Apologies, I’m not super phone savvy so I might not have done this correctly. Maybe copy-pasting would have been better.
Anyway, I asked this elsewhere, and while I have gotten some sympathy and the good suggestion to ask before assuming, I thought perhaps people here have already done this/have ideas/can point me in the right direction.
https://plus.google.com/107400676581570953820/posts/7JywG94GBHP
There was a thread a few weeks ago talking about doing Masks as adults. Might have some good pointers there. But I get what you’re up against. Many of my group hate RPing romance, so no one is really willing to dive into the Bull (and when I played one, no one really was excited to be the Love, even though I made them! haha!). But it can still be a blast even with some elements missing.
I liked your idea of using the Necessary Evil setting, with everyone pressuring each other to be something they’re not sure about. I think it could work. But my strongest leaning, like some others that commented on your original post, is just ask them to give it a shot. Dare them not to have fun!
I have toyed with the idea of replacing the labels with passions — anger, fear, desire and disgust — that impact your powers similarly to labels and are evoked by others
John Rieping Oh, that’s a great idea! It’s been a while so I’d need to read Masks, but I think the only real challenge would be picking labels that map well to the uses of the originals without the casual language connotations overlaying too much. Don’t want to have arguments about why you can’t attack out of disgust instead of anger/fear etc. I’ll post again soon after I brainstorm.
“Don’t want to have arguments about why you can’t attack out of disgust instead of anger/fear etc.”
That part is actually easy. You define the terms using real life psychology (game-ified into simple mechanics).
Anger and Fear only apply to situations involving clear and present danger.
Desire and disgust only apply to situations of unclear or absent danger.
Anger and desire involve becoming closer to their focus in some way.
Fear and disgust involve moving away from their focus in some way.