Bloodmuse: Murderhobo Modern Art (Absurdist Fantasy TTRPG)
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Twisted Art
Venture into the world of Murderhobo Modern Art with Bloodmuse ! Take on the role of semi-retired adventurers that use monster and beast cadaver materials to create gruesome avant-garde art. Balance your art and adventures with a web of social obligations and managing your domain¸ a neglected but large neighborhood in a major city.
Dive deep into indie film style noir surrealism or take it to heights of silliness and absurdity! Explore what it means to be an epic hero¸ both the traumatic burdens and transforming into something more than mortal. Be ridiculous with grusesomely comedic art installations. Experiment and explore the possibilities of high-level shennanigans.
Bloodmuse includes: Simple 3d6 Motif-based system with deep results. Oracle for low prep¸ GM-less¸ and solo play. Intuitive action type based traits. Simple open-ended art form and guild system. Unique Trauma approach to stress and injury with permanent Knots. Call upon heroic Inspiration and develop epic Evolutions. Social web of titles¸ favors¸ debts¸ Reputation¸ and Infamy. Domain trait system for tracking the troupe's land grant. Fast and intuitive NPC templating system¸ creating guidelines for NPC behavior and scaling NPCs directly in relation to player character scale. Robust play advice and guidance. Example city outline. Numerous example NPCs: 9 city councilors¸ 11 city residents¸ 19 monsters¸ and 7 epic monsters. Pre-generated characters: 5 companions¸ 8 player characters. Quick reference summarizing the main rules. Supports a broad spectrum of dark and surreal interpretations¸ from art house existentialism to over the top absurdity.
This is a "backer" style edition. All future PDF updates included in purchase.
Runs on Motif ¸ using the Motif Framework. Be sure to check out our Gold best-selling flagship title¸ the Motif Story Engine¸ GM-less and solo toolkit ("GM-ulator") for the Motif Game Framework
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