The Conduit: A Masks Playbook

The Conduit is a fan-made playbook for Masks: A New Generation, a tabletop roleplaying game published by Magpie Games and written by Brendan Conway. Masks is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

You can always feel it—the power of the universe wants to be let out, and you're the one to channel it. You can do things that leave even other superheroes awestruck... or afraid. Will you try to hold the power back to keep from hurting anyone? Or let it loose to reshape the world?

The Conduit is an alternative to the Nova from the Mask core book. It explores similar themes of being gifted (or burdened) with phenomenal cosmic power, in the vein of characters like Jean Grey or Nico Minoru. Mechanically, however, the Conduit goes a very different direction than the Nova. Instead of using Burn and Flares,  the Conduit uses Moves (and an extra Condition, Drained) to explore their double-edged connection to forces beyond mortal ken.

Play the Conduit to channel vast energies, excite people's adulation and fear, and sometimes (often?) lose control of your powers in a terrible way.

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The Conduit is designed and illustrated by Alexi Sargeant of Cloven Pine Games.