[OOC] Monster Mash

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Originally Posted by vitruvian

This bit puzzles me... vampires are very human in appearance, wolfmen are human most of the time, the Invisible Man is a human, albeit a crazy invisible one. This would also let out Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.

Right you are. I need to make up some sort of explanation here.

I'm having a wee bit of trouble doing so.

With the movie monsters, they have a defined set of qualities that make them monstrous.

They have special rules that govern their existence. Dracula can do all sorts of vampire stuff, and he has special rules for killing him.

The wolf man can only be killed by silver, and the moon has something to do with his abilities.

Frankenstein's monster... just look at him.

The mummy is a mummy. There's all sorts of magic involved. Or something.

My primary concern here is that each character have a set of tropes available that easily defines them as being monsters. That can either be because of some set of attributes they possess (being a giant fish-man) or because they've entered the collective consciousness as such (the wolf-man).

Maybe I should have given out a list of acceptable 'monsters' to choose from. Or made my criteria something along the lines of 'can reasonably be expected to be seen chilling out at Dracula's castle.' Something like that.

And here I was going to suggest Chick Young or Wilbur Grey types with a lot of Luck and Serendipity...

Sorry. I don't know who those are.