MASKS: The New Generation is a game in which we collectively orchestrate a comic book!  Each player creates a character of a specific archetype, the GM provides a back drop, and together you make the story.  You are teenage superheroes (Ages 15 to 19) in Halcyon City, where heroes are welcome.  You might find a tyrannosaurus rampaging down the boulevard or a shady group of cultists stealing art.  Aliens, time travelers, robots, it all happens here.

There are 10 Playbooks (to start).  A playbook is an archetype.  Each player chooses a different playbook.

• THE BEACON, a non-superpowered hero who drives the team, but is not without abilities and/or gadgets.  (Batgirl)
• THE BULL, the tough, reckless scrapper, often the team muscle, sometimes just a ball of fury and claws.  (Collosus)
• THE DELINQUENT, the rebellious trouble-maker, skirting the line between good and bad.  (X23)
• THE DOOMED, something in your past has put you on a collision course with oblivion, it's only a matter of time.  (Raven)
• THE JANUS, you've got a busy normal life but you still need more, so you jam a secret heroic ID into the mix!  (Spiderman)
• THE LEGACY, latest in a long line of heroes with a past to live up to!  (Green Lantern, Black Canary)
• THE NOVA, your power is massive and often scary, you're a barely controlled powder-keg when you let loose! (Phoenix)
• THE OUTSIDER, stranger from a strange land, you have grown an affinity for this world.  (Starfire, Groot)
• THE PROTEGE, a mentor has taken it upon themselves to teach you the ways of the heroic world.  (Robin/Nightwing)
• THE TRANSFORMED, something has gone horribly wrong/right and you've gained powers but also disfigurement!  (Deadpool)

You don't make a character in advance.  We gather together, go over the playbooks, and cooperatively create the characters, how they came together and sometimes create new enemies and alter the setting to fit the group.

There is no running Experience tally because experience in this game is called "Potential".  You get a dot of potential every time you MISS a roll.  5 Potential allows you to select an Advancement from your playbook. So experience is highly pesonalized.