Marvel to Launch Official 'MARVEL MULTIVERSE' Tabletop Role-Playing Game in 2022

Matt Forbeck announced on Twitter that he’s working on a new in-house D616 Marvel RPG due for a 2022 release! It looks like there will be an open playtest.



What’s the D617 System? “… the all-new D616 System, an accessible and easy-to-learn system for newcomers to tabletop RPGs and a natural evolution for those familiar with the most popular tabletop role-playing games on the market. Use Might, Agility, Resilience, Vigilance, Ego, and Logic to win the day, and discover your true abilities as you face impossible odds!”

Marvel to Launch Official 'MARVEL MULTIVERSE' Tabletop Role-Playing Game in 2022

Use the all-new D616 game system to embody your favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains like never before!

www.marvel.com

 

[TwoSix]

I am down for this. I am not that thrilled with a d16. Feels like a gimmick.

There's no chance in hell it's actually going to use a d16.

 

[Umbran]

but you can still make a character.

With respect, failure to prohibit a thing is not the same as actually supporting that thing.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

I see nothing about "just learned" in that statement.

Is a "natural evolution" of 5e back towards traditional design, or out towards newer design?

We’re probably overthinking it (as we all love to), but I bet this just means it’s as easy to learn as 5e but maybe with more powers. For example, while I hate AC, that sort of approach would be a lot more streamlined than a Champions-style breakdown of roll to hit, apply active defenses, armor once you’re hit, etc. I feel like their signaling a general level of crunch and complexity, in other words.

Aaaaaaand now I’ve written a totally useless comment speculating about a game that I won’t ever buy or play. Well done, Marvel, joke’s on me.

 

[Espadadelaaurora]

That will be the fifth encarnation of the game, a bit tired of yet another system change, but well if Marvel is behind the game there's no risk of dropping the license.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We’re probably overthinking it (as we all love to), but I bet this just means it’s as easy to learn as 5e but maybe with more powers. For example, while I hate AC, that sort of approach would be a lot more streamlined than a Champions-style breakdown of roll to hit, apply active defenses, armor once you’re hit, etc. I feel like their signaling a general level of crunch and complexity, in other words.

Villains & Vigilantes, one of the very first superhero RPGs, was extremely similar to BD&D in its approach. It wasn't a perfect game, by any means -- game balance? what's that? -- but it's definitely possible to do it. Incorporating some more modern game design -- advantage/disadvantage, a simplified power list that focuses on reskinning abilities instead of coming up with 1,000 different ones to keep track of -- and you could definitely make it work. After all, Mutants & Masterminds runs on the 3E OGL under the hood (and has obviously built a lot on top of that chassis).

 

[payn]

There's no chanice in hell it's actually going to use a d16.

Darn, get more use outta me DCC dice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Darn, get more use outta me DCC dice.

Goodman didn't worry about DCC being accessible to RPG newbies (although the game is a pretty simple one to grasp). That's part of the mandate for this one. I wouldn't expect them to use any dice you can't find in a Barnes & Noble or Target, both of which now stock a decent selection of Chessex dice in my town.

 

[Greg K]

With respect, failure to prohibit a thing is not the same as actually supporting that thing.

But Cam has stated multiple times (in response to someone complaining that the game does not have character creation) that the game has character creation- the method is character modelling and everything need is there. It is a completely valid method even if some people are used to/ want random generation or point buy.

 

[Maxperson]

Earth-616 is the designation within the Marvel Multiverse for the classic comic book continuity (as opposed to Earth-199999 for the MCU, or Earth-1218 for the real world). Each possible Earth history has a "coordinate," so to speak.

Yep, but that still doesn't explain what a D616 is.

 

[Greg K]

That will be the fifth encarnation of the game, a bit tired of yet another system change, but well if Marvel is behind the game there's no risk of dropping the license.

Not true. They published the Marvel Universe Roleplay Game which they had designed by Q.E.D. They published the Avengers/ Hulk and X-Men books and dropped it before publishing the Spider-Man and Wolverine books