Category: Masks: A New Generation RPG: Discussion

I’m a recent convert to Masks, from previously mostly playing mutants and masterminds for my superhero roleplaying…

I’m a recent convert to Masks, from previously mostly playing mutants and masterminds for my superhero roleplaying…

I’m a recent convert to Masks, from previously mostly playing mutants and masterminds for my superhero roleplaying needs. I had some questions about how more experienced Masks GMs handle aspects of the game.

First of all, how do you usually go about keeping the older, more powerful heroes from taking over and solving the PC’s problems for them? In Teen Titans, for instance, the young heroes were given their own city to protect, but the setting being Halcyon city doesn’t really seem to allow for that.

An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

An early morning musing that I thought to share to hear folks’ thoughts about it.

I’m currently enjoying a superhero webcomic where the protagonist, a martial artist heroine whose secret ID is a wife and mother, has discovered that her teenage daughter, who doesn’t know of her double life and idolizes her alter ego, is dressing up and emulating the heroine and vying to become her sidekick.

Now, the webcomic is written from the mother’s perspective, more or less, but it struck me whether the concept for the teen would-be hero would work as a Legacy character.

What if the previous holder of the legacy doesn’t really want you to follow in their footsteps? Do the playbook Moves still work? Would another playbook fit the concept better?

This is what my brain does to me when I wake up. 🙂

I want to get a second opinion on a character power set.

I want to get a second opinion on a character power set.

I want to get a second opinion on a character power set. They want to do something “green lantern like” as a Janus mask. The suggested powers are nowhere close to to that.

I’m Letting them take “Illusions” and “Telekinesis” to simulate the power.

so my question is there any reason NOT to just use the power sets as suggestions? has anyone had problems letting a character go “off book” like that?

I’ve started a running gag in my masks game called OPN channel. for Oddly Personalised News.

I’ve started a running gag in my masks game called OPN channel. for Oddly Personalised News.

I’ve started a running gag in my masks game called OPN channel. for Oddly Personalised News.

I’m using it to “hang a lampshade” on the fact that in every movie, comic and TV show the main character Just happens to be watching TV JUST when something important to them or the story is being talked about or shown.

Too silly? or just silly enough?

Out of curiosity…

Out of curiosity…

Out of curiosity…

The people I play masks with split into 2 camps.

Camp 1: Masks is a perfect rpg and can not be improved in any way.

Camp 2: Masks is a frame work for an rpg and needs lots of house rules and tweaks to be really playable.

So which camp do you all fall into? Or are you in some forbidden third camp?

That awkward moment when you realize that despite what their playbooks might be called, everyone else is actually…

That awkward moment when you realize that despite what their playbooks might be called, everyone else is actually…

That awkward moment when you realize that despite what their playbooks might be called, everyone else is actually playing the Delinquent.

When The Nova’s roll is 10+ on Take A Powerful Blow and chose “You lose control of yourself or your powers in a…

When The Nova’s roll is 10+ on Take A Powerful Blow and chose “You lose control of yourself or your powers in a…

When The Nova’s roll is 10+ on Take A Powerful Blow and chose “You lose control of yourself or your powers in a terrible way” and a teammate rushes in to Comfort/Support them and rolls high :’)

(I have no idea what playbook would suit Beastboy? A mix of Beacon and Delinquent?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSfrI8EKeOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSfrI8EKeOE

Thinking about handing out, some adult heroes for a scene or two. Has anyone done this? How would you do it?

Thinking about handing out, some adult heroes for a scene or two. Has anyone done this? How would you do it?

Thinking about handing out, some adult heroes for a scene or two. Has anyone done this? How would you do it?

In a situation where Character A has Influence over Character B and then gets more Influence, can Player B choose to…

In a situation where Character A has Influence over Character B and then gets more Influence, can Player B choose to…

In a situation where Character A has Influence over Character B and then gets more Influence, can Player B choose to Reject Player A’s Influence in that moment?

If so, does Player A end up with no Influence over Player B?

Thanks!

C