Here’s the format for the general race descriptions from the Monster Commute RPG:
Haunt
The Haunts are semi-corporal creatures caught somewhere between the last world, Monstru, and the next. Most were created in the cataclysmic and unnatural explosion of the Pathos Bomb, during the Mighty War (1200 odd years ago).
They appear as large, billowly creatures, with large gaping mouths, and sad eyes. They can have hands when they need to, which can also become dangerous claws. Most are white, though some very old ones are grey. They tend to glow slightly.
The great majority of Haunts are insane and fairly satisfied pestering Monsterkin, or floating inside of clouds. Most are able to effect the physical world through effort, not unlike how normal folk lift, carry, or break things.
Most Haunts:
- Are little interested in the workings of the current world
- Hate steampunk technology
- Think that Monstru was better a long time ago
- Don’t understand the Authority, or know what it is
- Have old fashioned belief systems
- Speak an ancient dialect of the Barondook language
- Used to be manlings
- Hate the Automats; they remind them of war machines
- Are lonely
Some Haunts:
- Get along with the living
- Are still quite sane
- Remember much of the old world
- Are made to be slaves in Skytrooper’s dirigibles
- Wish that they’d fully die
- Are still able to make friends
- Have something left to prove
Will Haunts be a playable race?
Having a ghastly rube would be strange. Do they have any other ‘ghost like’ abilities such a possession? I guess they don’t need a seat, since they can just float in the back and live in the vacuum cleaner.
“I don’t want that Haunt to be the wheel, we’ll have to roll a d6 every time he drives to see if he successfully interacted with the steering wheel, and lets not even talk about the breaks…”
I’m sorry that I wasn’t clearer. Yes, Haunts are a playable race. (This is my racial writeup template.)
Possession is likely a gift; it’s a special ability that all haunts do not have.
You said “General Race Descriptions” so I thought you might just be describing any race that one might come across while role playing in monstru and what to expect from them.
BTW Chad with blue tank is the least menacing he has ever looked. Can’t wait to see the whole team back together again, it’s been a long time
Oh sure.
Most of the races in Monstru are playable races. The most common ones are playable, at least.
Yeah, he looks more dead than ever, huh?
Im so pumped to go to your booth and webcomic acadamy. The pheonix comiccon will be epic.
Awesome!!!
The PHXCC really IS going to be something epic this year. I can just feel it. (Plus the crew has been working on it for the last 16 months or something.)
nice. I have had a webcomic idea for a while i just dont know how to do it