With the holidays looming, my schedule was basically nuked from orbit and much of my normal online/offline tabletop gaming (which
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Masks Phoenix Academy: Session 18, Part 2 – 2019-12-23 – It’s Comfort AND Support!
The team finally frees Colin from the Invictus addiction, drives back Cephalos, and learns more about the terrible psychic squid’s
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Masks Phoenix Academy: Session 18, Part 1 – 2019-12-22 – It’s Comfort AND Support!
The team finally frees Colin from the Invictus addiction, drives back Cephalos, and learns more about the terrible psychic squid’s
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Masks Phoenix Academy, Session 17, “My Head Hurts from Screaming – 2019-12-01
The team has had several months to track down clues bout Invictus. Ember does science. Palacine works on Colin. Sil
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The Smartwood Kids: Session 5 (Halloween, pt 2)
We (myself, Kaylee, Sean, and Zoe) continue the adventures of Marzipan, Kenilworth, and Zoology Smartwood, as they defend the town
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Masks: Phoenix Academy – Session 16 – Invictus Sucks / Tater Tots in Space!
The group argues about what to do about Invictus, and finally settles on sunbathing, snacks… and blowing up a space
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Masks: Phoenix Academy – Session 15 – Regroup, Fail, Repeat
Intro Video! It’s Kaylee’s birthday, and the end of the first week of REAL LIFE high school for our players,
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Hogwarts RPG
Spent the afternoon playing Hogwarts with the kids. Elici Davies (fifth year Hufflepuff), Emma Quinn (1st year Gryffindor), and Will
Working on a Thoughtful Representation of Drug Addiction for Masks
Hello! Things have been a little quiet on the Masks RPG front lately, because the end of summer is bananas
More on the Adventures of the Smartwoods
The kids and I played the aforementioned Bikes and Books game a couple times over the weekend and Monday night,
Calling on the Hivemind
Anyone have good suggestions for phone / app friendly play by post platforms or tools? The Masks game I play
The Smartwood Children (a Lasers and Feelings hack for my kids)
This weekend has been chock-a-block with face to face gaming goodness with cool kids. Friday was the 14th session of
Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 14 – “Personally, I Vote for Monotone Screaming”
Intro Video! The team has a LOT of stuff going on. A LOT. So much happens, you guys. It’s one
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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 13 – Fifty-five Minutes
The team plays super-powered musical chairs. Amazingly, no one dies. Many chairs were harmed in the filming of this episode.
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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 12 – Meet the Parents
The team members each have a sort-of date… to meet their boyfriends’ parents. Oh, and it seem like Vanquish is
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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 11 – Whoop Whoop, Whoopity Whoop
The team gets ready for homecoming, deals with adults being adults, faces off against Ember’s mom and, FINALLY, make it
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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 10 – Midterms Meltdown
The team deals with midterm drama. http://randomaverage.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-05-28-Masks-PA-Session-10.mp3Podcast (randompodcast): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 9 – Stop Trying to Cauterize My Wounds!
The team faces off against Alias and his crew, INSIDE their base. Also, Palancine pretends to be Ember. It’s goes
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Psi*Run – Oneshot Actual play
Palacine’s Jamie is out of town, so we can’t play Masks. Instead Kaylee, Ember-Jamie, and I blast through a one-shot
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A Potentially Gaming Heavy Weekend
Tonight, the first proper session of Apocalypse World: Ironwall with Kate and Kim and Amanda. Sunday, Masks: Phoenix Academy with
Masks – Phoenix Academy – Session 6 – Date Night in Cloud Cuckoo Land
The team faces off against Oversight’s disapproval, then (finally) gets their date night with the bois. http://randomaverage.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-02-18-MasksPA-Session06-Date-Night-in-Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.mp3Podcast (randompodcast): Play in
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Looking Back at a Remarkably RPG-heavy Week
I’ve been lucky enough to have a regular gaming group for Some Time Now (thanks, #Roll20 !) – I don’t
Actual Play: Masks Phoenix Academy, Session 5 – Snaking My Way Downtown
The team is in Belize. Ember melts Belize. Palacine snakes one of her palace guards out of a crater. Silhouette
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Apocalypse World, Ironwall – Session 00
Kim, Kate, Amanda, and I get together to build an Apocalypse We’re using the new Burned Over playbooks that Vincent’s
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Masks Phoenix Academy, Actual Play – Session 4 – Skip Day
Everyone deals with some aftermath from Alias’s attack on the P.E. class. Some handle it better than others. Ember talks
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Masks Phoenix Academy, Session 3 – Why I Hate Gym Class (or: The Secret of Jack-toast)
The team deals with the most horrible of school challenges – a Tuesday morning after a bad Monday. Ember’s mom
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Masks Phoenix Academy, Session 2 – The Non-Frolick
The team deals with teacher-pressure, social pressure, and a team-building exercise that goes sideways. Everyone – especially Sil – had
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Masks EG – Session 00 AP Recording
In which our players create their heroes. PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a great recording – we were in a
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Masks EG, Session 00
Pretty much since the beginning of this school year, Kaylee has been assembling a short list classmate/friends who have some
Fire Goose
Created at the behest of Mark Hunt, for a silly little project on MeWe. Fire Goose Small beast, probably evil