Read the Planarch Codex last night. It’s probably old news to everyone but me, but Jonathan Walton deserves serious congratulations for it. Every one of those tiny pages is a blasting cap for the imagination.
The first idea I derived from it: treat the home Steading as a Monsterhearts homeroom and populate it in the first session.
“Why does the guy in this house keep to himself?”
“Why did this shop burn down recently?”
“What’s he building in there?”
An extra +1 for the Tom Waits reference.
Well son, when a man and a twisting shadow vortex from the nether world love each other very much. The man calls a moon priestess… And after a long and painful blood ritual he puts his…. (The codex was a sweet read)
“Why is the love in this house forbidden?”
What the HELL is he building in there?