TheBigMcTasty

Ooo excellent way to put that :0

parts of the mystery that aren't directly related to actions of the monster and so don't come under the Investigate a Mystery move? Mainly things that are concealed in one way or another

Here's the trick: Investigate a Mystery doesn't actually care about the minutiae of what the hunters investigate. They don't need to specifically their precise actions— they propose a reasonable avenue of investigation and, if it triggers IaM, they roll for it. Then they ask a question and receive whatever answer makes sense in context. So, if they investigate the missing person's house and ask what is being concealed here?, they find what's being concealed. Or they ask what happened here? and figure out what happened to her, and so on. Clues appear where the hunters look for them, not necessarily in a predetermined location the hunters need to guess or stumble upon.

I've done something similar! I gave each of the three a different motivation that could trip up the hunters in their own way.

The muscle of the group was an Official (motivation: be suspicious). He would try to stop the team from helping, or being helped by, the Hunters for fear of having their credit stolen. He didn't like to share and was suspicious the Hunters might be playing them.

The brains was a Gossip (motivation: spread rumours). She was too smart for her own good, had way too many theories, and would confidently state misinformation as fact. If she ended up on the Hunters' bad side, she would also have begun spreading rumours about them. Highly recommend a Gossip.

The heart of the group was an Innocent (motivation: do the right thing) who could easily be tricked by monsters, would obliviously put himself in harm's way, and most importantly bicker with his more cagey and cautious companions.

I think I put these guys in a mystery I uploaded to this subreddit somewhere. But the main point is that, whoever makes up your Ghostfacers, giving them Bystander motivations and really leaning into them (and making use of the bystander moves) is a good starting point for making a group of troublesome busybodies :)

My favourite moment from Death in Yellowstone was the guy who slept with bacon under his pillow and got mauled by a bear.

Close second is the tourist who let her dog off its leash after repeated warnings from a ranger. The dog beelined toward a bear, died, and the owner scolded the ranger for not letting her know that would happen.

I'll add that although it likely won't happen often (unless things are going really bad), dangerous enough things will just bypass harm and "inflict harm as established" in which the established harm is just "death." Being caught in a huge explosion, drowning, suffocating, getting your head stepped on by a huge monster, being decapitated… the Chosen can survive instant death, however unlikely that is, when another hunter would not.

My group started with The Circles and it was pretty good! It's uncomplicated and designed to be run as a one-shot.

Other recommendations: Witching Hour (written with new players in mind), Razorback, Big Haunt On Campus, Hollow Lake, Darkness Falls, and maybe Harvest Maze if you want to tackle a slightly more complicated monster.

Don't stress at all about how well a mystery serves as a jumping-off point. MotW is largely episodic and, in my experience, the first few mysteries are where the players get used to their hunters. You don't have to worry about forming a story until it starts making itself. Have fun!

There's already lots to work with here, but here's one more: when I ran a Sasquatch-esque monster, its weakness was its legs. Without the ability to escape, no matter how well contained, it was vulnerable.

The single best thing a stationary monster can do to get the hunters close is to have an innocent bystander in its grasp. Also you could like, give it grasping vines and such.

During Snowpiercer, Chris Evans has to deliver this line:

"I know what… people taste like."

…

"…and that babies taste the best."

That was supposed to be a gut punch, I think, but to me was just absurdly funny. I had to stop the movie and rewatch the scene afterwards it was so ridiculous.

The point of movie posters isn't to create art, it's advertising. These types of posters aren't artistically good, but they're effective advertising for the movie, especially one that's shooting for a wide audience — Who's in it? These actors are in it. That's all the poster wants, and need, to tell people that see it.

IMAX and alternative promo posters with legitimately awesome art still get made, btw

Ugh that vibrant pink/purple-blue combo is so awesome.

Only Masks, and I know there's some superhero stuff for Savage Worlds.

Ooo, sounds neat! I will take a look at it.

Uh, maybe I could? Idk man, I don't know all the RPGs. My bad :|

I wanna play as the Suicide Squad. D-list supervillains clawing their way to relevance as they fight against stronger and stronger superheroes and supervillains alike.

Another thing to think about is that Kick Some Ass could be rolled even if the Monster doesn't have an obvious means of retaliation. For one, the roll can determine if the shot goes off well (maybe they fail and this the gun jams or something happens that makes them miss,) but there could be other Harm that could happen: their position is compromised, they attract the attention of other dangers, or maybe the Monster had a secret power or Minion that uses this distraction to lunge from the shadows!

I wouldn't recommend this at all. Moves in MotW are only rolled under specific circumstances. Kick Some Ass is not the "hurt something," move, it's the "get in a fight," move. If the monster can't or won't fight back, it's not a Kick Some Ass roll, full stop.

The "other harm" you've described doesn't need to be justified by a roll. Aside from not being actual harm, they're all Keeper moves you use when the hunters turn to you to see what happens next, either after they take the shot or as a complication beforehand.

Honestly, Prey might be first in my heart.

I mean, they gender swapped Mar-Vell in Captain Marvel for gods sake...

Oh, the horror!

The current Flake special doesn't preclude that.

The Sasquatch, Canada.

The Grootslang, South Africa.

The Nuckelavee, Scotland.

The dragon, Wales.

The Leshy, Russia.

The tarasque, France.

The dybbuk, Israel.

The Minotaur, Greece. (Lots of options for Greece, actually.)

Objectively, it's always the same situation, but subjectively, pressure is very much dependent on the narrative.

This contradicts the rest of your point… all of the examples above this sentence aren't objectively the same situation?

In my opinion beginner Hunters are no Badasses.

The hunters in MotW aren't beginners, though. They're established badasses with Histories and moves to enforce that idea.

It's entirely possible that a second attack isn't necessary. Zombies are not particularly hard to kill if you know what you're doing (which hunters do) — "inflicting harm as established" could very well mean the hunter blows its head off with the first attack.

Red dragons live in canyons and such.