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

 

[payn]

Hmm, "All new D616 system" what does that mean?

 

[Parmandur]

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.

 

[R_J_K75]

Sounds intriguing, but I wonder how many cross over issues will I need to buy to complete an adventure?

 

[eyeheartawk]

What's the over/under on how many books come out for this before Marvel yanks the license out from under them? Recent history has shown that this will be likely.

 

[Umbran]

Forbeck was the designer behind Brave New World, a short-lived supers game from Pinnacle Entertainment. I wonder if D616 will be a mechanical descendant, or if it will really be "all new".

 

[R_J_K75]

What's the over/under on how many books come out for this before Marvel yanks the license out from under them? Recent history has shown that this will be likely.

Thats the whole plot of Phase 5. now its ruined.

 

[Umbran]

What's the over/under on how many books come out for this before Marvel yanks the license out from under them? Recent history has shown that this will be likely.

Well, it looks like this is being published by Marvel Entertainment itself. It is hard to yank a license out from under yourself.

The bigger question is whether this game will have the same base flaw as Marvel Super Heroic Role Playing - centered on playing canonical characters and past comics plotlines, rather than playing your own.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Thats the whole plot of Phase 5. now its ruined.

I thought the plot of Phase 5 is that Dumbledore dies.

 

[R_J_K75]

I thought the plot of Phase 5 is that Dumbledore dies.

And Dumbo flies