Ok, I’ve played several sessions of Masks and have fallen in love with the system and have even started looking at Monsterhearts and Urban Shadows, so I’ve got a few interesting questions:
What Label would you use to replace the Hot stat to use Turn Someone On?
I ask because i would like to add a few of the Moves from both Monsterhearts and Urban Shadows to our moves list.
So, I wouldn’t really advise just transplanting moves wholesale without carefully modifying them. PbtA moves are written very specifically to model the genres of the games in which they reside; so, basically the results from Monsterhearts moves are built to encourage messy, broken, trainwreck relationships because that’s what you get in teenage monster lit. If you want those kinds of things in Masks, that’s great! But Masks is inherently not that genre, so just keep that in mind.
That said, sounds like a fun thought experiment. You need to ask yourself what “turning someone on” looks like in teenage hero fiction, and base it on that label. This matters because it will inherently shift how your version of superhero relationships play out. If you base it on Savior, you’re saying that the hero who rescues the damsel gets the boy — implying a connection between ‘doing whats right’ and ‘getting smooched’ (possibly a gross connection, depending on how you view the action movie trope of “i saved you, now you love me”). If you base it on Mundane, you’re implying that the mantle of heroics is inherently contradictory with being attractive and romancing someone. Danger would suggest everybody loves a bad boy, and so on.
Excellently Said Alfred Rudzki.
So, I think the best question to ask is “which existing Masks move covers the fiction that this MH/US move represents?”. So “Gazing into the Abyss” is the same thing as “Unleashing your powers (to extend your senses)”, Shutting someone down is the same as spending your influence over someone to give them a condition, etc.
In that sense, I think “Turn Someone On” is just a specialized use of “Provoke”.
So, would it be safe to say that the move can use whatever stat is in play? The fiction informing the mechanic? Or perhaps each player should choose what their ‘weakness’ is? (Bad boys, father figures, etc.) Interested in the thought processes for hashing something like this out.
Alan is right. Just use Provoke. “What do you want them to do?” “KISS ME I WANT THEM TO KISS ME” (roll, roll, roll)
LOL, that sounds more like a dare than a seduction. But then, these are teens. 🙂
Well, you’re talking to the GM, you’re not talking to the character.
[Opens mouth. Shuts mouth.] Yeah, we’ll leave that unsaid. 😀
It sure sounds like a Provoke to me.
so what I’ll do is use Provoke Someone in that manner…
Infinite Girl is trying to get Kid Terror to open up to her and see if he is interested in her by using her super sexy costume to do just that.
roll + Superior to “turn him on.” On a 10 up, they take Influence on them. On a 7-9, they choose one: give themselves to you, promise something they think you want, give you Influence over them.
I think its very doable.
Well, it’s not “give themselves to you”, it’s “do what you want”. Just turning someone on isn’t really solid enough in an action game like Masks. It’s more “I try to get him to ask me out, and turn him on to do it”. Then Kid Terror can do what she wants as one of the options: ask her out.
ah, I get it. Well we’re (as a group) looking for more of the drama and role-playing versus the constant fighting a villain.
Yeah, by “action” I don’t mean fighting. I mean outward action, versus the internal shifts of Monsterhearts.