Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"

[sieg]

Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"

Excelsior, True Believers! The Fab Four Halflings take a dive into that first licensed Superhero RPG of the 1980s, the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game box set by TSR. Published in 1984, it took a few directions that Supers RPGs hadn't yet tried such as ranks for both attributes and powers, Karma as both XPs and die roll mods, and of course getting statistics for your favorite Marvel heroes. Well, 8 of them anyway. Sit back and enjoy our Remarkable coverage of an Incredible game in Amazing detail...'Nuff said!

No Trademarks were harmed in the making of this podcast, despite TSR's providing them. A lot.

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Links mentioned in this show:

Classic Marvel Forever website
www.classicmarvelforever.com/cms/

FASERIP RPG on Drive-Thru RPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177913/Faserip


Marvel Super-Heroes on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game)

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[scottenkainen]

This episode went up on my birthday, but I'm just getting to it now. I LOVE Marvel Super Heroes because I'm one of those guys who, 13 when this came out and groomed on D&D and already a Marvel zombie, this game was made for. I loved that the rules were written in-character, so my favorite heroes were teaching me the game.

DM Liz is exactly right on this one. I agree that the sheer amount of Karma you need to spend for advancement never appealed to me and seems to have anticipated players gaming the Karma system in ways I never used to see happen. And the universal table *is* truly elegant.

Random character generation is the best! I often randomly roll my race and class when playing D&D these days too.

Ha! I love the little bonus treat at the end. Marvel Marching Society indeed!

[sieg]

Random superpowers is one of those things people seem to either love or hate. I'm in the latter column I'm afraid, on the Ol' Universal table...with a red result!