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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

The use of wordcount in each of the two available events is brilliant. Civil War is very specifically about Marvel Comics superheroes fighting each other physically and ideologically; so, pages and pages of the event book are crammed with stats for Marvel heroes to fight, ally with, or to upgrade into player-characters. Cosmic space opera Marvel, meanwhile, is as much about large groups and concepts as it is about specific characters, so Annihilation stats only key cosmic characters, but fills a chapter with a bunch of generic space-mooks and those awesome snap-together stats that let you quickly build a Sakaaran Nova or a robot with the Power Cosmic.

I can only assume that Age of Apocalypse will have random tables for rolling arbitrary changes and shocking revelations about your character. "So in this reality, Kitty Pryde is :rolldice:

an evil space pirate with :rolldice:

three cybernetic arms, and :rolldice:

Cyclops is her :rolldice:

mother somehow."

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

Armadillo Bandwagon posted:

Also, none of us are familiar with The Sentry. I�m thinking of replacing him with The Hulk and just saying that Banner gave himself up. Any reasons that would screw up the event?

There is literally a free PDF devoted to that exact idea.

Edit: Since MWP's website is a disaster to navigate (sorry Cam), here is a link to where all of the previews and bonus content live.

Squizzle fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 10, 2013

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

Dave Chalker posted this over at the MWP boards:

davethegame posted:

What's up next for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying? We've got the Conquest supplement for Annihilation, continuing the cosmic story. Conquest picks up after the events of Annihilation, so the event actually starts with Act Four to continue your cosmic event directly after Annihilation finishes if you so choose.

This also means that there's a lot of overlap in cast of characters. Some characters have changed enough that they have new datafiles, while others involved just refer to the Annihilation version (with updates listed in the book), and of course there's new characters to be included.

So that said, we have the following full hero datafiles in the book:

Adam Warlock

Bug

Captain Ko-Rel (as Nova 0001)

Captain Universe

Cosmo (Distinction: Am Beink Dog)

Deathcry

Groot

Mantis

Moondragon (with dragon transformation option)

Nova Prime

Quasar (Phyla-Vell)

Ra-Venn

Rocket Raccoon

Star-Lord (sans cybernetics)

Warlock

Wraith

And the following characters from ANN have updates, many with new milestones to match their current situation:

Blastaar

Drax the Destroyer

Gamora

Korath the Pursuer

Praxagora

Ronan the Accuser

Super-Skrull

And of course, we'll have Watcher datafiles for a variety of bad guys, including (but not limited to):

Phalanx Select squads, including Korath, Xemnu, Shatterax, Daystar and other corrupted Spaceknights, Super-Adaptoid, Gamora, Drax, Ronan, and Super-Skrull

Phalanx in multiple forms, like the Sentries, Warriors, and Overseers

The High Evolutionary

Potential allies like Tyro the Technarch, or Kree Revolutionaries

And most importantly, mighty Ultron (in three different forms.)

There's also new power sets for turning any character into one of the Phalanx Select... including one of the heroes.

So get ready to stand up to Ultron and the Phalanx by yelling "I AM GROOT!"

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