A lot of you probably already know about this but just in case the RPG based on the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game has a kickstarter that wraps up in a little more than a week. The campaign is here and it looks pretty good to me.
There are a couple of things I really liked about the original card game:
- Each hero has a set deck and expansions add new heroes and villains, not new cards for existing ones. So it's expandable but it's not collectible. This keeps it a "game" and not a "hobby" - or an "investment".
- It's based on a fictional comic book universe including a fictional history of the comic book company and it ups and downs over the years.
- It's a cooperative game. You team up with the other players to defeat a villain who runs off of his own deck. So everybody can win but it doesn't feel like a "gimmie" game - everybody can lose too.
The thing I like about the RPG (having played the starter kit last year) is that it's an evolution of the Marvel Heroic / Cortex+ system with more tightly defined mechanics. I've played multiple sessions of the Marvel game and had one try-out session with the starter kit and it went well as the players got familiar with the mechanics.
Here's a pretty thorough review of the Starter Kit that explains some of the mechanics.
Here's a pretty thorough review of the Starter Kit that explains some of the mechanics.
Anyway it looks like fun and I thought I would help get the word out.
