Hey – By any chance is there a statted up version of the characters FROM the book and artwork for people to use at Pregens?
Like a completed Sureshot sheet with his relationships with all the other heroes.
I sort of want to try and run the guys from the books and artwork themselves, but I wanted to check here in case someone did a sweet laid out pregen sheet before I created them myself.
EDIT: at DREAMNATION (WHY DIDNT I BLOODY GO) Turns out Our god and saviour BC drafted up a bunch of the heroes and made them public on a dropbox. Grab them when you have a chance! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/36jbhwbhw2e9psr/AAD0lf7kQrdvOBNyrjXLvZQoa?dl=0
I second this request. I want to do some demos at FreeRPG day this summer and having those would make it easier.
Oh, that’s a great idea!
I’m interested in knowing if you’d be willing to make it up as you go. Like, you fill in relationships but no one picks those people to play in your demo. At most you use the art and their name, but I think it would be more conducive to on-the-fly play if the players did the rest. Coming from gaming where players use the material to make a PC from scratch, Masks has everything done except the part that requires players.
This would mean you don’t get to answer several questions tailored to your archetype, that help you define it’s identity. It’s a very fun part of mask.
But you get those questions if you make full characters. These guys are already fleshed out characters.
The idea would be that you have the basic bit done, but leave the two relationship question blank. That way you start the game answering the ‘how you first met question, filling in the relationships, and finally pick your influences.
Or you can just have them filled up with a Relationship with how they feel about ALL the characters, and delete when appropriate.
In this game, Brendan Conway uses pregenned sheets like what you’re wanting. They show up on the screen at 3:40. However, relationships, influence, and backstory aren’t filled in (the players come up with those parts themselves). “When Our Team First Came Together…” is even shortened to “You all fought robo t-rexes”. He also encourages the players to change anything they aren’t happy with, and to define their abilities (for example, Fission’s elemental control ends up being control over the four classic elements, rather than control over the nuclear force)
youtube.com – Big Bad Online – Masks!
Ooh, those sheets are cool. Any chance Magpie Games will make them more widely available?
Absolutely. Go to their website. You can download them all as one 20 page PDF book.