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The upcoming Marvel RPG

Started by danbuter, January 17, 2012, 12:40:36 PM

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Cam Banks

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January 25, 2012, 03:11:52 PM
I differentiate games that I've been lead on from the games that came prior to that by the terms Classic Cortex (Serenity, BSG, Supernatural, Cortex System RPG blue book) and Cortex Plus (Leverage, Smallville, Dragon Brigade, and now Marvel Heroic Roleplaying).

Classic Cortex has fixed Difficulty numbers, a more traditional setup of stats and skills, advantages and disadvantages, hit point-style damage tracks, and so forth.

Cortex Plus is a design language used to create each game from the ground up, so implementation varies from intensely dramatic/relationship-based (Smallville) to action/caper/competence porn (Leverage). Common elements in all Cortex Plus games are lack of fixed difficulty, no hit point-style damage, less reliance on traditional attribute/skill/ad/disad structure, and stronger support of expected genre outcomes.

This is all a fancier way of me saying we decided to stop using the same system for each license and instead treat each license as an RPG on its own merits using some common mechanical ideas. So far it's worked out really well.

Cheers,
Cam

Ghost Whistler

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January 25, 2012, 05:18:24 PM
Quote from: GeekEclectic;509112The generic Cortex PDF is $5 at the moment. It's in the vein of the older games like Serenity that were still your basic Stat + Skill, but the way the basic mechanics work is pretty much the same. The newer games since Smallville(Leverage, Dragon Brigade, Marvel) are all more tailored than that. So in Leverage you're rolling Stat + Role, in Smallville your basic roll is Value + Relationship, and so on.

It's the Cortex + stuff that interests me the most. I've been trying to devise a system that fits my ideas for a long time. In fact I wanted to see if I could put something together to try and make a few bob out of it (i'm realistic about it: a pdf for a few quid at most), and I find there's a game out there that's ticking all the boxes. This seems to be the best of both worlds: narrative and rules without being horrifically complicated or totally storytastic. I wish I'd thought it up!
"Ghost Whistler" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.

Cam Banks

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January 25, 2012, 08:19:05 PM
Another preview went up this evening. I had fun writing up stats for a T-Rex and various Savage Land Mutates. Jeremy Keller had fun laying this out with the David Finch art.

Cheers,
Cam
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