Marvel Superheroes (or sometimes "Marvel FASERIP"- a reference to the character attributes: Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition, and Psyche.) was a wildly successful superhero RPG in the early days of roleplaying.
#Marvel heroic roleplaying character creation official license
In 1984, TSR scored the Marvel License based on the success of their pioneering Dungeons & Dragons. Marvel Superheroes Role Playing Game - TSR (1984)Īh, FASERIP Marvel.how you colored my superhero roleplaying from the get go. But, like last month's review of DC Adventures, I also wanted to give this a bit of background first. I wanted to have the book in my hands (which I do), and be able to dive into its pages in order to give a well reasoned review. I just favor this approach to the default presented in the book.I wanted to give Marvel Heroic a couple weeks to simmer before I reviewed it. If players want to purchase XP with their plot points (on a 1 for 1 basis), let them. Better to give the players actually useful bits of feedback for their triggering Milestones, especially when you’re using characters that shouldn’t really change that much over time. Superhero gaming that defaults to big name characters isn’t going to see that much “advancement” as it is. It’s a minor change, that’s largely semantic as you can buy a plot point with an XP anyway, but it changes the focus from the XP system to the actual play going on at the table. House Rule: Instead of rewarding XP for triggering a Milestone, change the default to characters earning plot points. The system is clearly getting in the way of the role-playing here. If the system says, “No, you can’t role-play a scene redeeming a prisoner because you didn’t spend the XP” or “No, you can’t play a reformed villain from the raft because no one spent the XP” then it’s a bad mechanic. That’s purely an exercise in role-playing as to whether the player wants to engage in that, and purely a player choice if they would like to play a reformed inmate during the next act of the event. The system is letting you cash out of role-playing, that is counter-intuitive for a narrative based game to do. You can either role-play the interaction between your character and Bob during the scene, trying to bring down his d12 complication of “Guilt” or you can simply burn 5/10 XP to do the same. Granted, unlockables can be written to not be required for the completion of the Event, and hopefully they will be written in a loose, not required to complete the Event manner, but it still rubs me the wrong way that changes to the story that should be purely a matter of role-playing are tied up in the expenditure of XP.įor me The Sentry unlockable is a perfect example of why I don’t like this system. If they don’t get the XP they can’t unlock story elements that often are required for the story to progress. If the players don’t actively pursue their Milestones they don’t get the XP. They are meant to offer players something to spend their XP on instead of character advancement (a perennial thorn in the side of supers gaming), which is a great touch, but it just doesn’t work for me. However, many of the unlockables presented in the Breakout mini-event simply don’t make sense to me from a narrative point of view. Just swap out a Milestone and your character is refocused on these other goals, and is rewarded for chasing after them. I enjoy the Milestone system as it offers a way to customize a character without having to rewrite the entire thing. But, for me at least, one way it just doesn’t quite work is XP and unlockables. It never feels like you’re standing around waiting for the bad guys to hit you. The game play just flows like a comic book, the action-reaction set up makes it feel like the action you see on the page or screen. I really love a lot of what Marvel Heroic does.
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