Evil Hat’s Monster of the Week gets a magical new supplement in the form of Mystic Marginalia, full of forbidden lore and gold elementals.
Monster of the Week, the RPG all about hunting monsters in the vein of monster-of-the-week shows like Supernatural or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files or what have you, gets a new supplement this week. Mystic Marginalia is all about forbidden lore, with two new Hunter playbooks, a new Team playbook, and heaps of helpful tables, new moves, and more.
Monster of the Week: Mystic Margnialia – Available Now
If you’ve never played Monster of the Week, it’s an episodic, Powered-by-the-Apocalypse RPG where you’ll make a team of monster hunters representing being members of an agency, or a secret organization, or just a group of found family misfits who all go to the same high school. Then you go about hunting the monster of the week and dealing with all the complications thereof.
Mystic Marginalia expands on that with a bunch of new rules, inspiration, and other ephemera that were originally created as extra ‘stretch goals’ during the crowdfunding campaign for the Hunter’s Journal and Slayer’s Survival Kit. Now it’s available even if you missed the campaign.
I think the biggest draws are likely to be the new playbooks, starting with the Ensemble Teams playbook. This is a playbook for people who want to get into “troupe” style play where players have two (or more) different hunters they can pick from, allowing you to take on even bigger threats. There’s also the new Abandoned playbook, which is a castaway or survivor or something of that sort. Or play the Elemental, and become a powerful creature tied to an element or mineral like Gold or Sapphire or Steel. I’d pick Potassium for explosive results.
“Instant Mysteries. Monster-hunting Teams. Alien castaways and Elemental spirits. Shine the brightly burning censer over these frail, forbidden pages and discover… Designers Luke Green, Marek Golonka, and Michael Sands bring 112 pages of inspirational tables, new playbooks, and optional rules for Monster of the Week – all illustrated with Juan Ochoa’s signature artwork.”
This is a great book for seasoned players. If you’ve never tried Monster of the Week you might want to get at least a game in before you decide if this book is for you. But luckily, MOTW plays fast and is pretty easy to dive into.
Mystic Marginalia is available now at the link below!
Ensemble Teams means more heroes… and more monsters!
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