M-Force Playtest Draft v2.32013, Hex GamesIntroductionImagine driving a Jeep at 110 mph across the desert, swerving to avoid toxic spore bombs, leaning out the window to open ire on the !0" tall plant monster with tendrils bigger than #ouare$ Imagine creeping into a dust# mausoleum, wooden sta%e gripped irml# in hand, #our heart racing ever# time #ou see a rat s%itter across the loor$ Imagine standing alongside #our closest riends, brandishing lamethrowers in a last ditch eort to %eep an arm# o giantants rom overrunning the cit#$I #ou"re even remotel# sane, #ou wouldn"t want to do these things in real lie$ &ut the#"re unto imagine$ 'ho doesn"t da#dream, rom time to time, about being the hero in a movie( )on"t #ou wish #ou could ight against the orces o dar%ness, at no ris% to #our person( *hat"s what the +,-orce role,pla#ing game allows #ou to do$What M-Force Is About.ong ago, people created m#ths to explain things the# didn"t understand$ I /than the hunter went out in search o ood and never returned, well, perhaps a monster ate him$ I a ship san%, ma#be it was brought down b# the terrible creatures that lived in the sea$ /ver time people developed more %nowledge about their surroundings and most monsters were revealed as natural phenomena$ 0et even in the present da#, belie in such things still exists$ *here are grain# photographs purporting to be pictures o sea monsters, tales o alien abductions, guideboo%s to haunted houses, and urban legends about monsters that still exist in the wilds$ Is it possible, people as%, that monsters reall# do exist( In our world, the# probabl# don1t,,but in the world o +,-orce, man# o the things that we consider ictional are demonstrabl# real$-rom the +edusa o ancient m#th to the serial %iller in the latest slasher movie, we as humans are ascinated b# the horrible things that lur% in the dar%ness$ 2longside this ictional tradition, though, is the e3uall# proud tradition o the monster hunter$ *he oldest surviving stories we have are about brave warriors who hunted down and %illed the creatures that pre#ed on their villages$ 4ven though we %now the stories to be m#thical, the# resonate with us$ /n some level monsters are metaphors or problems that have alwa#s plagued human%ind, and heroes are s#mbols o courage and hope$ In the 21st centur#, we"re still obsessed with monsters, but rom time to time we orget the monster hunters$5la#ers in this game ta%e the roles o members o +,-orce, 2merica"s premier monster hunting organi6ation$ *he men and women o +,-orce are part o the monster hunting tradition, but the# are also modern da# people with their own 3uir%s, personalities, and problems$ +ost o them have da# 7obs$ -rom time to time the# are called awa# rom ma%ing sandwiches, organi6ing stoc% portolios, cleaning windows, writing novels, selling cranes, driving cabs, or whatever else, to 7oin in the age old war against monsters$ *heir adventurescan be unn#, dramatic, suspenseul, or tragic, but above all else the# should be entertaining to the pla#ers telling the stories$ What Makes M-Force Different? 2t an# given time, there are do6ens o 85Gs about monster hunting on the mar%et, so #ou1re probabl# wondering what ma%es +,-orce dierent rom all the rest$ 'hile there are man# things that ma%e +,-orce uni3ue, there are two immediatel# obvious wa#s that it diers rom most monster hunting 85Gs$ -or one thing, people in the world o +,-orce %now that monsters exist$ *here1s no need or monsters to operate in secrec# or no apparent reason9 no need or monster hunters tohide :the truth; rom innocent b#standers9 and no need to stretch suspension o disbelie to the brea%ing point in order to %eep the :monsters don1t exist; conspirac# going$ *he other big dierence between +,-orce and other 85Gs is the characters$ +ost monster hunters are people, usuall# with special powers, who ight monsters out o a sense o grim obligation$ *he# ight because the#1re m#sticall# chosen, or because the#1re mutant rea%s, orout o a sense o guilt, or because the#1re among the ew people who have made the