Hi Willis.  Just out of curiosity, which "family line" of the Legacy were you looking at?  I'm looking at, and hoping for, the "divine armor" line.

Welcome to the game Willis!

GM, those were some great prompts. I probably won't get to them tonight but hopefully tomorrow I'll do each one just so people have some ideas to bounce off of.

Also, I just realized if people want to make characters using the same playbook that certainly is doable. That or one could take the Joined if they want to collab characters with another player.

Phantom, if I went Legacy I’d probably go the super speed route.  I assume we are sticking to the only one of each playbook approach.

Yes. One of each playbook, no duplicates, thanks!

- There's been some odd graffiti plastered on buildings around the school of late. What's the weirdest graffiti your character has seen in that area?

A tree-like shape made out of a multitude of open-palmed red hands and the words "WE ARE COMING FOR YOU!" on the wall in a nearby parking lot.

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I'm entirely open to suggestions on how it may be improved, though, for the record.
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On a different note, are we limited to the abilities listed in the books for each playbook, or are we free to make up something else along similar lines (subject to GM approval, of course)?

I'm pretty much a stickler for staying with the playbooks as-is, though I'm not fully adverse to altering the -flavor- of the powers. (ie- insect control could be robotic insects, or squirrels, or the like) What've you got in mind?

Also, we're currently at six, with two more 'possibilities'. At end of day today I'll be turning off the 'players wanted' light.

Hello, folks! I'm happy to be here with you, and excited to get in on the collaborative process of team building. At the moment, I'm most interested in The Star or The Delinquent as playbooks—character types that come with some built-in internal conflicts that manifest externally in their relationships with other people.

Hi there! I'm this new player! Right now, my top 3 playbooks are the Brain, the Star and the Delinquent.

Welcome to the new players!

Also, I grabbed one of the prompts though if anyone has an idea for it please suggest it. I'm open to ideas.

There's a movie house in town that has a secret (non-supernatural, please). What's the name of the place, and what's the secret?

The Deja View Cinema, which originally ran as a theater which ran movies previously released months before at a cheaper price. The secret is it houses an illegal underground fighting ring where people can bet on the fights with some even using it as a hub to exchange information of the various happenings going on within the city.

Hello! I'm also a new player. Hope to have fun RP'ing with everyone!

My top three playbooks are (in order):
1. The Brain
2. The Innocent
3. The Newborn

Just throwing this up so we can start to refine playbook priorities. I've culled the "top three" from people's posts here.

In alphabetical order (Current as per mid-day on 1/14):
Advocate: Scion, Legacy, Outsider
Mystery: Brain, Innocent, Newborn
Night: Star, Delinquent, Transformed
Phantom Mouse: Legacy, Protege, Delinquent
Risk: "I'll pick from what's left"
Space Kitten: Brain, Star, Delinquent
Willis: Janus, Protege, Legacy

I'm still in the ideas stage and needed to narrow it down. Elaborating or playing on what's given in the playbooks suits me fine. Though on that note, if I go with Outsider and pick "telepathy and mind blasts", would telepathy just cover mind-reading and communication, or could I also use that to justify illusions, such as making people see me as a human?

Otherwise, if that's a stretch too far, I suppose I could justify passing with some kind of device. Or with simply being a very humanoid alien. :P

The Transformed poses similar problems in a more mundane-ish game.

I just had the sudden idea that it might be really cool to try a Joined with an Outsider--a normal human who got powers from the encounter that landed the Outsider on Earth.

Anybody up for bouncing more ideas around for that?

ETA: While the Joined playbook specifically mentions that Outsider joined are from the same dimension, it might make sense that an alien entity fused with then split from an Earthling, resulting in the Outsider and the Joined, both something human and something not.
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I grabbed a question and gave it a go:
There's a construction site a few blocks away from the school. It's been abandoned for four years. What was supposed to go there, and why isn't it there?

It was supposed to be the new economic center of town: the Lineport Fashion Resort was supposed to be a place for people to eat, to watch movies, and to shop. An outdoor mall. That was the plan, and it even got started, when the finances dried up around 2007. With the Great Recession still going on, it doesn't seem like it'll get funding anytime soon. Instead, a partially built monument to economic hope (and the economic crisis) stands there, a good place to make trick skateboard videos. If you bypass the security fencing and "No Trespassing" signs.

Phantom already snagged that question, though the two of you might debate it. I find both ideas intriguing (and who knows, maybe one of the two is just in another part of the city)




I'd be willing to allow the telepathy to say you subconsciously 'appear human', but the illusion wouldn't stretch beyond that. It might also fail if something screwed with your powers.


Just a reminder- I am -gently- pushing the basic book playbooks. It's not a rule, or even a major suggestion. They're just ones I'm more familiar with and can more easily plan around. No worries if you want to take only those from supplements, though; I assume they're balanced-for-play.

I was considering a playbook from one of the sources though only because I haven't had a chance to play some of them. That being said the Nomad would probably not fit too well here. GM, could we say take moves from playbooks in those supplements if we take an advancement that lets us choose another move?

As far as the playbooks I'm considering the Beacon might be a fun choice and also it's not on anyone's list.

For the idea of someone wanting to play the Joined to the Outsider. It could be someone such as the Joined has an ancestor who is an alien of the Outsider's race and when the Outsider arrives being close by just so happened to trigger the Joined's power. Maybe it's something such as the Outsider and the Joined are cousins with the former being introduced as an exchange student to the school as a cover.

Of course, feel free to ignore that suggestion or tweak it as you see fit. Just trying to throw ideas out there. :)

Greetings everyone.  New player, new to the system as well.  Looking forward to some fun RP with everyone!

As for this playbook thing, I was looking at Legacy (or flip side: Scion), Nova, or Doomed.

Also, from the Halcyon City expansion:



That'd be the Reformed, The Newborn, The Innocent, The Star, and the Joined. I'd like to keep that list down to one.

Re: Outsider/Joined—it was a stray idea that seems cool, in part because it provides an excuse for an Outsider to have a more human appearance.

Personally, I'm happy sifting through leftovers in terms of playbooks. (The only one I'd really like to avoid is Doomed, because that was my tabletop character and I'm a little too familiar with it.) Are we now at a point where the people who feel strongly for a particular playbook are ready to start declaring intentions? I think if we get a few player/playbook combinations pinned down, the others will sort themselves with at least some smoothness.

Yep. Gang's all here. We probably have a couple of lurkers as well, but I feel okay with shutting the door for now and letting you all get to know each other.

Go ahead and discuss playbooks. I know there are at least two people here who've never played Masks before, and I'd be appreciative if you veterans help out the new folks! I figure I'll give it until Thursday morning for you guys to shuffle out your plans as to who's playing what, and then after that we can start the intros and the like. If you have any questions, of course, please feel free to ask!

I'll be one of the two trying this out for the first time. Should be interesting to see where this goes.

Currently finishing off a round of Night Shift, so there probably wouldn't be much from me for the next few days, but I will have plenty of time to get the character built (I think)

The playbook that makes the most sense for what I came in with in my head is Janus, but it looks like someone may have already laid claim to that. What I hoped was that exactly how and even when Abigail got her powers was an open mystery that she's trying to solve, and most of the other playbooks seem to more or less have that answer in it.

This isn't to say that I'm not above reworking what I already have in my head

The other two of the "Top Three", both of which would require some reworking and brainstorming, would be either The Bull or The Outsider (which would likely require a total rework)
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Why don't you lay out what you're thinking, character-wise, and other folks can help you with the brainstorming?

If possible, as I've said before, I'd like to lay claim to the Legacy since we're to the point where we are staking our claims so to speak.

Also, other than the Outsider, Bull, and Transformed, I think an element of mystery regarding powers would be doable.  For instance, yeah the Nova has all this power barely in control, but when did those powers initiate, does the Nova even know?

For staking claims, my preference would be Star > Brain > Delinquent.