After binging most of your Masks videos I decided I’m gonna be using it for a future Superhero campaign I was planning on running. Based on some of the stuff I’ve been talking about with my players it appears it’s gonna be a pretty roleplay-focused campaign with a focus on essentially fitting in with the big league heroes they’ve come to idolize, and I think this system is perfect for that. Thanks for your awesome content!!!
I helped Kickstart Masks, and I wasn't disappointed with what I got. While I haven't played Masks personally as yet, I can see that it's easy to pick up and just play. Comic books fudge with how powers work all the time, so Masks's power system emulates the genre quite effectively. If you want a more generic supers game, Worlds in Peril is pretty good, and it's also Powered by the Apocalypse (I kickstarted that, too).
I've heard about Worlds in Peril and it's definitely next on my RPG buy list. I've got a group who LOVES Masks so getting them to try WiP shouldn't be TOO hard.
This really sums up Masks and its a pretty good description of the game. I ran into that same problem in the past. Players that like the Crunch are not going to like PbtA games. Cause they want to game the game.
@@tabletopbro One of the things I have learned in being a DM for 30+ years is you have to run the game your table wants. Sometimes people don't fit your group and you have to let them or or spin off a 2nd game so that they can play. My group is mostly heavy RP (I am super lucky) but I have had players who are there to optimize the game. You just give them time to shine like you do everyone else.
@@tabletopbro It took me awhile to wrap my mind around the PbtA system. It's such a paradigm shift from 5e and its peers. If you want that tactical RPG gameplay, it's definitely not going to scratch that itch. But lately I've been really intrigued by the story-generation potential of the system. The Bad Spot UA-cam channel has been blowing my mind: ua-cam.com/channels/SHZfmwfiIxCpKrQFrr7YyQ.html It's a solo play Ironsworn game. But now that I think of it, you could probably play any Apocolypse system solo. 🤔 Who needs friends?!
Ironically, yet another OSR D&D-based superhero rule set dropped last week. That makes four that I know of, most of which existed when this video was made. 1:02 Oh come on, even in 2021 there were at least half a dozen different web comics about teenage supers. Or lower your age limits and do a Masks PS238 game. That comic deserves better than just the Champions/Hero system sourcebook it got. Young Justice certainly fits Masks too.
@@tabletopbro Let's see how many I can remember: Hideouts & Hoodlums (based on Swords & Wizardry), Super Hack & Vigilante Hack (both based off Black Hack), Guardians (OD&D based), and depending on what you include in OSR, FASERIP (TSR Marvel RPG retroclone) and Absolute Power (a Silver Age Sentinels reboot) and Mighty Protectors (a Villains & Vigilantes update - and FGU still sells the original, of course). Probably others out there, as well as a more modern stuff (eg Ascendent, Tiny d6 Supers). If you want my rec for webcomics that could inspire a Masks game, Starhammer is pretty far up there, and like I said PS238 could work if you either lowered the age of the PCs or just used the setting with older kids than the comic focuses on. Even the grade schoolers in PS238 have the same kinds of problems some Masks playbooks deal with, albeit without a romance/sex angle for obvious reasons.
@@tabletopbro SO FREAKING COOL. Several systems worth stealing and a very dope concept (essentially each superhero is kinda possessed by a mythical force or character and they have what their “normal” life is and their Myth), and the Mist is the magical smokescreen that prevents normies from seeing superpowers and magic for what they really are.
After binging most of your Masks videos I decided I’m gonna be using it for a future Superhero campaign I was planning on running. Based on some of the stuff I’ve been talking about with my players it appears it’s gonna be a pretty roleplay-focused campaign with a focus on essentially fitting in with the big league heroes they’ve come to idolize, and I think this system is perfect for that. Thanks for your awesome content!!!
I'm glad they've been helpful! Best of luck on your campaign!
@@tabletopbro thank you very much!!!
I helped Kickstart Masks, and I wasn't disappointed with what I got. While I haven't played Masks personally as yet, I can see that it's easy to pick up and just play.
Comic books fudge with how powers work all the time, so Masks's power system emulates the genre quite effectively.
If you want a more generic supers game, Worlds in Peril is pretty good, and it's also Powered by the Apocalypse (I kickstarted that, too).
I've heard about Worlds in Peril and it's definitely next on my RPG buy list. I've got a group who LOVES Masks so getting them to try WiP shouldn't be TOO hard.
This really sums up Masks and its a pretty good description of the game. I ran into that same problem in the past. Players that like the Crunch are not going to like PbtA games. Cause they want to game the game.
Wanting to game the game is a perfect way of describing that
@@tabletopbro One of the things I have learned in being a DM for 30+ years is you have to run the game your table wants. Sometimes people don't fit your group and you have to let them or or spin off a 2nd game so that they can play. My group is mostly heavy RP (I am super lucky) but I have had players who are there to optimize the game. You just give them time to shine like you do everyone else.
Thanks for this. I love PBTA games. Fundamentally different from D&D. Well done.
Thanks Andrew! It’s my preferred system for tabletops for sure!
@@tabletopbro It took me awhile to wrap my mind around the PbtA system. It's such a paradigm shift from 5e and its peers. If you want that tactical RPG gameplay, it's definitely not going to scratch that itch. But lately I've been really intrigued by the story-generation potential of the system. The Bad Spot UA-cam channel has been blowing my mind: ua-cam.com/channels/SHZfmwfiIxCpKrQFrr7YyQ.html It's a solo play Ironsworn game. But now that I think of it, you could probably play any Apocolypse system solo. 🤔 Who needs friends?!
PS, that’s protégé, not prodigy. Those are two different things.
I think you should put a link for the free stuff for this RPG, I thought it was on the description lol
Done! Thanks for the suggestion.
Ironically, yet another OSR D&D-based superhero rule set dropped last week. That makes four that I know of, most of which existed when this video was made.
1:02 Oh come on, even in 2021 there were at least half a dozen different web comics about teenage supers. Or lower your age limits and do a Masks PS238 game. That comic deserves better than just the Champions/Hero system sourcebook it got. Young Justice certainly fits Masks too.
Worlds in Peril, Masks, which ones am I missing?
I don't doubt it, but Teen Titans is the most popular that most people will recognize.
@@tabletopbro Let's see how many I can remember: Hideouts & Hoodlums (based on Swords & Wizardry), Super Hack & Vigilante Hack (both based off Black Hack), Guardians (OD&D based), and depending on what you include in OSR, FASERIP (TSR Marvel RPG retroclone) and Absolute Power (a Silver Age Sentinels reboot) and Mighty Protectors (a Villains & Vigilantes update - and FGU still sells the original, of course).
Probably others out there, as well as a more modern stuff (eg Ascendent, Tiny d6 Supers).
If you want my rec for webcomics that could inspire a Masks game, Starhammer is pretty far up there, and like I said PS238 could work if you either lowered the age of the PCs or just used the setting with older kids than the comic focuses on. Even the grade schoolers in PS238 have the same kinds of problems some Masks playbooks deal with, albeit without a romance/sex angle for obvious reasons.
I love masks too
It’s a great game!
Masks is dope as hell. You ever tried City of Mist?
I haven’t! How is it?
@@tabletopbro SO FREAKING COOL. Several systems worth stealing and a very dope concept (essentially each superhero is kinda possessed by a mythical force or character and they have what their “normal” life is and their Myth), and the Mist is the magical smokescreen that prevents normies from seeing superpowers and magic for what they really are.
Suffice to say, it’s my superhero RPG of choice.
@@LeMayJoseph that sounds freaking hype
@@tabletopbro Indeed, hype as hell. Check it out sometime, made by Son of Oak.
Champions the super hero RPG. Check it out.
I played hella Champions Online back in high school!