So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

It was a spur of the moment decision to play. We were supposed to be playing something else but the GM (me as a matter of fact) bailed. I managed to convince one of the group to run Masks so we devote the session instead to character/game creation.

There’s only three people in our group, that’s two players and one GM. The GM pitched a super-school setting, a school set up to keep super-powered kids away from norms “for safety reasons”. So we went with that. It also meant that some of the playbooks weren’t exactly suitable. The other player chose to play A Delinquent teleporter with psychic weapons. The cocky son of a “reformed” supervillainess and superhero. I chose to play a Nova who wields Cosmic Power that first manifested during a playground brawl with a bully. Not really played this sort of powerful character before so its a refreshing change.

Influence and Relationships kind of got left to the wayside as there is only two of us in the team.

We didn’t have very long for actual play, and I did kind of put the GM on the spot with this. Instead of thrilling superheroic action, the game started off a little more low key. A run in with a bully on the school bus on the way to the first day of term. A “simple” case of a bully picking on a loner got escalated by the Delinquent into a full blown superpowered brawl with a mutant (who kinda looked like Darth Maul) who could spit electrified bio matter. Hence forth known as Darth Loogie.

We did have some confusion trying to work out which move was best for the action as described but it seemed to flow quite easily.

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