How to 'Level Up' in Monster of the Week

Oops remember that one time I recorded and uploaded a whole video confusing the terms 'advancement' and 'improvement'?
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[@RollWithMePod]

Yep I definitely got the words “advancement” and “improvement” mixed up, but I promise I kinda know what I’m talking about…

[@kahrrr]

MAN I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU BACK

[@RollWithMePod]

SO HAPPY TO BE BACK (I figured if you were yelling I should yell too)

[@mildlypepper]

Ey welcome back! Your content helped me overcome a lot of anxiety about being a game master and helped me bring this game to my friendgroup after we all got burned out on dnd 5e. So happy to see regular videos are coming back!

[@RollWithMePod]

I’m so glad to hear it! Love knowing people are still playing this game!

[@enaidiZ]

Glad to see you back. I just got into MotW, binged all your vids to help myself get ready. I'm the keeper for the group, going to have our second session in a few weeks

[@RollWithMePod]

Oooooh so exciting! Have so much fun!

[@OssSalis]

I’ve been marathoning your videos for the past few days preparing for my MOTW campaign, I can’t tell you how glad I am to see you posting and doing well!

[@s.r.s.362]

Great to see you back and doing well! Your content has been enormously helpful for running and understanding MOTW.

[@RollWithMePod]

I’m so glad to hear it! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@MarioGMan25]

Eyyyyyyyy! You're back! Glad you're doing better!

[@RollWithMePod]

Thank youuu 🙏🏼

[@rtfmtech]

It's cool to see you back around, I like your advice and point of view

[@GreenSamurai2]

I'm glad to see that you're doing good. I always liked your videos.

[@RogueDuckie]

So glad you are back man. The way you explain concepts in MOTW is so unique and easy to follow. Missed your content

[@RollWithMePod]

Oooh I’m so glad to hear that! 🙏🏼

[@Skulanus]

Great to see you back! Man, getting two improvements for every character in a single session is WILD. My first thought was that there must have been other factors at work. Like, if this was an ongoing campaign, people probably started the session with some experience marked already. And then there’s move-based experience. Maybe there was a Mundane with Always the Victim, and a couple people protected them? Or people asked the Expert for advice? But even then, for EVERYONE to get 6 experience, minimum (and very likely more), the dice must have been hitting the table like mad. Leftover D&D instincts, probably; it happens in just about every narrative game. Every time I hear a GM for 7th Sea 2nd edition call for a “Wits plus Notice check”, I cry a little on the inside.

[@RollWithMePod]

So. Many. Rolls. 😳

[@crawlshark9685]

This made my day! Happy to see you back and making great content. Btw my MotW group does fail rolls that often but hey it makes for a great story 😅

[@RollWithMePod]

Failure is great for storytelling, but boy howdy do I wish for better rolls at your table 🙏🏼

[@bloodmooncomics2249]

In the game my teens played as younger teens in the 90s. I took grid paper and drew roads. Each player rolled a dice, even pile one, odd pile two. Pile one was locations like school, library, store, etc. Pile 2 was rumors, famous thing (like a statue), etc. The teens loved it and it made the little town totally seem like their little town. Each episode they tried to save a classmate or help someone. I set it in the 90s so none of them had cellphones and also in the 90s running around down at the age of 12-13 no one cared. The kids had fun and each episode things slowly build up. In the end they went to hell to save the town from the curse and ended up killing the king and placing the tiny imp librarian as the king. They had so much fun.

[@RollWithMePod]

Oooh I love this! I’m also huge fan of the 90s setting and I use that trick as often as I can.

[@jensen9507]

Glad your back! Your videos helped me feel a lot more confident about trying to learn the game!

[@EJRuiz614]

Thanks for posting these! I'm about to be the keeper for my first play through of MoTW and your videos have been a big help!

[@RollWithMePod]

Best of luck!!!

[@kalandryel]

I can't say How much happy I was when I see The notification off your Channel. Welcome back, you literally save my group off friends with MoTW. We're soooo tired off D&D... You look great soo❤ better than Mercer and sexyer haha

[@RollWithMePod]

Oh no don’t tell Matt Mercer! He’ll send a lich after me…

[@kalandryel]

@@RollWithMePod by The time he'll roll for iniciative, you'll already kicked some ass haha

[@RollWithMePod]

@@kalandryelthis is, of course, because Monster of the Week is not D&D

[@Michael.Regina]

Good to see you back! Great points in this video.

[@JohnDesmarais]

Glad to see you back producing content here. You’re one of the few people putting out worthwhile stuff for MotW, and your voice has been missed.

[@RollWithMePod]

I’m doing my very bestest!

[@AndrewConner-m7b]

YAY a new post! Glad to see you posting again. I've been running MotW for about a year now. Your videos have been golden as there isn't much MotW content for a novice. Many thanks and i hope to see more in the months to come. I do have a Luck related question; do you ever create ways for players to recover used luck aside from a luck reset for each game?

[@RollWithMePod]

Lots of questions about Luck recently! I’m gonna have to do a deep dive. Short answer, no, I’m a big fan of the “sh*t out of luck” mechanic of MotW. Some playbooks have unique ways to recover luck, so in most cases I’d rule that restoring luck slots in other narrative ways would cheapen those playbooks and lessen the intended impact of luck in general.

[@AndrewConner-m7b]

@@RollWithMePod Thank you!

[@jensonhuey9509]

LET'S GOOOOOOO!!! Glad to see you're back. You were very much missed!

[@RollWithMePod]

So glad to be back!

[@B4ckup]

Glad to see you are doing well and posting great videos again. Just got into MOTW this year after many years with other PBtA games. Can you talk about doing First Aid? It's something I'm having trouble wrapping my head around.

[@RollWithMePod]

Great ask! It’s in my notes 👌🏼

[@Skanah_]

Welcome back! I discovered your videos recently and wondered if id ever see a new release from you. Glad to see you

[@bigbadwolf5033]

YOU'RE BACK! WE MISSED YOU!

[@RollWithMePod]

And I missed you all!

[@IceColdEmber]

Been a while, glad you are well. Love this game and just started running a season of it with some friends. Can't wait for whatever comes next. Ty for the wisdoms

[@Jeromy1986]

I think you're the only person properly tackling this game!

[@RollWithMePod]

I don’t know about properly, but I’m trying 😂

[@TheMightyHammer]

Yooo he’s back!! Good to see you again

[@Thrythlind]

I tend to lean on higher number of rolls than average. But also, I'm in line with one roll to one thing. Like for investigate, if two people have very different things they are investigating that's two different rolls: ie: The Spooky is using The Sight to investigate weird supernatural presences vs the Expert doing a forensic analysis vs the Mundane interviewing someone... three different Investigate rolls with different sorts of info possible.

[@RollWithMePod]

I can totally jive with that. I leaned into a reserved take on rolls for this video mostly to get people thinking more intentionally about the use of them. The number will vary from session to session and all ideas from the hunters should be pursued, but I think it’s also important to remember that each roll is an opportunity for a big shift in the plot, and spreading them out a little more will not just save us from a lot of paperwork, but also help to make each roll feel more important.

[@Jeromy1986]

Oh shit! You're back! I just made reference to Monster Of The Week on a random short a moment ago!

[@MarioGMan25]

I look forward to future videos talking about stuff like Team Playbooks and the Codex of Worlds. I'm in a game jam at the moment and I'm using the Codex a LOT since I'm writing stuff by The Gothic Century.

[@davidplank7108]

My timing is great - just found all your videos when prepping for my upcoming campaign, just in time to see your glorious return that I was totally unaware of! Seriously, please keep doing what youre doing - your content is done if the best out there. Did you ever get round to covering every. single. playbook yet…? 😊

[@RollWithMePod]

I think I’m still missing a couple… we’ll get through it all eventually

[@xmosstarx]

Welcome back! Matt doesn't have your eyes

[@RollWithMePod]

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[@eddybrock7818]

he lives.....HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVES! I missed you so much bro!

[@RollWithMePod]

I missed being here! It feels good to be home.

[@cybermerlyn2]

Great video, huge fan of MotW. I have been working on an adaptation (not changing the rules, just playbook tweaks etc.) to run Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Jujutsu Keisen style games (borrowing ideas from AVATAR, Friendship Effort Victory and Codex of Worlds). MotW story structure feels like a better fit than some other games.

[@RollWithMePod]

Very cool!

[@Wraithing]

Great to see you back!

[@MarioGMan25]

See I allow multiple Investigations, but I require they have to list off the "avenue of Investigation", regarding methods and locations within the crime scene. It allows for further building of said crime scene and very specific answers.

[@RollWithMePod]

I’m all for that. We can absolutely expand upon rolls, but even then it should be super hard for the whole party to take improvements twice in a session. Even with a 50/50 fail rate, that would be a marathon game of MotW.

[@MarioGMan25]

@RollWithMePod a rough math estimate of my games is everyone usually only has 3 XP by the end of it + 1 or 2 of the end of session XP. Plus with the Team Playbook, now there's more places to put XP instead of just your own Playbook.

[@RollWithMePod]

@@MarioGMan25 this is good pacing. I endorse this methodology 👾

[@rylyshane]

Glad you're back!

[@Bodyhammer99999]

Miss you a d tour videos ❤

[@markalex6937]

HE LIVES

[@arthurvelwest5481]

Commenting mostly for engagement, but I would run interviewing a witness as an investigate a mystery roll as well, if the intention is to find out more information about the monster and what happened here.

[@RollWithMePod]

Totally! MotW is nothing if not situational.

[@jacobe180]

Best of luck!

[@LordM46]

Welcome back, good vid. By the way, I'm a little curious about another topic. As for the Big Bads and their possible Lieutenants/Monsters. In Monster of the week, I'm wondering if you have any good suggestions for some possible Big Bads or do you have any from your RPG career that stuck in your mind or worked very well?

[@RollWithMePod]

Oh boy do I! For materials, I highly recommend Van Helsing’s Creature Codex volumes 1&2 for some rad ideas. I actually had a hand in designing a couple of entries in volume 2. Also, this is a great idea for a video.

[@LordM46]

@@RollWithMePod Sounds good.

[@artificieraustin4855]

Heck yeah, new vid!

[@corn-cob-gaming]

I instaclicked when I saw you posted the video! I want to ask you how you do the tome of mysteries luck moves? I really want to use them but some of them seem to not really fit into certain situations at the time. Otherwise keep up the great work and remind everyone Monster of The Week is not D&D

[@RollWithMePod]

Ooooh what a great idea for a video! I’d love to get into it!

[@john272389]

WE ARE SO BACK

[@alabasternights9998]

He's back? wonder for how long?

[@RollWithMePod]

I'm shooting for bi-weekly episodes from here on out!

[@samjohnson7360]

It might be controversial but I think Matt Mercer looks like YOU

[@RollWithMePod]

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[@carlm7375]

Barbie Matt Mercer is not real! Barbie Matt Mercer can not hurt me……..watches latest video……!!!!!!!!! Found you a few days ago and you drop a video today after 11 months! It was meant to be!

[@RollWithMePod]

Your chances of being dropped into an eldritch nightmare scenario by Barbie Matt Mercer are low, but never zero...

[@ChonkyToad]

Do you have any tips for GMimg your first game? Will mostly be players that haven’t played MOE before. Would appreciate your help!

[@RollWithMePod]

Oh boy do I! Top 5 first-timer reminders let’s goooo: 1. Use the Keeper Moves 2. Follow the Keeper Agenda 3. Don’t worry if things go off the rails 4. Don’t take yourself too seriously 5. Have FUN