Sex with another Beast
doesn’t trigger your Sex Move, which
might sound tempting - but if you
are part of a cursed bloodline, they’re
also at least somewhat related to you.
They might not care, and may pursue
you anyway, if this is a type of subplot
you’re comfortable playing out.
They call you frigid. A prude. An ice
queen. Your friends think you’re
just too uptight, and you’d be fine
if you’d just loosen up a little. Have
some fun. Let yourself like someone.
But you know the truth. When you
let go - when you lose control, even
for a moment - you can feel yourself
starting to change. The terrible
animal in you is always roaring at
you, always trying to claw its way
out. And when it gets out, people get
hurt.
And the worst part? Sometimes you
kind of like it.
The Beast
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Blake, Christina, Etienne, pristine, rigid, icy hot, sculpted, exotic
Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja,
Paul, Simone, Tobias intimidating eyes, glacial eyes,
demure eyes, conflicted eyes,
An exotic name, a sensual name, uptight eyes
a difficult name, a regal name, a
Origin
beautiful name
Animal Form Circle one:
Circle one: hexed, drank from a shapeshifter’s
pawprint, cursed bloodline, deep
big cat (panther, tiger, cheetah, etc),
hypnosis experiment, uplifted
wolf (or coyote, jackal, or fox), bird of
animal
prey (owl, eagle, etc), hyena, alligator,
bear, monitor lizard, gorilla, python
Name: Carry Forward Beast Moves
m Beauty and...
You can spend a string on someone to
You start with this one, and choose two
more: simultaneously turn them on and shut
them down. Roll once and apply all the
Stats l Caged Heat results; you may choose whether to
Add 1 to one of these: use Hot or Cold for this roll. On a miss,
Whenever you are turned on (especially
as a result of having turn someone on they choose one:
Hot 1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark -1
} They carry 1 forward against you.
Conditions
used on you), your inner beast begins
to assert itself. You gain the condition } They shut you down as if they’d
Feral, and for as long as you have that rolled a 10 up.
condition you may use Hot instead of } They turn you on as if they’d rolled
Volatile to lash out physically. You can a 10 up, triggering your Caged Heat
m
attempt to hold steady in order to move.
Hot remove this condition. Additionally,
m Tooth and Claw
(Turn Someone On, while Feral choose two:
Manipulate an NPC) If you are Feral and have lost your
} You mostly retain your human
Notes shape.
human shape, add 1 to your roll when
you shut someone down by frightening
m } You mostly retain your human
them or when you lash out physically.
Cold
intelligence and personality.
} You mostly retain self-control over m Fight or Flight
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) your violent and malicious impulses.
If you are Feral and have lost your
human intelligence, when you lash out
m m Green-Eyed Monster physically and roll 10 up you can pick
Your Caged Heat move is
Volatile
two options. Roll Cold instead of
Harm triggered by intense jealousy, Volatile to run away.
anger, or hatred in addition to by
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) being turned on. m Predator and Prey
If you are Feral and have lost your
Experience Points:
m m Scaredy Cat
impulse control, carry 1 forward
Dark mmmmm >> Advance
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense fear, shame, or sorrow
against anyone who has a string on
you. Take a string on anyone at whom
(Gaze Into The Abyss) in addition to by being turned on.
you lash out physically and inflict
harm.

Your Backstory Strings Other Moves

m Cat’s Eye
When you look into someone’s eyes
Two of the others have asked you and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up add
out in the past, but you turned them this option: You know their deepest
down. Take a string on each of them. fear or secret lust, and add 1 to your
roll when using that information to
You try not to have strong feelings shut them down or turn them on.
about anyone. No one else can start
with more than one string on you.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
treat it as though you had used
the move Casting the Bones (even
if you don’t have that move) and
rolled a 10 up. Choose three
options instead of two.
Darkest Self
Enough hiding behind a mask of
sweetness and humor. You are Death,
so start acting like it. You’ve spent far
too much time teaching others not
to fear death and not enough time
teaching them to embrace its peace
and beauty. Twist your advice; make
them see the unrelenting misery and
futility of their lives and encourage
them to end their pain with their own
hands. You escape your Darkest Self
when someone manages to show you
the beauty and joy of life, or when you
drive someone to commit suicide.
Advancement
m Take another Calaca move.
m Take another Calaca move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have a Skeleton Crew.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Little Ms Spooky
Playing The Calaca
You’re a disarming mixture of cute and
freakshow, a cheerful friend dressed
in funereal blacks, a wise confidante
who can’t resist telling dead baby
jokes, a poet who writes odes to death
and decay in a journal festooned with
Hello Kitty stickers, a Manic Pixie Dead
Girl (or Boy).
Helping the people you care about -
especially by giving them wise
guidance - should be one of your main
priorities. Your story is the story of
how you made other people’s stories
better. Your meddling may create
some drama, but that’s okay -
especially if it’s funny.
If something bad happens to your
skin, you’ll need to replace it before
you can pass for human again (unless
you have the Sugar Skull move). The
method for obtaining a new skin is
up to you, but keep in mind that your
human form will look like whoever
supplied your replacement skin.
If you take the Ossuary move as an
advancement, you’ll need to explain
where the extra bones came from and
where you keep them. Once you
actually use the move, the
replacement bones will change your
nature somewhat. In addition to
picking a new move, you may want to
display new or altered facets of your
personality.
If you take a Skeleton Crew as an
advancement, you’ll need to decide if
your gang consists of other Calacas
like yourself, or if you have a number
of mindless, animated skeletons who
act as your minions.
It really isn’t as bad as you might
think. You don’t have to watch your
weight, for instance. You can wear
what you want and never get hot or
cold. You never have to pee.
Sometimes you miss getting the
ofrendas, but it’s cool to help people
out, push them along the right
paths, without asking for anything
in return.
Better to keep the truth secret,
though. Your friends can handle
you as an oddly perky goth. You’re
not sure a walking, talking skeleton
would be quite as popular.
The Calaca
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Cal, Catrina, Charity, Grace, skin like porcelain, gothic lolita,
Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel, deathly pale, painted face, rail-thin
Mercedes, Scully
hollow eyes, gleaming eyes, wise
a Latin name, a nickname, a eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes
beautiful name, a joyful name, a
Origin
cute name
Circle one:
bone elemental, corpse bride, death
spirit, necromantic construct,
summoned ancestor
Name: Carry Forward Calaca Moves
m Connected
In your true form, you can disconnect
You start with this one, and choose two and reconnect your bones at the joints,
more: and retain full control over all your
Stats ˜ Skin and Bones
body parts regardless of whether they
Add 1 to one of these: are connected. Only your skull can see,
You can slip out of your skin and hear, or smell; your limbs and other
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 viscera at any time to reveal your true bones are limited to a sense of touch.
Conditions skeletal form. If anyone witnesses this
process, you each take a string on the
You can use this ability to be present
and active in multiple simultaneous
other. While in your true form, you take scenes.
no harm from anything that a
m skeleton would be immune to (stabbing
m Morte Alata
Hot or slashing, strangling, etc). You can’t
turn someone on or manipulate an NPC,
In your true form, you have a pair of
(Turn Someone On, bony wings. When not in use they fold
but roll Dark instead of Cold to shut
Manipulate an NPC) up and look something like an extra
Notes
someone down. If your skin is lost or
ribcage on your back, but you can use
destroyed while you’re out of it, you
them for flight despite their skeletal
m will have to obtain a replacement in
nature. Roll Dark instead of Volatile to
Cold
order to pass for human again.
run away by escaping into the air.

(Shut Someone Down, m Casting the Bones m Ossuary

Hold Steady) When you are offering wisdom, You have a small cache of “extra”
m guidance, or advice to a friend and you bones. When you take your fourth
gaze into the abyss, add the
Volatile
harm, you can hold yourself together
Harm following options when you roll 10 up:
} The visions show what your friend
just long enough to get to your stash
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) and rebuild yourself with your spares.
must do; they carry 1 forward. When this happens, clear all your
} The visions heal your friend; they harm, mark experience, and trade this
Experience Points:
m may remove one condition. Move for a different Calaca move. You
Dark mmmmm >> advance
} Take a string on your friend.
Add the following option when you
may take this move again as an
(Gaze Into The Abyss) Advancement.
roll 7-9:
} The visions are lucid and detailed,
m Sugar Skull
but your friend takes a string on you.
In your true form, you retain some
Your Backstory Strings m Deadpan
of the features of the living. You have
humanlike hair, eyeballs, a nose, lips,
Your cheerful morbidity, gallows and ears. Your face and hands look
Someone saw you slipping out of your
humor, and deathly aura are like those of a beautiful human - albeit
skin. Each of you take a string on the
fascinating and off-putting. In your one with skin like fine bone china. You
other.
human form, roll Dark instead of Cold may turn someone on or manipulate an
to shut someone down. NPC, but if any part of your body aside
You gave someone advice that
changed their life for the better. Take from your face and hands is exposed,
a string on them. Other Moves roll Dark instead of Hot.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
treat it as though you had used
the move Casting the Bones (even
if you don’t have that move) and
rolled a 10 up. Choose three
options instead of two.
Darkest Self
Enough hiding behind a mask of
sweetness and humor. You are Death,
so start acting like it. You’ve spent far
too much time teaching others not
to fear death and not enough time
teaching them to embrace its peace
and beauty. Twist your advice; make
them see the unrelenting misery and
futility of their lives and encourage
them to end their pain with their own
hands. You escape your Darkest Self
when someone manages to show you
the beauty and joy of life, or when you
drive someone to commit suicide.
Advancement
m Take another Calaca move.
m Take another Calaca move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have a Skeleton Crew.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
SpiteStock
Playing The Calaca
You’re a disarming mixture of cute and
freakshow, a cheerful friend dressed
in funereal blacks, a wise confidante
who can’t resist telling dead baby
jokes, a poet who writes odes to death
and decay in a journal festooned with
Hello Kitty stickers, a Manic Pixie Dead
Girl (or Boy).
Helping the people you care about -
especially by giving them wise
guidance - should be one of your main
priorities. Your story is the story of
how you made other people’s stories
better. Your meddling may create
some drama, but that’s okay -
especially if it’s funny.
If something bad happens to your
skin, you’ll need to replace it before
you can pass for human again (unless
you have the Sugar Skull move). The
method for obtaining a new skin is
up to you, but keep in mind that your
human form will look like whoever
supplied your replacement skin.
If you take the Ossuary move as an
advancement, you’ll need to explain
where the extra bones came from and
where you keep them. Once you
actually use the move, the
replacement bones will change your
nature somewhat. In addition to
picking a new move, you may want to
display new or altered facets of your
personality.
If you take a Skeleton Crew as an
advancement, you’ll need to decide if
your gang consists of other Calacas
like yourself, or if you have a number
of mindless, animated skeletons who
act as your minions.
It really isn’t as bad as you might
think. You don’t have to watch your
weight, for instance. You can wear
what you want and never get hot or
cold. You never have to pee.
Sometimes you miss getting the
ofrendas, but it’s cool to help people
out, push them along the right
paths, without asking for anything
in return.
Better to keep the truth secret,
though. Your friends can handle
you as an oddly perky goth. You’re
not sure a walking, talking skeleton
would be quite as popular.
The Calaca
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Cal, Catrina, Charity, Grace, skin like porcelain, gothic lolita,
Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel, deathly pale, painted face, rail-thin
Mercedes, Scully
hollow eyes, gleaming eyes, wise
a Latin name, a nickname, a eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes
beautiful name, a joyful name, a
Origin
cute name
Circle one:
bone elemental, corpse bride, death
spirit, necromantic construct,
summoned ancestor
Name: Carry Forward Calaca Moves
m Connected
In your true form, you can disconnect
You start with this one, and choose two and reconnect your bones at the joints,
more: and retain full control over all your
Stats ˜ Skin and Bones
body parts regardless of whether they
Add 1 to one of these: are connected. Only your skull can see,
You can slip out of your skin and hear, or smell; your limbs and other
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 viscera at any time to reveal your true bones are limited to a sense of touch.
Conditions skeletal form. If anyone witnesses this
process, you each take a string on the
You can use this ability to be present
and active in multiple simultaneous
other. While in your true form, you take scenes.
no harm from anything that a
m skeleton would be immune to (stabbing
m Morte Alata
Hot or slashing, strangling, etc). You can’t
turn someone on or manipulate an NPC,
In your true form, you have a pair of
(Turn Someone On, bony wings. When not in use they fold
but roll Dark instead of Cold to shut
Manipulate an NPC) up and look something like an extra
Notes
someone down. If your skin is lost or
ribcage on your back, but you can use
destroyed while you’re out of it, you
them for flight despite their skeletal
m will have to obtain a replacement in
nature. Roll Dark instead of Volatile to
Cold
order to pass for human again.
run away by escaping into the air.

(Shut Someone Down, m Casting the Bones m Ossuary

Hold Steady) When you are offering wisdom, You have a small cache of “extra”
m guidance, or advice to a friend and you bones. When you take your fourth
gaze into the abyss, add the
Volatile
harm, you can hold yourself together
Harm following options when you roll 10 up:
} The visions show what your friend
just long enough to get to your stash
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) and rebuild yourself with your spares.
must do; they carry 1 forward. When this happens, clear all your
} The visions heal your friend; they harm, mark experience, and trade this
Experience Points:
m may remove one condition. Move for a different Calaca move. You
Dark mmmmm >> advance
} Take a string on your friend.
Add the following option when you
may take this move again as an
(Gaze Into The Abyss) Advancement.
roll 7-9:
} The visions are lucid and detailed,
m Sugar Skull
but your friend takes a string on you.
In your true form, you retain some
Your Backstory Strings m Deadpan
of the features of the living. You have
humanlike hair, eyeballs, a nose, lips,
Your cheerful morbidity, gallows and ears. Your face and hands look
Someone saw you slipping out of your
humor, and deathly aura are like those of a beautiful human - albeit
skin. Each of you take a string on the
fascinating and off-putting. In your one with skin like fine bone china. You
other.
human form, roll Dark instead of Cold may turn someone on or manipulate an
to shut someone down. NPC, but if any part of your body aside
You gave someone advice that
changed their life for the better. Take from your face and hands is exposed,
a string on them. Other Moves roll Dark instead of Hot.
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
treat protecting them as part of
your cause until you have sex with
someone else. Additionally, if you
have sex with someone
underwater, they can breathe
water until you have sex with
someone else.
Darkest Self
Everything sucks and you’ll never
change it, so just stop trying. Grab the
person you care about the most and
retreat to a safe place - your territory
if you have one. Defend your little
nest against all intruders and ignore
everything else - it’s not like you were
making a difference anyway. You can
only return from your Darkest Self
when someone shows you that you’ve
changed things for the better.
Advancement
m Take another Creature move.
m Take another Creature move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’ve joined some Extreme
Environmentalists.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock art by:
Sinned Angel
Playing The Creature
Pick a cause that makes sense given the
setting of your game. Preventing a
company from dumping toxic waste into a
body of water or turning a forest preserve
into a landfill, rescuing animals from a
laboratory or oceanarium, or protecting an
endangered species from poachers could
all work. You don’t have to spend every
waking moment working toward your
cause, but if the opportunity comes up you
should prioritize it.
Territorial is a move that might not be
available depending on your setting as
well. If the game is set in an arid
environment, the best available option
might be a water park or old abandoned
swimming pool.
Frog Song, Hot and Wet, and Came Up
Tails are geared toward a more social and
persuasive type of play. Cold Fury and
Squamous are more physical and
combative. You can decide what kind of
activism appeals to you more. In general
you’ll probably want to choose either
Came Up Tails or Squamous but not both,
for reasons of theme - but taking both
would certainly give you an interesting
and flexible monstrous form. You’ll want
to avoid using the tail on land, but anyone
seeing you with both Moves active will
experience the effects of both (they mark
experience, you take a string on them, and
they must hold steady).
If you go Darkest Self and you don’t have a
territory, pick someplace that would make
a good territory if you DID have one. If you
don’t have Frog Kiss or you can’t or won’t
have underwater sex with the person
you’ve brought with you, be sure that your
refuge has some air for them to breathe.
Do whatever you have to do to keep them
from escaping - your Darkest Self is lonely
and needs their support.
All that time and energy on the
petition - all the convincing, all the
seducing, all the threatening - and
what do the fuckers do when you
present them with a thousand
signatures? They tear the papers in
half and laugh in your face.
Just a kid, they said. You can’t make
a difference here, they said. Stay out
of things that don’t concern you,
they said.
Well, dumping waste into the river
does concern you. And maybe a
pissed-off river monster will concern
them.
The Creature
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil, Jake, swimmer’s build, olive-skinned, nearly
Jenny, Laguna, Madison, Ramon, hairless, surfer’s tan, fishy smell
Rico, Thetis
aquamarine eyes, teary eyes, limpid
A sporty name, a name based on eyes, wide-set eyes, black eyes
a place, a water-themed name, a
Origin
tough-sounding name, a nickname
Circle one:
last of your kind, chemical spill
exposure, first of your kind, blessed
by Poseidon, cryptid, made a deal
with a sea hag
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
m you use that bonus, give yourself the
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m beautiful fish tail. On land, you are
Cold
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady)
m completely immersed in water.
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m When you are filled with righteous
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone was once an ally to your
cause. They get two strings on you.
Someone thinks you are a dangerous
fanatic. They get one string on you.
You know someone is secretly
involved in working against your
cause. Take two strings on them.
Carry Forward Creature Moves
m Frog Song
When you speak passionately to
You start with this one, and choose two convince someone to join you in your
more: cause, roll Volatile: on a 10 up, they
˜ Missing Link
mark experience if they help you. On
a 7-9, you get a string on them. On a
Your lungs also work as gills, miss, they get a string on you.
allowing you to breathe underwater.
You can see and move underwater just
Conditions as well as you can on land. Additionally,
m Hot and Wet
When you are soaking wet and
you have an environmentalist cause.
You get +1 ongoing to all actions taken showing a lot of skin (as if you were
to further your cause, but every time wearing a swimsuit or less), roll Cold
instead of Hot to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC.
condition fanatic if you don’t already
have it.
m Squamous
m Came Up Tails You can shed your human skin to
Notes You can transform your legs into a become a scaly monstrosity. In this
form you take 1 less harm from any
mostly immobile and cannot run away. attack, and your claws allow you to do
In water, you swim at blinding speed 2 harm when you lash out physically.
and can instantly run away as if you Anyone who sees you in this form for
had rolled 10 up. Anyone who sees you the first time must hold steady. You can
in this form for the first time marks shed your scaly skin to resume your
experience, and you take a string on human appearance, but you must be
them. You can transform your tail back
Harm
into legs, but your tail must be
completely dry. m Territorial
You have claimed a nearby lake, cove,
m Cold Fury lagoon, or swamp as your territory.
When you are alone in your territory
Experience Points:
and fully submerged in water, clear all
anger in the service of your cause, you
mmmmm >> advance can do an extra harm when you lash
conditions and heal 1 harm. If
someone invades your territory, give
out physically.
yourself the condition Angry. You get
+1 ongoing toward attempts to
m Frog Kiss remove intruders from your territory.
When you kiss someone while you are
Strings
both underwater, they can breathe
water for as long as they remain near
you. If you kiss someone while you are Your Cause
both on dry land, their lungs fill with
water. They roll with Hot: on a 10 up,
they take 1 harm. On a 7-9 they take
2 harm. On a miss, they drown. NPCs Other Moves
always drown.
Your Territory
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
treat protecting them as part of
your cause until you have sex with
someone else. Additionally, if you
have sex with someone
underwater, they can breathe
water until you have sex with
someone else.
Darkest Self
Everything sucks and you’ll never
change it, so just stop trying. Grab the
person you care about the most and
retreat to a safe place - your territory
if you have one. Defend your little
nest against all intruders and ignore
everything else - it’s not like you were
making a difference anyway. You can
only return from your Darkest Self
when someone shows you that you’ve
changed things for the better.
Advancement
m Take another Creature move.
m Take another Creature move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’ve joined some Extreme
Environmentalists.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock art by:
Kenickie
Playing The Creature
Pick a cause that makes sense given the
setting of your game. Preventing a
company from dumping toxic waste into a
body of water or turning a forest preserve
into a landfill, rescuing animals from a
laboratory or oceanarium, or protecting an
endangered species from poachers could
all work. You don’t have to spend every
waking moment working toward your
cause, but if the opportunity comes up you
should prioritize it.
Territorial is a move that might not be
available depending on your setting as
well. If the game is set in an arid
environment, the best available option
might be a water park or old abandoned
swimming pool.
Frog Song, Hot and Wet, and Came Up
Tails are geared toward a more social and
persuasive type of play. Cold Fury and
Squamous are more physical and
combative. You can decide what kind of
activism appeals to you more. In general
you’ll probably want to choose either
Came Up Tails or Squamous but not both,
for reasons of theme - but taking both
would certainly give you an interesting
and flexible monstrous form. You’ll want
to avoid using the tail on land, but anyone
seeing you with both Moves active will
experience the effects of both (they mark
experience, you take a string on them, and
they must hold steady).
If you go Darkest Self and you don’t have a
territory, pick someplace that would make
a good territory if you DID have one. If you
don’t have Frog Kiss or you can’t or won’t
have underwater sex with the person
you’ve brought with you, be sure that your
refuge has some air for them to breathe.
Do whatever you have to do to keep them
from escaping - your Darkest Self is lonely
and needs their support.
All that time and energy on the
petition - all the convincing, all the
seducing, all the threatening - and
what do the fuckers do when you
present them with a thousand
signatures? They tear the papers in
half and laugh in your face.
Just a kid, they said. You can’t make
a difference here, they said. Stay out
of things that don’t concern you,
they said.
Well, dumping waste into the river
does concern you. And maybe a
pissed-off river monster will concern
them.
The Creature
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil, Jake, swimmer’s build, olive-skinned, nearly
Jenny, Laguna, Madison, Ramon, hairless, surfer’s tan, fishy smell
Rico, Thetis
aquamarine eyes, teary eyes, limpid
A sporty name, a name based on eyes, wide-set eyes, black eyes
a place, a water-themed name, a
Origin
tough-sounding name, a nickname
Circle one:
last of your kind, chemical spill
exposure, first of your kind, blessed
by Poseidon, cryptid, made a deal
with a sea hag
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
m you use that bonus, give yourself the
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m beautiful fish tail. On land, you are
Cold
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady)
m completely immersed in water.
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m When you are filled with righteous
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone was once an ally to your
cause. They get two strings on you.
Someone thinks you are a dangerous
fanatic. They get one string on you.
You know someone is secretly
involved in working against your
cause. Take two strings on them.
Carry Forward Creature Moves
m Frog Song
When you speak passionately to
You start with this one, and choose two convince someone to join you in your
more: cause, roll Volatile: on a 10 up, they
˜ Missing Link
mark experience if they help you. On
a 7-9, you get a string on them. On a
Your lungs also work as gills, miss, they get a string on you.
allowing you to breathe underwater.
You can see and move underwater just
Conditions as well as you can on land. Additionally,
m Hot and Wet
When you are soaking wet and
you have an environmentalist cause.
You get +1 ongoing to all actions taken showing a lot of skin (as if you were
to further your cause, but every time wearing a swimsuit or less), roll Cold
instead of Hot to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC.
condition fanatic if you don’t already
have it.
m Squamous
m Came Up Tails You can shed your human skin to
Notes You can transform your legs into a become a scaly monstrosity. In this
form you take 1 less harm from any
mostly immobile and cannot run away. attack, and your claws allow you to do
In water, you swim at blinding speed 2 harm when you lash out physically.
and can instantly run away as if you Anyone who sees you in this form for
had rolled 10 up. Anyone who sees you the first time must hold steady. You can
in this form for the first time marks shed your scaly skin to resume your
experience, and you take a string on human appearance, but you must be
them. You can transform your tail back
Harm
into legs, but your tail must be
completely dry. m Territorial
You have claimed a nearby lake, cove,
m Cold Fury lagoon, or swamp as your territory.
When you are alone in your territory
Experience Points:
and fully submerged in water, clear all
anger in the service of your cause, you
mmmmm >> advance can do an extra harm when you lash
conditions and heal 1 harm. If
someone invades your territory, give
out physically.
yourself the condition Angry. You get
+1 ongoing toward attempts to
m Frog Kiss remove intruders from your territory.
When you kiss someone while you are
Strings
both underwater, they can breathe
water for as long as they remain near
you. If you kiss someone while you are Your Cause
both on dry land, their lungs fill with
water. They roll with Hot: on a 10 up,
they take 1 harm. On a 7-9 they take
2 harm. On a miss, they drown. NPCs Other Moves
always drown.
Your Territory
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
each of you takes two strings on the
other. Give yourself the condition
Hopeful, and for as long as you have
that condition they gain +1 ongoing
toward any attempts to manipulate,
hurt, or betray you.
Darkest Self
Nobody loves you. Nobody ever
will. It’s all pain and loneliness and
watching other people from the
outside, and it will never change. They
only pretended to like you so they
could hurt you even more. There’s
nothing left for you here but revenge,
so burn it all down. Smash everything
to pieces. Rip their secrets out and
make them dance like dolls for your
amusement.
To escape your Darkest Self, you must
be confronted by someone who has
never hurt, excluded, or betrayed you,
or be shown an act of kindness that
seems genuine.
Advancement
 Take another Fury move.
 Take another Fury move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You belong to a Psychic Gestalt.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Riley Kathleen
Playing The Fury
A desperate longing to be accepted and
the rage that accompanies being rejected You never wanted this. You never
are the central themes for the Fury. Futile wanted to be different or special or
Hope is like the engine that makes you go: a freak. All you ever wanted was to
You will need to put yourself out there, fit in. To be liked. To be accepted.
willingly trusting and believing in people Maybe even to be loved. Was that
even though you know you shouldn’t, and so much to ask? You’re not a bad
be ready to massively overreact to their
inevitable betrayal. Your fellow players will
person.
have an incentive to be nice to you and But they wouldn’t let you fit in.
then dump you, since that allows them to They hurt you. Taunted you. Called
build up strings on you and then clear off you names. Exploited you. Betrayed
any strings you have on them. Go along you. They pushed and pushed and
with it! Being Betrayed is to your advantage PUSHED and PUSHED.
since it powers up all your Fury moves and
provides lots of grist for the drama mill. They’re all going to be sorry when
you start pushing back.
Think carefully when choosing your moves
about what kind of walking megapsychic
catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter
doesn’t need to imply pyrokinesis; it’s just
a name and can represent any ability that
The Fury
causes chaos and destruction. Some of the
moves are more themed around telepathy
or clairvoyance than the others, which
might be an interesting and more subtle
variation for you to try.
When you are your Darkest Self, be sure Name Look
to go all out with your descriptions. Your Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
moves can affect crowds and radically alter
Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie, Charlie, raggedy, unfashionable, nerdy,
the environment when you’re in a full-on
Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will nervous, beneath notice, frightened
rage, so cut loose and enjoy your revenge.
A diminutive name, a nondescript desperate eyes, brittle eyes, teary
Taking a Psychic Gestalt gang as an eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy eyes
name, an unpopular name, a
advancement changes the theme of
victim’s name
the skin somewhat. Instead of being
completely alone in your trust/abuse cycle,
Origin
Circle one:
your whole clique consists of social misfits
and rejects. You can find some solace
genetic mutation, government
in each other, but the added power of a
program, confluence of bloodlines,
gang makes the temptation to strike back
abused child, experimental
against the “beautiful people” that much
harder to resist - and your new buddies
psychotherapy
want revenge just as badly as you do.
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
m
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m } Trigger your Darkest Self
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m buildings.
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You have a secret crush on someone.
Take a string on them.
Someone has been bullying you. Give
them a string on you.
Someone was kind to you once. Give
them two strings on you.
Carry Forward Fury Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
zzFutile Hope
Whenever someone acts kind or
accepting toward you, you each take
a string on the other, and you get the
Conditions condition Hopeful (which replaces
Betrayed if you have it). If someone you
trust betrays or hurts you while you
are Hopeful, lose all strings on them,
replace Hopeful with Betrayed, and roll
Dark. On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest
Self. On a 7-9, choose one:
} Give them one more string on you
Notes } Take 1 harm from psychic feedback
When you are your Darkest Self,
your Fury moves are amplified. You
can affect groups of victims in the
immediate area, and your destructive
powers can affect large structures like
Harm The Eye
When you gaze into the abyss, add 1
to your Dark roll. On a 10 up you can
choose all three options. If you are
Experience Points:
Betrayed and roll 10 up, also mark
mmmmm >> advance
experience. If you are Betrayed and roll
7-9, choose one of the 10 up options
instead of one of the 7-9 options.
Firestarter
Strings Roll Volatile to summon jets of flame,
unleash destructive telekinetic blasts,
instantly freeze the air, or otherwise
psychically attack your tormentors. On
a 10 up, do 2 harm and give your victim
an appropriate condition (Burned,
Frostbitten, Concussed, etc). On a 7-9,
do 1 harm, give them an appropriate
condition, and choose one:
} Give yourself the same condition
} Take 1 harm
} Trigger your Darkest Self
If you are Betrayed, you may also carry 1
forward against them.
m Poltergeist
When you lash out physically using
telekinesis instead of physical attacks,
your victim must hold steady before
attempting to run away. If you are
Betrayed, do 1 extra harm when you lash
out physically.
Push
You can roll Volatile instead of Hot to turn
someone on by using empathic projection
to fuck with their head. On a 10 up, in
addition to giving you a string, they must
follow one short-term command of your
choice. On a 7-9 also give yourself the
condition Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also
give them the condition Enthralled.
Scanners
Roll Dark to invade someone else's mind.
On a 10 up, take a string on them, and
they must honestly answer one question.
On a 7-9, take a string on them and
choose one:
} They take a string on you
} Give yourself the condition Creepy
} You each take 1 harm
On a 6 or less, they must answer one
question with a plausible lie and you
must believe it. If you are Betrayed, do 1
harm to them in addition to any other
results.
The Shining
Roll Dark instead of Hot or Cold to
manipulate an NPC or shut someone down
via telepathy instead of speech. If you are
Betrayed, add 1 to your Dark roll and give
them the condition Headache.
Other Moves
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
each of you takes two strings on the
other. Give yourself the condition
Hopeful, and for as long as you have
that condition they gain +1 ongoing
toward any attempts to manipulate,
hurt, or betray you.
Darkest Self
Nobody loves you. Nobody ever
will. It’s all pain and loneliness and
watching other people from the
outside, and it will never change. They
only pretended to like you so they
could hurt you even more. There’s
nothing left for you here but revenge,
so burn it all down. Smash everything
to pieces. Rip their secrets out and
make them dance like dolls for your
amusement.
To escape your Darkest Self, you must
be confronted by someone who has
never hurt, excluded, or betrayed you,
or be shown an act of kindness that
seems genuine.
Advancement
 Take another Fury move.
 Take another Fury move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You belong to a Psychic Gestalt.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
David Nanchin
Playing The Fury
A desperate longing to be accepted and
the rage that accompanies being rejected You never wanted this. You never
are the central themes for the Fury. Futile wanted to be different or special or
Hope is like the engine that makes you go: a freak. All you ever wanted was to
You will need to put yourself out there, fit in. To be liked. To be accepted.
willingly trusting and believing in people Maybe even to be loved. Was that
even though you know you shouldn’t, and so much to ask? You’re not a bad
be ready to massively overreact to their
inevitable betrayal. Your fellow players will
person.
have an incentive to be nice to you and But they wouldn’t let you fit in.
then dump you, since that allows them to They hurt you. Taunted you. Called
build up strings on you and then clear off you names. Exploited you. Betrayed
any strings you have on them. Go along you. They pushed and pushed and
with it! Being Betrayed is to your advantage PUSHED and PUSHED.
since it powers up all your Fury moves and
provides lots of grist for the drama mill. They’re all going to be sorry when
you start pushing back.
Think carefully when choosing your moves
about what kind of walking megapsychic
catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter
doesn’t need to imply pyrokinesis; it’s just
a name and can represent any ability that
The Fury
causes chaos and destruction. Some of the
moves are more themed around telepathy
or clairvoyance than the others, which
might be an interesting and more subtle
variation for you to try.
When you are your Darkest Self, be sure Name Look
to go all out with your descriptions. Your Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
moves can affect crowds and radically alter
Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie, Charlie, raggedy, unfashionable, nerdy,
the environment when you’re in a full-on
Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will nervous, beneath notice, frightened
rage, so cut loose and enjoy your revenge.
A diminutive name, a nondescript desperate eyes, brittle eyes, teary
Taking a Psychic Gestalt gang as an eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy eyes
name, an unpopular name, a
advancement changes the theme of
victim’s name
the skin somewhat. Instead of being
completely alone in your trust/abuse cycle,
Origin
Circle one:
your whole clique consists of social misfits
and rejects. You can find some solace
genetic mutation, government
in each other, but the added power of a
program, confluence of bloodlines,
gang makes the temptation to strike back
abused child, experimental
against the “beautiful people” that much
harder to resist - and your new buddies
psychotherapy
want revenge just as badly as you do.
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
m
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m } Trigger your Darkest Self
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m buildings.
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You have a secret crush on someone.
Take a string on them.
Someone has been bullying you. Give
them a string on you.
Someone was kind to you once. Give
them two strings on you.
Carry Forward Fury Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
zzFutile Hope
Whenever someone acts kind or
accepting toward you, you each take
a string on the other, and you get the
Conditions condition Hopeful (which replaces
Betrayed if you have it). If someone you
trust betrays or hurts you while you
are Hopeful, lose all strings on them,
replace Hopeful with Betrayed, and roll
Dark. On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest
Self. On a 7-9, choose one:
} Give them one more string on you
Notes } Take 1 harm from psychic feedback
When you are your Darkest Self,
your Fury moves are amplified. You
can affect groups of victims in the
immediate area, and your destructive
powers can affect large structures like
Harm The Eye
When you gaze into the abyss, add 1
to your Dark roll. On a 10 up you can
choose all three options. If you are
Experience Points:
Betrayed and roll 10 up, also mark
mmmmm >> advance
experience. If you are Betrayed and roll
7-9, choose one of the 10 up options
instead of one of the 7-9 options.
Firestarter
Strings Roll Volatile to summon jets of flame,
unleash destructive telekinetic blasts,
instantly freeze the air, or otherwise
psychically attack your tormentors. On
a 10 up, do 2 harm and give your victim
an appropriate condition (Burned,
Frostbitten, Concussed, etc). On a 7-9,
do 1 harm, give them an appropriate
condition, and choose one:
} Give yourself the same condition
} Take 1 harm
} Trigger your Darkest Self
If you are Betrayed, you may also carry 1
forward against them.
m Poltergeist
When you lash out physically using
telekinesis instead of physical attacks,
your victim must hold steady before
attempting to run away. If you are
Betrayed, do 1 extra harm when you lash
out physically.
Push
You can roll Volatile instead of Hot to turn
someone on by using empathic projection
to fuck with their head. On a 10 up, in
addition to giving you a string, they must
follow one short-term command of your
choice. On a 7-9 also give yourself the
condition Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also
give them the condition Enthralled.
Scanners
Roll Dark to invade someone else's mind.
On a 10 up, take a string on them, and
they must honestly answer one question.
On a 7-9, take a string on them and
choose one:
} They take a string on you
} Give yourself the condition Creepy
} You each take 1 harm
On a 6 or less, they must answer one
question with a plausible lie and you
must believe it. If you are Betrayed, do 1
harm to them in addition to any other
results.
The Shining
Roll Dark instead of Hot or Cold to
manipulate an NPC or shut someone down
via telepathy instead of speech. If you are
Betrayed, add 1 to your Dark roll and give
them the condition Headache.
Other Moves
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
protecting them counts as
protecting your school for the
purposes of School Spirit, and you
cannot lash out physically at them
for any reason. This lasts until you
have sex with someone else or
they do something to cause
physical harm to your school.
You can’t have sex when you are
dormant or animate.
Darkest Self
Nobody else loves this school like you
do. They just don’t understand how
important it is. You’d be nothing
without it, and you’re the only one
that can protect it. The basketball team
that beat yours in the playoffs, the
school board members who want to
cut funding, the teacher who molests
her students - they’re all enemies, and
they all have to be punished. Severely.
You can recover from your Darkest Self
only when someone shows you how
your actions are hurting your school.
Advancement
m Take another Gargoyle move.
m Take another Gargoyle move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of a Stone Flock.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Kat
Playing The Gargoyle
First and foremost: the school
mentioned in various Moves doesn’t
actually have to be a school at all. It
could be a church, a summer camp,
a community center, a nightclub, an
apartment building, or any other
establishment that’s located in a
specific place and has regular hours
of operation and a “community” of
employees, patrons, customers,
members, or inhabitants. Work
together with your MC to figure out
what setting will work best for your
particular game.
Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone
statues in their dormant or animate
forms. You could be a sculpture of
metal or wood or plaster, a painting or
mural, an old mascot costume or band
uniform, a stained glass window, or
even a digital character on a computer
or HDTV screen. Anything works as
long as it’s at least vaguely an
anthropomorphic form, and it should
be something that won’t be easily
missed when you are walking around
looking like a human.
As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your
school (or whatever), so protecting
and helping it should always be your
first priority. If that causes conflicts
with your friends and loved ones,
great - hard choices will lead to
drama. Taking Kirkgrim can make this
easier, as can your Sex Move.
Babewyn and Grotesque can make
you more flexible. Hatchery also adds
flexibility in a way, since you can use
it to change what your dormant or
animate forms look like.
You remember being a real human
kid once, a long time ago. Before
they built the school. Before they
stretched you out on the foundation
stone and cut out your heart.
But you’re not so angry anymore.
Now you go to classes, attend pep
rallies, run for student council.
You’re on the spirit squad and you’ve
lettered in track. They wanted you
to bless this school, and you’ve done
your job well.
And when vandals or thieves show
up in your school at night...well,
maybe you’re still kind of angry after
all.
The Gargoyle
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Arris, Belvedere, Cary, dressed in school colors, greyish
skin, sculpted face, large mouth, stiff
Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel,
posture
Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda
hard eyes, suspicious eyes, protective
A fancy name, a cold name, an
eyes, dry eyes, glassy eyes
architectural name, a unisex name,
a French name
Origin
Circle one:
animistic spirit, cornerstone
sacrifice, magically animated statue,
cursed victim, summoned demon
Name: Carry Forward Gargoyle Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
Stats ˜ School Spirit
Add 1 to one of these:
From sunrise to sunset (or vice versa)
you appear to be a normal human
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
Conditions
being, but when your period of
activity ends, you become dormant.
While in this state, you are an
inanimate object and are invulnerable
to harm, but incapable of taking any
m
action. When not dormant, you may
Hot treat failures as 7-9 and 7-9 as 10-up
(Turn Someone On, when you lash out physically to protect
Manipulate an NPC) your school building or grounds.
Notes
m m Babewyn
During your dormant period, if
Cold someone else is on the school grounds
you can assume your human form. If
(Shut Someone Down,
you are alone, you can still become
Hold Steady)
human, but take 1 harm. If you leave
m you have one) based on the egg object.
your school, you instantly know if
Volatile Harm
someone enters or threatens the school
grounds.
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m Grotesque
Experience Points:
m You may transform from human form
into animate form. In this form you
Dark mmmmm >> advance are an inanimate object brought to
(Gaze Into The Abyss) life. While animate you take 1 less
harm from anything that harms you
(to a minimum of zero harm) and you
get +1 to lash out physically or shut
Your Backstory Strings someone down.
Someone saw you transforming m Kirkgrim
into your dormant form. They take 2 For the purposes of School Spirit,
strings on you. protecting the people associated with
your school (students, faculty,
You’ve been watching someone who employees) counts as protecting the
seems to have a great love for your building or grounds.
school. Take 2 strings on them.
Other Moves
m Gullet
You can vomit a gout of flame
or torrent of freezing water.
Roll Volatile: on a 10 up, you
do 1 harm to your target and
they must hold steady. On a 7-9,
choose one:
} You do 1 harm
} You miss, but they must hold
steady
} You miss, but you get a string
on them
On a 6 or less, you miss and they
get a string on you.
m Hatchery
You can invest some of yourself into
a single object in your school, turning
it into an egg. You may only have one
egg at a time. If you die, you will be
reborn from the egg at the beginning
of your next period of activity, with a
new dormant form (and animate form if
Mark experience when you are reborn.
m Hunky Punk
With concentration you can give your
human form some of the durability of
your inanimate form. When you get
hurt, you can hold steady. On a 7-9, you
take 1 less harm. On a 10 up, you take
no harm and mark experience.
m Rival Schools
For the purposes of School Spirit,
attacking a rival school or people
associated with it counts as protecting
the building or grounds.
m Sheela na Gig
When in human form, you can roll Cold
instead of Hot to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC, but only if your
genitals are exposed.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
protecting them counts as
protecting your school for the
purposes of School Spirit, and you
cannot lash out physically at them
for any reason. This lasts until you
have sex with someone else or
they do something to cause
physical harm to your school.
You can’t have sex when you are
dormant or animate.
Darkest Self
Nobody else loves this school like you
do. They just don’t understand how
important it is. You’d be nothing
without it, and you’re the only one
that can protect it. The basketball team
that beat yours in the playoffs, the
school board members who want to
cut funding, the teacher who molests
her students - they’re all enemies, and
they all have to be punished. Severely.
You can recover from your Darkest Self
only when someone shows you how
your actions are hurting your school.
Advancement
m Take another Gargoyle move.
m Take another Gargoyle move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of a Stone Flock.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Bojan Toporis
Playing The Gargoyle
First and foremost: the school
mentioned in various Moves doesn’t
actually have to be a school at all. It
could be a church, a summer camp,
a community center, a nightclub, an
apartment building, or any other
establishment that’s located in a
specific place and has regular hours
of operation and a “community” of
employees, patrons, customers,
members, or inhabitants. Work
together with your MC to figure out
what setting will work best for your
particular game.
Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone
statues in their dormant or animate
forms. You could be a sculpture of
metal or wood or plaster, a painting or
mural, an old mascot costume or band
uniform, a stained glass window, or
even a digital character on a computer
or HDTV screen. Anything works as
long as it’s at least vaguely an
anthropomorphic form, and it should
be something that won’t be easily
missed when you are walking around
looking like a human.
As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your
school (or whatever), so protecting
and helping it should always be your
first priority. If that causes conflicts
with your friends and loved ones,
great - hard choices will lead to
drama. Taking Kirkgrim can make this
easier, as can your Sex Move.
Babewyn and Grotesque can make
you more flexible. Hatchery also adds
flexibility in a way, since you can use
it to change what your dormant or
animate forms look like.
You remember being a real human
kid once, a long time ago. Before
they built the school. Before they
stretched you out on the foundation
stone and cut out your heart.
But you’re not so angry anymore.
Now you go to classes, attend pep
rallies, run for student council.
You’re on the spirit squad and you’ve
lettered in track. They wanted you
to bless this school, and you’ve done
your job well.
And when vandals or thieves show
up in your school at night...well,
maybe you’re still kind of angry after
all.
The Gargoyle
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Arris, Belvedere, Cary, dressed in school colors, greyish
skin, sculpted face, large mouth, stiff
Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel,
posture
Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda
hard eyes, suspicious eyes, protective
A fancy name, a cold name, an
eyes, dry eyes, glassy eyes
architectural name, a unisex name,
a French name
Origin
Circle one:
animistic spirit, cornerstone
sacrifice, magically animated statue,
cursed victim, summoned demon
Name: Carry Forward Gargoyle Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
Stats ˜ School Spirit
Add 1 to one of these:
From sunrise to sunset (or vice versa)
you appear to be a normal human
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
Conditions
being, but when your period of
activity ends, you become dormant.
While in this state, you are an
inanimate object and are invulnerable
to harm, but incapable of taking any
m
action. When not dormant, you may
Hot treat failures as 7-9 and 7-9 as 10-up
(Turn Someone On, when you lash out physically to protect
Manipulate an NPC) your school building or grounds.
Notes
m m Babewyn
During your dormant period, if
Cold someone else is on the school grounds
you can assume your human form. If
(Shut Someone Down,
you are alone, you can still become
Hold Steady)
human, but take 1 harm. If you leave
m you have one) based on the egg object.
your school, you instantly know if
Volatile Harm
someone enters or threatens the school
grounds.
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m Grotesque
Experience Points:
m You may transform from human form
into animate form. In this form you
Dark mmmmm >> advance are an inanimate object brought to
(Gaze Into The Abyss) life. While animate you take 1 less
harm from anything that harms you
(to a minimum of zero harm) and you
get +1 to lash out physically or shut
Your Backstory Strings someone down.
Someone saw you transforming m Kirkgrim
into your dormant form. They take 2 For the purposes of School Spirit,
strings on you. protecting the people associated with
your school (students, faculty,
You’ve been watching someone who employees) counts as protecting the
seems to have a great love for your building or grounds.
school. Take 2 strings on them.
Other Moves
m Gullet
You can vomit a gout of flame
or torrent of freezing water.
Roll Volatile: on a 10 up, you
do 1 harm to your target and
they must hold steady. On a 7-9,
choose one:
} You do 1 harm
} You miss, but they must hold
steady
} You miss, but you get a string
on them
On a 6 or less, you miss and they
get a string on you.
m Hatchery
You can invest some of yourself into
a single object in your school, turning
it into an egg. You may only have one
egg at a time. If you die, you will be
reborn from the egg at the beginning
of your next period of activity, with a
new dormant form (and animate form if
Mark experience when you are reborn.
m Hunky Punk
With concentration you can give your
human form some of the durability of
your inanimate form. When you get
hurt, you can hold steady. On a 7-9, you
take 1 less harm. On a 10 up, you take
no harm and mark experience.
m Rival Schools
For the purposes of School Spirit,
attacking a rival school or people
associated with it counts as protecting
the building or grounds.
m Sheela na Gig
When in human form, you can roll Cold
instead of Hot to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC, but only if your
genitals are exposed.
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
you must either compliment them
or insult them. If you compliment
them, lose all your strings on
them, give yourself the condition
Going Soft, and mark experience. If
you insult them, treat it as if you
shut someone down and rolled a
10 up.
Darkest Self
You’re never going to be happy, so why
should anyone else get to be? They’re
all just victims waiting to be brutalized
anyway, and you might as well be the
one to punish them. It won’t make you
feel better, but at least it’ll make them
feel worse. Pick out a vulnerable target
and let them feel your talons. Don’t let
up no matter what. Push them right to
the edge and watch them topple over.
Playing The Harpy
Stewing in resentment and envy, as
the Harpy you are all about bringing
others down and destroying their
happiness. Maybe you used to be
popular but lost it all, or used to be
unpopular and radically reinvented
yourself. You might even be on a
divine mission to bring down the
arrogant. You’re a social powerhouse
with a razor-sharp wit, but somehow
you can never leverage that power to
get what you want, only to make sure
that nobody else gets what they want
either.
The Harpy isn’t the Queen. You may
be seen as one of the most influential
figures in the school, but you’re not
popular or revered - at best, your
Vicious Flock gang advancement gives
you a set of cronies who support you
only in hopes of directing your
Look at them. Sniveling weaklings,
the lot of them. They take advantage
of their money, their looks, their
brains, their cliques, but do they
really deserve any of that power?
What did they do to earn it? When
have they ever suffered for what
they have?
The free ride ends now. What you
can’t snatch away for yourself, you’ll
make so foul that nobody would
want it anyway. They all wither
under your acid tongue. Your tactics
may not win you any friends, but
given the choice, you’ll always pick
fear over love.

The Harpy
withering gaze away from themselves.
You will recover from your Darkest
Your power and influence comes from
Self when you drive someone to harm
the fear everyone feels when you start
themselves in some way.
circling.

Advancement Most of your Moves are centered

m Take another Harpy move.

m Take another Harpy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You fly with a Vicious Flock.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
FaeStock
around shutting someone down, as
that’s going to be your main tool
for interacting with others. Pick the
Moves you feel will best enhance
your particular style of social sadism.
You’re typically not the kind of bully
who beats people up, but a few moves
do key off lash out physically, and they
can can come in handy when one of
your victims decides to seek revenge
via a physical confrontation.
Alkonost is the Harpy’s only overtly
supernatural Move. You can pick it to
be a literal bird-creature, or avoid it if
you simply want to be your school’s
Alpha Bitch.
Name
Choose a name:
Beatrice, Darcy, Ella, Hogan,
Jasmine, Lane, Mai, Nick,
Petey, Zoe
a bird’s name, a Shakespearean
name, a weather-related name, a
beautiful name, an intimidating
name
Look
Circle one in each list:
bleeding edge of fashion, perfectly
coiffed, insincere smile, raptor’s
beauty, shabby chic
cruel eyes, stormy eyes, haughty eyes,
hawk’s eyes, predatory eyes
Origin
Circle one:
used to be popular, former nerd
with extreme makeover, storm spirit
incarnate, weaponized social cues,
implement of divine vengeance
Name: Carry Forward Harpy Moves
m Lightning Talons
When you shut someone down in front
Choose two: of witnesses, add 1 to your roll. If you
roll a 10 up, they lose one intangible
Stats m Alkonost
When you lash out physically, you
possession (a friendship, their sense of
Add 1 to one of these: pride, their reputation) until they
become a storm of feathers and talons,
successfully use shut someone down or
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1 doing 1 additional harm. Until you calm
lash out physically against you, or
Conditions down, you can fly and easily shred
physical items with your claws.
otherwise assert their dominance.

m Boread Chase m Rose Whip

m When you run away, you don’t When you manipulate an NPC and roll
have to roll unless the person 7-9, treat it as a 10 up. If you roll 10 up,
Hot you’re running away from can fly. They will do as you ask without
(Turn Someone On, needing a bribe, threat, or other
Manipulate an NPC) m Defiler motive.
Notes When you successfully shut someone
m Screech
m down, in addition to the normal
effects choose one: Whenever you gain a string on
Cold } They lose a string on someone someone, carry 1 forward toward your
next attempt to shut them down or lash
other than you.
(Shut Someone Down, } They gain the condition Befouled. out physically at them.
Hold Steady)
} The next roll they make is at -1.
m m Snatcher
} They lose access to their Gang
When you lash out physically and
Volatile Harm
until they hold steady.
succeed, place a condition on your
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Elegant Egotist victim. On a 10 up, you steal
When you turn someone on who or destroy an item belonging to
currently has a condition you placed them.
Experience Points:
m
on them, roll with Cold instead of Hot.
Dark mmmmm >> advance On a 10 up, you can offer them
m Storm Wind
When you gaze into the abyss about
(Gaze Into The Abyss) experience to do something for you
a specific person and roll 7-9, carry 1
without spending a string.
forward to your next attempt to shut
them down. If you roll a 10 up, gain a
string on them.
Your Backstory Strings
Take two strings on your favorite
victim.

You publicly embarrassed a

Other Moves
powerful enemy, and they’re itching
for revenge. Each of you take a string
on the other.
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
you must either compliment them
or insult them. If you compliment
them, lose all your strings on
them, give yourself the condition
Going Soft, and mark experience. If
you insult them, treat it as if you
shut someone down and rolled a
10 up.
Darkest Self
You’re never going to be happy, so why
should anyone else get to be? They’re
all just victims waiting to be brutalized
anyway, and you might as well be the
one to punish them. It won’t make you
feel better, but at least it’ll make them
feel worse. Pick out a vulnerable target
and let them feel your talons. Don’t let
up no matter what. Push them right to
the edge and watch them topple over.
Playing The Harpy
Stewing in resentment and envy, as
the Harpy you are all about bringing
others down and destroying their
happiness. Maybe you used to be
popular but lost it all, or used to be
unpopular and radically reinvented
yourself. You might even be on a
divine mission to bring down the
arrogant. You’re a social powerhouse
with a razor-sharp wit, but somehow
you can never leverage that power to
get what you want, only to make sure
that nobody else gets what they want
either.
The Harpy isn’t the Queen. You may
be seen as one of the most influential
figures in the school, but you’re not
popular or revered - at best, your
Vicious Flock gang advancement gives
you a set of cronies who support you
only in hopes of directing your
Look at them. Sniveling weaklings,
the lot of them. They take advantage
of their money, their looks, their
brains, their cliques, but do they
really deserve any of that power?
What did they do to earn it? When
have they ever suffered for what
they have?
The free ride ends now. What you
can’t snatch away for yourself, you’ll
make so foul that nobody would
want it anyway. They all wither
under your acid tongue. Your tactics
may not win you any friends, but
given the choice, you’ll always pick
fear over love.

The Harpy
withering gaze away from themselves.
You will recover from your Darkest
Your power and influence comes from
Self when you drive someone to harm
the fear everyone feels when you start
themselves in some way.
circling.

Advancement Most of your Moves are centered

m Take another Harpy move.

m Take another Harpy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You fly with a Vicious Flock.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
MistaMisery
around shutting someone down, as
that’s going to be your main tool
for interacting with others. Pick the
Moves you feel will best enhance
your particular style of social sadism.
You’re typically not the kind of bully
who beats people up, but a few moves
do key off lash out physically, and they
can can come in handy when one of
your victims decides to seek revenge
via a physical confrontation.
Alkonost is the Harpy’s only overtly
supernatural Move. You can pick it to
be a literal bird-creature, or avoid it if
you simply want to be your school’s
Alpha Bitch.
Name
Choose a name:
Beatrice, Darcy, Ella, Hogan,
Jasmine, Lane, Mai, Nick,
Petey, Zoe
a bird’s name, a Shakespearean
name, a weather-related name, a
beautiful name, an intimidating
name
Look
Circle one in each list:
bleeding edge of fashion, perfectly
coiffed, insincere smile, raptor’s
beauty, shabby chic
cruel eyes, stormy eyes, haughty eyes,
hawk’s eyes, predatory eyes
Origin
Circle one:
used to be popular, former nerd
with extreme makeover, storm spirit
incarnate, weaponized social cues,
implement of divine vengeance
Name: Carry Forward Harpy Moves
m Lightning Talons
When you shut someone down in front
Choose two: of witnesses, add 1 to your roll. If you
roll a 10 up, they lose one intangible
Stats m Alkonost
When you lash out physically, you
possession (a friendship, their sense of
Add 1 to one of these: pride, their reputation) until they
become a storm of feathers and talons,
successfully use shut someone down or
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1 doing 1 additional harm. Until you calm
lash out physically against you, or
Conditions down, you can fly and easily shred
physical items with your claws.
otherwise assert their dominance.

m Boread Chase m Rose Whip

m When you run away, you don’t When you manipulate an NPC and roll
have to roll unless the person 7-9, treat it as a 10 up. If you roll 10 up,
Hot you’re running away from can fly. They will do as you ask without
(Turn Someone On, needing a bribe, threat, or other
Manipulate an NPC) m Defiler motive.
Notes When you successfully shut someone
m Screech
m down, in addition to the normal
effects choose one: Whenever you gain a string on
Cold } They lose a string on someone someone, carry 1 forward toward your
next attempt to shut them down or lash
other than you.
(Shut Someone Down, } They gain the condition Befouled. out physically at them.
Hold Steady)
} The next roll they make is at -1.
m m Snatcher
} They lose access to their Gang
When you lash out physically and
Volatile Harm
until they hold steady.
succeed, place a condition on your
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Elegant Egotist victim. On a 10 up, you steal
When you turn someone on who or destroy an item belonging to
currently has a condition you placed them.
Experience Points:
m
on them, roll with Cold instead of Hot.
Dark mmmmm >> advance On a 10 up, you can offer them
m Storm Wind
When you gaze into the abyss about
(Gaze Into The Abyss) experience to do something for you
a specific person and roll 7-9, carry 1
without spending a string.
forward to your next attempt to shut
them down. If you roll a 10 up, gain a
string on them.
Your Backstory Strings
Take two strings on your favorite
victim.

You publicly embarrassed a

Other Moves
powerful enemy, and they’re itching
for revenge. Each of you take a string
on the other.
Sex Move
When you have sex with
someone, give them a string on
you and the condition Golden
Thread. They may choose to ask
you to spare one person; if they
do, give that person the condition
Golden Thread as well.
Darkest Self
You’re nothing but a violent animal,
and everybody knows it. They all just
use you - the assholes who get you
mad and point you at their enemies,
the sick freaks who get off on making
out with a dumb beast, the suckups
who pretend to like you so you won’t
end them. So fine, be a violent animal.
Track down anyone who’s In the Maze
and show them just how bestial you
can be. If nobody’s In the Maze, choose
Playing The Minotaur
A violent bully who secretly longs for
friendship and acceptance, you’re easily
manipulated by anyone who knows how
to push your buttons - which largely boils
down to knowing how to make you mad
at someone. If you have Red Flag, you’ll
want to encourage others to manipulate
you with their strings!
The conditions associated with the
Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In the
Maze is just a way of expressing that your
dangerous attention has been drawn to
someone, and can range from “I heard
you’ve been talking about me behind my
back” to “As soon as the three o’clock bell
rings, you’re dead, man.” Golden Thread
represents someone who is in your good
books or who you’ve been asked to leave
alone by someone worth listening to.
You should be handing out In the Maze
It wasn’t like you set out to be a
bully. It’s not your fault you’re
bigger than the others, or that you
stumble over your words, or that
you’re just kinda naturally scary.
But it is what it is. You know your
friends aren’t real friends, that they
see you as a big dumb tool. But at
least if you beat people up for them,
they hang out with you. It’s better
than being alone.
Sure, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes
it hurts a lot. But you know how to
fix that. Getting angry fixes
everything.

someone to face your fury. You can
escape your Darkest Self when there’s
no-one left In the Maze or when you
are confronted by someone with a
Golden Thread.
The Minotaur
as often as possible, via shutting
someone down, the Seeing Red move,
or spending strings. If you have
Tribute, be sure to remind people that
they can eliminate your strings on

Advancement
m Take another Minotaur move.
m Take another Minotaur move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have a Herd of Cronies.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Jazmin Lashae
them by throwing someone else under
the bus.
Hot is one of your high stats, but your
“dumb, violent thug” reputation will
probably get in the way of serious
romance. Your Sex Move and Bestial
Pleasures, if you have it, might help
tempt others into sweaty,
embarrassing encounters that they’ll
want to keep secret, giving you some
emotional leverage on them.
Mess with the Bull is the skin’s only
overtly inhuman move, so your
setting’s themes should be taken into
account when deciding whether to
take it. In a more supernatural game,
turning into a raging bull monster
may come in very handy!
Name
Choose a name:
Aster, Bastien, Dorcas, Ferdie,
Johnny, Manny, Nandi, Norman,
Rosie, Shamala
A kid’s nickname, a Greek name,
a tough-sounding name, an
embarrassing name, a working-
class name
Look
Circle one in each list:
beefy, sweaty, looming, shaggy,
bodybuilder
dull eyes, red-glinting eyes, furious
eyes, threatening eyes, lonely eyes
Origin
Circle one:
bestial demigod, abused animal
growth hormones, cursed by a
witch, testosterone poisoning,
experimental hybrid, anger
management issues
Name: Carry Forward Minotaur Moves
You start with this one, and choose two m Mess with the Bull
more:
When you violently confront someone
Stats ˜ Labyrinth who is In the Maze, roll Volatile. On a
Add 1 to one of these: 7-9, you take on a huge bestial form,
When you do harm to someone, take a
string on them. You get +1 ongoing to complete with horns and hooves. On a
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
10 up, take on the bestial form and
Conditions
lash out physically, shut someone down,
or gaze into the abyss when your target become your Darkest Self. While in
has the condition In the Maze. You get your bestial form, do 1 extra harm
-1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut when you lash out physically and take
someone down, or gaze into the abyss 1 less harm from any source. You must
m
when your target has the condition hold steady in order to return to your
Hot Golden Thread. human form.
(Turn Someone On,
m Bestial Pleasures m Red Flag
Manipulate an NPC)
Notes When you successfully turn someone When someone spends a string on you
to ask you to do something for them
m on, take a string on them, give them a
string on you, and give them the and you accept, instead of marking
Cold condition Golden Thread. experience choose two:
} Carry 1 forward toward completing
(Shut Someone Down, the task
m Bully
Hold Steady) } Clear a condition
When you use physical force to
m } Mark experience
intimidate or harass someone, roll
} Remove 1 harm
Volatile Harm
Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone
down. Take -1 ongoing to hold steady;
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Seeing Red
if you fail, gain the condition Enraged When you gaze into the abyss about
instead of Terrified. someone with whom you’re furious,
Experience Points:
m roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a 7-9,
Dark
m In a China Shop add this to the list of options: “Place
mmmmm >> advance When you lash out physically, on a 7-9 the condition In the Maze on them.” On
(Gaze Into The Abyss) your target chooses one physical item a 10 up, add these to the list of options:
they own that is either on their “Place the condition In the Maze on
person or nearby; that item is them” and “Do 1 extra harm the next
destroyed or rendered unusable. On a time you lash out physically at them.”
Your Backstory Strings 10 up, you choose the item.
m Tribute
You regularly act as the muscle for
When someone else gives out the
someone. Give them three strings on
Other Moves
condition In the Maze, you lose a
you.
string on them.
You recently bullied someone. Take a
string on them.

You’re someone’s guilty one-night

stand. Each of you take a string on the
other.
Sex Move
When you have sex with
someone, give them a string on
you and the condition Golden
Thread. They may choose to ask
you to spare one person; if they
do, give that person the condition
Golden Thread as well.
Darkest Self
You’re nothing but a violent animal,
and everybody knows it. They all just
use you - the assholes who get you
mad and point you at their enemies,
the sick freaks who get off on making
out with a dumb beast, the suckups
who pretend to like you so you won’t
end them. So fine, be a violent animal.
Track down anyone who’s In the Maze
and show them just how bestial you
can be. If nobody’s In the Maze, choose
Playing The Minotaur
A violent bully who secretly longs for
friendship and acceptance, you’re easily
manipulated by anyone who knows how
to push your buttons - which largely boils
down to knowing how to make you mad
at someone. If you have Red Flag, you’ll
want to encourage others to manipulate
you with their strings!
The conditions associated with the
Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In the
Maze is just a way of expressing that your
dangerous attention has been drawn to
someone, and can range from “I heard
you’ve been talking about me behind my
back” to “As soon as the three o’clock bell
rings, you’re dead, man.” Golden Thread
represents someone who is in your good
books or who you’ve been asked to leave
alone by someone worth listening to.
You should be handing out In the Maze
It wasn’t like you set out to be a
bully. It’s not your fault you’re
bigger than the others, or that you
stumble over your words, or that
you’re just kinda naturally scary.
But it is what it is. You know your
friends aren’t real friends, that they
see you as a big dumb tool. But at
least if you beat people up for them,
they hang out with you. It’s better
than being alone.
Sure, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes
it hurts a lot. But you know how to
fix that. Getting angry fixes
everything.

someone to face your fury. You can
escape your Darkest Self when there’s
no-one left In the Maze or when you
are confronted by someone with a
Golden Thread.
The Minotaur
as often as possible, via shutting
someone down, the Seeing Red move,
or spending strings. If you have
Tribute, be sure to remind people that
they can eliminate your strings on

Advancement
m Take another Minotaur move.
m Take another Minotaur move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have a Herd of Cronies.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Cathleen Tarawhiti
them by throwing someone else under
the bus.
Hot is one of your high stats, but your
“dumb, violent thug” reputation will
probably get in the way of serious
romance. Your Sex Move and Bestial
Pleasures, if you have it, might help
tempt others into sweaty,
embarrassing encounters that they’ll
want to keep secret, giving you some
emotional leverage on them.
Mess with the Bull is the skin’s only
overtly inhuman move, so your
setting’s themes should be taken into
account when deciding whether to
take it. In a more supernatural game,
turning into a raging bull monster
may come in very handy!
Name
Choose a name:
Aster, Bastien, Dorcas, Ferdie,
Johnny, Manny, Nandi, Norman,
Rosie, Shamala
A kid’s nickname, a Greek name,
a tough-sounding name, an
embarrassing name, a working-
class name
Look
Circle one in each list:
beefy, sweaty, looming, shaggy,
bodybuilder
dull eyes, red-glinting eyes, furious
eyes, threatening eyes, lonely eyes
Origin
Circle one:
bestial demigod, abused animal
growth hormones, cursed by a
witch, testosterone poisoning,
experimental hybrid, anger
management issues
Name: Carry Forward Minotaur Moves
You start with this one, and choose two m Mess with the Bull
more:
When you violently confront someone
Stats ˜ Labyrinth who is In the Maze, roll Volatile. On a
Add 1 to one of these: 7-9, you take on a huge bestial form,
When you do harm to someone, take a
string on them. You get +1 ongoing to complete with horns and hooves. On a
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
10 up, take on the bestial form and
Conditions
lash out physically, shut someone down,
or gaze into the abyss when your target become your Darkest Self. While in
has the condition In the Maze. You get your bestial form, do 1 extra harm
-1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut when you lash out physically and take
someone down, or gaze into the abyss 1 less harm from any source. You must
m
when your target has the condition hold steady in order to return to your
Hot Golden Thread. human form.
(Turn Someone On,
m Bestial Pleasures m Red Flag
Manipulate an NPC)
Notes When you successfully turn someone When someone spends a string on you
to ask you to do something for them
m on, take a string on them, give them a
string on you, and give them the and you accept, instead of marking
Cold condition Golden Thread. experience choose two:
} Carry 1 forward toward completing
(Shut Someone Down, the task
m Bully
Hold Steady) } Clear a condition
When you use physical force to
m } Mark experience
intimidate or harass someone, roll
} Remove 1 harm
Volatile Harm
Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone
down. Take -1 ongoing to hold steady;
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Seeing Red
if you fail, gain the condition Enraged When you gaze into the abyss about
instead of Terrified. someone with whom you’re furious,
Experience Points:
m roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a 7-9,
Dark
m In a China Shop add this to the list of options: “Place
mmmmm >> advance When you lash out physically, on a 7-9 the condition In the Maze on them.” On
(Gaze Into The Abyss) your target chooses one physical item a 10 up, add these to the list of options:
they own that is either on their “Place the condition In the Maze on
person or nearby; that item is them” and “Do 1 extra harm the next
destroyed or rendered unusable. On a time you lash out physically at them.”
Your Backstory Strings 10 up, you choose the item.
m Tribute
You regularly act as the muscle for
When someone else gives out the
someone. Give them three strings on
Other Moves
condition In the Maze, you lose a
you.
string on them.
You recently bullied someone. Take a
string on them.

You’re someone’s guilty one-night

stand. Each of you take a string on the
other.
Sex Move
When you allow someone the
privilege of lying with you, take a string
on them. They carry 1 forward toward
any action they take that is intended to
benefit you, and take a -1 penalty to the
next action they take that is intended
to work against you. If they are your
soulmate, mark experience.
Darkest Self
You have been patient for longer than
some civilizations have existed, and
now your patience is exhausted. No
more planning, no more manipulating,
no more waiting. You know what you
want, so take it. Claim the riches that
are your birthright. Eliminate rivals
who covet your position. If you have a
soulmate, pursue them relentlessly. You
are an unstoppable, implacable force,
and you can only escape your Darkest
Playing The Mummy
You’re fully aware of exactly how
awesome you are, and completely
convinced of your own innate royalty
- or even divinity. Never question
whether you deserve money,
popularity, influence, and romance,
because of course you do, and only
the best of the best will suit someone
of your lofty status. Any actions you
take to acquire these things is
justified, because, well, it’s for you,
isn’t it?
Soul Eater, Sun-Blessed, and Tana
Leaves all fulfill a similar narrative
function (explaining how you stay
awake, active, and healthy), so
consider only choosing one of the
three and using your other choice on a
more active move - unless you have a
good reason to double up.
Once you had it all. Wealth, power,
station, the adoration of the people,
love, magic. You were in your
rightful place, at the head of the
table, and it was good.
Then it was all taken away from
you, leaving you with nothing but
darkness and the slow passage of
millennia.
Now you’ve awakened, and
while the world has moved on,
some things never change. You’ll
have your rightful place again,
and you know exactly how to
get it.

Self when you achieve at least one of
your goals or someone else manages to
force you into submission.
The Mummy
If you take Cursed Idols, be sure to
play up the idea that you have this
collection of unique magical artifacts.
Don’t just say “I put a condition on

Advancement
m Take another Mummy move.
m Take another Mummy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have an Ancient Cult.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
her.” Instead, aim more for “I use the
Amulet of Khepri to curse her with the
smell of dung!” Remember, because of
your rightful status, any use of the
artifacts is justified, no matter how
selfish or cruel it may seem to others.
If an item’s curse ends up screwing
you over, it’s not because you did
anything wrong - obviously it’s a
problem with that specific artifact,
and next time you’ll be sure to use a
different one.
Name
Choose a name:
Ampata, Ananka, Ardath, Cleo,
Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Ötzi,
Ramses, Xin Zhui
A regal name, a divine name, an
ancient name, an immigrant’s
name, an imposing name
Look
Circle one in each list:
imperious, old-fashioned, wealthy,
foreign, compelling, powerful
haughty eyes, unsleeping eyes, dry
eyes, heavily made-up eyes, lonely
eyes

Skin Designed by: If you take the advancement that gives

Origin
Circle one:
Topher Gerkey you an Ancient Cult, you have the aid
of a group of fanatics who have been Betrayed royalty, peat bog murder,
guarding your sleeping form for sacrificial offering, watery grave,
Stock Art by: centuries. They may sometimes be frozen solid
overzealous in their protectiveness,
Vapourgrafix but they can be a good source of new
cursed artifacts or tana leaves.
Name: Carry Forward Mummy Moves m Cursed Idols
Choose two: You were buried with a large
collection of cursed artifacts. You can
Stats m Mummy’s Curse
When anyone inflicts at least 1 harm
use these idols to your own
advantage, if you are willing to endure
Add 1 to one of these:
on you, give them the condition the side effects. You can only use one
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 Fungal Rot. idol in any given scene. Each time you
Conditions m Royal Decree
use an idol, choose a Blessing:
} Add 1 to one of your stats for a
Roll Hot instead of Cold to shut scene
someone down, and add 1 to your turn } Treat one roll as if you had rolled
m someone on and manipulate an NPC 10 up

Hot rolls. } Do 1 harm to someone

(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m and mark experience. On a 7-9, give the
Cold
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady)
m The one you loved the most in ancient
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m } Gain a condition of the MC’s
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone has accepted their place at
your feet. Take a string on them.
You see someone as a threat to your
position. Give them a string on you.
If you have a soulmate, each of you
take a string on the other.
} Remove 1 harm from someone
} Give someone a condition of your
m Soul Eater
choice
Notes You feed on the life force of others with
a kiss. Roll Dark; on a 10 up, do 1 harm } Remove a condition from
someone
} Take a string on someone
condition Drained but also give them a
string on you. On a miss, take 1 harm. } Choose a third highlighted stat for
one scene
m Soulmate
Also, the MC chooses a Curse:
} Subtract 1 from one of your stats
times has been reincarnated. Choose
Harm
for a scene
someone to be your soulmate. You and } Treat your next roll as if you’d
your soulmate get +1 ongoing to all rolls rolled a miss
against one another, and any strings } Take 1 harm
you gain on one another are doubled.
Experience Points:
You can spend a string on your
choice
soulmate to enter any scene they are in.
mmmmm >> advance } Someone gains a string on you
} An NPC acts with Advantage
m Sun-Blessed against you for the scene
Remove a condition and 1 harm when } One of your Mummy moves stops
you spend a scene bathed in sunlight. working for a scene
Strings From sunset to sunrise you have the } Your worst enemy marks
condition Weakened. experience
m Tana Leaves
You have a limited supply of tana
leaves and know how to use them.
Roll Dark; on a 10 up you’ve brewed Other Moves
a powerful tea that heals 2 harm and
can raise a dead character as a new
Mummy. On a 7-9, the tea will heal 1
harm. On a miss, the tea will remove
a condition, but you’ve run out of
leaves. You’ll need to pull strings,
manipulate NPCs, or call on your Cult
to get more.
Sex Move
When you allow someone the
privilege of lying with you, take a string
on them. They carry 1 forward toward
any action they take that is intended to
benefit you, and take a -1 penalty to the
next action they take that is intended
to work against you. If they are your
soulmate, mark experience.
Darkest Self
You have been patient for longer than
some civilizations have existed, and
now your patience is exhausted. No
more planning, no more manipulating,
no more waiting. You know what you
want, so take it. Claim the riches that
are your birthright. Eliminate rivals
who covet your position. If you have a
soulmate, pursue them relentlessly. You
are an unstoppable, implacable force,
and you can only escape your Darkest
Playing The Mummy
You’re fully aware of exactly how
awesome you are, and completely
convinced of your own innate royalty
- or even divinity. Never question
whether you deserve money,
popularity, influence, and romance,
because of course you do, and only
the best of the best will suit someone
of your lofty status. Any actions you
take to acquire these things is
justified, because, well, it’s for you,
isn’t it?
Soul Eater, Sun-Blessed, and Tana
Leaves all fulfill a similar narrative
function (explaining how you stay
awake, active, and healthy), so
consider only choosing one of the
three and using your other choice on a
more active move - unless you have a
good reason to double up.
Once you had it all. Wealth, power,
station, the adoration of the people,
love, magic. You were in your
rightful place, at the head of the
table, and it was good.
Then it was all taken away from
you, leaving you with nothing but
darkness and the slow passage of
millennia.
Now you’ve awakened, and
while the world has moved on,
some things never change. You’ll
have your rightful place again,
and you know exactly how to
get it.

Self when you achieve at least one of
your goals or someone else manages to
force you into submission.
The Mummy
If you take Cursed Idols, be sure to
play up the idea that you have this
collection of unique magical artifacts.
Don’t just say “I put a condition on

Advancement
m Take another Mummy move.
m Take another Mummy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have an Ancient Cult.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
her.” Instead, aim more for “I use the
Amulet of Khepri to curse her with the
smell of dung!” Remember, because of
your rightful status, any use of the
artifacts is justified, no matter how
selfish or cruel it may seem to others.
If an item’s curse ends up screwing
you over, it’s not because you did
anything wrong - obviously it’s a
problem with that specific artifact,
and next time you’ll be sure to use a
different one.
Name
Choose a name:
Ampata, Ananka, Ardath, Cleo,
Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Ötzi,
Ramses, Xin Zhui
A regal name, a divine name, an
ancient name, an immigrant’s
name, an imposing name
Look
Circle one in each list:
imperious, old-fashioned, wealthy,
foreign, compelling, powerful
haughty eyes, unsleeping eyes, dry
eyes, heavily made-up eyes, lonely
eyes

Skin Designed by: If you take the advancement that gives

Origin
Circle one:
Topher Gerkey you an Ancient Cult, you have the aid
of a group of fanatics who have been Betrayed royalty, peat bog murder,
guarding your sleeping form for sacrificial offering, watery grave,
Stock Art by: centuries. They may sometimes be frozen solid
overzealous in their protectiveness,
The Metronomad but they can be a good source of new
cursed artifacts or tana leaves.
Name: Carry Forward Mummy Moves m Cursed Idols
Choose two: You were buried with a large
collection of cursed artifacts. You can
Stats m Mummy’s Curse
When anyone inflicts at least 1 harm
use these idols to your own
advantage, if you are willing to endure
Add 1 to one of these:
on you, give them the condition the side effects. You can only use one
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 Fungal Rot. idol in any given scene. Each time you
Conditions m Royal Decree
use an idol, choose a Blessing:
} Add 1 to one of your stats for a
Roll Hot instead of Cold to shut scene
someone down, and add 1 to your turn } Treat one roll as if you had rolled
m someone on and manipulate an NPC 10 up

Hot rolls. } Do 1 harm to someone

(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m and mark experience. On a 7-9, give the
Cold
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady)
m The one you loved the most in ancient
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m } Gain a condition of the MC’s
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone has accepted their place at
your feet. Take a string on them.
You see someone as a threat to your
position. Give them a string on you.
If you have a soulmate, each of you
take a string on the other.
} Remove 1 harm from someone
} Give someone a condition of your
m Soul Eater
choice
Notes You feed on the life force of others with
a kiss. Roll Dark; on a 10 up, do 1 harm } Remove a condition from
someone
} Take a string on someone
condition Drained but also give them a
string on you. On a miss, take 1 harm. } Choose a third highlighted stat for
one scene
m Soulmate
Also, the MC chooses a Curse:
} Subtract 1 from one of your stats
times has been reincarnated. Choose
Harm
for a scene
someone to be your soulmate. You and } Treat your next roll as if you’d
your soulmate get +1 ongoing to all rolls rolled a miss
against one another, and any strings } Take 1 harm
you gain on one another are doubled.
Experience Points:
You can spend a string on your
choice
soulmate to enter any scene they are in.
mmmmm >> advance } Someone gains a string on you
} An NPC acts with Advantage
m Sun-Blessed against you for the scene
Remove a condition and 1 harm when } One of your Mummy moves stops
you spend a scene bathed in sunlight. working for a scene
Strings From sunset to sunrise you have the } Your worst enemy marks
condition Weakened. experience
m Tana Leaves
You have a limited supply of tana
leaves and know how to use them.
Roll Dark; on a 10 up you’ve brewed Other Moves
a powerful tea that heals 2 harm and
can raise a dead character as a new
Mummy. On a 7-9, the tea will heal 1
harm. On a miss, the tea will remove
a condition, but you’ve run out of
leaves. You’ll need to pull strings,
manipulate NPCs, or call on your Cult
to get more.
Sex Move
When you have sex with your
protegé, they can act as if they had
your Catacombs move until either
of you has sex with someone else.
If you have sex with someone
besides your protegé, you can
treat them as if they are a second
protegé until either of you has sex
with someone else.
Darkest Self
There’s only one person in the world
who truly understands your genius and
your torment, and you will do anything
it takes to make them yours forever.
Kidnap your protegé and take them
back to your Catacombs, and make it
clear that from now on their entire life
is going to be about learning from you
and making you happy. Destroy anyone
who interferes. You can only escape
your Darkest Self when your protegé
takes harm as a result of your actions.
Advancement
m Take another Muse move.
m Take another Muse move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have Secret Minions.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Miette
Playing The Muse
As the Muse, you are a frustrated
genius, capable of taking your field to
a whole new level - or you would be,
if something wasn’t holding you back.
Some sort of terrible injury,
disfigurement, or other obstacle
prevents you from truly reaching the
heights you were destined for...but
you can still teach, and your crazed
brilliance manifests itself in an
obsessive focus on the one you’ve
chosen to be your student. You’ll do
anything - no matter how vile - to see
them succeed.
Masked Angel allows you to have a
somewhat normal teenaged life, so
take advantage of the fact that nobody
knows you’re secretly the “Phantom”
haunting the school. If your game
is set in an environment other than
a school, pick the most central and
frequently used location to place the
Catacombs (which could be a deserted
bomb shelter, a natural cave network,
or even actual catacombs).
Most of your moves are focused
around your protegé, as you might
expect, but even those that aren’t
can be used to clear a path for them.
Judas Hole and O.G. are great for
blackmailing potential obstacles, and
Punjab Lasso offers a more violent and
perhaps permanent solution to your
protegé’s rivals.
The Secret Minions gang advancement
can represent sympathetic friends or
family members who know your dual
identity, blackmailed victims who have
no choice but to obey you, or broken,
enthralled former students desperate
for another chance to become your
protegé again.
Christian was amazing in his last
game. You knew he would be. All it
took for him to shine was your
special training...and the coach
finding out his video collection
wasn’t so secret...and the original
quarterback’s awful leg-breaking
accident.
But now homecoming is coming up,
and Christian has been blowing off
your training sessions to spend time
with Rhonda.
It’s okay. You have a solution for
that. And Christian will thank you
when the scholarships come rolling
in. You just know it.
The Muse
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason, Karla, fidgety, scarred, pale and sickly,
Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song,
disabled, well-dressed
Winslow
broken eyes, hopeless eyes, fanatical
A haunted name, an overlooked eyes, inspired eyes, jealous eyes
name, an artistic name, an archaic
name, a melodic name
Origin
Virtuoso Circle one:
Choose a skill:
born disfigured, Faustian bargain,
Composing or performing one terrible accident, targeted by a rival,
style of music or dance; creating crippling insecurity
one type of visual art; writing or
performing one type of theater,
writing one form of prose or
poetry, playing one sport
Name: Carry Forward Muse Moves
You start with these two, and choose one
more:
Stats ˜ Masked Angel
Add 1 to one of these:
When you wear a mask, no one can
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 perceive your true identity. When you
Conditions spend a scene training your protegé in
your virtuoso skill while masked, take
a string on them. The next time they
perform the skill publicly, they do so at
m a level of expertise far above what they
Hot could manage on their own (NPCs act
with Advantage).
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC) ˜ Catacombs
Notes Your school has a secret
m sub-basement, accessed through
Cold
a variety of hidden doorways and
passages, and you have made it
your own. When you’re on
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady) campus and you run away, you
can treat a 6-9 as a 10 up, but the
m
person chasing you is now aware
Volatile
Harm
that the Catacombs exist.
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Don Juan Triumphant
When you are performing your
Experience Points:
m virtuoso skill and wearing a mask, you
can roll with Cold instead of Hot to
Dark mmmmm >> advance turn someone on or manipulate an NPC.
(Gaze Into The Abyss) Take +1 to the roll if you are performing
for your protegé.
m O.G.
Your Backstory Strings When you send a threatening or
blackmailing note to someone you
have strings on, roll with +1 to shut
Choose one person to be your
someone down even if you’re not in the
protegé. Take three strings on them
scene when they read it.
and give them one string on you.
You’ve spied on someone else who
caught your interest. Take one string Other Moves
on them.
m Grasshopper or Scorpion?
When you force your protegé to make
a choice between spending time with
you and pursuing some other interest
or relationship, they choose one:
} They stay with you, you get a
string on them, and they get +1
forward (or advantage) toward their
next performance with your virtuoso
skill.
} They leave to pursue their other
interest, they lose a string on you if
they have any, and you get +1 forward
toward interfering with or harming
their other interest.
m Judas Hole
When you are in your Catacombs
and you spy on someone through
a peephole and learn a secret
about them, take a string on
them. If you're spying on your
protegé, take two strings.
m Punjab Lasso
When you spend a scene setting up an
elaborate trap, you can roll with Dark
instead of Volatile to lash out
physically at someone who enters the
trapped area, even if you aren’t
present. Your Catacombs are always
considered to be trapped, without
requiring a setup scene.
m Toccata and Fugue
When your protegé discovers your
true identity for the first time,
mark experience. They can choose
to keep training with you, or to
abandon you and mark experience.
If they choose to abandon you,
you can choose a new protegé and
get +1 forward toward harming
the old one.
Sex Move
When you have sex with your
protegé, they can act as if they had
your Catacombs move until either
of you has sex with someone else.
If you have sex with someone
besides your protegé, you can
treat them as if they are a second
protegé until either of you has sex
with someone else.
Darkest Self
There’s only one person in the world
who truly understands your genius and
your torment, and you will do anything
it takes to make them yours forever.
Kidnap your protegé and take them
back to your Catacombs, and make it
clear that from now on their entire life
is going to be about learning from you
and making you happy. Destroy anyone
who interferes. You can only escape
your Darkest Self when your protegé
takes harm as a result of your actions.
Advancement
m Take another Muse move.
m Take another Muse move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You have Secret Minions.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Chyla Marie
Playing The Muse
As the Muse, you are a frustrated
genius, capable of taking your field to
a whole new level - or you would be,
if something wasn’t holding you back.
Some sort of terrible injury,
disfigurement, or other obstacle
prevents you from truly reaching the
heights you were destined for...but
you can still teach, and your crazed
brilliance manifests itself in an
obsessive focus on the one you’ve
chosen to be your student. You’ll do
anything - no matter how vile - to see
them succeed.
Masked Angel allows you to have a
somewhat normal teenaged life, so
take advantage of the fact that nobody
knows you’re secretly the “Phantom”
haunting the school. If your game
is set in an environment other than
a school, pick the most central and
frequently used location to place the
Catacombs (which could be a deserted
bomb shelter, a natural cave network,
or even actual catacombs).
Most of your moves are focused
around your protegé, as you might
expect, but even those that aren’t
can be used to clear a path for them.
Judas Hole and O.G. are great for
blackmailing potential obstacles, and
Punjab Lasso offers a more violent and
perhaps permanent solution to your
protegé’s rivals.
The Secret Minions gang advancement
can represent sympathetic friends or
family members who know your dual
identity, blackmailed victims who have
no choice but to obey you, or broken,
enthralled former students desperate
for another chance to become your
protegé again.
Christian was amazing in his last
game. You knew he would be. All it
took for him to shine was your
special training...and the coach
finding out his video collection
wasn’t so secret...and the original
quarterback’s awful leg-breaking
accident.
But now homecoming is coming up,
and Christian has been blowing off
your training sessions to spend time
with Rhonda.
It’s okay. You have a solution for
that. And Christian will thank you
when the scholarships come rolling
in. You just know it.
The Muse
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason, Karla, fidgety, scarred, pale and sickly,
Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song,
disabled, well-dressed
Winslow
broken eyes, hopeless eyes, fanatical
A haunted name, an overlooked eyes, inspired eyes, jealous eyes
name, an artistic name, an archaic
name, a melodic name
Origin
Virtuoso Circle one:
Choose a skill:
born disfigured, Faustian bargain,
Composing or performing one terrible accident, targeted by a rival,
style of music or dance; creating crippling insecurity
one type of visual art; writing or
performing one type of theater,
writing one form of prose or
poetry, playing one sport
Name: Carry Forward Muse Moves
You start with these two, and choose one
more:
Stats ˜ Masked Angel
Add 1 to one of these:
When you wear a mask, no one can
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 perceive your true identity. When you
Conditions spend a scene training your protegé in
your virtuoso skill while masked, take
a string on them. The next time they
perform the skill publicly, they do so at
m a level of expertise far above what they
Hot could manage on their own (NPCs act
with Advantage).
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC) ˜ Catacombs
Notes Your school has a secret
m sub-basement, accessed through
Cold
a variety of hidden doorways and
passages, and you have made it
your own. When you’re on
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady) campus and you run away, you
can treat a 6-9 as a 10 up, but the
m
person chasing you is now aware
Volatile
Harm
that the Catacombs exist.
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m Don Juan Triumphant
When you are performing your
Experience Points:
m virtuoso skill and wearing a mask, you
can roll with Cold instead of Hot to
Dark mmmmm >> advance turn someone on or manipulate an NPC.
(Gaze Into The Abyss) Take +1 to the roll if you are performing
for your protegé.
m O.G.
Your Backstory Strings When you send a threatening or
blackmailing note to someone you
have strings on, roll with +1 to shut
Choose one person to be your
someone down even if you’re not in the
protegé. Take three strings on them
scene when they read it.
and give them one string on you.
You’ve spied on someone else who
caught your interest. Take one string Other Moves
on them.
m Grasshopper or Scorpion?
When you force your protegé to make
a choice between spending time with
you and pursuing some other interest
or relationship, they choose one:
} They stay with you, you get a
string on them, and they get +1
forward (or advantage) toward their
next performance with your virtuoso
skill.
} They leave to pursue their other
interest, they lose a string on you if
they have any, and you get +1 forward
toward interfering with or harming
their other interest.
m Judas Hole
When you are in your Catacombs
and you spy on someone through
a peephole and learn a secret
about them, take a string on
them. If you're spying on your
protegé, take two strings.
m Punjab Lasso
When you spend a scene setting up an
elaborate trap, you can roll with Dark
instead of Volatile to lash out
physically at someone who enters the
trapped area, even if you aren’t
present. Your Catacombs are always
considered to be trapped, without
requiring a setup scene.
m Toccata and Fugue
When your protegé discovers your
true identity for the first time,
mark experience. They can choose
to keep training with you, or to
abandon you and mark experience.
If they choose to abandon you,
you can choose a new protegé and
get +1 forward toward harming
the old one.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
make them your new subject (even
if they don’t meet the criteria), and
both of you mark experience. Your
new subject’s experience counts
toward triggering The Sickness.
Carry 1 forward toward inflicting
Harm on your old subject.
Darkest Self
You’ve become desperate now - It is
closing in, and your mask isn’t working
to hide you like it should. You’ll do
anything to save yourself, and you
know what It wants. Find someone
close to your subject and offer them
up - either kill them yourself in Its
name, or offer them up to It directly
(which may leave them dead, memory-
wiped, or another Proxy like yourself).
You may only escape your Darkest Self
when you have successfully sacrificed
someone else in your place, or when
your subject catches you on video and
prevents you from harming someone.
Advancement
m Take another Proxy move.
m Take another Proxy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You belong to a Secret Cult.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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Skin designed by:
Topher Gerkey T h e
Stock Art by:
Chris
Playing The Pr⊗xy
You are both villain and victim. You
want to survive, and if that means
adding to Its list of targets, that’s
what you’ll do. On a conscious level,
you may be unaware of the actions
you take when wearing your mask. In
any case, your main goal is to torment
and tantalize your subject, drawing
them further into Its grasp. Use your
strings on them to offer experience for
investigating your clues, taking trips
into the woods or abandoned houses
at night, or carrying around a
camera; then use The Sickness to
force them to take Proxy moves when
they advance.
If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to
describe your notes, videos, or voice-
mails as disturbingly and puzzlingly as
possible. If you can inflict a condition,
it’s a good idea to go for something
like Obsessed and then dangle some
experience to get them to focus on
deciphering your meaning. For
inflicting conditions in general, Hazy
Memories is also a good choice.
Don’t feel like It has to be the Slender
Man. You can be stalked by the Rake,
or Zalgo, or an abomination of your
own design. The important thing to
remember is that It needs to be both
malevolent and unknowable. It takes
or kills people, or messes with their
heads, but you don’t have a clue as to
Its actual motivations. It doesn’t really
communicate with you; most of your
actions should be based on guesses
and observation of Its behavior. Your
MC will occasionally have It spend
strings to offer you experience, but
the actions It wants you to take may
range from the horrific to the
nonsensical.
no no n
o
i can See it sometimes, the staLker or
whatever the fuck it is, out there at the
Edge of the woods, watching me.
always watching with No eyes.
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a funEral director, but so tall, too tall.
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The Proxy
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan, Jessie, Baby face, carrying a camera,
Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler, Xakk clinging briars, gangly, sickly, shifty
A familiar name, a modern name,
Angry eyes, dead eyes, paranoid
a kid’s name, a unique name
eyes, sorrowful eyes, veiled eyes
Mask
Origin
Circle one:
Circle one:
An animal-head mask, a burlap bag
with eyeholes, a comedy or tragedy
mask, a gas mask, a Guy Fawkes
mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a
Stalked since childhood, delved too
far, created a hoax that
became true, student filmmaker,
porcelain mask, a Venetian carnival cult member
mask, a wooden tribal mask
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
m
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m changes to those accounts. You can
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m of them sleeping, without triggering
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You have been recording video
footage of everyone without their
knowledge. Take one string on
everyone. Take two extra strings on
your subject.
You’ve also been obsessively recording
yourself, and someone has discovered
and watched some of your footage.
That person takes a string on you.
It starts with five strings on you.
Carry Forward
Pr⊗xy Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
l The Sickness
Choose one character to be your
subject. You may change which
Conditions character is your subject at any time,
but you must have least three strings
on your new subject. After the fifth
ygg time your subject accepts experience
from you when you spend a string, they
must use their next advancement to
dra take a Proxy move.
Notes sil m Am I Interrupting?
You can spend two strings on
someone to gain complete access to
their home and identity. You have full
access to all their social media
accounts (e-mail, Twitter, YouTube,
G+, etc) and may make irreversible
also edit your target’s uploaded videos,
Harm inserting scenes, frames, audio, or
text, either obviously or subliminally.
You may enter their home with
sufficient stealth as to record video
Experience Points:
mmmmm >> Advance
security, being discovered, or leaving
accidental traces of your presence.
m Cryptic Bullshit
When you shut someone down
indirectly, through sending them a
Strings written or video message, roll Dark
instead of Cold. This can consist of
mysterious but meaningful images,
phrases written in ciphers, or recurring
symbols. Add +1 to the roll if it’s against
your subject.
Other Moves
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m The Collective
When you gaze into the abyss about
your subject, if you roll 10 up, gain a
string on them and do 1 harm to them.
If you roll 7-9, choose one:
} Gain a string on them, but It gains
a string on you
} Gain a string on them, but take 1
harm
} Do 1 harm to them, but take 1 harm
} Do 1 harm to them, but It gains a
string on you
If you roll 6 or less, It gains a string on
you and you take 1 harm.
m Distortion
You can cause distortion in any
photographic, video, or audio
recordings of yourself. The distortion
may range from mild static to severe
interference. Anyone viewing or
listening to the distorted recordings
of you must hold steady; results of 6
or less give the viewer the condition
Fascinated.
m Masky
When you are masked, others must
hold steady before they can attempt to
turn you on, shut you down, or lash out
physically at you. If they roll 10 up they
may make the second roll normally.
If they roll 7-9, they may make the
second roll at -1. If they roll 6 or less,
give them the condition Hazy
Memories and they may not attempt
the second roll.
m Path of Black Leaves
Unless you allow it, you cannot be run
away from. You will always be around
the next corner or hiding behind a
nearby tree, or your victims will find
themselves repeatedly passing through
the same hallways and doors without
actually getting anywhere. You may
release your victims at any time.
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Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
make them your new subject (even
if they don’t meet the criteria), and
both of you mark experience. Your
new subject’s experience counts
toward triggering The Sickness.
Carry 1 forward toward inflicting
Harm on your old subject.
Darkest Self
You’ve become desperate now - It is
closing in, and your mask isn’t working
to hide you like it should. You’ll do
anything to save yourself, and you
know what It wants. Find someone
close to your subject and offer them
up - either kill them yourself in Its
name, or offer them up to It directly
(which may leave them dead, memory-
wiped, or another Proxy like yourself).
You may only escape your Darkest Self
when you have successfully sacrificed
someone else in your place, or when
your subject catches you on video and
prevents you from harming someone.
Advancement
m Take another Proxy move.
m Take another Proxy move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You belong to a Secret Cult.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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Skin designed by:
Topher Gerkey T h e
Stock Art by:
Raven Cornelissen
Playing The Pr⊗xy
You are both villain and victim. You
want to survive, and if that means
adding to Its list of targets, that’s
what you’ll do. On a conscious level,
you may be unaware of the actions
you take when wearing your mask. In
any case, your main goal is to torment
and tantalize your subject, drawing
them further into Its grasp. Use your
strings on them to offer experience for
investigating your clues, taking trips
into the woods or abandoned houses
at night, or carrying around a
camera; then use The Sickness to
force them to take Proxy moves when
they advance.
If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to
describe your notes, videos, or voice-
mails as disturbingly and puzzlingly as
possible. If you can inflict a condition,
it’s a good idea to go for something
like Obsessed and then dangle some
experience to get them to focus on
deciphering your meaning. For
inflicting conditions in general, Hazy
Memories is also a good choice.
Don’t feel like It has to be the Slender
Man. You can be stalked by the Rake,
or Zalgo, or an abomination of your
own design. The important thing to
remember is that It needs to be both
malevolent and unknowable. It takes
or kills people, or messes with their
heads, but you don’t have a clue as to
Its actual motivations. It doesn’t really
communicate with you; most of your
actions should be based on guesses
and observation of Its behavior. Your
MC will occasionally have It spend
strings to offer you experience, but
the actions It wants you to take may
range from the horrific to the
nonsensical.
no no n
o
i can See it sometimes, the staLker or
whatever the fuck it is, out there at the
Edge of the woods, watching me.
always watching with No eyes.
stanDing there in that black suit, like
a funEral director, but so tall, too tall.
what does it want fRom m
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The Proxy
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan, Jessie, Baby face, carrying a camera,
Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler, Xakk clinging briars, gangly, sickly, shifty
A familiar name, a modern name,
Angry eyes, dead eyes, paranoid
a kid’s name, a unique name
eyes, sorrowful eyes, veiled eyes
Mask
Origin
Circle one:
Circle one:
An animal-head mask, a burlap bag
with eyeholes, a comedy or tragedy
mask, a gas mask, a Guy Fawkes
mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a
Stalked since childhood, delved too
far, created a hoax that
became true, student filmmaker,
porcelain mask, a Venetian carnival cult member
mask, a wooden tribal mask
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
m
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
m
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m changes to those accounts. You can
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m of them sleeping, without triggering
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You have been recording video
footage of everyone without their
knowledge. Take one string on
everyone. Take two extra strings on
your subject.
You’ve also been obsessively recording
yourself, and someone has discovered
and watched some of your footage.
That person takes a string on you.
It starts with five strings on you.
Carry Forward
Pr⊗xy Moves
You start with this one, and choose two
more:
l The Sickness
Choose one character to be your
subject. You may change which
Conditions character is your subject at any time,
but you must have least three strings
on your new subject. After the fifth
ygg time your subject accepts experience
from you when you spend a string, they
must use their next advancement to
dra take a Proxy move.
Notes sil m Am I Interrupting?
You can spend two strings on
someone to gain complete access to
their home and identity. You have full
access to all their social media
accounts (e-mail, Twitter, YouTube,
G+, etc) and may make irreversible
also edit your target’s uploaded videos,
Harm inserting scenes, frames, audio, or
text, either obviously or subliminally.
You may enter their home with
sufficient stealth as to record video
Experience Points:
mmmmm >> Advance
security, being discovered, or leaving
accidental traces of your presence.
m Cryptic Bullshit
When you shut someone down
indirectly, through sending them a
Strings written or video message, roll Dark
instead of Cold. This can consist of
mysterious but meaningful images,
phrases written in ciphers, or recurring
symbols. Add +1 to the roll if it’s against
your subject.
Other Moves
wmaetching Fear the flo
m The Collective
When you gaze into the abyss about
your subject, if you roll 10 up, gain a
string on them and do 1 harm to them.
If you roll 7-9, choose one:
} Gain a string on them, but It gains
a string on you
} Gain a string on them, but take 1
harm
} Do 1 harm to them, but take 1 harm
} Do 1 harm to them, but It gains a
string on you
If you roll 6 or less, It gains a string on
you and you take 1 harm.
m Distortion
You can cause distortion in any
photographic, video, or audio
recordings of yourself. The distortion
may range from mild static to severe
interference. Anyone viewing or
listening to the distorted recordings
of you must hold steady; results of 6
or less give the viewer the condition
Fascinated.
m Masky
When you are masked, others must
hold steady before they can attempt to
turn you on, shut you down, or lash out
physically at you. If they roll 10 up they
may make the second roll normally.
If they roll 7-9, they may make the
second roll at -1. If they roll 6 or less,
give them the condition Hazy
Memories and they may not attempt
the second roll.
m Path of Black Leaves
Unless you allow it, you cannot be run
away from. You will always be around
the next corner or hiding behind a
nearby tree, or your victims will find
themselves repeatedly passing through
the same hallways and doors without
actually getting anywhere. You may
release your victims at any time.
od
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
your other self carries 1 forward to
harm that person.
After your other self has sex with
someone, take a string on that
person.
Darkest Self
Your other self always pursues its
selfish desires, but now you’re truly
free. No limits, no constraints, no
regrets. Do what you please, with and
to whom you please. Use and abuse
anyone who crosses your path.
Nothing is as important as satisfying
your every whim, and no-one really
matters except for you. You can only
return from your Darkest Self when
Playing The Unchained
The key concepts for the Unchained
are repression, freedom, dysphoria,
and addiction, all rolled up into one
violent little dysfunctional bundle.
Your other self is your outlet for all
your secret needs - you can be and do
all those things you’re not allowed to
be and do, but safely, as someone else,
without ruining your reputation.
Your other self can be as different from
your normal self as you like, from
minor changes like hair style and color
to bigger shifts like changing
your height or ethnicity, to major
alterations like changing your sex (the
Unchained lends itself to an
exploration of trans issues, but BE
CAREFUL - don’t fall into the hazard of
conflating trans-ness itself with
monstrosity).
All you could think about were the
things you shouldn’t do, the person
you shouldn’t be. All day, every day,
burying your real feelings because
giving in would mean losing
everything - your family, your
friends, your place in the world.
So you did what you were supposed
to do, and you quietly hated yourself,
and everything felt wrong - until
now.
Now you can have everything. Your
good life, and your secret pleasures.
And if people get hurt sometimes...
that’s a small price to pay for
tasting the forbidden fruit, right?

you cause some sort of unforgivable
harm to someone your normal self
cares about.
Advancement
m Take another Unchained move.
m Take another Unchained move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of an
Underground Club.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Curious Peaches
Animal Magnetism, Addiction, and
Dysphoria/Euphoria lend themselves
well to a character who focuses on
the other self in play, while Unholy
Glee and You’re Not Me! are better
suited for an Unchained who has a
love/hate relationship with his other
self, or considers it an antagonist.
Freedom from Consequence can be a
very handy move. Feel free to rack up
conditions while indulging your
deviant lusts as your other self, then
wipe the slate clean when you change
back into your respectable normal self
in the morning.
The Underground Club gang
advancement may be a sex club, a
fight club, a drug den, or whatever
other seedy location your other self
uses to unwind.
The Unchained
Name
Choose two names:
Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank,
Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia,
Marlowe, Mary, Tom
A respectable name, an antique
name, a plain name, an inherited
name
Blake, Chloe, Dorian, Edwina, Emil,
Harriet, Heidi, Helen, Holt, Ian
An outdated name, a simple name,
a stolen name, a brutal name
Look
Circle one in each list:
pristine, stuffy, nerdy, average,
tailored, sickly
prescription lenses, yearning eyes,
dilated pupils, frightened eyes
unkempt, trendy, hulking, stunning,
devolved, small
bloodshot eyes, smoldering eyes,
hungry eyes, darting eyes
Origin
Circle one:
chemical concoction, invocation of
Janus, mathematical formula,
sensory deprivation, radiation
exposure, meditative trance
Name: Carry Forward Unchained Moves
You start with this one, and choose one
more:
Stats ˜ The Formula
Add 1 to one of these: You have discovered a way to
transform yourself into an other self.
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 This alternate version of you may look
Conditions or act completely differently, and exists
to fulfill your repressed desires.
Transforming in either direction
requires preparation, although you
m will always transform back into your
Hot normal self when you are unconscious.
When you transform into your other
(Turn Someone On,
self, subtract 2 from your Cold and Dark
Manipulate an NPC)
Notes
and add 2 to your Hot and Volatile.
When you become your Darkest Self,
m you automatically transform into your
Cold other self.
m Addiction
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady) You no longer need a preparation
process; you may become your other
m
self at will. Only being unconscious will
Volatile Harm return you to your normal self. When
you become your other self, carry 1
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
forward. If you go a full day without
becoming your other self, hold steady. If
m Dysphoria/Euphoria
When you are your normal self, your
repression and dysphoria prevent you
from using turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC under any
circumstances. When you are your
other self, your wicked exuberance at
the freedom you feel allows you to roll
Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone
down or hold steady.
m Freedom from Consequence
When you transform, remove half of
your conditions (round up) and heal 1
harm.
m Unholy Glee
When you are your normal self and
you hear from a third party about
some shameful or violent incident
your other self was involved in, you
may give yourself +1 to gaze into the
abyss about the incident or people
involved in it. If you take this bonus,
give yourself the condition seduced by
darkness.
m You’re Not Me!

Experience Points:
m you don’t roll 10 up, give yourself the Your other self is a true separate

Dark condition Needs a Fix. identity, not just a release of your

(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone is very important to you as
a close friend or lover. Give them a
string on you.
mmmmm >> advance
m Animal Magnetism
When you are your other self, you may
give yourself +1 to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC if you have
Strings previously lashed out physically at that
person. If you take this bonus, give
yourself the condition Bestial.
usual restraints. Neither of you
remember what happens while
the other is active, although you
can communicate via leaving
messages for one another.
Track strings as if you were two
separate characters; you and your
other self each get a string on the
other when you take this move.

Someone else is very important to

your other self; take a string on them. Other Moves
Someone accidentally witnessed you
transforming; each of you take a
string on the other.
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone,
your other self carries 1 forward to
harm that person.
After your other self has sex with
someone, take a string on that
person.
Darkest Self
Your other self always pursues its
selfish desires, but now you’re truly
free. No limits, no constraints, no
regrets. Do what you please, with and
to whom you please. Use and abuse
anyone who crosses your path.
Nothing is as important as satisfying
your every whim, and no-one really
matters except for you. You can only
return from your Darkest Self when
Playing The Unchained
The key concepts for the Unchained
are repression, freedom, dysphoria,
and addiction, all rolled up into one
violent little dysfunctional bundle.
Your other self is your outlet for all
your secret needs - you can be and do
all those things you’re not allowed to
be and do, but safely, as someone else,
without ruining your reputation.
Your other self can be as different from
your normal self as you like, from
minor changes like hair style and color
to bigger shifts like changing
your height or ethnicity, to major
alterations like changing your sex (the
Unchained lends itself to an
exploration of trans issues, but BE
CAREFUL - don’t fall into the hazard of
conflating trans-ness itself with
monstrosity).
All you could think about were the
things you shouldn’t do, the person
you shouldn’t be. All day, every day,
burying your real feelings because
giving in would mean losing
everything - your family, your
friends, your place in the world.
So you did what you were supposed
to do, and you quietly hated yourself,
and everything felt wrong - until
now.
Now you can have everything. Your
good life, and your secret pleasures.
And if people get hurt sometimes...
that’s a small price to pay for
tasting the forbidden fruit, right?

you cause some sort of unforgivable
harm to someone your normal self
cares about.
Advancement
m Take another Unchained move.
m Take another Unchained move.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m Take a move from another Skin.
m You’re part of an
Underground Club.
m Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
m Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Marcus J. Ranum
Animal Magnetism, Addiction, and
Dysphoria/Euphoria lend themselves
well to a character who focuses on
the other self in play, while Unholy
Glee and You’re Not Me! are better
suited for an Unchained who has a
love/hate relationship with his other
self, or considers it an antagonist.
Freedom from Consequence can be a
very handy move. Feel free to rack up
conditions while indulging your
deviant lusts as your other self, then
wipe the slate clean when you change
back into your respectable normal self
in the morning.
The Underground Club gang
advancement may be a sex club, a
fight club, a drug den, or whatever
other seedy location your other self
uses to unwind.
The Unchained
Name
Choose two names:
Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank,
Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia,
Marlowe, Mary, Tom
A respectable name, an antique
name, a plain name, an inherited
name
Blake, Chloe, Dorian, Edwina, Emil,
Harriet, Heidi, Helen, Holt, Ian
An outdated name, a simple name,
a stolen name, a brutal name
Look
Circle one in each list:
pristine, stuffy, nerdy, average,
tailored, sickly
prescription lenses, yearning eyes,
dilated pupils, frightened eyes
unkempt, trendy, hulking, stunning,
devolved, small
bloodshot eyes, smoldering eyes,
hungry eyes, darting eyes
Origin
Circle one:
chemical concoction, invocation of
Janus, mathematical formula,
sensory deprivation, radiation
exposure, meditative trance
Name: Carry Forward Unchained Moves
You start with this one, and choose one
more:
Stats ˜ The Formula
Add 1 to one of these: You have discovered a way to
transform yourself into an other self.
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 This alternate version of you may look
Conditions or act completely differently, and exists
to fulfill your repressed desires.
Transforming in either direction
requires preparation, although you
m will always transform back into your
Hot normal self when you are unconscious.
When you transform into your other
(Turn Someone On,
self, subtract 2 from your Cold and Dark
Manipulate an NPC)
Notes
and add 2 to your Hot and Volatile.
When you become your Darkest Self,
m you automatically transform into your
Cold other self.
m Addiction
(Shut Someone Down,
Hold Steady) You no longer need a preparation
process; you may become your other
m
self at will. Only being unconscious will
Volatile Harm return you to your normal self. When
you become your other self, carry 1
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
forward. If you go a full day without
becoming your other self, hold steady. If
m Dysphoria/Euphoria
When you are your normal self, your
repression and dysphoria prevent you
from using turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC under any
circumstances. When you are your
other self, your wicked exuberance at
the freedom you feel allows you to roll
Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone
down or hold steady.
m Freedom from Consequence
When you transform, remove half of
your conditions (round up) and heal 1
harm.
m Unholy Glee
When you are your normal self and
you hear from a third party about
some shameful or violent incident
your other self was involved in, you
may give yourself +1 to gaze into the
abyss about the incident or people
involved in it. If you take this bonus,
give yourself the condition seduced by
darkness.
m You’re Not Me!

Experience Points:
m you don’t roll 10 up, give yourself the Your other self is a true separate

Dark condition Needs a Fix. identity, not just a release of your

(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
Someone is very important to you as
a close friend or lover. Give them a
string on you.
mmmmm >> advance
m Animal Magnetism
When you are your other self, you may
give yourself +1 to turn someone on or
manipulate an NPC if you have
Strings previously lashed out physically at that
person. If you take this bonus, give
yourself the condition Bestial.
usual restraints. Neither of you
remember what happens while
the other is active, although you
can communicate via leaving
messages for one another.
Track strings as if you were two
separate characters; you and your
other self each get a string on the
other when you take this move.

Someone else is very important to

your other self; take a string on them. Other Moves
Someone accidentally witnessed you
transforming; each of you take a
string on the other.
Sex Move
When someone acknowledges your
existence through physical intimacy,
give up all strings on them and give
them three strings on you. They develop
an uncanny sense for your presence and
will always know approximately where
you are when you are in a scene
together. This sense lasts until either of
you have sex with someone else or until
they harshly ignore you.
Darkest Self
Such a bland and boring wallflower.
You’re not even interesting enough to
torment. None of them know you even
exist. What will it take to get them to
notice you? Something big. Something
bloody. Something vile and terrifying
and above all, something showy. They
won’t be able to ignore you after this.
You’ll show them who you really are.
You can escape your Darkest Self when
someone makes it clear that they know
you exist, even if only for a moment,
because of something terrible you did.
Advancement
 Take another Unseen move.
 Take another Unseen move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take the initial move that you did
not choose.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Kristina
Playing The Unseen
Last week at the prom, when the captains of
the football and basketball teams were making
The Unseen is about being overlooked,
out in the locker room while their girlfriends
voyeurism, and the temptations we give in
wondered where they’d disappeared to, none of
to when nobody is watching. If you chose
them saw you. But you saw them.
She’s Not There, your classmates and
teachers literally don’t know you exist. In
Yesterday, when the calculus teacher hid in the
some ways this is very freeing - you don’t
supply closet during his prep period and snorted
have to go to class if you don’t feel like it,
coke until his eyes looked like a doll’s, glassy and
and it’s easy for you to spy on everyone
shining in the darkness, he didn’t see you. But
and learn what they do in secret. If you
you saw him.
took See Through You, you might conceal
your condition with makeup - which leaves
Earlier tonight, when the nerdy, sickly kid
you as ignorable as ever - or cover yourself
with bandages, claiming burns or skin
everyone picks on lured the head cheerleader
into a dirty alley, sprouted fangs, and sucked
disease, which carries its own sort of social
her dry, they didn’t see you. But you saw them.
problems.
Nobody ever notices you. But you can see
Try to be invisibly present in as many scenes
everything. All the things they do when they
as possible (Voyeur helps here), to increase
think no-one is watching. And maybe it’s time
your knowledge of everyone’s secrets. If
you started taking advantage of that.
you have Blackmailer, you’ll also rack up
strings, and you should be very free with
spending your social leverage since you
The Unseen
retain the strings if your mark refuses to go
along with your wishes. Remember that if
you have She’s Not There you’ll need to roll
to become audible before you can flex your
extortionist muscles.
Give in to the temptation to do all sorts of Name Look
naughty things since nobody can see you. Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
You’re not accountable to anyone, after all. Billy, Cecily, Griffin, Grover, bad posture, peering through bangs,
As your Darkest Self, go all out: display the Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy, beiges and creams, t-shirt that was
chess team in the library with their fingers Sebastian, Sue popular two years ago, hand-me-downs
cut off. Paint the cafeteria with kittens’ (...not that anyone pays attention to
blood. Set the boiler room to explode. Come A nerdy name, a stuffy name, a your look.)
up with the most horrific spectacle you can, plain name, a foreign name
and bask in the attention. You may develop knowing eyes, translucent eyes,
a reputation - if an anonymous one - around downcast eyes, pearly eyes, forgettable
the school. Attention paid to “The Cell eyes (...but when was the last time
Phone Blackmailer” counts as attention paid anyone looked into your eyes?)
Origin
to you, so you may even encourage your
urban legend status.
Circle one:
invisibility formula, psychic blank spot,
cursed to fade away, someone-else’s-
problem field, light-bending physics
accident
 Unseen Moves
Name: Carry Forward You start with one of these two: And choose two more:

She’s Not There Blackmailer

Stats You are unnoticeable. Nothing with a
Add 1 to one of these: mind can see, hear, smell, or otherwise
sense you, or anything you wear or
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
carry. People will alter their paths to
When you observe someone doing
something they’d rather keep secret,
take a string on them. When you spend a
string to offer someone experience, keep

Conditions avoid bumping into you without being
conscious of doing so. Evidence of your
presence is ignored - if you are dripping
wet or standing in a snowdrift, no-one
will notice the puddle or footprints.
m
Hot
Cameras and other recording devices
- anything non-sentient - can still
(Turn Someone On, register and record you. If you want
Manipulate an NPC) to make yourself known to others, roll
Notes Cold. On a 10 up, you can interact with
m others for one scene. On a 7-9, you stay
the string if they refuse.
Grand Guignol
When you do something violent, perverse,
or sadistic in order to attract attention,
roll Volatile. On a 10 up, mark experience
and treat anyone seeing or experiencing
your handiwork as if you had shut
someone down and rolled 10 up. On a 7-9,
treat them as if you’d shut someone down
and rolled 7-9, but also choose one:

Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m or
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
The Unseen must always declare their
backstory second-to-last.
You are beneath notice. Erase all strings
that other characters have on you so far.
You watch everyone in their private
moments. Take 1 string on everyone else.
Someone inadvertantly showed you some
very juicy blackmail material. Take 1 extra
string on them.
invisible, but you can make yourself
noticed by whispering, writing notes,
or pushing people or furniture around.
On a miss, become your Darkest Self.
See Through You
Harm You are perfectly transparent. Nothing
can see you, including cameras. This
only affects your body, not anything
that you are wearing or carrying, so
Experience Points:
to be completely invisible you will
need to be nude. You can still be
mmmmm >>advance
heard, smelled, or felt, and evidence
of your presence (footprints, floating
patches of paint, etc.) may give away
your location. If you want to interact
Strings with others normally, you will need
to wear bandages or a mask, or cover
your exposed skin with makeup. If
you are disguised in this way and
your true invisible nature is exposed,
roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can retain
self-control and beat a hasty retreat,
leaving viewers wondering what they
just saw. On a 7-9, you are enraged
and embarrassed. All onlookers get a
string on you. On a miss, become your
Darkest Self.
} They gain a string on you
} Gain the condition Urban Legend
On a miss, your atrocity is blamed on
someone else. Become your Darkest Self.
If you are already your Darkest Self, gain
the condition Enraged.
Out of Thin Air
When you are invisible and lash out
physically, add 1 to your roll. Others take
-1 to attempts to lash out physically at you.
Threatening Whispers
You can roll Cold to manipulate an NPC by
threatening to expose their secrets. Add 1
to your rolls to shut someone down.
Vanishing Act
You can always run away from someone
without having to roll, but choose one:
} They take a string on you
} You take 1 harm
} You gain the condition Urban Legend
Voyeur
Spend a string on someone to insert
yourself into any scene that person is
in. When you gaze into the abyss about
someone you have strings on, spend a
string to change a miss into a 7-9, or a 7-9
into a 10 up.
Sex Move
When someone acknowledges your
existence through physical intimacy,
give up all strings on them and give
them three strings on you. They develop
an uncanny sense for your presence and
will always know approximately where
you are when you are in a scene
together. This sense lasts until either of
you have sex with someone else or until
they harshly ignore you.
Darkest Self
Such a bland and boring wallflower.
You’re not even interesting enough to
torment. None of them know you even
exist. What will it take to get them to
notice you? Something big. Something
bloody. Something vile and terrifying
and above all, something showy. They
won’t be able to ignore you after this.
You’ll show them who you really are.
You can escape your Darkest Self when
someone makes it clear that they know
you exist, even if only for a moment,
because of something terrible you did.
Advancement
 Take another Unseen move.
 Take another Unseen move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take the initial move that you did
not choose.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
Skin Designed by:
Topher Gerkey
Stock Art by:
Gin
Playing The Unseen
Last week at the prom, when the captains of
the football and basketball teams were making
The Unseen is about being overlooked,
out in the locker room while their girlfriends
voyeurism, and the temptations we give in
wondered where they’d disappeared to, none of
to when nobody is watching. If you chose
them saw you. But you saw them.
She’s Not There, your classmates and
teachers literally don’t know you exist. In
Yesterday, when the calculus teacher hid in the
some ways this is very freeing - you don’t
supply closet during his prep period and snorted
have to go to class if you don’t feel like it,
coke until his eyes looked like a doll’s, glassy and
and it’s easy for you to spy on everyone
shining in the darkness, he didn’t see you. But
and learn what they do in secret. If you
you saw him.
took See Through You, you might conceal
your condition with makeup - which leaves
Earlier tonight, when the nerdy, sickly kid
you as ignorable as ever - or cover yourself
with bandages, claiming burns or skin
everyone picks on lured the head cheerleader
into a dirty alley, sprouted fangs, and sucked
disease, which carries its own sort of social
her dry, they didn’t see you. But you saw them.
problems.
Nobody ever notices you. But you can see
Try to be invisibly present in as many scenes
everything. All the things they do when they
as possible (Voyeur helps here), to increase
think no-one is watching. And maybe it’s time
your knowledge of everyone’s secrets. If
you started taking advantage of that.
you have Blackmailer, you’ll also rack up
strings, and you should be very free with
spending your social leverage since you
The Unseen
retain the strings if your mark refuses to go
along with your wishes. Remember that if
you have She’s Not There you’ll need to roll
to become audible before you can flex your
extortionist muscles.
Give in to the temptation to do all sorts of Name Look
naughty things since nobody can see you. Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
You’re not accountable to anyone, after all. Billy, Cecily, Griffin, Grover, bad posture, peering through bangs,
As your Darkest Self, go all out: display the Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy, beiges and creams, t-shirt that was
chess team in the library with their fingers Sebastian, Sue popular two years ago, hand-me-downs
cut off. Paint the cafeteria with kittens’ (...not that anyone pays attention to
blood. Set the boiler room to explode. Come A nerdy name, a stuffy name, a your look.)
up with the most horrific spectacle you can, plain name, a foreign name
and bask in the attention. You may develop knowing eyes, translucent eyes,
a reputation - if an anonymous one - around downcast eyes, pearly eyes, forgettable
the school. Attention paid to “The Cell eyes (...but when was the last time
Phone Blackmailer” counts as attention paid anyone looked into your eyes?)
Origin
to you, so you may even encourage your
urban legend status.
Circle one:
invisibility formula, psychic blank spot,
cursed to fade away, someone-else’s-
problem field, light-bending physics
accident
 Unseen Moves
Name: Carry Forward You start with one of these two: And choose two more:

She’s Not There Blackmailer

Stats You are unnoticeable. Nothing with a
Add 1 to one of these: mind can see, hear, smell, or otherwise
sense you, or anything you wear or
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
carry. People will alter their paths to
When you observe someone doing
something they’d rather keep secret,
take a string on them. When you spend a
string to offer someone experience, keep

Conditions avoid bumping into you without being
conscious of doing so. Evidence of your
presence is ignored - if you are dripping
wet or standing in a snowdrift, no-one
will notice the puddle or footprints.
m
Hot
Cameras and other recording devices
- anything non-sentient - can still
(Turn Someone On, register and record you. If you want
Manipulate an NPC) to make yourself known to others, roll
Notes Cold. On a 10 up, you can interact with
m others for one scene. On a 7-9, you stay
the string if they refuse.
Grand Guignol
When you do something violent, perverse,
or sadistic in order to attract attention,
roll Volatile. On a 10 up, mark experience
and treat anyone seeing or experiencing
your handiwork as if you had shut
someone down and rolled 10 up. On a 7-9,
treat them as if you’d shut someone down
and rolled 7-9, but also choose one:

Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
m or
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
m
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
The Unseen must always declare their
backstory second-to-last.
You are beneath notice. Erase all strings
that other characters have on you so far.
You watch everyone in their private
moments. Take 1 string on everyone else.
Someone inadvertantly showed you some
very juicy blackmail material. Take 1 extra
string on them.
invisible, but you can make yourself
noticed by whispering, writing notes,
or pushing people or furniture around.
On a miss, become your Darkest Self.
See Through You
Harm You are perfectly transparent. Nothing
can see you, including cameras. This
only affects your body, not anything
that you are wearing or carrying, so
Experience Points:
to be completely invisible you will
need to be nude. You can still be
mmmmm >>advance
heard, smelled, or felt, and evidence
of your presence (footprints, floating
patches of paint, etc.) may give away
your location. If you want to interact
Strings with others normally, you will need
to wear bandages or a mask, or cover
your exposed skin with makeup. If
you are disguised in this way and
your true invisible nature is exposed,
roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can retain
self-control and beat a hasty retreat,
leaving viewers wondering what they
just saw. On a 7-9, you are enraged
and embarrassed. All onlookers get a
string on you. On a miss, become your
Darkest Self.
} They gain a string on you
} Gain the condition Urban Legend
On a miss, your atrocity is blamed on
someone else. Become your Darkest Self.
If you are already your Darkest Self, gain
the condition Enraged.
Out of Thin Air
When you are invisible and lash out
physically, add 1 to your roll. Others take
-1 to attempts to lash out physically at you.
Threatening Whispers
You can roll Cold to manipulate an NPC by
threatening to expose their secrets. Add 1
to your rolls to shut someone down.
Vanishing Act
You can always run away from someone
without having to roll, but choose one:
} They take a string on you
} You take 1 harm
} You gain the condition Urban Legend
Voyeur
Spend a string on someone to insert
yourself into any scene that person is
in. When you gaze into the abyss about
someone you have strings on, spend a
string to change a miss into a 7-9, or a 7-9
into a 10 up.
 For the MC
Under the Beast’s Skin
The Beast is constantly struggling to repress
her passions. In order to make that fun and
dramatic, you’re going to have to put her in
situations where she’s really tempted to give
in. Don’t just constantly throw in NPCs who
spam turn someone on at her; it will be much
more rewarding to give her genuine reasons
to like and be attracted to someone. Get her
invested enough in another character and
turn someone on might not even be necessary!
If the player chooses the Green-Eyed Monster or
Scaredy Cat moves, she’s signaling to you that
she wants to go Feral more often. Be sure to give
her plenty of opportunities to get jealous, angry,
terrified, or depressed by bringing in rivals or
bullies to push her buttons and trigger her moves.
Be careful with the Bloodline of Beasts gang, as the
subject matter may be triggery for some players.
If you think it might be an issue, work with the
player to define her gang as random people who
also suffer from her curse, rather than actual
relatives; alternately, just remove the “having sex
with another Beast doesn’t trigger your Sex Move”
clause to avoid the subject entirely.
Monsterhearts isn’t a game that pays a lot of
attention to things like movement, so if the Beast
turns into an owl and wants to fly, or turns into
an alligator and wants to swim, or turns into a
cheetah and wants to run really fast, just let them
do whatever sounds cool to everyone and makes
sense in context. Remember that they don’t get any
special bonus to actual moves (like run away) for
being in an animal form, unless they have a Beast
move that says otherwise.
Under the Calaca’s Skin
The Calaca is often focused on being a good
friend or mentor, so an easy way to engage
her is to threaten the people she cares about
(whether fellow PCs or NPCs). Give her the
chance to advise, direct, or intervene in her
friends’ lives, then push back by bringing
up unexpected consequences. You can also
engage her more directly by playing up the
way other people react to this cheerfully
death-obsessed kid.
There are no specific rules for how a Calaca’s skin
and flesh might be damaged or destroyed (or lost
or stolen), so just use your best judgment and do
what makes the most sense. The permanent loss
of a skin is a very hard move, so use it wisely. If she
wants to replace her skin, she’ll need to acquire
and basically fillet a human body. You can make
this especially horrific or keep it off-screen; keep
in mind the comfort levels of your playgroup while
deciding on the specifics. The same advice goes for
a Calaca who decides to acquire some extra bones
and take the Ossuary move as an advancement.
If the player chooses the Connected move and
wants to be in multiple scenes at once, make sure
she tells you her plans in advance. This isn’t an “I
was retroactively there all along” move. She should
also let you know exactly which body parts are
where, so you can MC the scene accordingly.
Calacas with the Morte Alata move can fly. Again,
use your best judgment as to what this means and
how the player can take advantage of it. Special
movement shouldn’t be an “I win” button!
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Under the Creature’s Skin
The Creature won’t have much fun if you
don’t give him something to protest and fight
against, so be sure to give his cause an enemy
or two, and make sure they won’t be easy to
overcome quickly (or at all). Big business, the
educational establishment, law enforcement,
government, and parents/adults all make
great examples of “The Man” trying to keep
the Creature’s progressive ideas from coming
to fruition. When he gets mad and goes for
direct solutions (usually involving violence),
feel free to show him that’s he’s only made
things worse for his cause.
If word gets out that a merman, gill-man, or lake
monster is in the area, cryptozoologists will come
out of the woodwork to prove or disprove his
existence. These make great intruders to throw at
a Creature who has the Territorial move, and may
even manage to capture him temporarily. Be sure
to give him opportunities to escape if you go this
route.
When the Creature has the Fanatic condition, be
sure to use it against him ruthlessly and remind
the other players that they can use it as well. Being
ridiculed and treated as a joke or a lunatic will
give the Creature plenty of motivation to resort
to questionable means in order to bring about his
noble ends.
As much as possible, frame scenes so as to give
the Creature leeway to use his abilities. A scene at
the high school might seem to leave him high and
dry (so to speak) but, for example, if you throw
in a sequence in the shower room so that he can
use Hot and Wet to seduce a fellow swim team
member, he’ll love you for it.
Under the Fury’s Skin
You’re going to want to play along with the
Fury’s cycle of acceptance and rejection, but
be judicious about it. When it’s time for her to
catch a bit of a break or have some downtime,
and if another player hasn’t already jumped
in, have an NPC befriend her or at least be
nice to her so she can pick up the Hopeful
condition. Let her run with it for a while and
build up momentum - maybe this time things
will be different! Then when there’s room in
the narrative for a big dramatic moment and
the player is ready for some spotlight time,
bring the whole thing crashing down with a
cruel rejection or revelation of treachery. And
now that she’s Betrayed, give her the time she
needs to use her amped-up psychic powers
and cause a little mayhem - or if she’s her
Darkest Self, a LOT of mayhem. When it feels
right, start the cycle again.
The Fury puts lots of conditions on herself and on
others. Be sure to take advantage of conditions
like Hopeful, Betrayed, and Creepy, and remember
to play out your NPCs appropriately if they are
Enthralled, Burned, have a Headache, or what have
you.
Let her play to her strengths. If her powers are
mostly outward-facing (like telekinesis), set up
scenes that are about physical confrontations.
If she chose more inward-facing powers
(like telepathy), choose scenes about social
manipulation or hidden secrets. Once in a while,
switch things up and put her in a tough spot where
her psychic abilities won’t help her out and let her
squirm.
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Under the Gargoyle’s Skin
A player who chooses to play the Gargoyle
is expressing a strong preference for what
kind of game they want to be part of - one
in which the high school (or whatever
other social center binds the characters
together) has a major presence in the story.
The Gargoyle’s entire existence and all his
moves are focused around the school and
its well-being, so keep that in mind when
brainstorming Threats and Menaces.
By default, a Gargoyle is inactive for twelve hours
of every day. This can make it complicated to
frame scenes in such a way that everyone gets
roughly equivalent spotlight time! You’ll have to get
creative to come up with replacements for typical
teen scenes like sleepovers, keggers, and other
nocturnal mischief. This becomes less of a problem
if the Gargoyle takes the Babewyn move, so if you
foresee difficulty in working him into your scenes,
strongly suggest that he takes that move so he can
be active when the other characters are.
Certain other moves will suggest ideas for
supporting cast members and/or plotlines. A
Gargoyle who takes Kirkgrim is basically asking
for a large, interesting student body and faculty
who find themselves in peril frequently. Rival
Schools should immediately inspire you to flesh
out some other institutions, their populations, and
the history and nature of their rivalries. Hatchery
is another move that suggests some storylines.
A Gargoyle’s egg can’t be destroyed, but what
happens if it gets stolen? An egg held hostage could
be a powerful tool to blackmail him into working
for someone - as long as he’s not acting against the
best interests of the school.
Under the Harpy’s Skin
Since it’s in the Harpy’s nature to cut people
down, you’ll want to enable her by providing
tempting targets. One easy way to allow
her to do her thing is to include several
classmates with obvious “victim” traits - the
kid that’s not so smart, the kid that’s not so
pretty, the kid that’s socially inept, the kid
that’s clumsy, the kid that’s poor, the kid
that’s overweight. She can be absolutely awful
to them and build her rep as the school’s
terror.
But since the Harpy’s function is also to bring
down the mighty for their hubris, be sure to
create at least one character who is a much
more challenging target - a popular darling who
nonetheless deserves to be stripped of his influence
and fortune. The Homecoming queen who
secretly gets other girls involved in hard drugs, the
valedictorian who cheated and plagiarized his way
into success, or the quarterback who keeps his
sexual assaults quiet with threats of violence are all
prime (and difficult) targets for a Harpy’s vengeful
rage.
Of course, the Harpy might go after other PCs as
well, which could lead to some epic conflicts if
someone else is playing the Queen, the Mummy,
or another Skin that centers around popularity and
social power!
If your game has several overtly supernatural Skins
in play, encourage the Harpy to take the Alkonost
move so that she can compete on more even
footing - unless the player is more interested in a
character who can stand up to monsters because
she’s just. that. nasty.
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Under the Minotaur’s Skin
The Minotaur sees himself as a simple
tool, and you should play along. If the
other players aren’t spending enough time
manipulating him into acting against their
enemies, you should step in and have some
NPCs take advantage of him. Use up any
strings on him to offer him experience for
doing your bidding, especially if he has Red
Flag. Similarly, you should be having your
NPCs throw each other and the players into
the Minotaur’s maze (via the In the Maze
condition) as often as possible, especially if he
has the Tribute move.
The Minotaur has a high Hot score but low self-
esteem; you can reinforce this with the one-two
punch of someone (especially someone he actually
has feelings for) taking him out for a casual roll
in the hay and then insisting that it be kept secret
from everyone - or worse, pretending that it never
happened at all. The big dumb hunk is fine to sleep
with, but he’s certainly not relationship material,
after all. If nothing else, it’s a good way to get the
Golden Thread condition spread around.
As important as it is to introduce NPCs to use
and abuse the Minotaur, it’s also vital to have a
collection of weakling NPCs for him to victimize.
He can’t maintain his bully cred if he’s not
frequently making other people miserable. For
some added drama, maybe one of his most picked-
on targets secretly has a serious crush on him - the
one person who could genuinely show him love
and affection is one of the people he torments
because he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of love and
affection. Such a character could even represent
a happy ending for the Minotaur as he picks up
Growing Up moves late in the story.
Under the Mummy’s Skin
The most important thing to remember when
you have a Mummy in your game is that she
has to learn some humility - and you’re the
one who has to teach her. As much as she
might wish otherwise, the world has changed
and in many ways left her behind, and if she
doesn’t change to match, she’s going to find
herself lost and alone. Present her with as
many object lessons to that effect as she can
handle.
One of your primary tools will be Cursed Idols,
if she has it. When she uses the idols unselfishly,
to help or protect others without any ulterior
motives, pick a curse that will only affect her
mildly, if at all. On the other hand, if she uses the
idols for her own benefit, to hurt others, or to get
someone to do what she wants, feel free to screw
her over royally by picking the worst possible curse
- you want everyone at the table to say “holy shit,
you are in trouble now” when they find out the
effects of the curse.
If you’re running a one-shot game, try to steer the
Mummy away from taking the Tana Leaves move,
as it can be difficult to replenish the leaves in a
short timeframe. Soul Eater and Sun-Blessed are
much better choices for one-shots.
If the Mummy has a soulmate, try to throw as
many roadblocks between them as possible. If the
soulmate is an NPC, remember that the Mummy’s
feelings of love don’t have to be reciprocated! Also
be sure that the soulmate leverages the relationship
against the Mummy as much as the Mummy
leverages it against him - it works both ways, and
anything that helps to humble the Mummy is a
good thing.
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Under the Muse’s Skin
Obviously the Muse needs a protegé, and
might choose another PC or an NPC to
fill that role. If she chooses another PC,
your job is a bit simpler - just encourage
any interactions that increase the friction
between them. They’re likely to bring the
drama all on their own.
If the Muse chooses an NPC protegé, you have
a bit more work to do. Feel free to play him
in whatever way makes the most sense at any
given time, but it can help to keep the basic
“Phantom” structure in mind (either as a plan
to stick to or as a set of tropes to subvert): at
first he may be a bit resistant to the Muse’s
overtures, but he should quickly be won over
by her virtuoso talents. He’ll then be a rapt
pupil...until he either becomes distracted
by something or someone else, or until the
Muse’s madness and obsession begin to push
him away (or both). At that point he may try
to escape the Muse’s influence.
Try to be creative with the Catacombs, but
not so outlandish that their existence doesn’t
make any sense - work with the Muse’s
player to come up with an explanation for
secret passages and trap-filled chambers
that just nudges up against the boundaries
of believability. Safe bets can include old
abandoned bomb shelters, natural or mined
caverns under the school, a connection to a
mad architect (“My grandfather designed this
school!”), or a campus with one or more old,
abandoned, sealed-off buildings.
Under the Proxy’s Skin
You don’t have to be a Slender Man expert to
help the Proxy’s player have fun, but it doesn’t
hurt. Take a little time to browse YouTube for
a bit and watch some videos (Marble Hornets,
TribeTwelve, and EverymanHYBRID are all good
choices) to pick up the proper mood - or just
go hog wild with the alienation, paranoia,
voyeurism, and hopelessness.
Work together with the Proxy’s player to create
his eldritch stalker. Come up with a basic sketch
of Its qualities and behaviors, then every once in
a while in play, have It brutally deviate from those
qualities and behaviors just as a reminder that It is
inhuman, inscrutable, and inescapable. Spend Its
strings on the Proxy to offer experience in exchange
for acts ranging from grafitti to animal mutilation,
from kidnapping to obscene phone calls, from
befriending a certain person to murder. Never let
the Proxy know what’s coming next or why.
Frame scenes that will allow the Proxy to share
some screen time with his subject both as his
normal self (possibly a friend, acquaintance, or
even lover of the subject) and as his masked stalker
self. Don’t blow his cover unless the scene calls
for a very hard move, as much of the point of
the playbook is that the other characters don’t
know exactly who the masked creeper is. Join the
Proxy in encouraging his subject to accept offered
experience and trigger The Sickness; suggest that a
subject with one or more Proxy moves who wants
to switch to a new skin choose to become a new
Proxy.
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Under the Unchained’s Skin
You’ll want to take a carrot-and-stick
approach to the Unchained and his repressed
desires. On the one hand, present him with
temptations - all the stuff he wants to do and
be but can’t...but could if he just took another
dose of the formula. Show him other people
happily indulging in the stuff he feels like
he can’t have and dangle opportunities for a
quick change of self.
On the other hand, hit him hard with life
in the closet. Put him in situations where
his inability to just be himself is painful and
frustrating. Hold up a mirror to his self-
loathing and dysphoria, and make it clear that
all this ugly could go away if he just made the
choice to change again. Isn’t it worth the risk
of someone getting hurt?
Be careful, though. Issues of identity and
dysphoria might be painful for the real-
life people you’re playing the game with.
As always, know your group and their
boundaries. If someone is playing the
Unchained, it’s a good idea for everyone to
discuss beforehand where the borders of
comfortable, good-uncomfortable, and bad-
uncomfortable are located.
Remember that the Unchained is not, by
default, split into “good” and “evil” selves.
One self is created for the explicit purpose of
indulging the secret passions of the other. For
a more modern “split personality” take on
this archetype, the player should take You’re
Not Me! and you should regularly surprise
him with what his other self has been up to
without his knowledge.
Under the Unseen’s Skin
If the Unseen takes She’s Not There,
emphasize the idea that nobody has any clue
that she exists. Go out of your way to describe
other people interacting with one another in
the way that no-one does with her, walking
around her without noticing in the hallway,
having conversations through her, and
completely ignoring her speech and actions.
Her only respite from her ostracism will be
indirect contact - phone calls, scribbled notes,
video mail, etc. If she uses this kind of tactic,
you can have an urban legend spring up
around her at the school, so that she is known
of, if not actually known.
If she takes See Through You, she’s just invisible,
not unnoticeable. She’ll be expected to go to
classes and other people will be aware of her - but
that’s no guarantee they’ll interact with her. If
she wears makeup to look normal, she’s one of
those “invisible kids” who are neither popular nor
victims, simply ignored by almost everyone. If she
wears bandages or a mask (perhaps claiming a skin
condition, burns, or deformity) then the ignoring
will be much more conspicuous - she’s outcast
because she’s presumed to be grotesque. In this
case, any urban legends around her will be as a
result of her invisible activities, and not associated
with her actual identity.
Be sure to give the Unseen lots of blackmail fodder!
If she has Voyeur, ask her if she wants to be in
scenes if something scandalous is going on. If she
has Blackmailer or Threatening Whispers, those
are also good signs that her player is interested in
being a collector and abuser of secrets.