JourneyMon Quick Start Guide

Take one more step to crest the rise, and look towards the horizon: out there, in new and fantastical lands, your next big adventure awaits! Though you have set out on this journey with your friends, your closest companion is the monster at your side.

Welcome to the world of JourneyMon!

The full JourneyMon game is coming soon to Kickstarter!

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This free Quick Start Guide introduces the basic rules of the JourneyMon game, and simplified versions of player options to get your game going as soon as you sit down at the table. 

The Quick Start Guide includes:

• The basic JourneyMon rules.
• 4 simplified player character playbooks: the Ace, the Rival, the Researcher and the Caretaker.
• 10 monster powers to bring your battles to life.
• A sample one-shot Episode of JourneyMon for 2-4 players: Mount & Manta. In this Episode, player trainers must discover avert a volcanic disaster at the Mon Loa holiday resort.

At it's heart, JourneyMon is a game of...

Improvised, Episodic, World Building ... With Monsters!

🎭 Improvised: JourneyMon requires no preparation ahead of your game sessions. Instead, you use a set of randomization tools at the start of each session to generate the building blocks of a new story, including its location and a “monster of the week.” You won’t know where you’re going until you sit down at the table! The whole table gets involved with turning the generated prompts into a new part of the world, then populating that region with allies and enemies.

📺 Episodic: Each session of JourneyMon is structured like an episode of a TV show. The story unfolds over a few hours of play, then wraps up tidily at the end. However, the villains might still be working in the background on their grand plans, culminating in an exciting season finale! JourneyMon’s episodic structure is great for one shot games as well as extended campaign play. A “campaign” of JourneyMon played over multiple sessions is called a Journey.

🗺️ World Building: With each Episode of JourneyMon you play, you’ll create and explore new locations, meet new people, fall afoul of new villains, and discover new monsters. You are encouraged to start from scratch, so that each game you’ll collaboratively build up more and more of the world your characters inhabit.

🦎 …With Monsters! Monsters big and small inhabit the world. They are our fast friends and companions on the road ahead… but they can also be wild and dangerous. What’s more, the villains have companions of their own! Monster battles are inevitable on your journey, but the partnership between monster and trainer means you’ll never have to fight alone.

Imogen Gingell is a UK-based space plasma physicist by day, and a best-selling TTRPG game designer by night. Her major design and writing credits include the record-breaking Cosmere RPG by Brotherwise Games, Flee Mortals/Where Evil Lives by MCDM, and Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone and Chronicles of Eberron with Eberron setting creator Keith Baker.

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