Monsters and Other Childish Things

This is a fascinating game of playing school-kids paired with horrifying but mostly obedient monster companions. I played it years ago in a short campaign. The game was set in rural upstate New York, in a town with a high school of around 400 kids, one rainy spring. The players and their characters were:

• Ben played sophomore Lucy Awai (age 15, from Hawaii), with her monster Aumakua -- a size-shifting shark god
• Laura played sophomore Madison Kate Sinclair-Stevenson (age 14, super active), with her monster Yog'So-Soft -- a nightmare teddy bear grown to enormous size
• I played the younger middle-schooler Benny McAlyster (age 12, quick thinker + socially awkward), with his monster Mr. Crocker -- a huge semi-bipedal crocodile from ancient Egypt. Benny had a brother who died in Iraq a year previously.
• Mike played junior Daniel Jackstone (age 17, popular), with his monster Snaketongue -- an impossibly long and mesmerizing serpent.

I have notes on the various parents that we created for them, and other connections. Lucy and Madison both did soccer and karate. Daniel's friend Milo was also in karate, but he lost an eye after he beat Lucy, and Aumakua got mad. Most of the action was in small-scale struggles with their friends and keeping their own monsters under control, but in the background was the idea there might be larger monsters they have to deal with.

The full set of prepared characters I had were:

• Benny McAlyster
• Daniel Jackstone
• Lucy Awai
• Madison Kate Sinclair-Stevenson
• Ralph 'Dog' Jones
• Tommy Mezlowski

Links

• ArcDream's One Roll Monster