Masks: A New Generation is a tabletop role-playing game about teenage superheroes, designed by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games in 2017 after a Kickstarter campaign that raised $107,328. It is built on the Powered by the Apocalypse framework, so play runs on moves, but it adds a statistic called influence that measures the emotional power the characters hold over one another. Each player builds a teenager with special powers by choosing one of ten playbooks, and these are based on personality characteristics rather than on heroic abilities, which steers the stories toward coming of age. The setting is a metropolis called Halcyon City. Magpie Games has supported the core book with the sourcebooks Secrets of A.E.G.I.S., Halcyon City Herald Collection and Unbound, and with the card decks Deck of Influence and Deck of Villainy. The game won a 2017 Silver ENNIE Award and an Indie Game Developer Network award.
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Masks: A New Generation is a tabletop role-playing game about teenage superheroes
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published by Magpie Games in 2017
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It was the game for which the Powered by the Apocalypse engine was developed.
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