Author: David Andrews

Been dying to run this, but I have a couple of players who flat out refuse to play human characters.

Been dying to run this, but I have a couple of players who flat out refuse to play human characters.

Been dying to run this, but I have a couple of players who flat out refuse to play human characters. For reasons :rolleyes:

So until now, I’ve been working out how non-human characters would work in UW. Tonight, I had a mini-revelation. A character’s species doesn’t matter. Thinking back on some of the biggest names in Space Opera (Star Trek, Babylon 5), the biological differences between humans and aliens rarely if ever are important to the story. We all know Vulcan’s are stronger than humans. But how often does that come up? Narns can’t be telepaths. But does that need to be mechanised?

What usually comes up is cultural and societal differences. That’s pretty much already handled by the current character creation system. The only thing that it doesn’t handle (possibly) are species that have special abilities like flight, telepathy, or completely alien (or artificial) physiology. But those sort of characters are quite rare. Beyond Human will sort that out.

But for the majority of alien species in space opera, the current character system works fine. Create the character as normal and just call it a Klingon, or a Centauri, or a Wookie, or a Turian. For the most part, it won’t matter.

Won’t work for everyone. And it won’t work for my two players who need to play special snowflakes with kewl powerz. But for most space opera, it works.

How are people handling non-villain threats such as a raging inferno, burning building etc.

How are people handling non-villain threats such as a raging inferno, burning building etc.

How are people handling non-villain threats such as a raging inferno, burning building etc. Situations that are still threats in that they are threatening someone or something and need to be stopped. But are aren’t threats in the villainous sense.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

It was a spur of the moment decision to play. We were supposed to be playing something else but the GM (me as a matter of fact) bailed. I managed to convince one of the group to run Masks so we devote the session instead to character/game creation.

There’s only three people in our group, that’s two players and one GM. The GM pitched a super-school setting, a school set up to keep super-powered kids away from norms “for safety reasons”. So we went with that. It also meant that some of the playbooks weren’t exactly suitable. The other player chose to play A Delinquent teleporter with psychic weapons. The cocky son of a “reformed” supervillainess and superhero. I chose to play a Nova who wields Cosmic Power that first manifested during a playground brawl with a bully. Not really played this sort of powerful character before so its a refreshing change.

Influence and Relationships kind of got left to the wayside as there is only two of us in the team.

We didn’t have very long for actual play, and I did kind of put the GM on the spot with this. Instead of thrilling superheroic action, the game started off a little more low key. A run in with a bully on the school bus on the way to the first day of term. A “simple” case of a bully picking on a loner got escalated by the Delinquent into a full blown superpowered brawl with a mutant (who kinda looked like Darth Maul) who could spit electrified bio matter. Hence forth known as Darth Loogie.

We did have some confusion trying to work out which move was best for the action as described but it seemed to flow quite easily.

#MasksRPG #Halcyoncityjailbreak

A character I once played in an old supers game that had mutants being hunted by the government ala Xmen.

A character I once played in an old supers game that had mutants being hunted by the government ala Xmen.

A character I once played in an old supers game that had mutants being hunted by the government ala Xmen.

Figured it’d do for the Halcyon Jail Break challenge

Originally shared by David Andrews

Another young hero, this time “directly engaging a threat” after running afoul of a totalitarian regime.

#masksrpg #halcyonjailbreak

I play a lot of superhero games, and have built up a library of character art for young heroes.

I play a lot of superhero games, and have built up a library of character art for young heroes.

I play a lot of superhero games, and have built up a library of character art for young heroes.

Originally shared by David Andrews

Here’s a Young Hero “unleashing his powers”. Specifically a young gadgeteer testing out his latest invention, a hover board. Looks like it’s not going too well. Probably should have worn a helmet.

#masksrpg #halcyonjailbreak

Pretty cool webcomic. Very Monster of The Week. The two main character’s are definitely a Chosen and a Spooky.

Pretty cool webcomic. Very Monster of The Week. The two main character’s are definitely a Chosen and a Spooky.

Pretty cool webcomic. Very Monster of The Week. The two main character’s are definitely a Chosen and a Spooky.

http://www.demonhunterkain.com/comic/dhk-prelude-cover-page/