Heart of the Emperor
A downloadable game
Heart of the Emperor is a hack of Monsterhearts 2 centered in Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series. Rather than playing a cohort of teenagers who are secretly monsters, you may be playing a soldier of the Cohort, a teenager, or openly be a monster—perhaps even all three!
This free 56 page PDF includes eight Skins, one for each House (the First House is played by the MC), as well as additional and substitute rules to make the mechanics more suitable for those living under the dominion of John Gaius.
Playing this hack does require a copy of the main Monsterhearts 2 book, as it contains the majority of the relevant rules and guidance for running sessions. You can download the Reference Sheet from Buried Without Ceremony here.
This is a free hack and makes no claim to either The Locked Tomb series or the design of Monsterhearts 2.
FAQ
- [X] is overpowered!
Probably. I designed this more for fun and flavor than anything else.
- Why are all your page numbers on the right side?
Because I realized after a 6 hour fugue of formatting that I had done half the pages backwards and didn't want to fix it all by hand. Sorry.
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Oh my goodness. Someone pointed this out to me and I am in awe. This so perfectly captures the feeling of The Locked Tomb series and merges it with the greatest Othered RPG of all time.
Thank you so much for releasing this. I am now very tempted to try to find a group of Monsterhearts player who also love Muir (the Venn diagram has to have a ton of overlap, right?) and spin out tales of being driven, damaged youths seeking Lyctorhood.