Monster Heroes: An In-Depth Look

 

Hi everyone! I just released three new games, or rather one game and two supplements for it. They’re called Monster Heroes, Cozy Monster Heroes, and Monster Heroes City Life.

 

In Monster Heroes, you play as a heroic monster fighting against the villainous humans. It’s a skill-based system. There is no leveling up. Instead, you use XP that you collect from defeating enemies and completing quests to purchase skills that upgrade and enhance your character. You can choose from six monstrous ancestries: The Witch, The Cyclops, The Demon, The Alien, The Vampire, and The Banshee. Each ancestry comes with their own weapon that they use.

 

The magic system uses MP, or Magic Points, kind of like in a video game rpg. You start out using a d4 for magic, but there is a skill that you can purchase with your XP to make your magic stronger.

 

There is of course dungeon delving and overworld exploration. This game uses a hex map, with the city of Monstropolis at the center of it. But you generate your own hex map, so yours would look totally different than mine.

 

There’s a simple Alchemy system where you collect ingredients and turn them into potions. You can forage for ingredients or find them when you kill monsters.

Best of all, it’s FREE on itchio!

Let’s talk about the supplements.

Cozy Monster Heroes is the first supplement. It features six new ancestries: The Orc, The Goblin, The Zombie, The Skeleton, The Harpy, and The Robot. Each new ancestry comes with their own kind of weapon.

It also features 8 new skills for you to spend XP on.

The goal of Cozy Monster Heroes is to make the game cozy, like a farming video game. It’s heavily inspired by Stardew Valley. You can spend your days in Cozy Town farming, fishing, hunting, or taking care of livestock. It adds a Stamina system so you can’t do everything you want in a single day. You must be a little strategic about it.

There are also holidays and a simple relationship system.

You can build your own house on your plot of land room by room. Each room gives you a benefit.

It’s really a lot of fun if you like cozy stuff.

It’s only $2 on itchio.

Let’s talk about the last supplement.

Monster Heroes City Life is a little bit cozy and little bit tactical. It includes the Stamina system from the last supplement for exploring the city, but also includes things like skirmishes on the hex map, mass combat battles that can be up to 40 vs 40 characters.

First, the cozy: You can run a business in City Life! It teaches you how to hire employees and train them to sell the treasures you receive from adventuring. You could sell them for up to quadruple the original selling price! You can also explore the city, and there’s 20 city events you could possibly run into.

Next, you could compete in a gladiator match. That’s not really cozy, but it’s a lot of fun doing one on one battles and seeing what opponents you can generate.

You could explore the sewers of Monstropolis and defeat the Rat King for a whopping 3 XP! It’s a challenging battle.

You could run into invading human soldiers on the hex map. This initiates a skirmish. Skirmishes are where you and the enemy use up to four units of soldiers (a unit is 10 soldiers) in a battle against each other. The rules are kind of complicated, at least compared to the rules I make normally, so you’ll just have to purchase the supplement if you want to know how mass combat works in my game.

It's only $2 on itchio.

I had so much fun creating this game and its supplements. It, like all my projects, is a work of passion. I really enjoy monsters, and I wanted to make them a little more cozy and accessible to Players. I wanted a reversal where humans are the villains and monsters are the good guys.

I hope you enjoy it!