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Post by ericfromnj on Dec 13, 2017 18:03:52 GMT -8
As my gaming group closes a chapter to our L5R game, we have decided to give Masks a try.
While Hyve popped my player cherry in PbtA some time ago, this will be the first time I GM PbtA, because with Masks I really think I found the PbtA game I could truly grasp what it was all about.
January 4th is session 0 for our once a month game. Wish me luck.
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Post by HyveMynd on Dec 13, 2017 18:48:15 GMT -8
While Hyve popped my player cherry in PbtA some time ago... I hope I made the experience special for you, ericfromnj. Also, that's awesome! Good luck!
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Post by vyrrk on Dec 14, 2017 12:59:17 GMT -8
Rock on man! Its such a fun system that gives way to some awesome moments! You will have so much fun! Interesting... HyveMynd popped my PbtA cherry too! I think that means he's a whore. (In a good way)
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Post by HyveMynd on Dec 14, 2017 17:30:13 GMT -8
Interesting... HyveMynd popped my PbtA cherry too! I think that means he's a whore. (In a good way) Aww yeah, baby. You know I'm irresistible. I leave a trail of broken hearts and dropped PbtA panties everywhere I go. Keep us informed about what happens in your game ericfromnj. Are you going to prepare a "first issue" villain for the team to face off against? Or are you just going to improvise based on what the players come up with during character creation?
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Post by ericfromnj on Dec 14, 2017 18:27:50 GMT -8
I can improvise like a lunatic so I plan to go with what they give me in session zero and run with it. Then I will prepare a few arcs to run based on some of the information they give me. the nice things about playing once a month is I can prep after getting to know their characters a little bit. Plus I have been running supers games since the 80's (Ah, Mayfair DC and FASERIP Marvel, my old friends), so describing things like a comic won't be a problem. Just have to get used to Labels and the such. So far on the facebook page for my group I put things about the different ages of heroes, stuff about Halcyon City (which really reminds me of Astro City - awesome comic book BTW), and the ground rules (you are not killers, you want to be part of the team, etc.) I am the only one with the book but the players now know where to get playbooks and moves from the magpie games site. The only thing that worries me is that whenever I am posting enything I keep reciting it to myself in the voice of the Tick...
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Post by HyveMynd on Dec 14, 2017 18:34:10 GMT -8
The only thing that worries me is that whenever I am posting enything I keep reciting it to myself in the voice of the Tick... Honestly? That sounds fucking awesome. SPOON!
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Post by ericfromnj on Dec 14, 2017 18:42:15 GMT -8
SPOON! indeed!
Well one of the players asked if there were any coffee shops and I immediately went into a thing about the Coffee Commando and his arch nemeses the Barista Banditos...all in a Tick voice in my head.
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Post by ericfromnj on Dec 31, 2017 14:31:41 GMT -8
Ok so far I have the following
Casey is the Bull. Cast and I talked and he wants to do more the Wolverine influenced power set I said ok.
josh is the Beacon. Josh normally is the type to play a necromancer in the good aligned campaign but he said he wanted a change of pace.
Jeremy is the Transformed. He will be adequately angsty.
Heather is the Ousider. She is excited to make it - I have no clue yet.
We await on a guy named Patrick to pick. Session zero is Thursday.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 3, 2018 6:51:43 GMT -8
I have to post this origin story here for the person playing the Legacy. Am I wrong for loving it?
I see that Josh posted his. I wanted to run mine by you before sending it out... it's probably not the typical legacy:
Backstory Many years ago, a woman named Cristine de Isabeau immigrated into this nation, bringing with her powers from her homeland, Bavaria. She believed in and followed Mother Nature, under whatever name it went by wherever she was. This vegan super feminist hid her powers under the identity of Mother Terra (the Germanic version of Gaea). She had a daughter, Kathryn DeBeau, who inherited her powers, and eventually took on the mantle of Mother Terra. This was after years of working with her mother under the sidekick identity of Little (and later Lady) Pomona. After Kathryn took the role as Mother Terra, she had a daughter Ella. Ella took the role of Little Pomona, later graduating to Lady Pomona. Eventually Ella backed away from her responsibilities as head of the local PETA chapter to take on the role of Mother Terra. Soon thereafter, she had a… son. Damnit.
You could say that Leslie DeBeau’s upbringing was odd. He was home schooled by feminists who were insistent that be become Lady Pomona when he comes of age. His mother, Ella was slightly more sane about it, as she made ultra-liberal arguments about gender identity and how he could identify as, or in fact ‘be’, a woman while fighting for justice for this planet (and all the animals and all that other PETA propaganda), all the while identifying as a man when he was at home. He, of course, was not interested in identifying as anything other than his assigned status as a boy.
When his powers manifested before his body reached puberty, the exact nature of his grandmother’s obsession came to the forefront. He had to stop being home schooled, as it was found the reason he hit puberty late was that Kathryn had been slipping him hormones to make him into Lady Pomona (as I said, the mother was the sane one). Though his appearance is somewhat effeminate because of this, his voice has finally started to change, and he appears to be recovering. Everyone is still pushing him to be the ideal feminine super heroin, but not quite as hard after Ella and Kathryn had the fight that led to him being in his current school.
After threatening to go by the identity Pilimunious (the Germanic god who ensures children grow up properly and stay healthy), he compromised by naming himself after Silvanus. When he was done being grounded for the Silver Anus comments, they now grudgingly allow him to go by Silver Spirit when he fights along side his mother… When he is older he fears there will be an argument about the mantle of Mother Terra. Ella is still pushing the gender identity angle, and he refuses to eat or drink anything give to him by his grandmother.
• When did you officially become a part of your legacy? Sometime after my powers manifested as a young teenager (and after the several arguments and the discovery that puberty was delayed because my grandmother was poisoning me, a change of school... more arguments). As Silver Spirit, I am a misfit to my Legacy, but I'm trying to impress them. At least my mother. • What’s the greatest accomplishment of your legacy? Though there is talk of my Legacy stretching back in Buvaria, my knowledge is only of what happened after immigrating to this country. Cristine de Isabue came to this country chasing a being calling himself Bacchus. This spirit hypnotized his victims, convincing them to rape and murder on his behalf. Though she dealt him minor defeats over and over again, it was with the help of the first Lady Pomona that he was finally dealt with for good. Some believe that he, or one of his victims, was Lady Pomona’s father, but if that is true, Cristine never spoke of it, even to her family. She died in the final fight, causing Lady Pomona to take over as Mother Terra. I suppose it's possible my mother was also get in this way, but grandmother claims she loved the man, and I have no reason to doubt that. My father is unknown to me as well. Mother let slip once that it was another super hero, but has, so far, not said anything else. • How does the public perceive your legacy? Now that the horror of Bacchus is a distant memory, Mother Terra is seen by most as a vegan ultra-feminist has been. The hippies and feminists still adore and warship her. Other heroes seem to respect her, but the public would have difficulty caring less than they currently do about the old Mother. • How does your legacy tie into your reasons for being a hero? They dressed me up and forced me to practice (literally in a dress, at the beginning, until I finally won that battle). It’s cool though, I get to fight, hang out with mom, and, when she remembers I’m a boy, it’s even kind fun. And now there's this team. A chance to get out from under Mother Terra and show them what I'm capable of - without a damn dress. • Why do you care about the team? I was home schooled by vegan super hippies… this group of misfits… these are my first friends. Plus, they introduced me to Bacon. I will love them forever for that act of liberation. (arg, right, guys aren't supposed to use the L word. Damnit!)
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 3, 2018 6:54:36 GMT -8
Also I have a Beacon who is basically Robin if he was a Batman fanboy instead of a sidekick. He worships a guy called The Night Watcher. I am thinking of going full Astro city and making the Night Watcher a vampire superhero who keeps that vampirism part a secret.
Thoughts?
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Post by joecrak on Jan 3, 2018 18:04:41 GMT -8
Also I have a Beacon who is basically Robin if he was a Batman fanboy instead of a sidekick. He worships a guy called The Night Watcher. I am thinking of going full Astro city and making the Night Watcher a vampire superhero who keeps that vampirism part a secret. Thoughts? Do it! Just remember, just because the team doesn't start off as killers, doesn't mean they can't eventually kill! (But you shouldn't! That's not very heroic!). But seriously, that's happened so many times in games I've been in, and it's always some juicy rp between characters.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 4, 2018 20:37:55 GMT -8
Well it happened. Session zero wasn’t perfect but there was a lot of laughter and everyone had a great time.
My PbtA GM Cherry is popped.
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Post by HyveMynd on Jan 4, 2018 20:45:31 GMT -8
Well it happened. Session zero wasn’t perfect but there was a lot of laughter and everyone had a great time. My PbtA GM Cherry is popped. Messiness aside, everyone enjoying themselves is the most important thing. Wait, what were we talking about again?
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 5, 2018 17:06:57 GMT -8
Well, if it's OK, since I said I was going to let people know how it went. I want to post the information we got out of Issue Zero of Masks. If anyone is interested here are the cast of characters I have so far. I am not including the ones I am pulling from the books and I have not included Drives yet but that will come with time. We only play once a month and the next game is beginning of February.
OK, so here are the cast of characters I now have for this game:
PCs:
Whirlwind (The Bull) - Ethiopian Engine of destruction. Has an excessive amount of Wolverine type claws and regenerative ability. Created by a group of people who then sold her to a Somali Warlord. Escaped and met up with the hero Defender who took her to Halcyon City.
Avi (The Outsider) - Alien who won the right to come to Earth by her race. Very excited to be on Earth. Very excited. Public ID.
Nobody (The Transformed) - Locked in an electrical room/janitor's closet. Got various cleaning chemicals doused on him and then electrocuted. Hates Bullies. Ugly as sin. Public ID.
Steel Fox (The Beacon) - Only person more excitable than Avi. Sews his own superhero outfits. Worships Then Night Watcher, a superhero that is very Batman - like. So excited to be part of a team.
Silver Spirit (The Legacy) - First time a male was born into the Mother Terra legacy. Family full of gender identification issues now.
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Defender - Superman like character. Quietly Christian though finding more of a voice for it. Has secret identity as a missionary which is how he met Whirlwind.
The Night Watcher - Batman like character but holds dark secret. He is secretly a vampire who refuses to ingest human blood.
Nicoli - Vampire enemy of The Night Watcher. Responsible for turning the Night Watcher into a vampire. Nicoli did not expect that the Night Watcher's will was so formidable to the point that The Night Watcher could resist Nicoli's mind control.
Rinr - The race of beings that Avi belongs to. Some see humanity as interesting and great. Others see humanity as crazed, bloodthirsty barbarians.
Mother Terra - aka Ella mother of Silver Spirit. Discovered grandmother was trying to use hormones to convert Silver Spirit into something more feminine. Believes Silver Spirit can be a boy but wishes he would gender identify as a girl while in costume. Knows Silver Spirit's father (a hero in the city) but never talks about him.
Kathryn - Former Mother Terra and grandmother of Silver Spirit.. Estranged from Mother Terra and Silver Spirit due to her trying to manipulate Silver Spirit's gender identity.
Bacchus - Enemy of Kathryn's mother aka the Original Mother Terra in the United States. Possibly the father of Kathryn. Missing presumed dead in a fight that also killed Kathryn's mother.
Coffee Commando - Hero much like Hourman from DC comics but instead of a pill he drinks coffee to gain the strength of ten men.
The Barista Banditos - Arch nemesis of Coffee Commando. Coffee themed villains who quickly rob retail locations.
Margaret - Nobody's mom. Worried that he is letting his anger get the best of him as a public superhero.
Stephen - Nobody's dad. Very aloof. Nobody is unsure what he thinks of whole transformed thing.
Veronica Gonzalez - Math teacher at Halcyon North (GO CHARGERS!) High School. Guardian of Whirlwind and friend of Defender.
Musa Sadi Yalahow - Somali Warlord who commissioned Whirlwind to be created for him.
Arman Shimerman - Retired actor. Has a new career as principal of Halcyon North High School.(GO CHARGERS!)
Silly Putty Man - First Villain the PCs ever faced. Henchman type who specializes in bank robberies.
Awesome Man -Leader of the Spiffy Seven, a very minor super hero team made up of Beacon type vigilantes.
Silas Jones -Bank Manager who thinks the PCs are incompetent.
Mark Bezos -Billionaire who seeks to discredit the Night Watcher. Suspects that there is something nefarious about him.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 15, 2018 14:53:49 GMT -8
Of course now I am trying to figure out who would be the villain of vegan super hippies.
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