Here, There, Be Monsters!

No matter what they tell you, there’s still weirdness and wonder everywhere. You just have to know where to look. At the edges and cracks of ‘normal’ life we exist, we persist, and we resist: the monsters, the magicians, the anomalies, the freaks, and the outcasts. We gather in the shadows, trying our best to live our lives in a world that, when it doesn’t exactly fear or hate us, doesn't even believe in our existence.

Alas, there are people out there who can’t stand this. They work from behind the scenes to protect ‘normality’ at all costs. This means getting rid of us, by any means necessary. They are often successful, but not as much as they’d like. Even so, they are resourceful, and they’re good at what they do.

There are also those who would use and abuse us for their own purposes, be it profit, knowledge or power (which, one could argue, are the same thing in the end). These are even more dangerous when they manage to get what they want.

But we’re still here. We’re not going anywhere. And we fight back.

here, there, be monsters! is a rules-lite response to monster-hunting media from the monsters' point of view. It's both a love letter and a middle finger to stuff like Hellboy (and the BPRD), the SCP Foundation, the Men in Black, the World of Darkness games and the Urban Fantasy genre in general. It is an explicitly queer, antifascist and anti-capitalist game about the monstrous and the weird, in any flavor you want, not as something to be feared, but to be cherished and protected.

Play as a diverse crew of monstrous, anomalous or just generally odd beings, fighting against those who would use, abuse or even annihilate you. Create and populate your own supernatural underworld, abnormal gang and extra-dimensional haven. Hunt monster hunters! Punch nazi occultists! Eat the rich! Protect each other! Fight back! Here, there, be monsters!