Good evening everyone,
My son (14) has been observing our standard SR games or Nerd Herd as I call it. He read the CRB, answered some basic questions. So, I agreed to run a game for some of his friend's age 14-16.
I suggest they play something that they could relate to but could play anything they wanted. The group is interesting and has been challenging because they only pick the 2 sentences in the book that they want to when asking questions.
However, 2 of the 6 players came back and talked over some things before we started. They both impressed me.
So, the one kid said he wanted to play a teenager mage, that comes from a corp family and is “Shadowrunning” during his summer break. Saying he used Improved Invisibility to sneak out of the house. I laughed because of COVID and knowing his family, the kid is playing himself. However, all the other players are playing older characters so his hook is that he wanted to keep Physical Mask up all the time to hide his identity. Before you ask, he took forced concentration to do it. I liked the amount of work and thought he put into it.
For simplicity, I have all the players roll at the end of the game to see if they notice anything during the game.
The problem I keep coming up with is, assuming no one sees through the illusion, Physical Mask doesn’t work in the astral.
I have run 2 games for them and it looks like they are going to stay with it. I think his character could have some interesting plot twist in the game.
I am tempted to house rule that it works in the Astral.
My question to you all, is my interpretation of the rules correct? If so, do you have any recommendations?
Best,
SL