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So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

So I played my first session of Masks tonight.

It was a spur of the moment decision to play. We were supposed to be playing something else but the GM (me as a matter of fact) bailed. I managed to convince one of the group to run Masks so we devote the session instead to character/game creation.

There’s only three people in our group, that’s two players and one GM. The GM pitched a super-school setting, a school set up to keep super-powered kids away from norms “for safety reasons”. So we went with that. It also meant that some of the playbooks weren’t exactly suitable. The other player chose to play A Delinquent teleporter with psychic weapons. The cocky son of a “reformed” supervillainess and superhero. I chose to play a Nova who wields Cosmic Power that first manifested during a playground brawl with a bully. Not really played this sort of powerful character before so its a refreshing change.

Influence and Relationships kind of got left to the wayside as there is only two of us in the team.

We didn’t have very long for actual play, and I did kind of put the GM on the spot with this. Instead of thrilling superheroic action, the game started off a little more low key. A run in with a bully on the school bus on the way to the first day of term. A “simple” case of a bully picking on a loner got escalated by the Delinquent into a full blown superpowered brawl with a mutant (who kinda looked like Darth Maul) who could spit electrified bio matter. Hence forth known as Darth Loogie.

We did have some confusion trying to work out which move was best for the action as described but it seemed to flow quite easily.

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We played Masks as part of William Coffing​’s birthday celebrations – and since we were already making masks (and I had some comic onomatopoeia decorations), we posed for some selfies. A young hero fan photobombs an epic battle! A hero is chagrined to be caught in public for a photo. The Ewok is ready for his close up. And another hero deigns to let his human companion share the same place in the space-time continuum.

Tagging in the other members of Fandible​ as well. Thanks for playing tonight Jesus A Rodriguez​ David Donnelly​ and Daniel Rodriguez​.

Well I managed to get a quick game in last night.

Well I managed to get a quick game in last night.

Well I managed to get a quick game in last night. It was my first time running a PbtA game and everyone’s first game playing one, which wasn’t ideal, but everything went fairly smoothly.

Character creation was fantastic. With about half an hours work we had a team that worked together well. Everyone had strong ideas about who their character was, what they looked like, and how they felt about each other. We even ended up with an awkward love triangle, which was just perfect.

Following the first session advice, I dropped them into a bank heist. ‘Murder’ (Our Outsider, a shapeshifting crow) was in the process of setting up a bank account when the bank was robbed a pair of villains. Adi, our Nova, gathered power, while the Unicorn, our Bull, beat on one of the villains. He had set up some bombs, but Adi casually hurled them out into the sky, while Murder smashed him into the ground with her powers. 

At which point, the other villain revealed himself by taking hostages. Some back and forth occured, with a few failures complicating things (Poor Murder did not do nearly as well against the second villain) and the Unicorn taking bullets aimed at her teammates and the civilians. Eventually, Adi unleashed her powers and telekinetically grabbed the villains weapons, disarming both him and the situation. 

Situation resolved, the team handed the villains off to the police who were just now arriving, and received fairly reserved thanks from the Police Commisioner, along with a request that in the future they be a bit more careful about escalating the situation – They had, after all, turned a simple robbery into a situation that threatened innocent lives, and the property damage they had caused both within the bank and without could easily match the amount being stolen. Adi and Murder listened and felt contrite – They would be careful to escalate situations less, and try to act more appropriately (-Danger, +Mundane), while the Unicorn felt herself grow more confident in her actions – She’d stopped a robbery damnit, and she wouldn’t be made to feel bad for it. The bad guys were in jail, and it happened because she jumped straight into the situation (Police Commisioner lost influence).

Overall, I loved it. Everything was easy. The group aren’t too experienced, but everything gelled perfectly. The Influence system did really well (although I could have been implementing it more thoroughly throughout the session) and there were a few things I definitely didn’t give enough focus to, but overall, I’m happy.

And for a very short session, we managed to achieve a fair amount. Considering that includes character gen, it’s nothing short of amazing.

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