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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
Masks, Phoenix Academy play-by-posts, Sessions 14.1, 14.2, and 14.3
We’ve had a looooooong stretch where we’ve been unable to play Masks with my daughter’s group. To deal with the
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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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 8 – Jiggety Jig
The team figures out Alias’s diversion and block his access to the computer servers at their (previously, his) base. http://randomaverage.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-31-Masks-PA-Session-08.mp3Podcast
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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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Masks, Phoenix Academy, Session 7 – Nice and Broken
Sil catches up with Maria, and gets told. Ember gets lectured by AEGIS a bit. Palacine gets some advice from
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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
How to Train Your (Kid to Love Dungeons and) Dragon(s)
I’m probably (definitely) projecting, but the bit in How to Train Your Dragon where Hiccup and Astrid bring their kids
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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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 Phoenix Academy, Actual Play, Session 01 – Comicbook Clickbait
Our first session with Kaylee and her friends as Silhouette, Ember, and Palacine. The team fights Voltaic, recovers in the
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Thoughts After a Year+ of running Masks
Last night, our Monday-night gaming group wrapped up our Menagerie campaign of Masks, with the 63rd game session. (The podcast
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
The Hollow, by way of World of Dungeon: Turbo
I’m running a game for my kids, inspired by The Hollow series on Netflix, and for said game I’m basically