Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
| Designer(s) |
Cam Banks Rob Donoghue |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Margaret Weis Productions |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Genre(s) | Superhero fiction |
| System(s) | Cortex Plus |
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MHRP), is the fourth role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, published Margaret Weis Productions under license from Marvel Comics. It was a fast playing game using the Cortex Plus system, with the first volume published in early 2012. In early 2013 Margaret Weis Productions announced they would not be renewing their license.
The game was designed to be fast playing and easy to use and run and very flexible, and designed explicitly for Troupe Play in which the players are expected to pick up new characters between action scenes (or occasionally within them). It has also been described as "a “comic book story” roleplaying game, not a “superhero” game as is common with many other games of this type". Unusually for a role playing game you are expected to know the capabilities of your character and your stats do not explicitly restrict what you can do, merely resolving what happens when you act.
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is set in the Marvel Universe. In particular the line was intended to be "event driven", with each major book in the line dealing with a separate famous story arc of the Marvel Universe and allowing players to reshape it. The initial Basic Set contains an adventure that reproduces the opening "Breakout" arc of the New Avengers, 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. Unusually for a Cortex Plus game, rather than keeping two dice.
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