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All of the character growth mentioned so far is covered by the game, if that helps assuage any fears. But there aren't any levels or point totals. Cheers, Cam

It's something of an homage to the original Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set. If things go well this year, we might put out an Advanced Game next year, adding more content and variants. We'll see! Cheers, Cam

Speaking of rolling the dice, that's the subject of this week's preview of the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game. Also, check out the jazzy layouts by Jeremy Keller based on concepts by John Harper: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Preview #3 Cheers, Cam

All together in a pool. Take two & add them together as your total. :) Cheers, Cam

Thanks to Greg K for assembling that info. One of my favorite things about the RPG.net thread (we're onto our third one now, actually) is that for the most part folks are not down on other games, but interested in hearing what Marvel Heroic Roleplaying does that's different or similar. I...

I'm running a weekly Pendragon campaign set in Cameliard, the kingdom Guinevere will one day come from. The player knights are vassals of King Leodegrance, an ally of King Uther, and will be witnesses to the other side of the story than the traditional Arthur Boy King aspect. I'm done with the...

We aren't releasing the Supernatural Road Atlas. Nobody at our company would have told you that you could get it by special order or print on demand. The book was never written, and I'm in a position to know that for certain. Cheers, Cam

I know a fair bit about Dragonlance. How to write adventure paths for it, how to design around existing editions for it, how to write a short story and a novel for it. I've thought and thought and thought about it for many years, and at one point it was pretty much my day job; I knew the...

Shoot me an email at cam AT margaretweis DOT com and I'll see if I can help you out. :) Cortex Plus changes with each game we develop with it, as I've come to believe that a license or genre should have the system designed toward it, rather than the other way around. So Leverage is fast, with...

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying doesn't even have ability scores or stats, which is a bit of a change for some people. Actions are always opposed by reactions, which means there are no fixed difficulty numbers. It's really quite different from a lot of other games on the market, and yet in other ways...

As you can probably imagine, the superhero RPG I play these days is one I'm designing. You can check out more about Marvel Heroic Roleplaying here: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Promo This also shows off Captain America datafile. Release for the Basic Game book is February 2012. Cheers, Cam

Cortex Plus is quite a bit different from Serenity's version of Cortex, and indeed came about as a result of feedback I had gathered over the past few years. Each implementation of Cortex Plus is geared toward the license or genre; there is no single core rulebook application that covers all...

You don't want to mess with Apocalypse Pony. We're incredibly excited by this license. We have some great industry brains working together with me for the rules concept stage. I'm looking forward to talking about it beyond the veil of secrecy. Cheers, Cam

Nope, they weren't involved in the writing of the game, but I do know the staff at Electric reviewed the manuscript from start to finish and became very familiar with the rules. Enough so that we even got some feedback and corrections from them saying we'd contradicted a rule in one or two...

Thanks for posting this! Six players isn't as bad as it sounds. At conventions we've run the game with six seats at a table, usually by adding Tara Cole to the Crew. She's a Grifter, like Sophie, but her Secondary Role is Hacker rather than Sophie's Thief. Two Grifters also expands the range of...

GM is often re-interpreted as Game Moderator, which might be better for some than Game Master. In the games I've worked on recently we acknowledge that while the GM role is important, they're a player just like anybody else. We put a lot more power onto the players or the group at the table...

You know, if Fajitas didn't already have a copy of the LEVERAGE RPG we recently released (in print soon!) I can certainly take care of that. And the rest of you have already checked it out, right? Right? Cheers, Cam

Given the nature of the licenses we work with at MWP, I figure a lot of gaming follows TV structure and vice versa. In fact, with Smallville we even go to some length in describing an episodic format, with opening scenes and tag scenes (the ending scenes that wrap up the story). Leverage has...

Smallville doesn't have Attributes. It rates each character's Values of Truth, Love, Power, Glory, Justice, and Duty, as well as a character's Relationships with other characters. Cheers, Cam

This is an excellent list. I would like to suggest an addition: the final print issue of DRAGON (#359) also included an article by me about who'd win between Raistlin and Elminster, which I suppose qualifies as DL. :) Cheers, Cam