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Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game

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Marvel Super Heroes was licensed by Marvel Universe to TSR in 1984.

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Marvel Super Heroes was licensed by Marvel Universe to TSR in 1984.

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Video LgaQJkkg1lY BoardGameBollocks Other at 4:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • love playing this when I was a kid
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Marvel Superheroes
Comparison games
  • Judge Dredd
  • D&D
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  • he's the guy that did the resistance
  • pull the maps all expansions every fits in there wonderful game wonderful car
  • great for kids because there's a simple version of more vast version
  • fantastic what you call an engine build in economics or game where you'll solve try to build the best plantation but there's this roll this roll thing where you have you pick a roll and you get a benefit but then everyone else could pick an overall but it don't get the benefit way so this that's really good
  • why the best games ever made totally fameless' but just a dice placement sort of what you call it engine building
  • it's basically sort of like curve but first person shooter or a ball game
  • is a reprint of all the the Bekaa me like the basic expert a companion masters and most books from D&D
  • this is the first role-playing yard we have a plate
  • wonderful wonderful area of control game
  • one of the best euro games ever made about we prefer this over culture but it's so difficult to get to the table because it's quite a complex and a bit of a brain burner
  • this is where you're chucking cubes into these pots and you're trying to win auctions for various types of commodities and countries where they come from
  • we bought some extra cubes so we could play this with six players and it works quite well
  • really good party game where you get to point guns at your mum a few month goes on mum and yeah this is we at this first edition of this but we flipped it to get the second edition there's a two expansions in there and it's a wonderful game yes
  • we unplayed this or might in for more kids to get a little bit older so we could burn furnace in a week and I'm really looking forward to the first legacy game goes down history is one of the best games ever made almost probably the most innovative game ever made
  • which is a variation on this using dice
  • everyone takes a roll and spaceship and you'll play minigames to get stuff done
  • it's a nightmare it's asymmetrical rules so everyone's got their own rules oh so it's very difficult to get ice expires into the room and then teach everybody a separate game
  • dead a winner dead a winner of the long night compatible standalone expansion to this one and we there's also a war in colonies expansion which allows you to move 11 players fantastic game maybe it's a bit too difficult and made it a bit random I don't know
  • because it's one of the best format games and we've played
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Video kGWETVxgg-k UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:23:04 sentiment: positive
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Positive
Pros
  • Characters straight out of the comics
  • Included stats for famous heroes
Cons
  • Random power generation could be vague or poor
Thematic elements
  • Superheroes
  • Marvel Universe
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Random Power Generation — Powers and their effectiveness were determined by dice rolls, leading to potentially vague or powerful abilities.
  • Random Stat Generation — Players rolled dice to determine their character's stats, which could lead to highly varied abilities.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • it was a little too long 12 hands was too many I would have preferred playing the 500 instead of a thousand
  • this system was had its cool things it had some cool things but it also had just some garbage ideas
  • it's just like who came about these rules it's just like these aren't streamlined these are garbage they are horrible
  • the Marvel superheroes game was like the Marvel Universe
  • spacehulk spacehulk spacehulk space Hulk I knew it was Warhammer I just didn't know
  • it's the one where you uh you're playing as a disease trying to kill everybody take over the world it's like an AA control game
  • I think it's in my top 25 or 50 games of all time
  • the game just chef's kiss
  • Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like yeah doing nothing
  • Brimstone is our money maker they they'll milk the dead
  • it's sort of a Rog likee and I think it doesn't get enough credit
  • like you're doing the same thing just longer and more tedious and more like that's that's bad
  • the deluxe version of it um had a basically kind of a foil cover like as the person's casting a spell and so there's this kind of rainbow effect foil cover of like the magic that's coming up
  • it was it was insane yes crazy what people go foil covers bring to the end
  • the Cliffhanger game with a more compact box size streamline rule book and over a decade's worth of Polish and AATA worked in this is the ultimate edition of the classic Cliffhanger Adventure game
  • the cards were tiny
  • Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like
  • we couldn't get any traction we couldn't get anybody to notice the game even existed anywhere
  • it was like it sold it we sold out day and a half just because it had a foil had a foil rainbow cover
  • I hate those things yeah I pick every box sleeve off of every game I've ever got
  • we would rather be cheated out of money than refuse a customer service request from somebody who honestly needed it
  • the owner said why isn't that guy allowed in the store and they told him why and he's like it's a free country he can say whatever he wants
  • I was like Rich if like quite literally Rich you should just tell people that I will be there and that will get more people to come in and and sell stuff and I and give me the table for free
  • I don't make anything so what's the point of
  • I don't have to pay $5 just so sit at a [ __ ] table now
  • we're not coming here anymore you come to my house for board game night that's it
  • well how about you buy it and when you're done with it bring it back to me and I'll give you the money back minus five bucks
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