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The Monsters are our Heroes
Publisher: Bloat Games
by Brian C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/29/2020 14:21:10

A simple, fast, fun OSR rpg where you get to play the classic monsters of cinema: vampire; invisible person; lagoon monster; Frankenstein's creation; werewolf; mummy. The old-school rules will be instantly recognizable to any tabletop players, so you won't spend hours learning a new system or wondering 'am I playing this right?' The rules are spelled out nicely, character creation is swift and fun. Some brief flavor text says that the world is our modern world, somehow overlaid with gothic trappings. It's brief enough that you can essentially go with the setting blurb as written or decide to run the monsters through your own homebrew game world.

Each monster gets its own set of powers based on its 'monster type' as well as couple of weaknesses. While the monsters are quite capable out of the gate, they're not unstoppable engines of might and destruction at Level 1. A SWAT team called out to defeat a bunch of level 1 spooky weirdos in the park would probably make short work of them. But the monsters do go up in level, getting to add to their attribute scores, luck points, hit dice and so on, becoming more formidable at each level. There are no tracking of expeirence point numbers; instead a simple metric and dice roll mechanic determines if your monster goes up a level. Again, it's very simple and modular, and GMs with their own preferred XP and level system can swap it in here with zero problems.

Along with simple, well-defined rules on how to play the game, then well-defined monster creation rules, the book goes into a brief bestiary of creatures that your player-monsters may encounter and possibly battle. If the included critters are too few for your tastes, just about any old-school creature catalog or manual can serve up all manner of new threats for your heroic monsters to confront.

This is not a deep, philosophical game on the psychological and sociological impacts of being a monster in our urban world. This is about rolling up classic Hollywood monsters as characters and letting them loose on a world that's been given the Tim Burton touch. It's a 'Saturday Morning' monster show that you'd watch in your living room with your bowl of kids cereal on the t.v. tray in front of you. Play it dead serious. Play it for laughs. Play it somewhere in between. The Monsters Are Our Heroes is eminently playable and very fun stuff. Just in time for Halloween!



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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