Monsterhearts Hacks?

[That Other Guy]

I know that standard Apocalypse World and Dungeon World are very open to people hacking their games for their own purposes. I was wondering if Monsterhearts was similarly inclined?

[mcdaldno]

If you're interested in hacking Monsterhearts, you have my blessing. At one point Joel Shempert was talking about creating an X-Men game called Mutanthearts.

If you're interested in workshopping those ideas here, you may get some responses from me (though I can make no promises).


What do you have in mind?

[That Other Guy]

Firstly, cheers for the response!

Well, I'm bouncing around a few ideas (one of which was, in fact, an X-men inspired game, which I think is badass), but the main two going around my head are:

Wolfhearts: A game about young warriors and the tumultuous nature of young friendships (inspired by John Harper's the Wildlings)

and

Steelhearts: A game about samurai falling short of their ideals and the fallout that causes.

Particularly, with both these games, I'm really interested to see if I can get the AW/MH idea of limited or more specific moves to change the way the players view the narrarative in a different light. Wolfheart is about friendship and learning who you can trust and what happens when they trust is broken, while Steelhearts is about being in a vastly different sort of societal enviroment, and about emotional repression.

But damn, Mutanthearts, that's a fantastic name...

EDIT: Also, a Spy hack, I think. The dynamic shifts in power works perfectly for it, as well.

[Ernesto Pavan]

So you want to hack an hack? Hackvilicious!

Sorry, I had to say that XD

[That Other Guy]

So you want to hack an hack? Hackvilicious!

Sorry, I had to say that XD

I like to think of it like the evolution of music - it's just variations on a theme which lead to different variations on those themes.