Actual Fucking Monsters (PRINT)

YOU ARE NOT MISUNDERSTOOD

You are not a beautiful immortal cursed to wander through eternity.

You are not secretly protecting humanity from worse things.

You are not searching for redemption, true love or an artfully lit opportunity to remove your shirt.

You are an Actual Fucking Monster.

Actual Fucking Monsters is a complete contemporary horror roleplaying game in which the players take the roles of genuinely monstrous creatures: predators, killers and unnatural things that humanity is entirely justified in hunting down and destroying.

Create your own unique horror from a broad range of monstrous origins, abilities, appetites and weaknesses. You might be a flesh-eating predator, an escaped experiment, an ancient supernatural evil, a mutant, a parasite, a psychic abomination or something for which sensible people have not yet invented a name.

Then unleash it upon the modern world.

Every atrocity has consequences. Witnesses talk. Footage spreads. Victims have families. Local police become armed response units; armed response units become federal agencies; federal agencies give way to professional Hunters, secret organisations and heavily equipped fanatics who know exactly what you are.

The question is not whether they will find you.

The question is how much damage you can do before they arrive.

Inside you’ll find:

• Complete rules for creating your own unique Monster.

• Monstrous Natures, origins, disguises, Skills, Powers and weaknesses.

• Rules for hunger and Satiation, forcing Monsters to feed in accordance with their unnatural appetites.

• A flexible dice system using traits rated from d4 to d12.

• Fast, vicious combat designed for claws, firearms, dismemberment and catastrophic bodily harm.

• Rules for exposure, pursuit and the mounting consequences of your actions.

• Human victims, mundane opposition, supernatural threats and dedicated Monster Hunters.

• Advice for creating bleak, transgressive horror campaigns.

• Tools for Games Masters to make the world react intelligently—and violently—to what the Monsters do.

• A setting in which nothing is clean, nobody is innocent and every story ends badly.

Actual Fucking Monsters draws inspiration from films such as Nightbreed, Near Dark and the great mass of grimy, practical-effects horror produced during the 1980s and its modern revivals.

This is horror stripped of romantic excuses.

Your character is not a metaphor for adolescence, forbidden desire or the loneliness of immortality. They are the thing outside the window. The reason people lock their doors. The shape caught briefly on corrupted CCTV footage before six people disappear.

Play hard. Push your luck. Feed your appetites. Leave corpses, traumatised survivors and increasingly well-armed enemies in your wake.

There is no cure.

There is no redemption.

There is no final battle in which you save the world and prove that you were human all along.

You live fast, carve a bloody swathe through civilisation and eventually die screaming beneath floodlights while somebody empties a magazine into your rapidly disintegrating body.

That is not failure.

That is the game.

PRINT EDITION

• Complete standalone horror roleplaying game

• 106 pages

• A5 paperback: 148 × 210 mm

• Black-and-white interior

• Perfect-bound

• Written by James “Grim” Desborough

CONTENT WARNING

This is an extreme adult horror game about deliberately evil and predatory player characters. It contains violence, cruelty, cannibalism, exploitation, body horror and characters who commit appalling acts without the usual romantic excuses.

Establish everyone’s limits before play. The objective is to create enjoyable fictional horror, not to make the real people around the table miserable.

You wanted to play the monster.

Now stop whining and be one.