The 2012 roleplaying game from Margaret Weis Productions based on Marvel's superhero comic books.
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Effect of simultaneous Physical Stress
Here is the situation that happened in today's game:
Johnny Storm (Human Torch) as a NPC has d12 of Physical Stress, and has activated his Nova Flame SFX on his previous action.
He is attacked by a ...
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Intangibility in Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
I am playing the Breakout event, as Spiderman (stop reading if you don't want spoilers!). We just met Zzzax, and I decided to attack him by web-throwing a huge metal pipe through him. I managed a ...
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How does the “spotlight method” of recovering trauma work?
I'm looking at page OM28 here:
If you don’t relish the idea of sitting out an entire Act or it doesn’t make sense in the story for the Watcher to skip ahead several weeks in a single Transition ...
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When a villain grandstands, what is he rolling against?
From OM15:
The Watcher may add to the doom pool directly by spending effect dice from a villain’s action, rather than inflicting stress or creating a complication. This represents the villain ...
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How do I create a sense of Impending Doom?
I've been reading up on the rules and I've noticed that if the player rolls multiple ones on their action I can choose to either award a PP for each 1 and add a d6 for each opportunity or I can choose ...
