Another wonderful session of #MasksANewGeneration tonight. One character changed playbooks as she leveled up into some major changes and some amazing parallels with the issue/session's villain.
I love how these #PBtA games let players ask questions as their actionsnand hownit forces me to answer tough questions and solidify NPC motivations mid session. It's really added a lot to my #GM skills.
#TTRPG GMLife
Sadly no gaming again this weekend. We've really had a hard time at getting sessions to happen regularly lately. It's really hard to keep focus and interest in the #MasksANewGeneration game and I really just want to see the #Pathfinder adventure path to its conclusion so I can move on to something different.
I asked my #MasksANewGeneration players if they were okay with me running a holiday-themed session/issue. They said it sounded fun to them.
They came in last night expecting a one shot dealing with Krampus to something like that.
Instead, I ran them through a campaign-related issue that had ties to Home Alone, Die Hard, and A Christmas Carol.
We've got our #MasksANewGeneration game tonight and #Pathfinder on Sunday.
Last night, I ran my #MasksANewGeneration #TTRPG game (yes, I know that comes out to ...game game).
I'm really pushing myself as a GM with this game. The session ("issue" to keep with comic book parlance) had a lot more interpersonal drama moments than I usually include. Between two married characters with major avoidance and communication issues, one character visiting with her mentor about whether her current team is holding her back from being the best she could be, or teammates pulling together when the going gets tough, it was really satisfying.
Plus I'm setting up the main antagonist plot-line in the background. This campaign/trade, I'm trying to emulate a mastermind pulling all kinds of strings, keeping heroes off balance, while the villains steal all kinds of valuable technology. And I have to make it seem plausible.
Yep, I'm definitely testing my limits this time.
So far, in my #MasksANewGeneration #TTRPG:
* One player suggested the henchmen form a union, which they did
* I developed a dark web site for criminals called Connie's List that's a combination of Angie's and Craig's lists for the underworld
* Named a dark web black market site called Black Forest, based loosely ob Amazon
I love this genera.
If the stars and planets align, I'm starting a new trade in our ongoing #MasksANewGeneration game tonight. I've been giving each character some story spotlight, and tonight I'm hoping to start the storyline for my wife's character.
Sunday, I'll be continuing my #Pathfinder 1e group through our #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign, as they work their way through the Runeforge.
No #MasksANewGeneration game this week. My wife and I are having dinner with family. Should still be up for #Pathfinder on Sunday though.
Also stoked we got to start our #ADnD2e backup campaign last Sunday. I know the system is cludgy at times and rules are all over the place, but I love the higher degree of freedom and wonder I feel both playing it and flipping through the books. I get excited and inspired by the material.
No #MasksANewGeneration #TTRPG this week. Several players are dealing with life getting a little too rough. I'm looking forward to starting the next trade and spotlighting another member of the team with a story focused more on them.
I've been trying to give each player their time in the sun by developing their story of how they're growing into their own super heroic identity. It's been a ton of fun and a real honor bring the storyteller for this group.
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On Sunday, I gave my #Pathfinder players a choice. As they investigate the rune forge, those who find themselves embodying one of the seven deadly sins of Christian faith may have an easier or tougher time in certain areas of the rune forge.
The option I gave each player was to decide if they believed their character did indeed embody one of those sins or if they thought that they were basically good people.
Everyone but the evil character picked one of the sins.
The evil character, we discussed, had been working on being a better person since the beginning of the campaign and had been trying to redeem himself.
I was floored at their decisions. This felt like the kind of powerful RP I've been seeing in my #MasksANewGeneration game with the #PBTA engine. That game is more about character decisions and less about superheroes stopping crime.
It felt powerful and I'm so proud of and grateful for my players.
This weekend, I managed to finish up another campaign/trade of my #MasksANewGeneration game and finally progress further in my #Pathfinder campaign. It felt good to get back behind the screen and run some games. A combination of family events, players on vacation, and illnesses have thrown us off schedule for a bit.
This Friday, if everything goes as planned, I'll be finishing my fourth trade/campaign for my #MasksANewGeneration game. If they don't, well then everyone will just have to wait a little longer.
For me, this is a monumental feat. When I was younger, I never had the mental fortitude to stick with a campaign more than a handful of sessions, at best.
I feel like this is some of my best work as a GM. I've had intricate plots, I've surprised my players more than once (and gotten compliments for it, no less!), and I've witnessed my players RP some incredible character growth.
I feel so incredibly lucky to have such a great group of players who trust me enough to let me weave these stories. GMing is my creative outlet.
I just finished the latest issue/session of my #MasksANewGeneration #TTRPG for my players. This is the penultimate session of the trade/campaign. I love getting to use comic book terminology to describe the game.
The NPC sister of the alien catgirl player has been moving in the background, trying to take out the heroes and their parents. It's a whole thing where the player's character ran from her arranged marriage to another dimension. The team decided the best way to flush out the sister was to stage an award ceremony, trying to draw her out into an open conflict.
Instead, the players had to deal with a building that was struck by a meteorite flung by a mass driver and another, larger one flung at the parent's spaceship. They had to split the team and defeat both threats at the same time.
It was a blast to run. I've been listening to a lot of #NADDPOD and pulled some tricks I learned listening to Brian "Murph" Murphy run his games. I think it really elevated the encounters.
I love the emotional high after a well run session. My players are absolutely awesome.
I really wish I had more #TTRPG things to post here. At this point, I've got a primary and backup #MasksANewGeneration (#Masks) games, a primary #Pathfinder game, and we're working on getting a time to make characters for a backup #ADnD2e game at some point, but we've been reliably unreliable in meeting.
I've been spending a lot of time reading up on news and politics, because as an American, I'm in the thick of it all and I'm less likely to panic if I know what's going on. However, I don't want to turn my account into a highly politicized one.
I do miss RPG shop talk though. I keep my eyes on the hashtags. I just haven't had any burning questions I wanted to ask folks.
Looks like I'm running a backup game for our #Masks group. The players are okay with another #MasksANewGeneration game but with a lighter tone. I'm thinking about a mix of #QuantumLeap, #Sliders, and the #CrossTimeCaper run of #Excalibur, one of the series that really got me into collecting comics.
The overall idea will be a team of heroes who are forced to hop through different dimensions, probably heavily influenced by movies, TV shows, or books that I'm into. Everyone seems to want something lighter in tone and I can certainly do that for them!
After about a two month break (holidays, player moving, weather, and disease), we finally got back to my #MasksANewGeneration game.
The heroes had to deal with a pair of human supremacists (Whiteout and Slay Belle) and a union security guard (Jacked Frost), intergalactic arms merchant parents, and the line between being a super powered cop and vigilante.
I was afraid I was going to be rusty, and that I had lost the story plot, but it came back like riding a bike. Lots of screaming, honking car horns, and gravel in my knee. But fun was had by all.
@ableamerek I'll be learning more about it tonight, but the gist, from what I can tell (https://cityofmist.co/) is that you play a person who has a mythic aspect (fictional character, mythological being, etc.) that gives them power to fight crime. Looks like a grittier setting than I usually run (#MasksANewGeneration).
I've gotten my "How to run Masks: a New Generation" pieces up on my site, made them much more legible. Lemme know if you have questions, I'll opine further!
Do you have a favorite campaign that you played in or ran for players?
Favorite campaign I played in was the #Dragonlance #WarOfTheLance 3.5 #DnD campaign we played a few years back. We had some amazing characters fighting against a tide of evil.
For campaigns I've run, I can't decide between the two I'm currently working on.
The #Pathfinder #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign I'm running is a Christmas gift for my wife from a few years back. I've got #ADHD and I'm super proud of myself for making it half way through a 400+ campaign book. And I feel like everyone is having a good time.
The #MasksANewGeneration #PBTA game I'm running is all me. I've got a crew of absolutely awesome players and I feel fortunate that my sessions have risen to their levels. The stories have had some twists that the players didn't see coming and it's all mine. This isn't a published campaign but I've been running for... maybe a year or so now, with some breaks here and there. I'm on hiatus at the moment but I've been plotting the next trade/campaign.
