ffutures | Another Bundle - Masks: A New Generation

This is an all-new bundle offer for a superhero RPG based on the popular Apocalypse Engine rules, which emulates Young Justice, Teen Titans, and other sources with young adult superheroes (Probably not Worm, it's hard to tell since there are no recommendations for source material) and a world where there have been supers for a couple of generations.

Masks: A New Generation

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Masks

Masks A New Generation roleplaying game rulebook This new Masks Bundle presents Masks: A New Generation, Brendan Conway's RPG of young superheroes from Magpie Games. For three generations Halcyon City has seen every kind of superhero, villain, and team. Masks: A New Generation lets you join the latest wave of superheroes, young adults trying to figure out who they are and what kind of heroes they want to be. Masks creatively adapts the Apocalypse Engine rules for stories full of action, youthful angst, and dazzling bravery in the vein of Young Justice and Teen Titans. The up-and-coming supers of Halcyon's fourth generation balance schoolwork, social life, and a world full of people telling them what to do and who to be -- and kick some butt along the way.

"Masks is kind of like Apocalypse World had a baby with Smallville," Rob Wieland wrote in a September 2016 RPG.net forum post. "The playbooks are based more on teen hero concepts than power suites (though there's a little bit of both there). It's more important to figure out who plays the Starfire-style outsider or the Spidey-style kid balancing being a hero and a regular teenager.

"Stats are the different ways teenagers perceive themselves, and they shift up or down on a regular basis. Ask a boy out to prom and he shoots you down? Your Mundane goes down and your Freak goes up. Save a bus full of regular kids? Your Savior might go up and your Danger goes down as you learn to use your powers for good. Adults can cause your labels to shift without your say-so, so you can either go along with what they say or try to fight it off, but that's what gets your character conditions. Rather than harm, you get emotional conditions like Angry or Afraid that hinder your moves until you make a move to remove them -- which usually is doing something stupid a teenager would do, like lash out at a friend or make out with someone bad for you. I think it's a great Apocalypse World riff and a fun take on the teen supers genre."

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Masks offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

Halcyon City Herald Collection supplement for Masks A New Generation The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$55. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all five titles in our Complete Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Masks: A New Generation core rulebook (retail price $14), plus the Masks Phone Edition (retail $5), along with all three supplements: Unbound (retail $12); Halcyon City Herald Collection (retail $12); and Secrets of AEGIS (retail $12).

This seems to be nicely laid out and presented, but explanations aren't always as clear as I would like and occasionally seem to assume a LOT of familiarity with the genre and role playing in general - not necessarily ideal for a role-player lacking familiarity with the genre, or a comics fan dipping into role playing for the first time. The collection is cheap, and it does give you a fair bit for your money, but just occasionally it would be nice to see a "this is what this chapter is about" paragraph at the start of the chapter, rather than a few pages in.