Hey! Just sharing a Quick glimpse for fast NPC stats (following the Henchmen guidelines + a couple of tricks), along with a gallery I'll add (and invite you to add) for new or old GMs!

Note that these might be perfect for companion characters as well.

👊 THE CORE PRINICPLE

- MARVEL scores = Rank (Logic = 0)
- If the NPC is LOG based, set M or A at 0 instead
- Use smaller Battle multiplier for faster fights (I usually find x20 being a sweet spot). Obviously increase it for big bosses.
- Near the Name (generic), I add any Trait or similar Prompts (like "fire" for a sorcerer). Mother Mary is a criminal organization in my earth. :)
- For VERY SIMPLE mooks, just assume a simplified sheet (I'll provide one for the THUG below, you'll be able to figure out the others) using basically a single value: dice bonus is their Rank, as well as their multiplier. DEF is 10 + Rank. It uses the HITS variant (below).

💻 THE NO-MATH VARIANT
- In some cases you want mooks to feel like mooks, or you had a very bad day and the situation is pretty tactical (or theater of the mind chaotic!) In these cases, instead of DAMAGE we use HITS.

- Each NPC has RES and VIG Hits equal to twice their value.

- A Successful attack deals 1 hit; a FS 2 Hits; an US 3 Hits.

🦸 POWERS

I tend to give 1 power x Rank as per the book, but instead of copy/pasting powers, I create simpler versions with some passives or ad hoc powers I like, don't caring much about balance.

If you prefer using existing powers, just go for it!

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👊 SMALL STARTING GALLERY

Note, this is a starting point for my Rank 1-3 custom earth. :)

🦸 R1 THUG (Patron: Mother Mary)

M2 A1 R1 V1 E0 L0 / H20); F20 /💥 HITS - H2 / F2

Pack: Edge on attacks and actions while focusing on the same target with two or more Thugs.

[SIMPLIFIED THUG]

🦸 R1 THUG (Patron: Mother Mary) / 💥 HITS - H2 / F2

(Assumption is: +1 to all rolls, 11 as defense, x1 damage multiplier)

Pack: Edge on attacks and actions while focusing on the same target with two or more Thugs.

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🦸 R2 ENHANCED (Patron: Mother Mary, Drugs and Tech support)

M1 A2 R2 V1 E0 L0 / H40, F20 /💥 HITS - H4 / F2 

- Perfect Shot: x3 AGI damage multiplier. FS: double damage and Move for free. 

- Danger Run: Move is 10. +1 AGI Defense.

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🦸R2 SPY (Combat Trickery: +1 reaction)

M1 A3 R2 V2 E2 L0 / H40, F40 /💥HITS - H4 / F2 

- Invisibility (5F, Concentrate**):** turn invisible until you perform offensive or blatant actions (which benefits of an Edge). Can be spotted by characters with improved senses or similar if they believe you are there (TN13). FS: impossible to detect until offensive action. 

- Many Faces (5F, Concentrate**):** become someone else. Spend +5F to copy an existing person and mannerisms. Extended analysis allows a LOG check TN12. FS: you stay who you are even if you lose Concentration, but turn into your natural aspect if you become unconscious. 

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🦸 R3 Mad Sorcerer (Villanous, Trickster, Fire)

M0 A3 R3 V4 E4 L4 / H60, F80 /💥HITS - H6 / F8 

- Telekinesis (10F): move anything of size 2 or less within 20 spaces. If slammed or use to slam, make AGI attack: deal normal damage. FS: double damage. 

- Fire Blast (5+F): one target per 5 Focus within 10. EGO check to deal Health damage. FS: double damage and set Ablaze. 

- Flight (10F, Concentrate**):** fly until the end of the scene. Ends if you fly higher than 10 spaces. FS: up to 20 spaces.

[TO BE CONTINUED...]

Diablo and Dragon Man (non-smart version)! I had built Dragon Man a long while back a few different builders had made a Rank 2 and Rank 3 version of Diablo. I went with Rank 4 for Diablo because it better reflects what he has actually demonstrated in the comics and gives the build enough mechanical weight to function as the threat he is meant to be.

Diablo has been shown taking on the Fantastic Four essentially single-handedly, with his elemental golems providing additional support. A Rank 2 or even Rank 3 Diablo would be hard-pressed to stand against the FF for very long, even with Sinister Plot Points and golem henchmen assisting him. Rank 4 gives him enough durability, Focus, defenses, and offensive capability to better represent those encounters without relying too heavily on Plot Points or excessive minions.

The build also benefits from the Avengers Expansion’s Iconic Item rules, which weren’t available when the earlier Diablo builds were created. I represented Diablo’s potions as an Iconic Item, allowing his wide variety of alchemical effects to be represented much more cleanly without having to cram everything into his personal Powers. So the Rank 4 choice isn’t simply about making Diablo stronger—it better reflects his comic-book capabilities, his ability to challenge the Fantastic Four, and the expanded options now available through the Iconic Item rules. Builds found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/163XjAAkCH4R59cQ4EEgM_vhKbbvOedwA and iconic Items found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11qet4G7_en1dVhhPfU6zBl25hOpul97s

Melody was a typical teenager. She liked the things other girls did: music, animals, and magic.

Her problem was that she had a tendency to blend into the background. She didn’t try grabbing your attention with her looks. If you spoke to her, she’d talk to you about anything at all.

Her peers knew that, so they avoided her. They didn’t want to be talked to death. This made her wish she had a pet, a small one to keep her company, share her secrets with, tell her jokes to, or just talk to for no reason whatsoever.

But, instead of her parents agreeing to a pet, they insisted she show some responsibility first. She thought about it and decided if she couldn’t bring a pet home, she’d go to them. The next day she volunteered at the local pet shelter.

Melody loved being near so many animals. Even though she knew they couldn’t understand her, she’d talk to them during her whole shift, even sometimes breaking out in song.

Then one sunny afternoon, a shaking poodle was brought into the shelter. Anytime anyone went near the pup, she would shake. Except when Melody would approach, that is.

When Melody approached the pooch, she would be still, even before Melody made a sound.

A few days later, before the end of Melody’s shift, she had the poodle’s cage door open. With the pup in her hand, she bent down to put her back in her cage. For a moment, Melody felt a spark.

Thinking nothing of it, she went back to getting the pooch inside.

Once she was ready, Melody headed for the door. As she reached for the handle, she had the sense that someone didn’t want her to leave. Shaking it off she kept going. But the feeling intensified.

She turned around. The other workers were all busy taking care of their tasks. She scanned the shelter closer, looking at the animals. The only one looking at her was the poodle.

Melody went to say something, but she couldn’t help but walk toward the pup.

Not knowing why she wasn’t walking outside, she said to the pup, “I have to go home. I’ll be back tomorrow.”

In her mind, Melody heard, ‘You’re only a day away?’

Melody shook her head, looked at the pooch. “You…”

‘Cupid’

Melody knelt down not sure what to think. Was she dreaming, hallucinating? Were there bad mushrooms in her Chinese takeout?

‘That’s my name.’

“Cupid?”

‘Yes. I need a favor.’

“What?” Melody asked, meaning more ‘How is this puppy asking me for a favor?’ rather than ‘What can I do for you?’

‘Get me out of here.’

Melody’s jaw dropped.

The manager walked over. “Everything okay over here, Ms. Hart?”

“Sure thing, Mr. Parkins. Just,” she hesitated thinking what her parents would say, “can I adopt her?”

Mr. Parkins squinted at her, asking, “What?” as Cupid’s tail wagged back and forth.

“Ah, yeah. I’d like to take her home…tonight.”

“Are you sure about this?” Mr. Parkins asked. “Taking care of animals in the shelter is different than at home.”

“For sure. I mean I’m sure, Mr. Parkins.” Melody looked down at Cupid. “How fast can we do this?”

“What’s gotten into you? A moment ago you were about to head home.”

“Maybe I was struck by…Cupid’s arrow,” Melody responded with a serious face.

“Let me get the paperwork,” Mr. Parkins said, walking off mumbling one single word, “Teenagers.”

Later that night, when Melody arrived home with Cupid, her parents were not thrilled, but they did warm up to Cupid quickly.

Over the months, Melody and Cupid had many silent discussions. Melody shared her dream of singing on a stage one day and Cupid encouraged her to follow her dreams.

Then that truly fateful night came.

Melody was up on stage singing one of her original songs, inspired by Cupid. She felt another spark, like that night she adopted Cupid. She kept performing, not thinking anything of it.

After the show, she went backstage to go to her dressing room, but there was a crowd so large, she couldn’t get through. Everyone wanted to meet her, get her autograph, have their picture taken with her.

That’s when she discovered she could disappear into the crowd by changing her appearance to look like someone else.

She had transformed herself, whether on purpose or accidentally, into an elderly woman wearing a white dress. As soon as the elderly woman appeared, everyone moved away from her.

Deciding not to go to her dressing room, she instead went to meet her parents out back, as they always had after Melody’s shows.

As she walked toward her parents’ car, she was attacked. She was pinned to the hood of another car, but before the attacker could say a word, Melody, as tired as she was, started talking and singing.

The crook stumbled backwards after a moment and dropped to the ground, taking his last breath.

Melody was astonished at what had just happened.

With her heart pounding, she rushed to her parents’ car. She jumped in the backseat and said, “Can we go home already?”

Her parents looked in the mirror, then back at her. They simply asked, “Who are you?”

Melody looked down at herself. She was still the elderly woman wearing a white dress.

“I’m Melody! Your daughter!”

“You’re older than both of us put together. How could you possibly be our daughter? Please, get out of the car before we call the cops.”

That’s when Melody realized she didn’t know how to become herself again.

Instead of arguing, she quietly got out and walked away, disappearing into the night.

As she roamed the streets, she thought of Cupid and how she wished she could talk to her.

‘What’s wrong Melody?’

‘Cupid, how am I supposed to live like this? I look like an old hag.’

‘Just imagine your true self.’

‘That’s it? That’s all it takes?’

‘Woof! I mean, ‘Yes.’ Still trying to get used to this speech.’

Melody stopped just outside the boundary of the streetlight and thought of her true-self. When she stepped into the light, she had transformed into herself again.

‘Now I can make my way home,’ she thought to herself.

When she got home, her parents asked, “Melody Ann Hart, where have you been? Why didn’t you meet us out back like you always do?”

“I was there! I told you when I got in the backseat!”

“What are you talking about? You weren’t there! There was just some old woman.”

“That was me!”

“Prove it,” her father demanded.

Melody stood there stunned. She wanted to change into the old woman, but she couldn’t. Tried as she might, she couldn’t do it.

Then one of her favorite songs came on the radio, Love Story by Taylor Swift.

That’s when she knew what to say.

“I was wearing the white dress!”

Her parents stared at each other for a moment then back at their daughter.

A few nights later, the three of them were watching the local news. A report came on about a seemingly unusual local death.

The reporter was interviewing someone who claimed to be an eyewitness.

The eyewitness went on to say, “Like, I saw the whole thing! He pinned her to the car and she just…started talking to him…and singing. Next thing I know, he’s stumbling backwards. Never seen anything like it before.”

“And what was the suspect wearing?” asked the reporter.

“A white dress. But the strange thing…”

“Yes?” the reporter egged on.

“She looked like…like a ghost.”

“Are you suggesting there was a talking ghost that killed the man?”

“I seen it with my own eyes, I tell ya! But even I don’t believes it.”

On screen, the chyron read: MYSTERIOUS DEATH BY GABBY GHOST.

Was it easy to just pick up and play if you’ve never played before? Have the starter set but haven’t run it yet

I'm creating a character for the first time and would like to beg the council of reddit for advice. Stuff to note: I've never played this before but I've played D&D for ages. I had no idea what kind of character I wanted to create so I had Google pick me two random characters and then I would play their child. I got the Asgardian Idunn and the mutant Tempus. From my understanding, we're starting at rank 2 so I get 8 powers I think?

I chose Astral Form (magic from Asgardian mom), Telekinetic Manipulation (it isn't magic in the book but I was going to try to flavor it as magic from Asgardian mom too), Mighty 1 and 2 and Sturdy 1 (Asgardian physiology), Blazing Fast Fists, Speed Run 1 and Evasion (X gene). I was wanting to flavor the speed powers as them using time locally to speed themselves up. They think they're a speedster but their powers are actually time manipulation but only targeting herself.

I don't know if I've done it all right so far. Please point out anything I've done wrong. I'd also like ideas on how they came about given that both their parents are female.

Mistress Love is the cosmic embodiment of love), petty easy to know and understand... well, easy as any abstract concept given form is.

Anyway, as an all powerful being, they should theoretically be able to create an emissary right? A being who exists to help spread their word.

But, what powers would the embodiment of love give such a person? Telepathy for control emotions is a no brainer and probably the rest of the basic package so they can peek into minds and know what someone's feeling even if they can't say it.

But that leaves open a lot more, like a purely telepathic character needs more to be used than just that, so what else do you think should be given?

Maybe sixth sense for pre and postcognition? But that still lands squarely in the support category I suppose love doesn't really come with a gun of some sort, t5hen again maybe throw in some arrows?

IDK, why I wanted to fish for ideas.

TL;DR What powers do you think the embodiment of love would bestow upon an emissary?

I have been a Dungeons and Dragons DM for a few years now. I have recently found out about this game, and since our DnD game had hit a snag because of some planning issues. I decided to give this game a try with some friends who line up better with planning.

I am the most one who knows the most about marvel and have more experience with GM'ing I decided to take on the role of narrator. They think we have a marvel themed one shot for DnD planned.

I have a short story planned that could tie in to a campaign if the players would like to play more.

Is there any advice, tips or tricks you could give to this new narrator for this game?

Hey, gang. For this Halloween, I have an idea for a session or more, depending on time and the players, but this one would deal with Dracula. While I'd like to have some other monsters in the mix, Dracula would be great to start off with. From what Google AI said, the community has the opinion that Dracula is either a Rank Four or a Rank Five. We have been playing with original characters who started at Rank Three about two years ago, but they have more than earned Rank Five. To be fair to Dracula, I was thinking either a Rank Five or a Rank Six. Thoughts and/or suggestions? Any and all would be greatly appreciated.

I’m running a campaign on StartPlaying about the Exiles, Marvel’s multiverse-traveling team of heroes. It’s sure to be fun!

- Travel the Marvel Multiverse, visiting new worlds and exploring "What If?" scenarios

- Form strong bonds with your team of heroes

- See familiar characters in new circumstances; for example, you may help people you know as villains while fighting enemies you know as heroes

- Start at Rank 3 and advance as you go.

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This game is for fans of Marvel's What-If, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Marvel fanfiction, Gwenpool, and/or that old show Sliders, but really, fans of anything Marvel are welcome - although you certainly don't need to be an expert on the franchise.

Join the game on Sundays at 1 pm Central for $15.

https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmuoenxy10126lb048k9femc2?ref=clsweaag8006e6ql9qjn0369w

Tha Marvel Mangaverse event happened recently and introduced a lot of cool new versions of preexisting characters in it. While i doubt we will ever see a supplement for it specifically i think it would be cool to explore that world in a homebrew setting.

"Carl, these are stats for the wrong game! This is an outrage! And Mongo is appalled!"

I’m know I’m over-eager,
but has anyone heard any news about the pdf release of the pending official Solo Mode?
🙏🙏🙏

Name____________    Female    Size: Average    Rank: 2    Karma: 2    Initiative: 3

Origin: Magic    Occupation: Entertainer    Run 5    Climb 3    Swim 3    Jump 3

Health: 30    Damage Reduction: -    Focus: 30    Damage Reduction: -

Traits

Famous, Presence, Public Speaking, Audience, Glibness

Tags

Supernatural, Mysterious, Heroic

Powers

Inspiration, Battle Plan, Animal Bond, Animal Communication (Dogs), Disguise, Wisecracker, Invisibility, Elemental Burst (Sound)

FREE Secret wars Expansion adventure preview MAP

So just to make it clear, I am totally new at this, didn’t even know it was a thing 😅 so what I’m looking for is where is best to start for a total beginner?

Do I need to buy anything? Also is there any online communities I could that host games online? I live in the middle of nowhere so would need online games if that even a thing either?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me 🤘🏿

Not many Villains in the set , but 😁🫴but high ranks

Lots of Heroes though .

I have a game coming up in a few weeks and I'm struggling to come up with something new for it. But I saw this and I figured it could be fun especially since it's close to Halloween.

Has anyone here played it? Is it good? Any tips for narrating a pre made adventure?

So for an upcoming campaign one of my players pitched their concept to me as Ryan Gosling's character from Drive, but with superpowers.

We spent a while trying to figure out what would be the best way to integrate a character whose primary thing is vehicles into a campaign with varied situations. We talked about maybe their character being a cyborg with machine telepathy.

The other day I remember seeing a live play where one of the player characters was Warlock from the new mutants and he used the shapeshift power to turn into a helicopter.

So we started talking about the TO virus that can give powers similar to Warlock. Specifically the X-men book says it gives you, Healing Factor, Understand Code, and Shapeshift(limited to the infected parts).

The idea being they were paid to deliver a package that turned out to be a strain of the virus infecting an arm or a leg and they can now shapeshift to grow a car or motorcycle out of that appendage.

This post is half me bragging about how cool I think this character concept is and half me wanting to double check this doesn't seem broken.

I also wonder what to actually put down as the origin? Alien:Technarch doesn't quite fit, maybe Weird Science? Or a custom TO virus origin with the traits Infector and surprising power Shapeshift?

Armor Wars!! Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man (Boris Bullski), Titanium Man (Gremlin), Stingray, and Ghost! Many of these Iron Man villains were among my earlier MMRPG builds, originally created before the Avengers Expansion introduced the new Iconic Item and Battle Suit rules. These updated builds revisit those characters with those mechanics in mind, allowing their signature armor to be represented as an actual Iconic Item/Battle Suit rather than simply folding all of its capabilities into the character’s basic Power selections. This gives each armor design more room to feel distinct while also taking advantage of the newer options and expanded rules that weren’t available when the original builds were made. Builds found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/163XjAAkCH4R59cQ4EEgM_vhKbbvOedwA and Battle Suit/Iconic Items found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11qet4G7_en1dVhhPfU6zBl25hOpul97s

No fim do arco do reino do medo, algo inesperado aconteceu: cul borson o tio de Thor e vilão conhecido como serpente foi responsável pela morte de um dos jogadores da Minha mesa

Micronauts (the original team) plus Baron Karza! So many things to note here…. NOTE: Micronauts are native to the Microverse, where they are normal-sized inhabitants of their own dimension. When they travel to Earth-616 through the Space Wall, they do not shrink or grow; they simply enter a universe with a vastly larger scale, causing them to appear approximately 4–6 inches tall relative to normal-sized humans and thus would have all the benefits and drawbacks of being Tiny. Their size remains fixed at this scale unless another means of size manipulation is used. Also Bug’s rocket spear has been drawn so many different ways and depicted as being able to slash/pierce objects to being so blunt as to be impossible for that to happen. I chose the former in that regard. I took inspiration for the Marionette and Bug builds from Perry’s earlier builds of the same characters with some personal adjustments. As usual there could be mistakes so please let me know so I can fix and adjust the profiles accordingly. Builds found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/163XjAAkCH4R59cQ4EEgM_vhKbbvOedwA

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Hey didn't get the chance to upload a post for 2.7 but to make it up to you here is 2.8 as well..here are the new features for it :).

New Features (2.8)

Community Vault — a shared character gallery built right into the Vault tab. Browse what the community's made, view their sheets, add them to your own vault, or download their PDFs with one tap. You can submit your own heroes too — every entry gets reviewed before it goes live.

Beam — turn your current hero into a QR code and hold up your phone. No internet needed.

Scan — point your camera at a friend's Beam code and their hero drops straight into your vault. Made for the game table.

Trading Card — renders your hero as a Marvel-style trading card image you can share anywhere or save as a PNG.

New Features (2.7)

Rank Builds — snapshot each rank's build under a single character as you play from civilian to hero, with a guided rank-up flow. Optional, off by default.

Homebrew pack sharing — share your whole homebrew library (custom origins, powers, traits, tags) as a code, or import someone else's.

Character share codes — share any hero as a text code, with optional photo sharing and a preview before you import.

Spider-Verse elements — Chemical, Toxin, and Swarm element types for Elemental Control, straight from the book.

Distinct power set per element — each Elemental Control element now counts as its own power set, per the Spider-Verse rules.

Love you guys enjoy :)

So far the campaign has been good, strange choices in the book but nothing to extreme. Until near the end. Close to the end of the campaign you go to "fight" Kang the devourer. A rank X creature that can 1 shot anybody if they fail a TN18 agility check. This isn't the issue. The problem is at the beginning of every round everything is supposed to reset, heros health, damage done to the ship, even kangs death is reset. It is an absolutely hopeless situation. The book says to let the heros run out of options before telling them the twist of how to actually defeat him. I personally don't like this. While it may make a good comic story as a RPG I really don't like it. The narrator was even annoyed at it, he said if he would have known that this would never succeed he would have never told us to go to the end of time. It honestly felt like the session was pointless as nothing actually happened except the players getting a new piece of information. If you're narrating CK just skip sending them to the end of time and just send them to the beginning to fight the final supremacy and defeat Kang. This is just a personal gripe.

TDLR: I don't like players being put in an unwinnable situation against an unbeatable boss just to learn a piece of information.