However, there were some notable omissions, like Thor and Hawkeye who have both since been released for free by MWP and Hulk, who has yet to be officially released but has had many fan treatments from the community.
Even though the selections included with the game are popular, comic fans usually have their own favourites, many of whom had not been included.
Into this void stepped the fan community. Even before Marvel Heroic Roleplaying was officially released, prospective players were using what they knew of the rules to create custom datafiles of their favorite Marvel heroes. The interesting part of character creation in this system is that the Basic Game does not provide strict guidelines for how powerful a character can be. This is intentional. Characters in comic books often vary greatly in power from one another, but that never stops them from working together or against one another.
A character that has a power set full of d12 traits with no downsides will likely be turned down by your Watcher. I like this system, because of how true it is to the source material.
Some of the most interesting characters in the Marvel universe tend to have crippling personality flaws that offset their powers. Hulk might be one of the strongest beings in the Marvel universe, but he has serious anger problems and can cause a lot of collateral damage when he loses control. Finally, the character building system is specific enough to make each character unique, but has enough commonalities that creating a hero from scratch or depict a character from a completely different intellectual property, making crossovers a very distinct possibility!
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Quicksilver may only target former mutants, he may only mimic powers they used to have, and they are the only ones that may benefit from the power.
When his sisters powers spiraled out of control, it was he who suggested the House of M universe that ultimately led to M-Day. Depowered and suicidal, Quicksilver hijacked the Inhumans Terrigen Mists to restore his powers.
Drawing their effects into himself, he is now able to spontaneously restore mutant powers in those who have lost them. On a successful reaction against a physical attack action, inflict physical stress with the effect die. If a pool includes a Time Manipulation power, spend a doom die to reroll.
SFX: Terrigen Surge. Step up or double any Time Manipulation power for one action. If the action fails, step back that power. Limit: Stolen Powers. If a pool includes a Time Manipulation power, both 1s and 2s on those dice count as opportunities, but only 1s are excluded from being used for totals or effect dice. As Manhattans mutant population rose, racism from Sapiens increased at an exponential rate. It was only a matter of time before mutants began banding together in their own community, similar to Chinatown, Harlem, and Little Italy.
Mutant Town, or District X as it was officially designated, was overcrowded with poor, often unemployed mutants and baseline humans trying to get through their day-to-day lives amid rampant crime, prostitution, drug trade, and mutant gang warfare.
It even boasted the largest unemployment, illiteracy, and crime rates anywhere outside of Los Angeles. In this shadow of poverty and crime, Mutant Town became a cultural center and population hub for mutantkind equaled only by Genosha before its demise. The city even took to employing some of the mutants in District X to help police the area, giving rise to private groups like X-Factor Investigations.
A clinic was opened to try to help depowered mutants cope and help them adapt to life after M-Day. New human gangs like The Reals rose up out of the ashes of mutant gangs to harass and punish depowered mutants. As time passed, even the moniker Mutant Town left the area and was replaced with the name Middle East Side. Yet X-Factor Investigations remained open to protect and help the remaining former mutants deal with the effects of M-Day and investigate the cause of the massive depowering.
Use them as a guide for bringing in the themes and issues surrounding those mutants who have lost their powers after M-Day and the aftermath of that widespread effect.
If Crusader is attacking a passenger plane instead of a military vessel, one of Madroxs dupes could be making his way home from learning new skills. Since Madroxs dupes can also multiply, this allows for a small army aboard. This could give Madrox the chance to contact people like Siryn or M to assist him in saving the plane and the target city from Crusaders wrath.
Theyre attacking depowered mutants wherever they find them. Its up to the heroes to stop the mob. With super heroes fighting the normal people, this could lead to lawsuits and property damage regardless of whether the heroes were in the right. Jamie would think nothing of bringing Siryn or Rictor to act as his conscience, or even better, bring M, capitalizing on her fame to bring some attention to the proceedings.
Plus, having a telepath in the room is always a good idea. XXAction: Confronted by S. This may give S. However, X-Factor knows the nooks and crannies of Mutant Town better than the city planners and can use the M-Town Underground Tunnels to easily evade capture. On the flipside, that same knowledge can be used to help another hero escape CapeKiller squads.
For example, using some of Laylas Uncanny Foresight, the heroes could find themselves in the right place with the right disguise to hide an escaping hero, possibly among Madroxs dupes, while the rest of the heroes further distract SHRA forces. This Scene happens when players are playing members of the X-Factor team. They seek to confront those whove been hiding the truth behind the depowering of most mutants on the planet. You should frame this Scene with either someone from X-Factor or one of their clients seeking to solve the mystery of the recent widespread loss of mutant powers.
There are a few ways to get the ball rolling here. X-Factor has been trying to solve the mystery of the Decimation pretty much since M-Day, so they could take it upon themselves to investigate.
Alternatively, a depowered mutant could hire X-Factor to try to discover the reason mutant powers disappeared. But this exmutant comes with a solid leada journal from a precognitive mutant, like Destiny. The journal has this cryptic entry: The downfall of the Children of the Atom began when blood-red vengeance struck the avengers. X-Factor also has a hanger-on in their midstsomeone whose shtick it is that she knows things.
If asked about the Decimation, Layla Miller initially shrugs and says theyd do better to ask the X-Men or the Avengers. That should, of course, raise more questions, but she cannily tries to avoid answering them unless confronted more insistently by the heroes, saying she could die if she talked. If shes pressed to reveal what she knows, chances are that someone from the Avengers or the X-Men intent on keeping the secret under wraps intervenes on her behalf.
Things may devolve into a shouting match if not handled diplomatically and may lead to an outright conflict. The heroes need to overcome these two Scene Distinctions to find them. Convincing them to cooperate is a whole other issue. However a meeting is arranged, the investigation should focus on questioning heroes who know what happened on M-Day, something none of the witnesses initially want to discuss. The situation may turn into an interrogation or devolve into good old-fashioned arguing.
Stressing the opposition out reveals the information X-Factor seeks and the conviction to take the next step. If the discussion escalates into combat, feel free to add appropriate Scene Distinctions based on which heroes are involved. The Scene ends when one of the hero groups stands down and leaves or is defeated.
You may ask if they side with the X-Men who have declared their neutralityunless established otherwise in your version of events. Further Scenes could focus on the impact of such decisions.
XXThis is a chance for X-Factor to take on any team out there and stake their claim to their home turf. The most important thing is that X-Factor claims Mutant Town as a haven for their chosen side. XXAnyone that was involved in House of M is fair game.
So in some way, theyre all responsible for keeping M-Day a secretnot only from the public, but also from groups like X-Factor who are trying to make things better for victims of the Decimation. This Event Supplement includes even more heroes ready to play. The lineup covers the X-Men, the members of X-Factor Investigations, and several other active mutant heroes and anti-heroes available during the Civil War storyline.
Note that for the sake of continuity, most of these datafiles reflect the characters as they are at the start of the Civil War, shortly before the passage of the Superhuman Registration Act. They may be chosen as player heroes from the beginning of Act One or used for new adventures after the main Civil War Event. As always, each hero datafile may be tweaked or adjusted to suit the needs of your players. Refer to Chapter Four of the Operations Manual for definitions, guidelines, and rules for doing so.
Hero datafiles that are not chosen by players may be converted into Watcher characters for use as antagonists or occasional allies. Even if the players dont use them, these heroes remain major characters and should keep their Affiliations at their listed ratings. SFX: Healing Blood. Add Superhuman Stamina to your dice pool when helping others recover stress. Spend 1 pp to recover your own or anothers physical stress or step back your own or anothers physical trauma.
SFX: Winged Charge. Against a single target, step up or double Subsonic Flight. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for your total. Limit: Legacy of Apocalypse. Step up emotional stress inflicted by issues with your history as Archangel to gain 1 pp. After a brief solo career, he joined the original class of X-Men as Angel.
He returned home to discover his father murdered at the hands of his villainous uncle, Dazzler, who had schemed to marry and murder Warrens mother; the plan was thwarted, but not before Warrens mother succumbed to Dazzlers poison. Warren left the X-Men, first joining the Los Angeles-based Champions, and then becoming a member and financier of the Defenders. Warren later joined the rest of the original X-Men on the new X-Factor team. Angels wings were mutilated while defending the Morlocks from the Mutant Massacre.
The ancient and powerful mutant Apocalypse struck a deal with Warren, replacing Angels amputated feathery wings with deadly techno-organic steel, turning Angels skin blue, and transforming him into ArchangelHorseman of Death.
Under Apocalypses thrall, Warren fought against his friends until he was tricked into believing he had killed Iceman. Warren regained control and worked hard to deprogram himself. After suffering an attack at the hands of Sabretooth, Archangel took time off to recuperate, ultimately shedding his metallic wings and revealing his original, feathered wings underneath. During a battle with Black Tom, Warrens skin reverted to normal color and he discovered a secondary mutation that gave his blood healing properties.
Warrens natural abilities included increased muscle mass, hollow bones, the ability to withstand the rigors of high-atmosphere flight, and incredible stamina. After his transformation by Apocalypse, his wings became dangerously sharp weapons, capable of firing deadly quills, and his physical abilities were increased.
When he regained his original form, it triggered a secondary mutation that allows his blood to heal himself and others. In addition to his mutant powers, Warren is the primary shareholder of Worthington Industries. He is an original member of the X-Men, and has connections with other heroes from his stints on other super teams.
Between his wealth, his business and a lifetime of heroics, Warren can call upon great resources and contacts throughout the super hero community. As a child of wealth, Angel lived an indulgent, carefree existence as a playboy. During his original tenure at Xavier Institute of Higher Learning, Angel was an inattentive student more interested in Jean Greys attentions than his lessons. Though he hid his mutation from the public, he felt less of an outcast than many of his teammates, reveling in adventuring and super heroics.
After being transformed into Archangel, Warren became dark and brooding, lamenting his transformation and mourning his loss of innocence. Warrens shifting back and forth between his Angel and Archangel forms did not hamper his romantic relationships, though, which included teammates Husk and Psylocke.
As he matured, Archangel became a public spokesperson for mutantkind and took an active hand running Worthington Industries. Recently, his appearance has returned to his original form, but the scars on his soul remain unhealed. Spend 1 pp to recover your physical stress or step back your physical trauma. Spend 1 pp to add a doom die to your next attack action. After your action, step back the doom die and return it to the doom pool. Already mentally gifted, he studied biochemistry and genetics under Professor Xavier and eventually became the X-Mens resident science expert.
Eventually, Hank left the X-Men to work in the private sector. Employed by the Brand Corporation, he made great strides in understanding the nature of human mutation.
This changed when Hank discovered his boss was stealing classified government documents. Determined to stop the espionage himself, he took an experimental formula to augment his abilities and mask his appearance.
His heroics succeeded, but the formula permanently changed him. Now a blue, furry, simian-like mutant, Hank left the private sector and returned to super heroics. During this time he briefly regained his more human appearance, though his body suffered frequent mutations, with effects such as a temporary decrease in intellect and increase in strength.
Finally, Beast returned to his blue, furry form and his original home with the X-Men. Beast eventually mutated again into his current formone larger, stronger, and more cat-like. He serves as primary physician, research scientist, and technician for the X-Men, roles for which he is ideally suited. With the possible exception of Wolverine, no mutant has as diverse a collection of allies as Beast.
A founding and long-time member of the X-Men, Beast can count most members of that team as close friends, especially the other founders and their mentor, Professor X. As an Avenger, Beast often found public acceptance even during various periods of anti-mutant hysteria and worked alongside Captain America, Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, and others. As a Defender, he befriended mystical heroes such as Dr. Strange and the Valkyrie. Hanks scientific reputation, expertise, and connections allow him access to some of the most advanced laboratories in the world.
Beasts personality has changed wildly based on his current state of mutation. In his more human-looking guise, he tended to be bookish and fairly serious. After he turned himself into a blue-furred creature, he started to joke and wisecrack more, to cover up his insecurity about looking less human. In his current furry blue feline form hes a combination of the two prone to academic musings as well as self-deprecating witticisms and bon mots.
In any form, Hank McCoy is a dedicated scientist and a loyal friend. Beast possesses superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, and agility. He is an amazing acrobat and able to use his clawed hands and feet to cling to surfaces and climb walls, though his current cat-like state doesnt possess the same heightened dexterity as his other forms.
Beast heals somewhat faster than normal and can emit pheromones attractive to the opposite sex. Beast is also a trained. SFX: Energy Absorption. On a successful reaction against an energy-based attack, convert your opponents effect die into an Energy Battery stunt or step up an Energy Battery power until the next Transition Scene. Step up or double any Energy Battery power for one action. If that action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of that power die and then step back that power.
Recover the power during a Transition Scene. Step back an Energy Battery power to ignore physical stress or trauma unless caused by a non-energy attack. Step back an Energy Battery power to recover your own physical stress or step back your own physical trauma. Limit: Overloaded. Shutdown any Energy Battery power to gain 1 pp. Activate an opportunity or participate in a Transition Scene to recover that power.
Lucas Bishop was born into a reality in which the original X-Men team was slain by the Sentinels. With no organized force to stop them, the Sentinels rounded up all mutants and imprisoned them in Mutant Relocation Camps. Each mutant was given a large M-shaped tattoo above their eyes to identify them. Human and mutant alike rose up against the Sentinels, overthrowing them. Bishop eventually became a member of the Xavier Security Forces, charged with capturing and punishing criminal mutants.
Bishop and his two partners followed and killed the escaped mutant criminals that had opened a portal back to the X-Mens timeline, but Bishops friends were killed in the process, stranding Bishop in a world he had difficulty adapting to.
When Onslaught, a psychic merging of Xavier and Magneto, attempted to destroy the X-Men, Bishop absorbed the massive energy, saving all of their lives. He stepped back into a familiar role, becoming a protection officer in District X, a neighborhood in Manhattan set aside for mutants.
He worked closely with government forces to ensure the protection of its citizens. Bishop is a stern and serious man dedicated to doing what he believes is right, no matter what anyone else thinks.
This frequently leads him to confrontations with others, as his actions can turn lethal if he believes it necessary. Coming as he does from a nightmarish future, Bishop constantly fears that the events of his own timelines history are taking place in the present he now inhabits, and does anything he can to prevent their recurrence.
Lucas Bishop has the mutant ability to absorb almost any kind of energy directed against him, building it up within himself, and then discharging it at magnified levels.
He is able to direct the power out of his body through his hands or through the weapons he carries. He is also able to use this power to heal himself and increase his strength to immense levels. In addition, Bishop is an accomplished police officer, having worked as a member of the XSF in the future and as a cop in Mutant Town in the present, before M-Day stripped most of that districts mutants of their powers.
His knowledge of future events sometimes relates to events in the present. Change any Apocalypse Augmentation power into a complication to gain 1 pp.
SFX: Psychoactive Virus. Add a die equal to your opponents current emotional stress to any attacks made against them at no additional cost. If successful, spend 1 pp to step up their emotional stress in addition to any effect you create against them. Against a single mutant target, step up or double an Enhanced Senses die. Caliban was one of the original Morlocks to inhabit the sewers of New York City. Like his adopted kin, his unusual appearance made living a normal life among humans impossible.
His mutant tracking ability allowed their leader, Callisto, to find other potential recruits and strengthen the Morlocks numbers. One evening, Caliban sensed mutants above in a nightclub and confronted them. Entranced with a young Kitty Pride, he attempted to befriend and kidnap her.
Kittys companions prevented her capture and the misunderstanding between Caliban and the X-Men was cleared up. When the X-Men were threatened by the Morlocks, Kitty offered Caliban her hand in marriage in exchange for his help. He assisted her and the X-Men, but she reneged on her offer. Caliban later came to realize he did not want to win anyones affections through coercion.
Caliban was one of the lucky survivors of the Mutant Massacre, but the loss of friends and his own powerlessness to stop the slaughter prompted him to ask Apocalypse for help getting revenge on those that killed the Morlocks. Apocalypse obliged, beginning an on and off relationship with Caliban. Calibans new powers came with extra aggression and a wildly varying intellect.
Sinister, and as the Horseman Pestilence. He once kidnapped Jubilee to force a confrontation with the seemingly reformed Sabretooth, but these days, Caliban works with X-Force as a hero. Calibans natural mutant powers let him track other mutants and increase his strength by drawing on their fear. His augmentations increased his speed, reflexes, strength, durability, and leaping ability, and gave him natural weapons. His fear-based powers were enhanced, letting him attack opponents with their own fear, or infect them with a psychoactive fear virus.
The heroes that know Caliban believe him to be a good-natured at heart and work hard to undo Apocalypses changes. Caliban has friends and allies throughout the mutant community, most of who know and love his natural gentle demeanor and would assist him should he need it.
Caliban was a simple soul fond of speaking in the third person. As a lonely outcast Morlock, he did not understand social norms.
His limited combat prowess made him feel small and useless, powerless against the Marauders that slaughtered his friends. Under Apocalypses genetic augmentation, Calibans personality shifted back and forth between his original demeanor and an angry, threatening nature.
Despite the changes, Calibans good and heroic nature usually shines through. His personality has become less aggressive and more heroic, but with Apocalypses treatments, its unclear whether Caliban will ever truly be free of what was done to him. Spend 1 pp to ignore physical stress or trauma unless caused by electromagnetic attacks. SFX: Take the Hit. Spend 1 pp to take physical stress intended for an ally or friend nearby.
While stressed out, asleep, or unconscious, shutdown Organic Steel Transformation. Recover Organic Steel Transformation when you recover that stress or wake up. If you take physical trauma, shutdown Organic Steel Transformation until you recover that trauma. Limit: Heavy Metal. When attacked by magnetism, Anti-Metal, or when submerged in water, change any Organic Steel Transformation power into a complication and gain 1 pp.
Born on the Ust-Ordynski Collective in Soviet Russia, Piotr Rasputin grew up a dutiful son and a responsible worker on his familys farm. His mutant abilities manifested when he rescued his younger sister Illyana from a runaway tractor. Soon after, Charles Xavier recruited him to join the second generation of X-Men, whose first mission was rescuing the previous team from the living island of Krakoa.
His tenure with the X-Men taught Rasputin how to control his powers and introduced him to many good friends and his long-time love, Kitty Pryde. It also pushed him into a life where he has lost many loved ones and discovered uncomfortable truths about his family, his brother, and his homeland. After his sister died from the mutant-targeted Legacy Virus, Colossus sacrificed his own life in order to disseminate the cure.
Denizens of the alien Breakworld secretly stole his body and resurrected him during their experimentation. His friends have only recently discovered that he is alive, after spending the last couple of years believing him dead.
Environmental conditions seem to have little effect in this form, though rapid shifts between extreme heat and cold can harm him. He neither appreciably tires nor needs to breathe, eat, or drink, until he returns to mere flesh. The presence of the Anti-Metal variation of Vibranium causes Colossus to revert to his human form.
As a member of the X-Men, Rasputin has received significant training in combat and teamwork. He normally takes a front-line position in any team action and works especially well alongside Wolverine, with whom he has mastered the Fastball Special, which involves bodily throwing Wolverine at an opponent.
Of course, he also has access to the vehicles, extensive facilities and other resources of the team. Piotr Rasputin is a simple and caring soul often forced into violent situations.
He is shy, trusting, and somewhat guileless, though capable of tremendous rage when he sees his friends hurt or innocents suffer. He is also selfless, bravely putting himself in harms way time and time again to protect those weaker than himself. He prefers to hide his deeper emotions behind a stoic exterior, although his artistic talents provide an outlet for his friends to appreciate.
Given the tumultuous events of the past few years, particularly his death and resurrection, he has an even greater appreciation for the fragile joys of love and the living. Whether he continues his relationship with Kitty Pryde or reunites with his sister Illyana are open questions at this point in his life.
Colossus possesses the ability to transform his body into a form of organic steel of immense density and toughness. This adds height to his already prodigious frame and more than doubles his weight. While in metal form he has tremendous. On a successful reaction against an energy attack, convert your opponents effect die into an Optic Beam stunt or step up Force Blast until used in an action.
SFX: Ricochet. Against a single target, step up or double Force Blast. Replace Force Blast die with 2d8 or 3d6 on your next roll. Limit: Ruby-Red Visor. Change Force Blast into a complication or shutdown Force Blast to gain 1 pp. Spend an action vs. Attempting to save his life, his mother strapped him into the only parachute onboard and pushed him and his younger brother Alex from their fathers burning plane. Orphaned and hospitalized, Scott became a ward of the state, which separated him from his brother and shuttled him from home to home.
As he grew older, Summers mutant abilities emerged and caused him trouble until Professor Charles Xavier rescued him and became the boys teacher and father figure.
He has remained loyal to Xaviers dream, if not the man himself, at great cost over the years, through two marriages and a revolving roster of X-Men. Eventually he emerged from Xaviers shadow to take a leadership position, in charge not only of the X-Men but also of the school bearing Xaviers name. In addition to his mutant power, Cyclops is a gifted tactician, hand-to-hand combatant, and pilot with extensive training in a variety of subjects, including telepathically implanted languages.
He has access to all of the X-Mens tech, vehicles, and facility resources. Finally, Summers can call on any number of teams and personal allies, including a telepathic girlfriend, an equally powerful mutant brother, and a father with a spaceship and his own team. Cyclops is essentially the leader and public spokesman of mutants, at least in the eyes of the public and the government, and this gives him certain political clout and cultural standing.
Cyclops behaves like the stern and no-nonsense leader he believes he needs to be. He has no real life outside of his responsibilities, sacrificing his personal needs to his perceived duties time and again.
Selfless, he is devoted to safeguarding mutantkind from all threats and proving they can coexist with mankind. Summers has lost the love of his life, Jean Grey, more than once, he has developed an antagonistic relationship with his former mentor, and hes seen enemies become friends and friends become enemies.
Even his current girlfriend, Emma Frost, used to be a mortal foe. Fostering his sense of self-reliance has left him with serious trust issues, and on an emotional level, he is very, very alone. Worse, he sees even this condition as necessary for his situation. Scott Summers is an alpha-level mutant whose eyes act as apertures to an extra-dimensional source of energy.
This energy emits in beam form whenever his eyes are open and can only be filtered safely by ruby quartz lenses. Powerful enough to blast easily through reinforced materials and knock aside heavy vehicles, the beam manifests as concussive force rather than heat or radiation. The visor Summers wears gives him precise control over the beams size, intensity, and scatterand he is an expert marksman with his innate attack.
Cyclops is immune to the effects of his own blasteven his closed eyelids are sufficient to block its releaseand the energy powers of his brother Alex. The only thing he cannot do is control the energy itself, preventing it from spilling from his eyes, although whether this is due to physiological or psychological trauma is unclear. SFX: Full Auto. Against a single target, step up or double a Guns die.
SFX: Roomsweeper. The initial Basic Set contains an adventure that reproduces the opening 'Breakout' arc of the New Avengers, [4] and two other major events were released - Civil War as a hardback, and Annihilation in PDF only. A third event planned to be the Age of Apocalypse was never released. Each 'Event Book' was available in a Premium Edition which included the rules as well as the event as well as an Essentials Edition , which assumed you also owned the rules and didn't need them in this book.
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is one of the examples of the Cortex Plus system, and, like most games in that system, it uses a Roll-and-Keep method, with each die representing something that would be notable in the setting and story that is being told. Every time any die rolls a 1 that is called an Opportunity, and if a player rolls a 1 the Watcher may either add a d6 to the Doom Pool or step up a die and may do this multiple times on multiple 1s in the pool.
As a rule the Doom Pool can be used to do anything a plot point can other than change a type of stress but the dice affected must be of equal or lower size to the dice spent out of the Doom Pool.
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