[LFG] Interest check for Scion, Masks, M&M, City of Mist, etc.

Trying to drum up some interest in something other than 5e or Pathfinder... again. I've wanted to try playing Scion for  years  and I've had three groups for it that went through the trouble of making characters, but kind of just fell apart after that. While that's one of my first choices when it comes to systems I'd like to at least try  at some point, I'm also very interested in plenty of other games. Namely stuff like Masks, Mutants and Masterminds, City of Mist, Dresden Files/FATE, Monster of the Week, just to name a few. It's probably obvious at this point, but I kind of would just really love to play a game in some kind of contemporary setting with magic and/or superpowers. Feel free to post here or send me a PM if you're at all interested in running something of this nature, or even if you'd just like to try banding together to find a GM for one of these systems. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Cheers and have a nice day.

What is your time zone and availability?

I'm in PST but my schedule is flexible enough that I can usually make certain timezone differences work, within reason. I'm currently for sure not available on Saturday or Monday.

I love M&M!

I have a group for Villains and Vigilantes. &nbsp;Planned a session 0 for chargen but it was no show for all the players, but I am giving it another go. &nbsp;Probably a one shot for now.&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/5680300/slug%7D" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/5680300/slug%7D</a> I am also open to other systems.

I'm also interested in urban fantasy and certain kinds of superheroics. East Texas University, Dresden Files Accelerated, Deadlands Noir, Urban Shadows, Mutant City Blues, something else with Fate Core or Accelerated, Smallville. I hear Godbound can be tailored to Scion type stuff(interesting setting, but I kind of hate the Scion system) among other things. I've also played urban fantasy with GURPS 4e before and found it to work well. It's not an exhaustive list, but you get the idea. In my "no interest" pile are Hero, Marvel Heroic, M&M, and Masks. I'm just not interested in something super rules heavy, and I got to play Masks and Marvel Heroic already and didn't like them much. But if an opportunity arises that fits both our interests, hit me up, k.

I'd be interested in a City OF Mist game if people are still looking.&nbsp;

I'll be honest, you're unlikely to find a Scion group unless you start one yourself. That's what I had to do. Found other players, tracked down a GM off of Roll20, and then when we were about to start, he dropped and I ended up taking over as GM myself. That said, there are almost always M&M groups searching for players, so jumping in to one of those should be easy for you. I can't really do anything for you when it comes to City of Mist, as I loathe the idea of a system where there isn't a numerical "measuring stick" involved in character creation. Marvel Heroic also occasionally has games pop up, though not nearly as often as M&M. Masks I hear is reasonably popular as well, though I'm not interested in it at all.

im interested in playing some m&m never played but always wanted to play it

I just remembered something. While I'm not interested in Masks anymore, there is an earlier Powered by the Apocalypse supers game called Worlds in Peril. I have the book and would be interested in trying it out sometime!

I'm interested in trying my hand at running City of Mist, particularly with a setting that cuts a little more closely to Scion or Dresden Files. I've been skittish about volunteering to do this on Roll20, because I'm still fumbling around trying to learn the software and I've never run a game for someone I don't know, but what the hell. I work nights, so I tend to wake up late and stay up until the early morning. I'll be available tonight from 7:30 PM to 7:30AM (EST). Gotta run some errands in the next two hours or so, but send me a reply if you're interested. I'll also be around this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at around the same time.

As a follow up to my earlier reply, I've had a few games end/switch to time slots I couldn't work with, so I have a bunch of open time right now, primarily around the weekends. I'd love to get to play M&M or Scion.

I would definitely be into a City of Mist game if someone is willing to run it. I would also recommend to Bloodied Porcelain to try it. Balance is really a non-issue at character creation because all characters have equal control over the narrative no matter the type of character they make and you can make basically any character you could possibly imagine.

@Christopher:&nbsp; Balance isn't my issue. I just genuinely can't stand games that don't give a way to form a basis of comparison in regards to things like just how skilled two people are in the same area. Numbers aren't inherently crunchy and stripping them from a system makes the whole thing feel like you might as well just play freeform. It makes things feel too ambiguous for me. Honestly, I'm a roleplay heavy, narrative focused player but I'd take a crunchy system like M&M where you literally need a piece of software to properly build a character without worrying a ton about math over a game with no built in measuring stick at all.&nbsp; PS: apologies for typos and such. I'm on my phone and half asleep.&nbsp;

It's not like unguided or freeform though. It's just that instead of attribute points like in other PbtA games, you instead have power tags that determine how much you roll. Each point simply has more context and specificity than attribute modifiers. And numbers are not removed. If you want to tell how good someone is at something, say operating a firearm, simply count the amount of tags they have related to firearms. Perhaps one might be better at shooting in certain situations like sniping because they have the "urban sniper" tag or something almost like a specialization. I mean, it's all preference, but I would recommend you at least try it and I don't want you miss out on a great system because of a misunderstanding. You can certainly directly compare how good characters are in the same area in a concrete and objective way.

Wow! I step away from checking my messages for a few days and come back to find this thread resurrected. I'm definitely still interested in all of these types of games. I kind of like the idea of a Scion or Dresden Files themed game using a different system. It's more the feel of the settings I like than necessarily the mechanics. @Bloodied Porcelain: I hear you on the GM thing. I've had a lot of problems finding consistent GMs for things that aren't as "mainstream" as D&D/Pathfinder. Mostly it's been for games like Scion and M&M to be honest. I've been in several groups that formed before recruiting a GM and gave up after not finding one, a few who lost a GM and had to try and recruit someone new before disbanding, and the best kind is when the GM just completely drops the campaign. Usually, it's been for a completely valid reason, so I can't really be mad about it. Best one though was when I joined a group after they recruited a GM, and after 2 sessions he said, "I mostly just wanted to try the system and I actually hate it, so I'm leaving."&nbsp; It sucks for real. I have a group I've consistently been playing various games with for 3 years that I met through Roll20, and we often hang out in a Discord shared by other friends. It's really nice having that reliability.