Superhero chaos with real consequences.
Masks and Mayhem turns Mutants & Masterminds play into a long-running superhero serial with investigations, magic shops, underwater power struggles, and post-mission banter. Its heroes feel vulnerable, funny, and frequently outmatched.
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Masks and Mayhem is a superhero actual-play series with the patience of a serial drama and the volatility of a lively game table. It is built on Mutants & Masterminds, but the appeal is not only the dice. Recent episodes show a world where a murder investigation can sit beside an Atlantean election, a parole headline, an occult shop, a spa raid, and a bar called Jack's. The stories are busy in the best sense. Characters enter scenes carrying history, secrets, powers, romances, political pressure, and old damage that the table keeps pulling back into view. Ruby Lawson, also called Visual Aid, moves through film work, magic trouble, and the emotional residue of past arcs. Yardak's Atlantean ties turn politics into a personal crisis. Equinox brings a new magical thread into the Riverside City side of the story. Underground Records shifts the lens to Cameron Anderson, Samantha Stanwyck, Kevin Calloway, and Silas as they take a case involving a murdered figure known as the Killer Bee. The case has noir bones. It also has superhero weirdness, wound analysis, post-human organ complications, sonic powers, magic, and a character who casually eats glass. The main campaign has a broader canvas. Atlantis debates its future while sabotage, hostage pressure, old squad ties, and armored attackers push the heroes from diplomacy into violence. Riverside City is smaller and stranger. A new arrival might ask Ruby for a drink, police may interrupt a spa visit, and two charming strangers in a mirrorless apartment can turn a social scene into vampire suspicion. The players keep the tone loose without making the stakes feel disposable. Jokes arrive quickly. Consequences still land. Recap episodes also matter, because the table talks openly about how choices shaped elections, character arcs, and the hidden machinery of the setting. Masks and Mayhem works best for listeners who enjoy continuity-rich actual play, superhero melodrama, and groups that let absurdity and sincerity share the same scene.
Made for: For actual-play listeners who like superhero campaigns with long continuity, tactical rolls, messy characters, and table banter. It especially suits fans of urban fantasy, comic-book politics, and character fallout.
What sets it apart: The show mixes investigation, occult complications, and Atlantean political drama without losing the conversational spark of the table. Its strongest scenes let jokes, dice, and consequences collide in the same breath.
Masks and Mayhem is an actual play show using the superhero RPG Mutants & Masterminds. In this custom setting Game Master R.C. challenges the heroes: Atlanean ambassador Yardak, filmmaker-illusionist Ruby Lawson (aka Vizual Aid), and aging vigilante Brock Bollea (aka Lazerhawk). Join this immersive story where we find out what it means to be a hero…. or at least not a villain, mostly.
A mirror gives away the vampires, and you get the table's delayed horror at the invitation.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A superhero murder case gains texture through scar tissue, forensic problem-solving, and powers that carry real physical costs.
A superhero murder investigation opens in a motel room, where Samantha Stanwyck, Cameron Anderson's Timber, Kevin Calloway's Dirt Magus, and Silas study the body of the Killer Bee.
A new superhero campaign opens with sonic powers, hard-earned change, and a search for missing parents.
Underground Records 0 - Taking the Case starts a new Mayhemverse series by letting the table build its footing before the role-playing fully takes over.
A relaxed continuity check turns Yardak's Atlantean hesitation into a clear look at how the show's election took shape.
Masks and Mayhem's "Retcon Report: Season 3, Part 2" revisits the back half of Season 3, from Chapters 81 through 89, with room for related streams and bonus material.
A vampire nightcap, a burning mountain vision, and a nat 20 give the magical chaos a satisfying snap.
Magical energy, alien danger, vampire manners, and Ruby's visions all press in at once as Equinox, Ruby, and Felipe try to keep up with trouble coming from every side.
A superhero departure and an occult fresh start meet over uneasy small-town ties.
A superhero standoff pushes one figure toward space, while a newcomer in town tests whether a fresh start can ever fully outrun the past. The episode is sharpest when it lets oversized comic-book trouble rub against everyday unease: Jack's becomes the kind of local stop where…
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
The Killer Bee's body and the Fridge morgue drive 'Underground Records 1 - Who Killed the Killer Bee?,' as Timber, Samantha Stanwyck, the Dirt Magus, and Silas follow Moe's leads through the Blue Rose Inn, the Loop, and the Bronze Toad.
Masks and Mayhem's "Underground Records 0 - Taking the Case" opens with Jordan GMing a session-zero for Dan, Rachel, J, and Bastion.
Masks and Mayhem’s Retcon Report revisits Chapters 81 through 89 of Season 3 and several streams, starting with the aftermath of the Midnight Wars.
Masks and Mayhem's 'Annular Eclipse of the Heart' ties Naren Betrus's crash-landing to Ruby's vision of the Chakotay Mountains on fire, with Serena the Sorceress standing over several dead allies.
["Masks and Mayhem's \"The Moment You Doubt\" follows Ruby and Trevor Bennett through Darkest Before Dawn, an occult shop in the downtown district packed with pentagrams, skulls, bones, candles, and old leather books.", "Agent Kevin Lewis sends Ruby to the shop because someone may be trying to move a powerful artifact, and Alexander Saxon shows up with an ornate green-and-gold box that Felipe Dawn cannot open.", "Ruby tries on a skeletal-hand ring with a ruby, photographs the box, and gets caught in a tense conversation when Felipe locks the front door and asks who sent her.", "The pressure eases only after Felipe offers Trevor a room above the shop and Jack at Jack's tells him to come back tomorrow after Ruby vouches for him."]
Masks and Mayhem: True Depths Unknown, Part 3 resumes a vote-related power struggle in Atlantis with King Yarkaven and Prince Yarkalen held captive.
Yardak, Visual Aid, and Prince Yarkalen investigate possible election sabotage inside Atlantis after Ula Bryn warns of panic, strife, and pain.
Yardak meets United States President Abigail Ritter in October 2024 to challenge new visa restrictions on Chenpar Atlan residents.
Masks and Mayhem: A Stab in the Dark follows Ruby, Yardak, Rickard, and Bethany through wedding planning, a Space Cadet shoot, and a night at Jack’s bar in Riverside City.
Masks and Mayhem's “Extended Play 1 - Avatar Legends” records a tabletop one-shot built in Yu Dao, the oldest Fire Nation colony in the Earth Kingdom.
A superhero RPG actual play where heroes face a mysterious octagonal object and personal drama.
In this episode, the heroes deal with a car stunt gone wrong, a summons from Atlantis, and a mysterious figure in the water.
In this episode, the heroes investigate underground activity and encounter a young boy named Mosey, while Brock reunites with his son.