Has anyone ever run a Masks game set during a prior Generation? I’m increasingly in love with the idea.
Has anyone ever run a Masks game set during a prior Generation? I’m increasingly in love with the idea.
Has anyone ever run a Masks game set during a prior Generation? I’m increasingly in love with the idea.
This is a similar question to the one about using Masks in other settings.
As long as you’re looking to use the central themes of the game (discovering your identity, evolving your self-image), using previous generations should work just fine.
The Legacy playbook might suffer in such a game, as it’s the playbook that most relies on an established history of superheroes.
The protege, on the other hand, might benefit, as the “kid sidekick” archetype has been around a long time. In fact, it’s probably the earliest type of teenage super-hero to emerge, preceding the other playbooks by quite some time.
I’m actually planning on running this as a pregen mini arc with some of my current players and maybe a couple others and have it set about thirteen years before my current lot. I think as long as you don’t go too far back it can work, after all, look when the Teen Titans started off and all the different versions of that group.
I could see doing it as a mini-arc, especially if it then rolls into one of the arcs for the later group. I’ve been in games where we’ve done that; the GM had us play heroes during WWII and then merged the plot threads inot our modern campaign.