MotW - Core - Keeper Reference Sheets.pdf

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Keeper Agenda

• Make the world seem real

• Play to see what happens

• Make hunters' lives dangerous

& scary

Basic Keeper Moves

•

Separate them

Reveal future badness

Reveal off-screen badness

Inflict harm, as established

Make them investigate

Make them acquire stuff

Tell the possible consequences

and ask if they want to go ahead

Turn their move back on them

Offer an opportunity, & maybe

a cost

Take away some of the hunters'

stuff

Put someone in trouble

Make a threat move, from one

of your mystery or arc threats

After every move, ask what they

do next

Monster Moves

•

Hint at its presence

Display its full might

Appear suddenly

Attack with great force and fury

Seize someone or something

Attack with stealth and calcu-

lation

Order underlings to do terrible

acts

Destroy something

Escape, no matter how well con-

tained

Give chase

Return to home ground

Boast and gloat, maybe reveal-

ing a secret

Return from seeming destruc-

tion

Use an unnatural power

Bystander Moves

•

Principles

• Put horror in everyday situa-

tions

• Address the hunters, not the

players

• Use the Keeper moves, without

names

• Be a fan of the hunters

• Build a coherent mythology in

play

• Nothing is safe

• Name everyone they meet, make

them seem like normal folks

• Ask questions and build on the

answers

• Sometimes give them exactly

what they earned, rather than

all they wanted

• What's happening off-screen?

• Don't always decide what hap-

pens

• Everything is a threat

Go off alone

Argue with the hunters

Get in the way

Reveal something

Confess their fears

Freak out in terror

Try to help the hunters

Try to protect people

Display inability or incompetence

Seek help or comfort

Location Moves

•

Harm Moves

Every time anyone gets hurt, use one.

0-harm or more:

• Momentarily inhibited

• Drop something

• Take -1 forward

1-harm or more:

• Fall down

• Take -1 ongoing

• Pass out

• Intense pain

Unstable wounds:

• +1 harm

8-harm or more:

• Dying or dead.

Minion Moves

• A burst of sudden, uncontrolled

violence

• Make a coordinated attack

• Capture someone, or steal

something

• Reveal a secret

• Deliver someone or something

to the master

• Give chase

• Make a threat or demand for the

master

• Run away

• Use an unnatural power

• Display a hint of conscience or

humanity

• Disobey the master, in some

petty way

Present a hazard

Reveal something

Hide something

Close a way

Open a way

Reshape itself

Trap someone

Offer a guide

Present a guardian

Something doesn't work properly

Create a particular feeling

Hunter Basic Moves

•

Always Say...

• What the principles demand

• What the rules demand

• What your preparation de-

mands

• What honesty demands

Act Under Pressure (Cool)

Help Out (Cool)

Investigate A Mystery (Sharp)

Kick Some Ass (Tough)

Manipulate Someone (Charm)

Protect Someone (Tough)

Read A Bad Situation (Sharp)

Use Magic (Weird)

End of Session Experience

1-2 “yes”: 1 mark; 3-4 “yes”: 2 marks

• Did they conclude the current mystery?

• Did they save someone from certain death

(or worse)?

• Did we learn something new and important

about the world?

• Did we learn something new and important

about one of the hunters?

Mystery Creation

1. Basic Concept

• A cool monster from urban legend

or folklore.

• A loose end from a previous

mystery.

• A problem from one of your arcs.

• Take a plot from somewhere else

and change some details.

• A place you know that would make

a good place for a monster to lurk.

• Is there something the hunters

want to check out?

• Return of a monster, bystander, or

location from a previous mystery.

Creating Threats

Pick a type and then create the details

listed underneath.

Bystanders (motivation)

Monsters (motivation)

2. Hook

The clue that caught the hunters' atten-

tion.

3. Threats

Create your monsters, minions, by-

standers and locations.

• Beast (to run wild, destroying and

killing)

• Breeder (to give birth to, bring

forth, or create evil)

• Collector (to steal specific sorts of

things)

• Destroyer (to bring about the end

of the world)

• Devourer (to consume people)

• Executioner (to punish the guilty)

• Parasite (to infest, control and

devour)

• Queen (to possess and control)

• Sorcerer (to usurp unnatural

power)

• Tempter (to tempt people into evil

deeds)

• Torturer (to hurt and terrify)

• Trickster (to create chaos)

• Busybody (to interfere in other

people’s plans)

• Detective (to rule out explana-

tions)

• Gossip (to pass on rumours)

• Helper (to join the hunt)

• Innocent (to do the right thing)

• Official (to be suspicious)

• Skeptic (to deny supernatural

explanations)

• Victim (to put themselves in

danger)

• Witness (to reveal information)

Minions (motivation)

Name the bystander.

What do they know about the situ-

ation?

What do they do?

What do they look like?

What do they want from the hunters?

Any custom moves for this bystander?

• Assassin (to kill the hunters)

• Brute (to intimidate and attack)

• Cultist (to save their own skin at

any cost)

• Guardian (to bar a way or protect

something)

• Right hand (to back up the

monster)

• Plague (to swarm and destroy)

• Renfield (to push victims towards

the monster)

• Scout (to stalk, watch, and report)

• Thief (to steal and deliver to the

monster)

• Traitor (to betray people)

Locations (motivation)

4. Countdown

What would happen if the hunters never

came here? Break it into six key events:

1. Day

2. Shadows

3. Dusk

4. Sunset

5. Nightfall

6. Midnight

Name, how it looks, what does it want

to achieve?

Powers:

What supernatural abilities

does it have?

Weakness: What is the monster

vulnerable to?

Attacks:

Description, how much

harm it does (usually 3 to 5), range,

other tags.

Armour:

Normally 1- or 2-armour.

Harm capacity:

Normally 8-12

harm to kill it.

Any custom moves for the monster

(e.g. for its powers)?

• Crossroads (to bring people, and

things, together)

• Deathtrap (to harm intruders)

• Den (to harbour monsters)

• Fortress (to deny entry)

• Hellgate (to create evil)

• Hub (to reveal information)

• Lab (to create weirdness)

• Maze (to confuse and separate)

• Prison (to constrain and prevent

exit)

• Wilds (to contain hidden things)

What is it called? What does it look like?

How loyal to the master is it?

Powers:

What supernatural abilities

does it have?

Weakness: Is this minion especially

vulnerable to anything?

Attacks:

Description, how much

harm (usually 2-4), range, other tags

Armour:

Normally 0- to 1-armour.

Harm capacity:

Normally 5-10

harm to kill it.

Any custom moves for this minion

(e.g. for its powers)?

Custom Moves

• What's the basic concept for the

move?

• When is it triggered?

• What effect does it have?

Name the location.

What is it like? Optionally, draw a

map.

Any custom moves for this location?

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