Hulk might be one of the strongest beings in the Marvel universe, but he has serious anger problems and can cause a lot of collateral damage when he loses control.įinally, the character building system is specific enough to make each character unique, but has enough commonalities that creating a hero from scratch or depict a character from a completely different intellectual property, making crossovers a very distinct possibility! Some of the most interesting characters in the Marvel universe tend to have crippling personality flaws that offset their powers. I like this system, because of how true it is to the source material. In other words, character customization cannot truly be “optimized” like in other games, because there are no power limitations besides what your Watcher will allow. A character that has a power set full of d12 traits with no downsides will likely be turned down by your Watcher. This means that if you’re making your own Marvel Heroic Roleplaying datafiles, you and your Watcher must agree on all aspects of that character. The game doesn’t try to fight this by making all characters the same in terms of power, instead trying to make characters unique enough that not everyone demands to play the most powerful character. This is intentional.Ĭharacters in comic books often vary greatly in power from one another, but that never stops them from working together or against one another. The interesting part of character creation in this system is that the Basic Game does not provide strict guidelines for how powerful a character can be. The system itself has also been “hacked” for use in a more standard sword-and-sorcery setting, a Star Wars setting, the fan-favorite Torg setting, and more. Into this void stepped the fan community.Įven before Marvel Heroic Roleplaying was officially released, prospective players were using what they knew of the rules to create custom datafiles of their favorite Marvel heroes. Even though the selections included with the game are popular, comic fans usually have their own favourites, many of whom had not been included. However, there were some notable omissions, like Thor and Hawkeye (who have both since been released for free by MWP) and Hulk, who has yet to be officially released but has had many fan treatments from the community.
The Civil War Event, just recently released, offers a further 32, some of whom are updated versions of prior heroes for use specifically in Civil War. The Basic Game comes with 22 Hero character sheets, or Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Datafiles, most of which represent characters that are very popular heroes in their own right in the Marvel universe. Having said that, let’s jump into customization (because I know you can’t wait to get your own Marvel Heroic Roleplaying PDF for Akuma!) Customizing Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Datafiles: They’ve been a source of inspiration to myself and a great resource to the community, and I can’t thank them enough. The datafile template used below for my custom characters were modified from those they use.
This piece will focus mostly on character creation and show you some examples of custom heroes with some design notes on choices I made while making them.Īs a disclaimer before I begin, I’d like to thank the fine folks over at Plot Points. Our final installment of our introduction to Marvel Heroic Roleplaying focuses on customization! The system is very flexible and allows players to play the hero they want to play.
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