Monster of the Week: The Codex of Worlds – New Playbooks, Setting Frameworks

One of our favorite tabletop RPG games (and one of the games that has helped us learn the hobby as newcomers) is Monster of the Week. This lightweight game takes on a serial TV theme where players fight supernatural monsters. Based on the popular Apocalypse World RPG system, this game allows players to create and explore their own action-horror adventures.

Monster of the Week – The Codex of Worlds

Publisher Evil Hat Productions has recently announced the release of Monster of the Week The Codex of Worlds. The game was funded via Kickstarter in under an hour and looks like a nice companion of materials for the popular TTRPG.  Codex of Worlds, by Michael Sands and Marek Golonka, offers new play styles with 15 new “playbooks” and many new settings for your adventures. With over 400 pages of material this tome of adventures is sure to spice up your next monster meetup.

Here’s a breakdown of the material in The Codex of Worlds from Evil Hat:

• Team playbooks that give your hunter team a specific style, assets, team moves, and enemies.
• Setting frameworks that provide a whole different starting point to your game. These range from those that only alter the contemporary setting a little to whole new worlds with totally new monsters and problems.
• New rules to support the new material, which can be applied to any Monster of the Week game if you want to spice things up.

You can preview Monster of the Week The Codex of Worlds in a free PDF that Evil Hat is offering on DriveThruRPG.

About Monster of the Week

Monster of the Week by Michael Sands is an action-horror TTRPG that puts players in the shoes of hunters on a quest defeat supernatural monsters. Based on the popular Apocalypse World RPG system, this game allows players to create and explore their own action-horror adventures. Whether hunting high school beasties a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer or investigating government anomalies like Mulder and Scully, Monster of the Week can emulate any of your favorite weekly serial adventures.

Read more about Monster of the Week in our profile of the game.