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

 

[Abstruse]

Matt Forbeck and the Marvel properties could really bring some top names to a streaming of games using the 616 system. Matt has worked with tons of RPG luminaries and if someone got Jeff Goldblum to play an RPG in a stream, could you imagine Marvel getting Chris Evans or Tom Holland or Benedict Cumberbatch playing the game online?

The question is which Marvel is doing this.

Right now, Marvel is technically two companies that are subsidiaries of Disney. Marvel Studios creates the MCU material - the movies and TV shows. Marvel Entertainment is the comic book company, which has had...let's just summarize by saying "management issues". So if this is being done by Marvel Entertainment (which is more likely), they won't have access to the MCU actors.

Also...when your film-based partner company has four of the top ten highest-grossing films of all time, I don't think any amount of live streaming is going to help brand exposure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Also...when your film-based partner company has four of the top ten highest-grossing films of all time, I don't think any amount of live streaming is going to help brand exposure.

It'll bring a ton of awareness to the product.

 

[Umbran]

The question is which Marvel is doing this.

It says right on the bottom of the press release that it is from Marvel Entertainment.

 

[Umbran]

Matt has worked with tons of RPG luminaries and if someone got Jeff Goldblum to play an RPG in a stream, could you imagine Marvel getting Chris Evans or Tom Holland or Benedict Cumberbatch playing the game online?

That would be interesting, but unlikely. There's money to be had in actual play, but I wouldn't expect it to be enough to be worth what those people can rightfully change for their time and involvement.

Maybe for a charity event? Make a donation to watch the Actual Play stream? That might work.

 

[BrockBallingdark]

Sure. But that was nearly 20 years ago.

Marvel Entertainment, as an organization, is an entirely different beast today. I am not sure why you would expect the same behavior.

I agree on this 1000 percent.

 

[aramis erak]

The question is which Marvel is doing this.

Right now, Marvel is technically two companies that are subsidiaries of Disney. Marvel Studios creates the MCU material - the movies and TV shows. Marvel Entertainment is the comic book company, which has had...let's just summarize by saying "management issues". So if this is being done by Marvel Entertainment (which is more likely), they won't have access to the MCU actors.

Also...when your film-based partner company has four of the top ten highest-grossing films of all time, I don't think any amount of live streaming is going to help brand exposure.

If they're using Universe 616, it's almost assuredly Marvel Entertainment.
If it were universe 199999, it'd be almost assured to be Marvel Studios.
There are well over a dozen different numbered universes...but they each fall under one or the other.

As for brand exposure, it never hurts to get more. And until Marvel has the top 20, they're going to keep going for more. Hell, all top 20 probably won't be enough.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If they're using Universe 616, it's almost assuredly Marvel Entertainment.
If it were universe 199999, it'd be almost assured to be Marvel Studios.

The art and the d616, etc., show it's 616. That said, it seems like an obvious move to have the MCU as an alternate setting, either within the core book or in a supplement. (Some of us won't use the Marvel Universe at all, and just use the corebook to make our own superhero universes, of course.)

 

[Parmandur]

The art and the d616, etc., show it's 616. That said, it seems like an obvious move to have the MCU as an alternate setting, either within the core book or in a supplement. (Some of us won't use the Marvel Universe at all, and just use the corebook to make our own superhero universes, of course.)

Yeah, I really hope this is a robust system...

 

[Umbran]

If they're using Universe 616, it's almost assuredly Marvel Entertainment.

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[darjr]

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