Quick pre-google+ shutdown request for advice.

Quick pre-google+ shutdown request for advice.

Quick pre-google+ shutdown request for advice.

I appear to be running an ongoing open table game of Masks at a local games cafe (offering a one shot at their RPG night has mutated out of control!) So from week to week I might have any combination of new or returning characters and be picking up existing story threads or launching new ones (or both). Has anyone done anything similar?

If so I’m particularly interested in a) any mechanics advice – how you may have handled influence for example from week to week, b) any good ideas for fictionally justifying a rotating cast and c) how did it go – particularly did you manage to get into some heavier emotional teen angst amid ott young adult supers action?

Regarding b) thus far I’ve gone with a soft reboot of reality as the time stream resets – as happens when time displaced harbingers battle time eating super beings – and then the next week most of the team got sucked into a quantum disturbance ending up who knows where. This week the only hero common with the previous two sessions may have set up a new team in the hope of effecting a rescue although as the last thing they said tonight was “are we the baddies?!” who knows.

Has anybody translated the playbooks and basic moves to Spanish?

Has anybody translated the playbooks and basic moves to Spanish?

Has anybody translated the playbooks and basic moves to Spanish?

Not all my players can understand English without delaying the adventure with clarification requests.

Hey everyone, do you have a map of Halcyon City that you use for your games?

Hey everyone, do you have a map of Halcyon City that you use for your games?

Hey everyone, do you have a map of Halcyon City that you use for your games? What kind of key locations do you have set up usually?

Is six players too many for a game?

Is six players too many for a game?

Is six players too many for a game? I’ve led other traditional tabletop RPGs before but this would be my first time leading a PbtA game. I offered to do so for my brother’s family and, to my surprise, everyone wants to play, which means it would be 6 players and I’d hate to exclude anyone

There’s a lot of good content here that it would be a shame to lose.

There’s a lot of good content here that it would be a shame to lose.

There’s a lot of good content here that it would be a shame to lose. Is there a plan to migrate any of it to our new platform? I’d be happy to do some of the lifting if we feel good about it, when we know our destination

Okay, so, let’s talk about my teams.

Okay, so, let’s talk about my teams.

Okay, so, let’s talk about my teams.

Yes, teams, I decided that it would be funnier if there was two young hero teams that could coexist. And it was the greatest idea I’ve ever had. Truly.

My friends are the best mix between the seriousness and the funny ideas, so a Superhero RPG was the best thing I could find.

The first team is called the Tasty Avengers (don’t ask why)

There are four members in this team : The Mask, Allan, Dr. Taste of the Night and Captain Civil Rights

The Mask is a Janus with an incredible agility and superhuman senses. Marshall Alexander Garett was a simple High School Student, a bit of a geek and an unpoplar kid, when he received his powers with some kind of head trauma that unlocked superhuman physical abilities. As he started to use his powers, he decided to use them to become a popular kid, and he did. He joined the football team and started to be quite appreciated.

Allan is a Doomed guy with psychic creation powers. Allan is actually a mystery for the human kind. Some call him an anomaly, others call him heresy. And they’re not totally wrong. Actually, Allan is a creation, more of an error, of the gods, a creature born from the darkness. One God has swore to destroy this heathen: Helios, god of the Sun.

Dr. Taste of the Night is a Nova that controls the gravity. Dr. Taste of the Night is a cosmic being who decided to reincarnate himself in the body of a baby Earthling. And that how he was reborned. On Earth, the little Jean Micheng (yes.) quickly decided to use his power to fight crime in Halcyon City.

And finally, Captain Civil Rights. This transformed was the son of two kebab-makers in his old life. Though, Michel Mortecouille (yes.) wanted to be a biologist. He had an intership in a biology lab as a janitor, and the scientist wanted to test on him some kind of microscopic fungus that increased the muscles strength. After they put the fungus on him, they told him that he should not be exposed closely to sources of light. Unfortunately for him, he went to a protest against the government shortly after that and the police sent flash grenades in the crowd that he received just in front of him. After the flash occured, he was transformed in some kind of wood creature, and the yellow jacket he was wearing for the protest had fused with his skin.

So that’s it for the Tasty Avengers, neither of us are good with drawing so I don’t have any images to show haha. If I see people are kinda interested I can talk about the other team and detail the scenario

Hello everyone.

Hello everyone.

Hello everyone. I recently posted the summary of the previous Masks campaign that I ran (which was also the first time I GM’d a Masks game). And I’m currently planning for another campaign, this time utilizing the Spiderweb playset from Masks: Unbound.

I have seen only one Actual Play of Masks (on Youtube) that used the Spiderweb playset (couldn’t find any podcasts of it) so I’m kind of going in blind. And I’d really like some help.

As listed in Unbound, a Neighbourhood has 1 of 5 Virtues:

Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Renewal, Solidarity

and 1 of 5 Vices:

Anger, Apathy, Greed, Jealousy, Laziness

Unbound gives examples of Solidarity and Apathy but not the rest. In the Actual Play I saw, they also used those specific 2, leaving me at a loss of examples for the other 8.

So, if anyone can give me some examples of the other Virtues and Vices, I’d be very grateful and have a good basis to go on portraying them in my upcoming campaign.

Thank you in advance.

I love this podcast about Powered by the Apocalypse games.

I love this podcast about Powered by the Apocalypse games.

I love this podcast about Powered by the Apocalypse games. Their latest episode is a new feature where they pair a game and a movie, discussing how to read the movie as if it’s a session of the game and how to play a game inspired by the movie.

The first pairing? Masks and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse!

https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/movie-night-spider-man-and-masks

https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/movie-night-spider-man-and-masks