Does anyone run Masks in seasons with a soft restart between them?

Does anyone run Masks in seasons with a soft restart between them?

Does anyone run Masks in seasons with a soft restart between them? We are about to do so in our group and it would be interesting to hear what people have done along the lines of the questions and back story that you generate before the first session.

What about character changes and advancement? We are kind of tempted to allow players to remake their PCs using whatever playbook they want, but wonder if that be better with free advancements.

3 thoughts on “Does anyone run Masks in seasons with a soft restart between them?”

  1. That’s a great question. I ran 4 of a scheduled 5 sessions of MASKS –and then we just failed to be able to get together to finish. It’s a somewhat large group and I wanted everybody to be there for the big finale. But now I’m thinking I should just continue the game with a break in the fiction as well, picking up after some time. But I’m not sure exactly how to do it.

    I was thinking of saying that the comic had some scheduling issues, and now it’s back with a new creative team.

  2. We played an Arc, then start a new season. We advanced by several months, jumping past the Transformed’s soul-searching travel to a secret robot kingdom in the Himalayas.

    I started things off by poking at how things were left last season: two of the PCs had an awkward kiss that one didn’t like, one PC is living with a supervillain now to hide from the cops, one PC is dreading a prophecy of their heel turn and is withdrawing from their mentor, one PC is now seen as the next big “Up and Comer”.

    Asking stuff like “so, you probably changed schools since you’re running from the cops, yeah? You cut back on supering?”

    “So, you’ve been avoiding your mentor right? Been teaming up with anybody else?”

    “So, you’re super famous now. Y’all, how annoying is it that she’s famous and you’re all just some jackasses?”

    “So, they left the country without saying anything to you. How does that make you feel, after what happened last season?”

    “So, you didn’t find what you needed in the Himalayas at all, and you’re back. Why did you come back?”

    And I just put pressure on all those dangling threads, gnawed at them, yanked on them until the players gave me what their characters were feeling. Then, I took those unresolved feelings and I set about complicating them further: you’ve been hiding out because of the cops? Cool, hey, PC-with-Bad-attitude, do you think she still counts as a team member? Hey, so everyone is hanging out… and let’s just throw a bunch of reporters at the popular hero asking why her teammates suck. Let’s make all the villain-to-be’s new friends more accepting and cooler than everyone else and see what happens.

    And that’s what I do. Old threads, find new angles to inquire about, hit them with loaded questions, and then apply pressure to leverage those Qs into a new charges situation that changes things for the team.

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