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Clearing up a bit of syntactic ambiguity. For the End of Session move, should the first option be parsed as:

1) Explain who made you feel welcome; [give Influence to that character] and [clear a condition or mark potential].

2) Explain who made you feel welcome; [give Influence to that character and clear a condition] or [mark potential].

Or, put plainly: do you always give influence to someone and then pick between clearing a condition and marking potential, or is clearing a condition coupled with giving influence and you can either pick that duo or mark potential instead?

I’ve been reading it the second way, but I suspect I might be wrong.

Is anybody running a one-shot of this over the next couple of weeks?

Is anybody running a one-shot of this over the next couple of weeks? I’m in limbo while my company renegotiates with the local school board.

What playbook best suits this character?

The Animated Woman

Basic backstory is that she was attending a convention and ran across some strange man in an unused room who told her about people with story magic that could bring stories to life in powerful ways either by bringing the characters themselves, affecting the world or else making their own body alter to fit the story told. At the end he asked her which magic she preferred and being a cosplayer she noted the ability to alter herself towards the story. The strange man later turned up murdered and she’s been able to partially shapeshift into something like the characters from her favorite anime and cartoons. Usually this is a character she has a heavy emotional connection too, the first such character was a seductive werewolf villain she finds despicable.

There are some limits, she doesn’t just completely become the character. It’s more like she’s herself seen through a filter of the character. So when she adopts the werewolf’s persona she gets a Scottish accent and becomes something of a lady-killer but stays female and (importantly) not-evil. She does gain some of their gear though, so when she becomes a martial-artist cop character, she acquires a police baton from somewhere as well as getting a bit like a loose cannon.

My initial thought is Bull.

I should have asked about this sooner.

One thing I’ve been struggling with as MC is using Provoke as Persuade. The results don’t entirely fit. Specifically, the 7-9 results always end up feeling like soft fails, instead of soft hits.

In terms of layout, why would anyone ever want any kind of list (powers, conditions, etc.) that isn’t in alphabetical order? I can see having a special playbook power highlighted at the beginning of the list, but the rest: alpha-numeric please!

Also, it would be super helpful if conditions, their penalties and their cures were all in one place together and on the playbooks. Or at the very least all together on the rules summary.

I’m sure your final text will contain detailed examples of how combat and damage work. We’ve gone from “you get a condition every time you get hit” which was a lot, to “you only get a condition if you choose that from the Take a Mighty Blow move” which means very few conditions. That seems better, but examples FTW.

Did I mention we are enjoying the hell out of this game? We are. It’s exactly the super hero drama RPG I was looking for. Thank you for all your hard work bringing it to us.

Hey, I missed the Kickstarter but am really interested in the game.

Hey, I missed the Kickstarter but am really interested in the game. I was hoping to have a look at the beta playbooks to get a better idea of what to expect, but those were apparently backer only. Any chance of a link?

I also cannot find any mention of a PDF-only option for purchasing Masks when it’s released and there’s no PDF-only option on BackerKit. I can only assume that’s going to be an option. So any word on when that will arrive?

A post from two weeks ago mentioned the playbooks being in the final layout phase. No idea what that means in terms of general game release.

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Got to play Masks with Brendan during Indie+ weekend.

Love the V3-and-a-half rules updates; little tweaks here and there that really balance out each playbook. Dunno what else I can say about the tweaks (they’re things like making the Outsider more +Freak/Superior instead of Freak/Superior/Mundane.)

Okay, the general backstory and the system in this is specifically geared toward Fate Core since that’s the…

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Okay, the general backstory and the system in this is specifically geared toward Fate Core since that’s the community that was asking for more information. But I figured I could link it here and get y’all’s thoughts on how to run this mythology in MotW. Will likely cross post to Urban Shadows as well. Maybe Masks and Worlds of Peril. Superhero, Urban Fantasy and Modern Horror have a lot of crossover these days.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2016/03/living-spells.html

Just got charged for my Backerkit and really looking forward to running a game for my group.

Just got charged for my Backerkit and really looking forward to running a game for my group. Are Backerkit backers going to have access to rules before the July estimated delivery or am I just going to spend a while planning out the dastardly villany of the Boomorangutan?

Did we get charged yet for Backer kit?

Just wondering how this works… what if when backer kit closes and the charges are tried and we don’t have the funds on the card then do we have a certain amount of time to try a different card or something or, well, how does this work?

I am only asking because I’m confused and I had planned on, probably a mistake of mine, the charge coming out last month when the Feb 2nd update mentioned that the backer kit was ending at the end of February.