![]() ![]() The granddaddy of RPGs, TSR, began the tradition with 1984’s Marvel Super Heroes and followed it up with Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game in 1998. This new game, written by New York Times best-selling author Matt Forbeck, who also designed the system alongside Mike Caps and John Nee, promises full access to the Marvel Comics universe. ![]() Its heroes feel posed, sterile and unmoving, while the game itself leans a bit too far into gimmicks and fan service. Is it an aspirational fondness? Do we study their fictional lives so that we might better model our own on their exploits? Or is it instead a devotional kind of admiration for a more perfect humanity? The new playtest document spends more than 120 pages scaffolding rules and minutiae for a system that ultimately feels like a third option: Reading comics in order to choose the best action figures for a display case. Why do we enjoy superhero stories? This question kept nagging me while I read through an early preview of the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game.
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