I feel like I or someone else has made this observation before, but what the heck. I just finished watching Son of the Batman this morning, and I was thinking about how the collective Robins embody a range of Masks Archetypes (disregarding powers). In my mind, it goes Dick Grayson – Protege, Jason Todd – Delinquent, Tim Drake – Legacy, Stephanie Brown – Beacon, Damian Wayne – Bull.
I feel like I or someone else has made this observation before, but what the heck.
I feel like I or someone else has made this observation before, but what the heck.
It’s one of the things I find interesting about the game.
A number of the characters in the shows can embody or be portrayed using different archetypes based on what part of their personality you want to focus on.
For example, Superboy in Young Justice can work as a Bull as well as an Outsider, an Innocent (if I understand the definition correctly) or even Transformed, depending on how you want to play him.
It’s a great observation. I’m in a game right now that is a take off of Marvel’s Dr Strange… Before we decided on that, the GM pitched us a game in which we were all speedsters doing speedster stuff. I think one of the hurdles for the players was trying to envision all of the playbooks as a speedster character. But your observation shows just how it could work based on character and attitude rather than powers.
Troy Ray, in fact, that’s what I’ve come to understand about Masks. You don’t choose the archetypes by what powers you want to use; you choose based on what story you want to create about them.
For example, my character in the current Masks campaign I’m in could be played using the Bull, The Delinquent or the Reformed, yet I went with the first because a big aspect of the character for me is her search for friendship, a family she can be a part of.