A new episode of Misfits is up and available on CharismaToAC!
A new episode of Misfits is up and available on CharismaToAC!
Will there be heroics? Will there be villainy? Will there be teenage? Only one way to find out!
Just had what may have been my greatest session and wanted to write thoughts about that.
Just had what may have been my greatest session and wanted to write thoughts about that. so not a recap but like, what this meant https://twitter.com/ArcboundRavager/status/1013300578213154816
https://twitter.com/ArcboundRavager/status/1013300578213154816
Last night at Masks we had a special guest: My younger sister, an actual teen in our teen superhero RPG!
Last night at Masks we had a special guest: My younger sister, an actual teen in our teen superhero RPG! She played Kid Cyclone, the Legacy, daughter of Professor Hurricane and Lady Hurricane.
Kid Cyclone had a first solo outing as a superhero—cutting a ribbon at the grand aquarium re-opening. The Salvatores had been tasked by her dad with watching out for her. All was fine—until Hurricane family nemesis Rogue Wave appeared, threatening KC’s cousin, Bubble Boy!
Panic (The Delinquent) began putting pieces in motion for a long con on her doppelgänger. Halfpenny (The Protégé) leapt into the fray and bonded with Kid Cyclone. Torque (The Outsider) developed and wielded a new power, turning into fire, so as to fight a Rogue Wave’s backup…
…a horned hunter of the Rime Court! Sonia (The Bull), confronting what the Forge had always meant for her to fight, discovered the iron knuckles built into her arms and embraced being a Soldier of the Forge. (Our first playbook change, from Bull to Soldier.)
Captain Bowmaster (The Beacon) made a choice just as major. After defying and defeating Rogue Wave, who said he didn’t belong in the superhero world, he encountered his mom, Assistant District Attorney Evelyn Loxley—and revealed his secret identity to her!
The team all agreed that Kid Cyclone had upheld her family’s heroic legacy, and her parents agreed! She leveraged their happiness to make a play for a getting a dog. But not just any dog: Thunderbolt, the Lightning Dog!
If a Janus takes energy absorption, would you allow them to blast it back out as well? My kid wants to know.
If a Janus takes energy absorption, would you allow them to blast it back out as well? My kid wants to know.
So, the doomed…
So, the doomed…
“Your doom arrives, confront it and perish.”
It doesn’t say or, it says and. So when the doom arrives the player loses their character for good?
Some art by a friend of a Soldier character I rolled out. Agent Harrier, of AEGIS.
Some art by a friend of a Soldier character I rolled out. Agent Harrier, of AEGIS.
Has anyone played their groups “when the team first came together” as an issue 0 or anything like that?
Has anyone played their groups “when the team first came together” as an issue 0 or anything like that? If so how did that go?
Had my first use of a Moment of Truth in our game today and I felt like it ended up turning the final battle with…
Had my first use of a Moment of Truth in our game today and I felt like it ended up turning the final battle with the first big villain into a bit of an anti-climactic dud. It will have massive consequences because of what was done, but it kind of ended things a little swiftly.
I think I know what went wrong and I was tired so I may have allowed the scene to end prematurely. I’m curious about how others have used or have experienced the use of the moment of truth.
How do you actually treat the moment of truth?
I let the player tell me what he did and didn’t call for any rolls, he just succeeded. His idea was wild and pretty cool, but letting it happen ended the fight almost immediately.
Having been introduced to the goofy brawler “God Hand” recently, I realized that main character Gene plays a lot…
Having been introduced to the goofy brawler “God Hand” recently, I realized that main character Gene plays a lot like the Bull: consummate fighter with a small circle of meaningful relationships.
But this got me thinking… I figured the Bull plays best with a demeanor of either abrasive gruffness or stoic detatchment with most people outside of the Love and Rival. I wonder if the Bull can even function with the goofball action hero persona that characters like RE4 Leon, DMC1 Dante, Gene, and the rest of the early 00s Capcom stable make use of?
Thoughts, anyone?
I ran my second session of a campaign today, the heroes fought three teenaged villains in a supermarket.
I ran my second session of a campaign today, the heroes fought three teenaged villains in a supermarket. After hearing a bit about the villains’ motivations, Sirius the Janus decided to let them go with a warning (without consulting the rest of the team). After a night of comforting, supporting and making bad decisions to clear conditions, Titan the Bull found out that one of the villains, Speed Demon, was his roommate at Halcyon Academy (the boarding school that they all go to). He and Sorceress the Nova revealed to the Speed Demon that they were the heroes he fought earlier, and then Mirror the Protege found out about that and promptly reported him to her mentor and the police. Speed Demon got arrested, and the heroes spent the rest of the session arguing (in character) over whether they did the right thing by reporting him. Sirius and Mirror think they did right, while Titan and Sorceress wanted to help him redeem himself instead of sending him to jail, and De Mise the Delinquent refused to take a side. Oh, and Speed Demon’s two partners, Rockbreaker and Miss Fortune, are also students at Halcyon Academy and are still at large.
(To clarify, Halcyon Academy is just a normal boarding school, not a school for superheroes. Though the players do have some leeway because Mirror’s mentor, Solar Flare, is a teacher there in his secret identity.)
While they were arguing, one of my players turned to me and said “darn it Seb, your game is giving me feelings,” which I think is about the highest praise I’ve ever received as a GM.