Monster Manual

Playbook moves

Investigate a Mystery

Investigation always raises interesting questions. One of the most challenging failure conditions to handle, possibly. What happens when Investigate fails?

Using Magic

Use Magic can do intentionally open-ended things. Each table has to define magic's limits for itself. By default, magic lasts about 30 min and has no dangerous side effects, including not drawing attention (unless, perhaps, there's a glitch...).

  • Inflict harm (1-harm ignore-armour magic obvious).
  • Enchant a weapon. It gets +1 harm and +magic.
  • Do one thing that is beyond human limitations.
  • Bar a place or portal to a specific person or a type of creature.
  • Trap a specific person, minion, or monster.
  • Banish a spirit or curse from the person, object, or place it inhabits.
  • Summon a monster into the world.
  • Communicate with something that you do not share a language with.
  • Observe another place or time.
  • Heal 1-harm from an injury, or cure a disease, or neutralize a poison
  • The effect is weakened.
  • The effect is of short duration.
  • You take 1-harm ignore-armour magic.
  • The magic draws immediate, unwelcome attention.
  • It has a problematic side effect.
  • Weird materials
  • 10 seconds to a minute to cast.
  • Chanting or gestures.
  • Arcane symbols.
  • One or two helpers needed.
  • Reference to a tome of magic.

    • Keeper notes:

    Extra requirements should depend on the size of the spell.

    Read a Bad Situation

    When entering a dangerous area, scoping out a lair, or corroborating the hairs standing up on the back of their neck, Read a Bad Situation helps hunters gather meaningful observations so they can act.

    Act Under Pressure

    Is Act the catch-all move? It sure is useful.

    Kick Some Ass

    If harm is likely to be exchanged. If it's high-stakes or an attack from afar, it might just be Act Under Pressure.

    When in Doubt

    If hunters want to do something not directly laid out in the moves, it's probably going to fall into one of these two catch-alls: