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Epic Changes: Converting from “Pathfinder” to “Marvel Heroic Roleplaying”

October 4, 2012 by The Main Event

As our Pathfinder game progressed through 18 months, 75+ adventures, and nearly 20 levels of play it was increasingly apparent that we had captured lightning in a bottle. Despite the pressures of adulthood, careers, significant others and children in some ways our play group of nearly two decades had just started to hit its stride. Thanks to our DM, the world was teeming with possibility, fantastically developed, and linked together with a metaplot that we had been organically and naturally unraveling since day one. Meanwhile, each player had reached a synthesis of Pathfinder-style combat potency and crafting believable personalities for well-rounded three dimensional play. There was only one problem: Pathfinder itself.

Filed Under: Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MarvelRPG, pathfinder

Torg: A Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Hack (Orrorsh – Realm of Gothic Horror) – Part 1

September 13, 2012 by TorgHacker

In the original Torg game, Orrorsh is where Storm Knights went to die. The powers of the Horrors allowed them to prevent Storm Knights from soaking damage, which often ended up in dead heroes. I’m not looking to make Orrorsh so deadly in my Torg hack. After all, dead heroes can’t be afraid, or become corrupt and become Horrors. Since a horror style roleplaying game has a different feel than Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, there needs to be some substantial changes to how you play the game in order to get the atmosphere of horror.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Hack, marvel, MarvelRPG, MHR, roleplaying games, Torg

Gen Con 2012: RPG News

August 30, 2012 by Dave

Aside from all the D&D stuff I’ve already talked about, there were a couple other big RPG developments, as well as a few that I was interested in following personally.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13th Age, fantasy flight games, fasa, ffg, mage, mage: the ascension, marvel heroic roleplaying, MarvelRPG, night's black agents, nwod, owod, pelgrane press, star wars, star wars: edge of the empire, the onyx path, Vampire, werewolf, white wolf, wod

Torg: A Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Hack (Storm Knight Datafiles)

May 31, 2012 by TorgHacker

Today, I’m publishing six datafiles that I’ve worked on so far for my Torg hack. Since the World Laws of the various cosms show up in the datafiles, I will briefly discuss them as well, although not every datafile will include every World Law.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Hack, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, MarvelRPG, Torg

Torg: A Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Hack (Hacking the Datasheets)

May 4, 2012 by TorgHacker

I need to explain how the mechanics of causing contradictions in other realities worked in the original Torg game. If a character uses a tool: a spell, miracle, piece of tech or some sort of social concept, it causes a single contradiction if the axiom level of that tool is greater than either the character’s home reality or the reality that character finds herself in.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Hack, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, MarvelRPG, MHR, Torg

Torg: A Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Hack (Primer)

April 27, 2012 by TorgHacker

Back in 1990, West End Games released Torg, a cinematic style multi-genre roleplaying game.  This game featured many innovative mechanics such as the Drama Deck and Possibility Points, but is best known for its background.  Not only did this game allow multiple genres to be treated with the same mechanics, but then smashed them together […]

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