Monstrous Detectives - an investigation story game. Three monsters in a private detective agency. One monster is sitting behind a desk, drinking coffee. It's very big with teal fur, three eyes, and small, striped horns. It's wearing a fedora and a trenchcoat over a shirt and tie. Another monster is standing in front of the desk, holding up a sheet of paper with a note saying "Urgent!". It's smaller, with mustard-yellow feathers, a teal beak, and three eyes. It's wearing a dark purple coat with a shawl collar and a purple beret. A third monster is sitting on top of a file cabinet in the background, examining a small piece of paper with a magnifying glass. It's very small, with white fur with purple spots, big striped horns, and a tail that ends in a tuft. It's wearing a teal shirt with a black tie and a mustard-brown pair of pants. Next to it is a flower pot with a withered plant. Behind the group hangs a crooked sign that says Monstrous Detectives. The walls and floor are purple.
Cover of Monstrous Detectives. Three monsters in a private detective agency. One monster is sitting behind a desk, drinking coffee. It's very big with teal fur, three eyes, and small, striped horns. It's wearing a fedora and a trenchcoat over a shirt and tie. An old-fashioned dial-plate telephone sits on the floor in front of the desk. Another monster is standing in front of the desk, holding up a sheet of paper with a note saying "Urgent!". It's smaller, with mustard-yellow feathers, a teal beak, and three eyes. It's wearing a dark purple coat with a shawl collar and a purple beret. A third monster is sitting on top of a file cabinet in the background, examining a small piece of paper with a magnifying glass. It's very small, with white fur with purple spots, big striped horns, and a tail that ends in a tuft. It's wearing a teal shirt with a black tie and a mustard-brown pair of pants. Next to it is a flower pot with a withered plant. Behind the group hangs a crooked sign that says Monstrous Detectives. The walls and floor are purple.
Table of contents from Monstrous Detectives. Below is a skyline of a city at night. The houses are dark teal and have several windows lit in light yellow. Above them, the sky shows a waning crescent moon between a few clouds.
Spread from Monstrous Detectives with the sections "What You Need" and "About the Game." On the left is the monster group from the cover of the game. On the right, several clues are hanging on a line strung up between two nails. We see an envelope, a torn-off ticket, a map with a marked spot, a strip of film, a photo of a bird-like monster with many eyes, and a piece of paper with a heart symbol on it. Between these items hangs a yellow sock with purple toes and heel.
Spread from Monstrous Detectives with the section "Introduction" from the chapter "Set-up." Three monsters are sitting around a round table, playing. One of them is tall and fat, with yellow eyes, an upturned nose, purple skin, and very fluffy dark purple hair. It's wearing a light teal blouse with a black bow at the collar, and a small pillbox hat in the same color with a jaunty yellow feather. It's grinning widely with a lot of teeth, and looking at a playing card in its hand. Another monster is sitting on a round stool on the other side of the table. It's small with teal, spotted skin, big stalk eyes and tentacle limbs. It's wearing a yellow top with rolled-up sleeves and a purple-striped scarf thrown over its shoulder. It has placed one of its tentacles on top of the table and is smiling. The third monster is sitting in a yellow chair to the left of the picture. It has brown fur, brown horns, an snout, and a protruding fang. It's wearing a white shirt under a dark teal vest. Its cloven-hoofed arm is resting on the armchair's arm rest. The table holds a deck of playing cards, two coffee mugs, and a plate with cookies. Next to the table is a cardboard box with a big stack of loose papers on top of it. A flower pot with a withered plant sits on top of it.
Spread from Monstrous Detectives with a random table from the first part of the game. All questions are about the monster team. Below are three team photos with monsters lying across each other. On the left is the furry monster with the fedora from the cover image, sticking out its tongue. On the right, the bird-like monster with the beret from the cover image is looking at the camera. In the middle, the small, one-eyed monster from the cover image and another furry monster with five eyes and rabbit teeth have their arms around each other's shoulders and are smiling at each other.
Spread from Monstrous Detectives with a random table from the second part of the game. All questions are about obstacles during the investigation. Below, a monster shadow is hiding in a corner behind a round trash can with a lid. Next to it are two dented cardboard boxes stacked on top of each other. On the other side is some purple brickwork. Only the monster's wide-open eyes and small, pointy ears are visible.
Back cover of Monstrous Detectives.

Monstrous Detectives

11,95 € – 18,95 € inkl. MwSt.

Monstrous Detectives is an investigation story game about monsters who are running a private detective agency together. Also available in German.

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The Game

You are monsters who are running a private detective agency together. Youʼve already solved many thrilling cases. Can you solve your newest case and help your client?

Monstrous Detectives is an investigation story game in two phases, in which you develop the case, the clues, and the solution over the course of the game by answering randomly drawn questions.

It’s great for both newbies and experienced TTRPG players, and can also be played with kids. No preparation necessary – just start playing!

Monstrous Detectives was written by Carina Büker and illustrated by Daniela Schreiter (Fuchskind) (you can find further credits on this info page).

It’s available in English and in German.

The Rules

Monstrous Detectives is a GM-less story game for 2-6 players and a flexible play time between 2-4 hours (one-shot).

In a brief set-up phase, you’ll read the instructions out loud together and define some of the foundations of your setting. You can choose the tone from the spectrum between Monster Inc. to film noir or Hellboy. You also decide what kinds of monsters you want to play.

After that, you’ll take turns drawing playing cards which are each associated with a question. During the first part of the game, your answers to these questions will develop your monsters, the detective agency, your client, and your new case. During the second part, your investigation takes place, and you’ll try to solve the case.

At the end, you’ll narrate the conclusion of your case and wrap up the game together.

Due to the random selection and order of the questions (you’ll typically use around a quarter of them during a two-hour game) and the huge variety of possible settings, Monstrous Detectives has a strong replayability value.

Monstrous Detectives uses the GM-less Descended from the Queen framework (which you may know from For the Queen or from our previous publications Viva la QueerBar or Against the Monster). It’s great for both newbies and experienced TTRPG players, and can also be played with kids. All you need to play is this zine and a regular deck of playing cards.

The Zine & PDF

Format:

  • 36 pages, A5 format (148 x 210 mm / 5.8 x 8.3 inches)
  • Full-color
  • Zine: Staple-bound, uncoated paper
  • PDF: Screenreader-ready with tags, clickable internal references and external links, and image descriptions

Contents:

  • Complete instructions for play (consent and safety tools included)
  • 8 random tables with 104 questions (52 in each part of the game)
  • Appendix with 4 more random roll tables for inspiration
  • Original artwork on every spread (100% made by humans, like the rest of this game)

Additionally needed:

  • A standard deck of playing cards (52 cards, no jokers, such as a poker deck)

More about the game

Under Downloads, you can find free materials for this game: A template for playingcards.io with a card deck for easy online play.

You can find more information about the game, its team, and external media links on this info page.

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Name des Spiels

Detektei Monster | Monstrous Detectives
Art des Artikels

Grundregelwerk
Systemfamilie

Descended from the Queen
Anzahl Spielende (ohne SL)

2-6
Spielleitung

Ohne Spielleitung / SL-los
Sprache

Englisch
Seitenzahl

36
Format

Heft (Print + PDF), PDF
Hashtag

#MonstrousDetectives

Produktsicherheit

Herstellerinformationen

Plotbunny Games - Andrea Rick
c/o Postflex #9628
Emsdettener Str. 10
48268 Greven
Deutschland
https://plotbunnygames.com/kontakt/

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