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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) is a licensed role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, first published by TSR in 1984. The game lets players assume the roles of Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Captain America, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. The game was designed to be easily understood, and this approach proved popular.
TSR produced the game under license from Marvel. [2] Kevin and Brian Blume guided TSR in the early 1980s to compete for a Marvel Comics license against companies such as Fantasy Games Unlimited, Games Workshop and Mayfair Games, and TSR ultimately used its top industry position and existing relationship with Marvel to obtain the license; TSR referred to this project as "Boot Hill revision" to ...
The original Marvel Super Heroes game was published by TSR.It received extensive support from TSR, covering a wide variety of Marvel Comics characters and settings, including a Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe patterned after Marvel's Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
The Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game is a role-playing game published by TSR, Inc. that uses the SAGA System and features characters published by Marvel Comics.It should not be confused with the earlier Marvel Super Heroes Game, also published by TSR, the later Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game, published by Marvel itself, or Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, published by Margaret Weis Productions.
Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set is a boxed set which contains a more complex but standalone version of the rules found in the original Marvel Super Heroes: The Heroic Role-Playing Game basic set. It contains a more elaborate "Universal Table" which enables a wider variety of results to happen.
[3] Sheeley concluded his review by saying, "The Marvel Super Heroes Judge's Screen is a good deal, thanks to the Guide. The two will be of great value to a campaign." [3] Marcus L. Rowland reviewed Judge's Screen for White Dwarf #62, rating it 4/10 overall. [2] He described it as "a fairly standard triple cardboard sheet". [2]
This was followed two years later by a greatly expanded Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. TSR published many supplements for this game, including Deluxe City Campaign Set. This was published by TSR in 1989 as a boxed set containing a 96-page book, a 64-page book, and four large color maps. [1]
Children of the Atom is a supplement for the Advanced Set describing all of Marvel Comics's mutant heroes and villains. [1] Children of the Atom is an encyclopedia of mutant-kind, detailing their friends, enemies, homes and equipment. [2] It includes a miniscenario, "Dreamchild." [1]