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Game Info

Title  Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game
Authors  Cam Banks, Rob Donoghue, Jack Norris, Jesse Scoble, Aaron Sullivan, Chad Underkoffler
Book Type  Core Rules
Rank: [ 155 / 4196 ]
Genre  Super Hero
Setting  Marvel Universe
Other Tags 
Group: Avengers
Edition Info  Margaret Weis Productions (2012)
Stock: 6000
ISBN: 978-1-936685-16-5
System  Marvel Heroic
Parent: [ Cortex Plus ]

Game Summary

The fourth licensed Marvel roleplaying game is broken into two sections: The rules are found in the Operations Manual, which uses a variation on Margaret Weis Productions' house system, Cortex; while Breakout is an adventure based on New Avengers #1–6. From MWP's webstore:
The Avengers have been disassembled, the Fantastic Four are somewhere in space, and the X-Men aren’t answering their phone. When dozens of dangerous villains are sprung from the maximum-maximum security prison known as the Raft, who’s going to stop them? You are.

The MARVEL HEROIC ROLEPLAYING Basic Game uses the acclaimed “Breakout” story arc from Brian Michael Bendis’ New Avengers to launch the MARVEL HEROIC ROLEPLAYING product line. The Operations Manual gives you all the rules you need to play, from gathering your heroes to taking on the likes of Carnage and Mister Hyde in a desperate free-for-all!

  • Hero Files for Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Iron Man, Wolverine, and more!
  • A mighty mob of Marvel Super Villains, from Armadillo to Zzzax!
  • Easy to learn game rules make this a perfect entry point to super hero roleplaying games!
  • All the action and drama that gamers have come to expect from Margaret Weis Productions and the Cortex Plus System!

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$19.99, full color.

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5 + 4briski. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying deserves high marks for its strong production, reasonable price and interesting rules approach -- even if it is a rules system that rubs me the wrong way.
5 + 3Dirk Vandereyken. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is the 4th RPG based on the Marvel Universe. It uses a simplified version of the acclaimed Cortex system.

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9 / 10DropkickerThis is the best game I've found for doing supers and has become my default system.
8 / 10TrippyHippyExuberant adaptation of a popular, vast and ever expanding intellectual property. The mechanics take some time to get used to, but they are evocative of the full colour action that brings the superhero genre to life and, for fans of the comics, it provides a perfect stepping stone into roleplaying. It does largely assume the use of established Marvel characters, however, with none of the detailed character generation schemes found in other supers rpgs.

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