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Who loves superheroes games? Marvel Super-Heroes was our favorite, What's yours?

Art by Steven Butler. From Avengers Coast-to-Coast 1984.

#TTRPG #Marvel #FASERIP

If you are looking for some super hero rpg rules in the public domain, I put together Phase Four many years ago (based off of 4CS).

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/187251/Phase-Four

All the text is public domain. All of the images are public domain in the United States as best as I could research them. Most of them are comic book images that lapsed their copyright when you use to have to renew your copyright.

I keep all of the text in my codeberg repository as a markdown file as well.

https://codeberg.org/random-wizard/phase-four/src/branch/main/markdown

#rpg #faserip #ttrpg #superhero #games

Started a thread about #superhero speedster running speed and the slowness of the speed table in Advanced #FASERIP (by Gurbintroll Games, a retro-clone of the 1980s Marvel Super Heroes) on Big Purple.

True to form, respondants keep bringing up things like extra actions and multiattacks, even though I SPECIFICALLY stated, more than onece, that I was only talking about straightline speeds. Thread is full of it.

Big Purple gonna Big Purple.

My copy of Advanced #FASERIP from #GurbintrollGames is finally here, after a week's delay. I'm excited! I never had any contact with the original Marvel version (sadly!), and only had a PDF of Phil Reed's older 4C retro-clone, so it's wonderful to have a beautiful hardback of the system to hold in my hands. Looking forward to making use of it! The Resolution Table on the back cover is particularly delightful.

Who is gaming this weekend?

Here are the new items in the #etsy shop. More superheroes than you can shake a stick at, a very fun introduction to the Third edition game, and some Dragon Lords for D20.

https://deigames.etsy.com

#ttrpg #D20 #superhero #FASERIP #shopsmall

@vkfarfalle

Five fave #TTRPG settings.

#JohnWick's #TheFlux (this is really every setting. Take a look at it to see what I mean).
#Spiritof77 America.
#StarWarsd6 Universe
#FASERIP #MarvelSuperHeroes (originally Earth 616, but they're pretty much all good).
#SpookyBeans (The Hollow).

@vkfarfalle

Five fave #TTRPG settings.

#JohnWick's #TheFlux (this is really every setting. Take a look at it to see what I mean).
#Spiritof77 America.
#StarWarsd6 Universe
#FASERIP #MarvelSuperHeroes (originally Earth 616, but they're pretty much all good).
#SpookyBeans (The Hollow).

@vkfarfalle

Five fave #TTRPG settings.

#JohnWick's #TheFlux (this is really every setting. Take a look at it to see what I mean).
#Spiritof77 America.
#StarWarsd6 Universe
#FASERIP #MarvelSuperHeroes (originally Earth 616, but they're pretty much all good).
#SpookyBeans (The Hollow).

@Covok Dollars-to-no-nuts that the people currently in the #Marvel marketing arm never actually heard of #FASERIP, and might not even understand what it was in the context of the game market at the time, or at the current day.

I'm pretty sure they don't actually understand what the RPG industry is. Only that comic fans often overlap in terms of storefront space with RPGs, and they have heard that comics are in some way connected to their industry.

The funny thing is that several of those Marvel RPGs are actually pretty good. Not all of them, of course. But some of them are quite well-designed in themselves.

They just get no support because as a licensing entity, Marvel has always been a bit of a nightmare, trying to support a #TTRPG in the context of what Marvel demands in terms of updating and expanding what's already published is just impossible.

Bit of a shame, but that's the thing. Licensed properties are really kind of a pit for publishers. Even when they are well done and successful.

This is what I though after seeing the portrait of Charles Windsor that is making the rounds on social network.

Baron Blooddeath
F (RM)30
A (Gd)10
S (Gd)10
E (In)40
R (Gd)10
I (Gd) 10
P (Pr) 4

H 90
K 24
Popularity -75
Wealth (In) 40

Powers
Psychic Vampire (Un) 100

Talents
Weaponmaster

Contacts
Mi6, SAS, British Government, HYDRA

#faserip #rpgs #statthis #villain

A new used book store recently opened near me (a wonder in itself, given how rare they've become) and they have an unexpectedly wide spread of gaming materials. Working on my own FASERIP retro-clone, these are well-timed finds. On first read-through, they make it clear how MSHRPG was first and foremost designed as a battle-map game. "Time Trap" is directly just a contrivance to teleport the PCs to different battlefields to face villains of escalating power. #FASERIP

1/2 Delving into the history of #FASERIP its interesting how the original texts are conflicted on what Power Stunts are for, even though they're now often seen as a core feature of the system. They're unmentioned in either Basic set, not appearing until the Advanced books. And despite how the rules describe them (spectacularly pushing an existing power into a wildly new use) the various character rosters list power stunts as if they were fairly mundane expressions of existing powers.

I had an "if you were to wish for something to find" find at a local comic shop today!! I am so very excited! It all came in one box!

#Marvel #TSR #FASERIP #RPG

If I've got this out, it can only mean one thing!

#TTRPG #MSH #FASERIP #UniversalTable

Well, I'm developing a crush on #FASERIP again, and for once it's well-timed. Two of the system's major retroclones (FASERIP proper and Astonishing Super Heroes) are getting revisions.

Well, we didn't get to play Shattered Circle last night due to an illness. I convinced the remaining players to make up some superhero characters for Marvel (#FASERIP). The results were interesting. More to come, I'm sure.

#DnD #ADnD #RPG #TTRPG

@DM_Zeppelin ❤️❤️❤️ #FASERIP 🦸🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀ One of the easiest #TTRPG systems to teach to new players. One table to rule them all.

I'm about 20 pages into my revamp of the Marvel Super Heroes RPG character creation system as presented in the Ultimate Powers Book. I'm really like what I've put together so far.

#FASERIP #RPG

All this talk about #FASERIP has got me energised for it.

I've just started working on "Advanced FASERIP".

May the Lord have mercy on my soul.

Last night, my cousin created a character for the Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set RPG (using the Ultimate Powers Book). It's his 2nd character in the new setting I've created.

The setting: Modern day. In the mid 1990's, the Celestial Host arrived and judged Earth not worthy. Heroes and villains united and fought them. They all were slain or have vanished - nobody knows. No new powered people have shown themselves... until now.

#TTRPG #SuperHeroes #Marvel #FASERIP

In a #FASERIP game, where I got to do some actual RPing outside my character's normal skill set (The Human Tank is not good at de-escalation, but he tried...), *and* I got to do things well within my skill set (basically, punching someone *literally* off the map). That's a good #TTRPG session. :)

@Tim_Eagon #FASERIP, #Traveller , #Icons , #LOTFP, #DCC

#7TTRPGs that have influenced me, no attention paid to order:

#ADnD
#ChampionsRPG
#ChillRPG
#UnknownArmiesRPG
#FASERIP (Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game)
#SlasherFlick
#SpiritOf77

#7TTRPGs that have influenced me, no attention paid to order:

#ADnD
#ChampionsRPG
#ChillRPG
#UnknownArmiesRPG
#FASERIP (Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game)
#SlasherFlick
#SpiritOf77

#7TTRPGs that have influenced me, no attention paid to order:

#ADnD
#ChampionsRPG
#ChillRPG
#UnknownArmiesRPG
#FASERIP (Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game)
#SlasherFlick
#SpiritOf77

#introductionTTRPG
To help make #TTRPG connections name…
Last 5 #ttrpgs you played
AND
Next 5 you really want to play!
AND
Next 5 genres/game systems you enjoy!
Then, boost this post so others know to do the same!
_Last Five_
#LabyrinthLord
#Traveller (Mongoose 1st)
#Shadowrun5
#CallofCthulhu
#Homebrew

_Next Five_
#Homebrew
#CallofCthulhu
#TheDarkEye/#DSA
#Mausritter
#Faserip

_Enjoy_
#fantasy
#spaceopera
#cthulhu
#osr
#sciencefantasy