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While the game does have some small balance issues, the campaign setting and the adventure structure are not to be missed. Are you a fan of the Song of Ice and Fire books a. The Game of Thrones? Are you wondering when the hell George R. Martin is going to finish the series, or why it took him so long to write the last entry?

But impossible? Not at all. You see Superworld is George R. To quote an interview published in Second Person :. Instead I spent my days coming up with ingenious new plot twists to frustrate and delight my players, and rolling up still more villains to bedevil them. That obsession eventually led to the publication of the Wild Cards series of shared world super hero novels, for which many fans are grateful.

Superworld started its gaming life as a small booklet in a multi-genre product called Worlds of Wonder published by Chaosium. It is a good system, but it is greatly improved with the addition of the Superworld Companion.

The Companion has contributions by a number of authors including Wayne Shaw. Remember that name: it will be coming up again. It almost sounds like the game design version of Jackass. I can picture the scene even. I want you to work on this new product license. Think about it from a pure game design stand point. Wujcik, who would later go on to write the innovative Amber Diceless Role Playing Game , responded with what is a remarkably strong game. One of the first things that Wujcik did was to add the possibility of other mutated animals.

Now the players could choose to be the turtles, or they could choose to design their own crazy anthropomorphic martial-arts masters. The character creation system by itself is a joy. More surprising is how well the Palladium system, which I normally find to be too time-consuming, fits with the back and forth interplay of martial arts style combat.

Wujcik managed to combine what was most interesting about the theme and integrate it with the rules set. That is no small feat. And playing Dragonlance without being able to fight dragons is like playing Kobolds Ate My Baby without any Kobolds…or babies. When I finally opened up the box and played this game for the first time, I was amazed.

It was an elegant solution. The game is easy to learn but deep and able to support long term campaign play. The first edition of Villains and Vigilantes was the second superhero role playing game ever published.

Unlike Superhero , it was playable out of the gate, and it had an interesting conceit in character creation. Players would work with the game master to come to consensus regarding how strong or smart the player was and this would be reflected in the initial character statistics. It was an interesting premise, but one can imagine that it led to a lot of arguments.

After all, can you imagine your game master asking you to bring a copy of your GRE scores in order to justify your 16 intelligence? Me either. I just challenged my GM to a series of Nim games and push up contests.

For example, a character uses his Agility score when attempting ranged attacks. A character with an Agility of Excellent would normally roll on that column when attacking with a rifle.

However, if he had the "Guns" Talent he would treat his Agility as the next higher power rank Remarkable. The GM was free to determine if a character would be unable to attempt an action without the appropriate Talent such as a character with no medical background attempting to make a pill that can cure a rare disease.

Indicates generally how healthy and physically fit the hero is. Points are subtracted during play if a character gets injured or gets a direct hit from fighting or during the campaign game. The numbers depends on who got hit, who did the hitting, and what the hitting was done with. The characters Endurance points goes back to it's original rank after certain conditions are met by the injured player like resting for a day or two.

Healing continues until the hero's Health and Endurance return to normal. Characters also had two variable attributes: Resources and Popularity.

These attributes were described using the same terms as the character's seven attributes "Poor," "Amazing," "Unearthly," etc. But unlike the seven physical and mental attributes which changed very slowly, if at all, Resources and Popularity could change very quickly. The first of the variables, Resources, represented the character's wealth and ability to obtain goods or services. Rather than have the player keep track of how much money the character had in the bank or with him, the Advanced Game assumed the character had enough money coming in to cover his basic living expenses.

The Resources ability was used when the character wished to purchase something out of the ordinary like a new car or house. For example, the referee might decide a character with Typical resources would probably be unable to purchase a brand new sports car, but with a Yellow Resources roll might be able to afford a used car in good condition.

The game books note that a character's Resources score can change for a variety of reasons, such as winning the lottery or having a major business transaction go bad. The second variable, Popularity, reflected how much the character was liked or disliked in the Marvel Universe. Popularity could be used to influence non-player characters. A superhero with a high rating, like Captain America whose popularity is Unearthly-the highest most characters can achieve , might be able to use his Popularity to gain entrance to a club because the general population of the Marvel Universe admires him.

If he were to try the same thing as his secret identity Steve Rogers whose Popularity is only Typical , he would probably be unable to do it. Villains also had a Popularity score, which was usually negative a bouncer might let Doctor Doom or Magneto into the aforementioned club simply out of fear.

There were several ways Popularity could change. For example, if Doctor Doom defeated Spider-Man in front of the general public, Spidey's Popularity would go down for a short time. But if everyone's favorite web-slinger managed to foil one of Doctor Doom's plans and the word got out, he would enjoy a temporary Popularity boost. Since mutants were generally feared and distrusted in the Marvel Universe, these characters start with a Popularity of 0 and have a hard time improving this attribute.

The game was intended to be played using existing Marvel characters as the heroes. In addition, the Basic Set Campaign Book also allowed players to create original heroes by simply describing the desired kind of hero, and working together with the GM to assign the appropriate abilities, powers, and talents.

The Ultimate Powers Book , by David Edward Martin, expanded and organized the game's list of powers, making a fairly comprehensive survey of comic book-style super-powers.

Players were given a wide variety of body types, secret origins, weaknesses, and powers. The UPB gave a much greater range to characters one could create. The expanded, corrected version of the book is available for free on the Web, and was compiled by Zan of Heroplay.

The game's equivalent of experience points was Karma , a pool of points initially determined as the sum of a character's three mental attributes Reason, Intuition, and Psyche. The basic system allowed players to increase their chances of success at most tasks by spending points of Karma. Each set included all the needed material to start playing, including rules, campaign descriptions, example card templates and even maps; albeit further versions reviewed and improved the previous ones:.

Four books, tagged with the string "MA" Marvel Accessory? Eight issues of the Gamer's Handbook emulated the formula from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe , with individual entries for superheroes, villains and teams; this time adding role-playing statistics, powers with specific rules sometimes making a few assumptions to dodge ambiguities and a paragraph of notes on how to role-play the character and describing anything -inclduing rules- that cannot be covered in other areas.

The four first issues were encyclopedic in nature to cover heroes A to Z first volume is A to D; second starts in E… ; the last four issues each cover A to Z, and included only individuals from a given year or those who had suffered very relevant changes E.

Eighteen books were published, nine of them with the string "MH" Marvel Heroes? Each adventure was an autonomous story. Some of the issues titled "MHAC" were however not adventures, but accessories for the game. Seven sagas of adventures or "game modules" were published. Each of these sagas included several published adventures, commonly three except for Mutating Mutants that was the lone adventure of its own saga; and X-Terminate does not seem plotwise related to the rest of the "MSL" adventures.

Although each adventure had its title, many of these sagas did not have a name. The sagas can be played in succession, with argumental sense; or individually even if the previous adventure is not available. Letter-and-number codes were used to identify the saga.

Six boxed sets, similar in format to the Rule Box Sets , were published. Each contained several books and material with details on a given part of the Marvel Universe, including specific role-playing-game aspects like templates. Marvel Database Explore.