Emotionally volatile monsters play DnD in the 80s.
Saturday afternoons in January AEDT
Monsterhearts 2 is a PbtA game about the messy emotional lives of teenage monsters. This series is set in the suburbs of 1987, where your Principal has decided (inexplicably?) on a convenient way to deal with Springwood High’s troublemakers: forcing them to join the school’s DnD club, and making the bad-boy jocks, stoners and mean girls hang out with the nerds. As they roll the dice they’ll discover unexpected depths of similarity and difference, and begin to learn each other’s most dangerous secrets. But the worst fears of the 80s are also true: DnD really is an occult conspiracy, and it’s pushing the characters towards real magic and murder.
I emphasise that this is not an 80s DnD simulator, and no actual rules knowledge (of Monsterhearts 2 or Red Box DnD) is required or expected. Some familiarity with DnD tropes and/or 80s teen movie tropes is probably useful, but not essential.
The game will follow the Gauntlet Community Code of Conduct and use safety tools including lines and veils, the X Card, and the open door policy.
Sessions will be three hours on StreamYard, with breaks on the hour. Attendance at all sessions is encouraged but not required. I’ll be recording only if all players consent.
Session one: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MNFonuPvv4NPlddmptB
Session two: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MNFpEmG_M81IY8tIC4A
Session three: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MNFp_rdWpTdqexbDfBX
Session four: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MNFpojaiYVmtrXRD4KF