About to start a new campaign of MH and I’m considering playing the Hidden. Has anyone tried out this skin yet? It seems like it could be amazing, but could also fall flat.
About to start a new campaign of MH and I’m considering playing the Hidden.
About to start a new campaign of MH and I’m considering playing the Hidden.
I was thinking that too, Keith. It’s so clever, and I bet there are amazing things you can do with it, but it might mean being left out of some things, having a lot of little solo scenes, or jury-rigging the Hidden in somehow. It would be awesome for playing a star blogger, a young celebrity, a master hacker, or something like that. I guess the Hidden would also need to be pretty close with some folks. It would certainly be interesting to try out.
Have you seen Only Lovers Left Alive, btw? It’s so good, and the main guy is something of a Hidden (although also a Vampire). He has these weird little ways of living quietly despite being an uber-talented musician, including relying on this one dude who is sort of his eyes and hands in the world, bringing him specialty things and news of his fans. But there were a few people who got to see him, which kept him more relatable.
It makes me think that the Hidden might work best if there are a few named people who get to see them in person (parents, sibling, the person who brings them stuff, a life-long friend – that kind of thing).
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I love the idea of The Hidden. No idea how it’ll go but I’m really interested to hear how it goes.
Adam Goldberg I believe the Hidden was released alongside the Second Skins and so not publicly available.
Oh, that skin? Every time I’ve seen it played been awful.
It takes all the bits of the ghost (being unnoticed) and doubles it, while removing the other half (blaming others/not being able to get over things).
Being a teen monster means vulnerability, so skins that remove it (the Giant hiding its heart, the Proxy being able to hurt people without them ever knowing, The Hidden being 100% Frodo Baggins Invisible) are unferal. I’d even say they break the social contract: you’re saying to other players, ‘neh neh, I can hurt you and you can’t do shit.’
Adam Goldberg that’s something I wondered about. Looks like the only way to harm the hidden is through exigencies. How did those work in play?
Badly. It’s like trying to hurt someone on a sick day.
There are only so many times you can throw flour in the air or set up bells in your locker or something before the game becomes slapstick.
I haven’t seen it in action, but when I read it over I got a very similar feeling to Adam Goldberg – It’s like the Ghost, but more about ‘superpowers’ and nothing to really build the communal story.