Monster of the Week Hardcover Edition – The Ultimate Action-Horror RPG

Most people don’t believe in monsters—but you know the truth. They’re real, and it’s your mission to stop them. The hardcover edition of Monster of the Week takes the acclaimed roleplaying game and brings it to life with new content, expanded rules, and everything you need to run thrilling monster-hunting adventures.

What Is Monster of the Week?

Monster of the Week is a standalone action-horror roleplaying game (RPG) designed for 3–5 players. Inspired by cult classics and modern supernatural dramas, it puts you in the role of a hunter tracking down terrifying creatures:

• Battle high school horrors in the style of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

• Travel the highways and back roads like the Winchester brothers in Supernatural.

• Lead government investigations into strange phenomena, just like Mulder and Scully from The X-Files.

Whether you’re chasing Bigfoot, capturing a chupacabra, or exorcising a demon, the rules give you everything you need to tell your own weekly monster story.

What’s Inside the Hardcover Edition

This deluxe edition provides all the tools to create hunters, mysteries, and terrifying foes. Inside, you’ll find:

• Hunter creation rules to bring your characters to life, with 14 ready-to-play archetypes such as the Snoop, the Spooktacular, the Monstrous, and the Divine.

• A complete, standalone RPG system powered by the easy-to-use Powered by the Apocalypse engine.

• Eight essential moves that cover everything from investigating mysteries to battling supernatural threats.

• Tools for creating mysteries plus two ready-to-play mysteries to jump right into the action.

• A bestiary of example monsters including Balkan vampires, ghouls, and spore trolls.

• Optional rules and variations that let you expand your game with new mystery types, alternate weird abilities, and flexible mechanics to fit your story.

What’s New in the Hardcover Edition?

The hardcover edition includes 24 pages of additional material taken from The Tome of Mysteries supplement, plus new features:

• Alternative Weird Basic Moves – expand your hunters’ abilities in unique ways.

• Phenomenon-type mysteries – add new twists to your campaigns with strange, unexplained events.

• A more flexible “Investigate a Mystery” move – giving players deeper narrative control.

• Special Luck moves for all playbooks—ensuring every character type has unique and powerful options.

• Two new playbooks – The Snoop and The Spooktacular, previously only available as online exclusives, are now included in print.

Why Choose Monster of the Week?

If you love action, horror, and fast-paced storytelling, this game is for you. With simple mechanics, creative freedom, and inspiration drawn from iconic monster-hunting shows, Monster of the Week makes it easy for both new and experienced players to dive right in.

Grab your spellbook. Sharpen that stake. The monster is waiting—and it’s going down.

344 black and white pages of awesome await the players
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