In October 2022 we presented the Monster of the Week Quick Deal featuring Monster of the Week, the Apocalypse Engine creature-hunting RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Mostly, when someone finds out monsters are real, that’s just before they die. But some people are mean, smart, crazy, and/or hurt enough that they live. Some of those people go and hunt down more monsters. That’s you – defending your hometown from supernatural adversaries, or hitting the road to find them. Maybe you have magic powers that help out, or your name came up in prophecies thousands of years ago. The one sure thing? You aren’t going back to your old, safe life.
Monster of the Week casts you as one of 12 Hunter character playbooks (Chosen, Crooked, Divine, Expert, Flake, Initiate, Monstrous, Mundane, Professional, Spell-Slinger, Spooky, and Wronged). Hunt high-school beasties a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer, travel the country to bring down unnatural creatures like the Winchester brothers of Supernatural, or head up government investigations like Mulder and Scully. Tackle Bigfoot, collar a chupacabra, and drive away demons. Grab the fireplace poker and open your spell book, because that monster’s going down!
This Monster of the Week Quick Deal gathered the essential rulebooks, new Mysteries, and evil baddies for a price hardly more than a good sharp wooden stake. There were eight titles in our Monstrous Collection (retail value $46) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Monster of the Week Revised core rulebook (previously in our September 2015 Apocalypse Engine Bundle); the Tome of Mysteries rules expansion; four ready-to-play Mysteries (Eaten by the Rich, Frosty Reception, Honey I Shrunk the Hunters, and Running Out of Time; and two Van Helsing’s Creature Codex mini-bestiaries: Vol 1 and Vol 2 – Vampiranomicon.
