Tag: Seamus Conneely

In the third Issue of High Impact Heroics we see four teenagers going about their daily routine: dealing with strange parental guardians, bucking authority, learning new things, and taking it easy. A day off goes south, however, when old faces return and their most dangerous adversary yet makes his debut. Plague Hack is on the move, and he has his eyes set on our heroes!

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2018/03/24/adventure-log-masks-high-impact-heroics-pt-3/

“The Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power brings forth a dark fantasy world of the players’ creation. What makes it pop for me is not just the violence and the superstition, but the intrigue and mechanics behind it. The game sets character against character with ease but also puts these characters into positions of power over one another, encouraging jockeying and scheming right out of the gate. This Powered by the Apocalypse game turns Apocalypse World into Apocalypse Westeros, where otherworldly threats sit right alongside petty vendettas and power-grabs.”

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2018/02/28/the-sword-the-crown-and-the-unspeakable-power/

The teenage superheroes of Halcyon City return smack dab in the middle of a fight with their supervillain contemporaries! Will they triumph against Convict, the Highway Conjurer, Cybernetic Punch, the Sea Tarantula, and Mr. Eyebeam? Will the Halcyon City MegaMall still be standing at the end? And who is this new addition to the team, wearing a White Coat in the livery of the previously-thought-to-be-nefarious High Impact Biomedical? Find out in the latest issue of Adventure Log: Masks: High Impact Heroics!

After AEGIS arrives to clean up and we find out how the team added a member I talk about a few ways you can add a new character after a game is already in-progress, and how doing so might end up being the best thing to happen to the campaign.

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2018/01/29/adventure-log-masks-high-impact-heroics-pt-2/

A new Adventure Log begins properly as we engage in some High Impact Heroics with Masks: A New Generation from Magpie Games! Our heroes pick a fight with a bee-obsessed mad scientist, run afoul of The Lawman, investigate a (potentially evil?) corporation, have a good time and wind up in superjail, and get more than their share of teenage drama. As we close out this issue I talk about a GM stepping in and breaking the flow of the game to help manage the turmoil of an emotionally-driven game.

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2018/01/19/adventure-log-masks-high-impact-heroics-pt-1/

Keandra Hunt spent a long time working the journalism beat in Halcyon City, eventually rising to Editor-in-Chief of the Halcyon City Herald and its many associated publications. Nobody can stay in this business forever though, tracking down the truth of the City and its many superpowered events. Hunt is finally moving on, but she’s got one last bit of editing to do. She’s leaving behind a portfolio of interviews, articles, reports, and pictures all selected from her time as Editor-in-Chief. Her successor will get it as an inspiration, a challenge, and a warning. We get it as the Halcyon City Herald Collection, the first supplement for Masks: A New Generation!

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/10/27/the-independents-masks-halcyon-city-herald-collection/

Aaron makes an entry into the Adventure Log with an Apocalypse World Tale about a band of miscreants known as Grandfather’s Bastards, doing what they can to preserve The Waystation – when they’re not facing off against one another, that is. Aside from the trouble the wastelanders got up to, Aaron talks about some of the struggles of getting the group to play Apocalypse World in the first place, how they were overcome, and some of the lessons he learned about that system while the rest of us were caught up in the psychic maelstrom.

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/10/11/adventure-log-grandfathers-bastards-an-apocalypse-world-tale/

The Adventure Log begins a new chapter in Halcyon City, home to generations of superheroes who have defended it, with the latest generation of teenagers donning their costumes and deciding who they’re going to be. Played using Masks: A New Generation from Magpie Games the story of High Impact Heroics will follow a certain team of these young heroes as they fight for their place in the City’s history. In this Prologue we learn who they are and how they came together as a team, and then I talk about asking the questions needed to get your players to help build the world, in this game and others!

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/10/06/adventure-log-high-impact-heroics-prologue/

It takes some gumption to make a post-apocalyptic game using Powered by the Apocalypse considering where the system got started. It’ll take more than one lifetime to put a world back together after it’s fallen apart. Legacy: Life Among the Ruins dares to do both. Aaron takes a look at this after-the-end game where the adventures and struggles are passed down through the generations, and comments on what makes the game different, what makes it worth while, and the ongoing Kickstarter for the game’s second edition.

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/08/23/level-one-wonk-legacy-life-among-the-ruins/

Masks: A New Generation is a Tabletop RPG of teenage superheroes trying to find their own way and figure themselves out while everyone around them is out to tell them what to do. Likened to the roleplaying equivalent of Teen Titans, Young Justice, and Young Avengers, Masks was created by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games, and I was fortunate enough to get the chance to talk to Brendan about his creation! Join The Independents as we choose our own Labels, wrestle with Influence, and take on Conditions in the super-powered world of Halcyon City!

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/07/28/the-independents-masks/