So, I had some idle time the other day and was mulling over something I’d like some other thoughts on. How hard do you think it would be to adapt Masks to something more urban fantasy, dealing with the children of gods instead of superheroes? Kind of a Percy Jackson or teenage Scions game. There’d be a shift in tone, I think, but it seems to me that most of the mechanics of young, larger than life teenagers finding themselves in a world of crazy powers would shift over with only a mild repainting. Your Janus is pulled between a mortal life and the world of demigods, instead of masks and civilians. Your Protege has a hands-on parent or mentor spirit. Your Delinquent is the child of a trickster god, perhaps? The standouts as likely to be more difficult would be the Beacon and the Transformed, who would probably need a bit more effort to adapt. Anyway, what do you folks think?
So, I had some idle time the other day and was mulling over something I’d like some other thoughts on.
So, I had some idle time the other day and was mulling over something I’d like some other thoughts on.
So first, the important thing is that all of society needs to be telling you who you are. That makes sense in the Percy Jackson sense, but without public supers you will need to REALLY lean on adult’s snap judgments about your actions. The Legacy needs to feel the weight of thousands of years of prior gods and scions bearing down on them and screaming at them in their ear at all times as to what they are. Just like a superheroic legacy. I think it could work.
And here I thought I was the only one trying to make a PbtA Scion game.
Couldn’t the Beacon be the descendant of a demigod from long ago? For example, the archery hero Ricochet is the great grandson of the great grandson of a son of Apollo.
Or perhaps they are a mortal hero in the literal sense… since gods cannot interfere in the affaires of mortals, they conscript a human being to act on their behalf… this is know as a *hero* in the Greek classics.
The Transformed could be one of those folks cursed by the gods until they atone for their transgression. The minotaur or Kolobos from Clash of the Titans, or the Nemean lion, Arachne, King Lykos, or something like that