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You are all MONSTER MAIDS (or butlers) at the

GM: Create an Episode Trailer
service of a human MISTRESS (or Master). Roll or choose on the table below!
Monster + Maid h
Your days are filled with household chores, v TODAY IS... Mistress is a silly and
heartwarming Tabletop RPG
shopping for groceries, attempting to cook 1. Sunny 4. Windy by Emanuele Galletto, based
human-edible meals, inadvertantly display- 2. Raining 5. Cloudy
upon John Harper’s Lasers &
Feelings (onesevendesign.com).
ing monstrous features and powers, getting to
3. Foggy 6. Snowing
know humans, and accidentally teaching kids This game is licensed under

magical diagrams instead of merely helping v AND THE MAIDS ARE... a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

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3. At a shopping district 6. At the mall
Players: Create your Maid! Rolling Dice! gallettoemanuele@gmail.com

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v WHERE...
Choose a Monster Species for your maid: Dragon, Gorgon, When your maid confronts an obstacle and at least one other 1. A monster 4. A student
Fonts:
Bebas
Kraken, Minotaur, Mummy, Slime, Tengu, Wyvern... person at the table thinks their actions are important for the Bocartes Fritos
development of the episode, roll dice. 2. The Mistress 5. A neighbor

2 Choose a Style for your maid’s humanoid form: Cheerful,

Creepy, Elegant, Energetic, Innocent, Lazy, Scary, Sexy...
3 Choose your Number, from 2 to 5. A high number means
you’re better at being a MONSTER (instinct, passion, feroci-
ty, magic, strength and impulsive actions). A low number means
you’re better at being a MAID (kindness, dedication, attention,
calm and controlled actions).
4 Give your maid a suitably mythological Name and a much
less impressive Nickname: Apsû (Appy), Fafnir (Fefe), Levia-
than (Levy), Medusa (Maddy), Pegasus (Peggy)...
You Have: Magical clothes that you can conjure at-will if you
ruin or destroy them; supernatural abilities appropriate to your
species; and a poor understanding of humans.
Player Goal: Get your maid in silly troubles and engage in
heartwarming, slice-of-life anime shenanigans.
Character Goal: Choose one or create your own.
f Get your Mistress (or Master) to fall in love with you.
5 Help your Mistress (or Master) make lots of money.
6 Cook the best meal ever.
7 Teach your Mistress (or Master) the power of magic.
d Help your Mistress (or Master) conquer a kingdom.
l Roll 3d6 if the obstacle is supernatural, or...
3. An NPC Maid 6. A celebrity
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Colonna MT
Cooper Black
v WANTS TO...
l Roll 2d6 if the obstacle is mundane.
l Roll -1d6 if the circumstances are desperate (GM’s choice).
1. Win someone’s heart 4. Become popular
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2. Spy on someone 5. Find a new home Wingdings 3
X If you rely on your MONSTER side (instinct, passion, 3. Make money 6. Perform a ritual
magic, strength), you want to roll under your number.
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If you rely on your MAID side (kindness, dedication,
attention, calm), you want to roll above your number. GM: Facilitate the Game!
As the GM (Game Mistress), your job is to help make scenes run
If none of your dice succeed, things go really badly and
0 the situation gets worse, in a true escalation of bad
smoothly, roleplay the NPCs and narrate the outcome of rolls
(with the exception of a Critical Success or a Doki Doki Time!).
luck, clumsiness and misunderstandings.
The GM describes what went wrong. You are also responsible for determining whether an obstacle is
supernatural or mundane, and whether the circumstances of a
If one of your dice succeeds, you barely manage to do roll are desperate; when you do so, think anime-like (drama and
1 it. The GM inflicts some kind of complication or cost. silliness are more important than verisimilitude).
Don’t plan a plot or force outcomes: simply present the episode
If two of your dice succeed, you achieve your goal!
2 The GM describes how you manage to do so.
trailer, introduce a starting situation, then react to the players’
actions and choices. Ask questions, build on the answers.
If three dice succeed, you get a Critical Success. The
3 GM will tell you what kind of additional benefit you get, Irrevocable Change
and you narrate the outcome of the action!
As the game progresses, a maid’s number might reach 1 or 6.
If you roll exactly your number on one or more dice, l If it reaches 1, the maid loses her monstrous nature and is
ドキドキ タイム!

. Learn as much as you can about the strange humans.
Players: Create the Mistress!
As a group, choose two Virtues for your Mistress (or Master):
Ambitious, Energetic, Kind, Knowledgeable, Reliable, Wealthy.
Then, pick two Problems that affect her daily life: Broke, Clumsy,
Overworked, Pampered, Terrible Love Life, Unmotivated.
you get Doki Doki Time! and overcome the situation in
a way that brings you to reevaluate yourself and grow
closer to being more humanlike or more monstrous.
Increase or decrease your number by 1, then narrate
how you resolve the situation!
You may also use this opportunity to end your maid’s
role through irrevocable change (see right column).
forever transformed into a human.
l If it reaches 6, the maid returns to her purely monstrous form
and forever leaves the world of humans.
Whenever any of these happens, the group must work together
and roleplay a properly heartwarming or heartbreaking scene.
Then, the character becomes an NPC under the GM’s control
and the player creates a new maid.