{"id":1365280,"date":"2025-10-21T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u3AxP2bkcjrBUpsBS3w3mL"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:51:54","slug":"this-new-humble-bundle-has-one-of-my-favourite-ttrpgs-in-it-alongside-a-bunch-of-expansions-for-just-15-or-25-for-a-nest-of-great-magpie-games-books-worth-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/this-new-humble-bundle-has-one-of-my-favourite-ttrpgs-in-it-alongside-a-bunch-of-expansions-for-just-15-or-25-for-a-nest-of-great-magpie-games-books-worth-365\/","title":{"rendered":"This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15\u2014or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Superheroes are a difficult genre to pin down in TTRPGs\u2014game balance is basically impossible when you’re talking comic books, since having a cast of seriously varying power levels is part of the whole appeal. However, Masks\u2014one of my favourite systems\u2014nails it completely, and it’s also in Humble’s new RPG Bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This (up to) 27-item bundle from Magpie Games contains a couple of other solid systems, too\u2014Avatar Legends (based off Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Root: The Roleplaying Game are included, alongside the gothic horror TTRPG Bluebeard’s Pride\u2014which sees players acting out different aspects of a newly wed’s psyche as she uncovers the misdeeds of her new captor.<\/p>\n

I cannot recommend Masks enough. I kid you not, I am literally going to be playing my regular Tuesday game this evening. It’s the third Masks campaign I’ve played with this group, in which I’m an Outsider who’s starting to properly unravel her feelings about her people’s past attempts to conquer Earth (they’re aliens in a comic book, so they did a pretty bad job of it).<\/p>\n

Unravelling feelings is what the entire system’s about, really. Masks is all about writing a comic book with your friends, rather than dealing 70 damage with a divine smite to a dragon (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Your stats, labels, are in constant flux based on what the adults around you tell you about yourself\u2014and the system’s constantly pushing you to take big, dramatic swings in the service of story.<\/p>\n

If Masks is all you’re interested in, you can get the core rulebook as well as the Secrets of AEGIS, Masks: Unbound, and Halcyon City Herald collection for $15\/\u00a311.17. Pay $25\/\u00a318.63, and you’ll get a bunch of Magpie’s other great systems, too:<\/p>\n