He’s an alien from a planet of shapeshifting beings who fly to the earth to become a superhero, because in her planet it is only one more, and in the EARTH IS SO EASY CATCH THE HIGHLIGHT.
Is an alien who pretends to be human, and fake the origins and extend of her powers. And… Youtuber.
Is there a Masks playbook template someone could point me to?
I’m making some stripped down (but still with decisions to be made) playbooks based on the original X-Men for a con in a couple of weeks and that would save me a lot of time if there are some hanging about.
I made a love letter for our Legacy (he’s a son of Hephaestus and he’s dating Elsa Bloodstone, of Marvel fame).
I made a love letter for our Legacy (he’s a son of Hephaestus and he’s dating Elsa Bloodstone, of Marvel fame).
What do you think?
When you first decided to join Elsa Bloodstone on one of her monster hunting jaunts, it seemed like a really fun idea. You, her, some monstrous occult weirdness. What could go wrong?
As it turned out, quite a bit: Tell us something about the horrific person, entity, cult, etc you ran afoul of and why it was more difficult to deal with than anticipated. Then roll +Freak. On a miss, take a powerful blow, and none of the below apply. On a hit, you and Elsa both make it back relatively unharmed On a 7-9 pick 2; On a 10+ pick 3
– Your relationship with Elsa is strengthened by the experience
– You learned her little brother Cullen’s dark secret (detail it for us)
– You manage to bring Cullen back too
– Whatever it was you battled won’t easily be able to find you should it venture to the daylight realms.
There are 36 adventure seeds inspired by superhero related media (some readers may spot some direct references) all available for your use. I hope you enjoy!
My second homebrew playbook, the Regressed. This playbook represents a teenage superhero who used to be an adult, but was somehow de-agified back into a youthful body and mind. Now, stuck as a kid with all of their adult responsibilities looming on one side, and the respect and stability that comes with it, and the fear, insecurity, freedom, and comfort of childhood on the other, they must come to terms with their own feelings regarding themselves, their past, the future, who they could be, and how their first go-around of life turned out.
Mechanically, the Regressed is not pulled toward any one Label. None of their moves involve rolling a particular Label, substituting one Label for another, or shifting a specific Label up or down. But they do have several ways to quickly shift their Labels around to explore themselves and become new things from session to session. Their Extra, Caught In Between, pulls them between sharp outbursts of either radical reinvention or authority and competence.
As with the Host, I do have some ongoing Masks games, and would like to eventually use this for actual play! So any critique or suggestions on how to improve are welcome. (The art for the Regressed isn’t done yet, so please excuse the blank space on page 1.)
A few months ago, I wrote a custom playbook for Masks – the Host – and posted it on reddit.
A few months ago, I wrote a custom playbook for Masks – the Host – and posted it on reddit. They sent me here, and my join request finally went through! I was hoping to get some feedback, since one of the players in one of my current Masks games has entertained the notion of switching to it with one of his future advances.
That same player did the art for the Host, though, at the time, we were still in the middle of his character’s arc of growth and changing playbooks wasn’t really on the table yet.
Has anyone else thought of using the game Superfight as an interchangeable deck of villainy?
Has anyone else thought of using the game Superfight as an interchangeable deck of villainy? I haven’t actually started our campaign, yet, but I’ve started gathering a small collection of villains for use in our first couple sessions. Superfight is an Cards Against Humanity-type game, only instead of filling in the blank with the funniest answer, players have to defeat supervillains with the best custom hero. Below is an example of a villain I made after gathering mostly-random cards from the Superfight decks. Feel free to use her (that is, if you haven’t already done a T-Rex, which it feels like a lot of people like to use haha). I do have a couple more examples if anyone’s interested.
Resurrector
Modern Generation
To make humanity go extinct.
A staunch environmentalist, “The Resurrector” gave up her legal name, spent all her savings on resurrecting a T-Rex, a Greater White Shark, and a Woolly Mammoth, and now unleashes them on humanity, aiming to kill all the humans so nature can return to its “healthier, more normal” course. Wanting to participate in humanity’s destruction without being human herself, The Resurrector uploaded her mind into a set of three helmets, each of which controls an animal. The helmets can be finicky and mentally disorienting, though, so she takes turns focusing on controlling the actions of one animal and amplifying her voice through that one helmet at a time. The animals, when not under her direct control, are easily distracted, and charge at anything that taunts them. The shark has water tanks for its gills and two nimble robotic arm/legs.
Moves:
-Frighten and endanger innocents with the mindless rage of a hungry beast
-Coordinate a surprise attack by using one animal as a loud distraction
-Send the woolly mammoth on an unrelenting rampage through the streets
-Use the T-Rex’s jaws to send large and important things flying
-Show surprising and dangerous agility as the robotic shark
An artistic rendering of our team’s latest adventure:
An artistic rendering of our team’s latest adventure:
Halfpenny (the Protégé) socking Comediennemy, Panic (the Delinquent) creating illusions of Halcyon City supers, and Sonia (the Bull) throwing Torque (the Outsider) like a javelin.
NB: This all takes place on the severed hand of a giant metal space god named Ultimatus, a leftover from one of Captain Invincible’s victories. The hand’s resting place is called Titanfall Meadow, and humans have turned it into a concert venue: musicians perform on the upward-facing palm of Ultimatus’s hand.
