It's a one book game with three available at launch, the core, a GM kit and a world book. That's not any different to M&M3e where you have the Deluxe Hero's Handbook, a GM kit was released and World of Freedom, the default setting used in the core rules.
Marvel went in house as you said and that was their business plan to control quality. Marvel hasn't had a successful game since the original TSR game. It's also pretty simple, unlike M&M, for character creation and feels very similar to FASERIP in that sense. They wanted to catch the casual Marvel fan aaaand get the big box retailers. Target carries Marvel Multiverse on their shelves and it sells quick. My local stores were out a couple weeks ago and have since restocked in significant quantities, similarly with my Books A Million. My local comic shop sells it and they had dropped everything but D&D. I don't see Green Ronin having the same success with distribution to meet Marvel's needs.
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No doubt. And maybe it’s Kobold Press’s problem. But how can they operate brands that seem so similar (“valiant”, and same colour scheme) without coming into conflict?
A conflict Kobold would probably lose if it came to that.
Comic books vs TTRPGs are not similar brands. Valiant is a regular English word. I guess whatever trademark Valiant has is not enough to stop the / extend to the kobolds.
I’d expect the kobolds to have done their homework before settling on that name
I agree 100%
That "older fluff part" could be CGLs work and I doubt they'd hand it over as they seem to still be selling it. Now if CGL just cut and pasted something out of the Valiant bibles, they could do the same, but they'd have to go hunt it down in the same word document as a matter of due diligence to avoid plagiarism.
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