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Actual Fucking Monsters
Aren't we all just a little tired of shiny, brooding, humanised monsters who just want to be loved? Not in this game, here you will play Actual Fucking Monsters who do horrible things are hounded and hunted to the ends of the Earth. Yes, it's fun, just a different kind.
106 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2019
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James Desborough
95 books17 followersCo-progenitor of the Munchkin dynasty.
Creative director at Chronicle City.
Writer, games designer and all that jazz.
Creative director at Chronicle City.
Writer, games designer and all that jazz.
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August 11, 2023
Not a great product, and I'm not even talking about how this game was designed to be offensive (I actually love transgressive media. The parts of the game where the players are murdering psychopaths is actually the only thing I found fun in this book and the only reason it didn't get one star).
The art ranges from ok to awful (just look at that cover). The game system is very rules light and yet Desborough explains it poorly. I had to reread several sections to understand what he was trying to convey. Sections of the book are repeated for no good reason or even copied and pasted in different places. The writing in general was just so cringey and self-important. And I get that that's probably part of the joke (trying to convey a similar tone to the emo White Wolf games of yesteryear) but it just fell totally flat with me.
The last bit of the book is Desborough ranting about how he hates censorship and how White Wolf was crappy for putting female pronouns and "LGBT content" in their games (whatever that means. Was he mad because there was a gay character? I certainly don't remember any "Gay Vampire" rulebooks in their game lines. Of course, I'm not obsessed with seeing it everywhere I look like he seems to be). And, yes, those two ideas don't make any sense together ("I hate censorship! How dare you put content I don't like in things!"). Just like he doesn't like politics in the games he reads, I don't want them in the games I read. He should really practice what he preaches.
The art ranges from ok to awful (just look at that cover). The game system is very rules light and yet Desborough explains it poorly. I had to reread several sections to understand what he was trying to convey. Sections of the book are repeated for no good reason or even copied and pasted in different places. The writing in general was just so cringey and self-important. And I get that that's probably part of the joke (trying to convey a similar tone to the emo White Wolf games of yesteryear) but it just fell totally flat with me.
The last bit of the book is Desborough ranting about how he hates censorship and how White Wolf was crappy for putting female pronouns and "LGBT content" in their games (whatever that means. Was he mad because there was a gay character? I certainly don't remember any "Gay Vampire" rulebooks in their game lines. Of course, I'm not obsessed with seeing it everywhere I look like he seems to be). And, yes, those two ideas don't make any sense together ("I hate censorship! How dare you put content I don't like in things!"). Just like he doesn't like politics in the games he reads, I don't want them in the games I read. He should really practice what he preaches.
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