I got those hit points and I’m gonna use them!
Why waste?
Prerequisites: base fortitude save +5.
Benefit: When you are healed hit points over your maximum hit points, those additional hit points are converted to stamina up to your maximum stamina.
Thoughts?
Saw a simple combo from a wizard and felt my cleric should be able to do it too! Swing and spell. AC and reflex save is a solid combo in a turn.
Force Cantrip Evocation
Traditions divine, occult
Cast somatic, verbal
Range 60 feet; Targets 1 creature
Saving Throw basic Reflex
You punish an enemy with the portion of divine will. You deal force damage equal to 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1d4.
I had a player decide he REALLY wanted to play with fire!
Prerequisites: Grenade Proficiency, base attack bonus +7
Move like a butterfly, sting like a bomb.
Benefit: When you make an unarmed melee attack, you can pull a grenade from an available location like drawing a weapon and stick it to the target of the melee attack on a hit. The target will not receive a reflex saving throw to avoid damage and effects, and it will the the only target dealt damage and effects of the grenade.
Thoughts?
One last time for our Starfinder Mystics!
Classes Mystic 0
School evocation (force)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
Targets one creature or object
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance yes
Your faith bring force a solid representation of your connections will to assault your enemies in the form of a melee weapon, requiring a melee attack against the target’s EAC. If your attack hits, the spirit weapon deals 1d8 damage to your target.
Casting this spell doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity.
Attack Cantrip Evocation
Traditions divine
Cast somatic, verbal
Range Touch; Targets 1 creature
You summon and swing a weapon made of divine force. Make a melee spell attack roll against your target’s AC. On a success, you deal 1d6 force damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier. On a critical success, the target takes double damage.
Heightened (+1) Increase the damage by 1d6.
I want my cleric up close and I want to show people gods mercy!
Casting Time:1 action
Range:Touch
Components:V, S
Duration:Instantaneous
With a quick prayer, you summon your deities weapon out of divine energy and swing at an enemy. Make a melee spell against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 radiant damage.
The spell’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).
Thoughts?
I want some MREs that I can self reproduce in a bag of holding!
Level 5; Price 3,050; Bulk L
This anklet fits snuggly around one leg. With one charge, the device utilizes a null space chamber and nanobots to produce a meals of one pound of food with 16 ounces of fresh water three times per day for up to one month with cutlery and containers provided. The cutler and containers are reabsorbed by the device after completion of the meal. You can use a comm to communicate with the device to choose what meal is made next.
Let’s port this idea to PF2 as well!
Common Conjuration
Cast 1 hour; Cost 10 gp; Secondary Casters 1
Primary Check Nature or Religion; Secondary Checks Diplomacy or Society
Range 100 feet
You spend an hour working to bring the flavors and feelings of home to your allies for a meal. At the meal’s end, the ritual is completed and you and the secondary caster attempt your checks as normal. If the feast is interrupted at any point, the ritual is disrupted, but you still count as having eaten.
Critical Success The feast is feeds your soul. The magical food is affected by enhance victuals. Each guest also recovers 20 Hit Points and gains 10 temporary Hit Points for the next 12 hours. Guests also gain a +1 status bonus to saves against fear and poison effects for the next 12 hours.
Success As critical success, except guests recover only 10 Hit Points, gain only 5 temporary Hit Points, and don’t gain the status bonus to saves.
Failure Your food tastes bad and you feel sad your friends do not enjoy hour home cooking.
Critical Failure The strangeness of your homelands food poisons your friends and they become sickened 1 and can’t reduce the condition for 12 hours.
Heightened (+1) Increase the Hit Points recovered by 5 and the temporary Hit Points by 1 (or twice each amount on a critical success).
Thoughts?
Product– Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Games Playtest Rulebook
System- d616
Producer– Marvel
Price– $9.99 here https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Multiverse-Role-Playing-Game-Playtest/dp/1302934244
TL; DR-A solid evolution of GURPS 93%
Basics– AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! The Multiverse Role-Playing Game is the newest version of Marvel role-playing game. Let’s look at the game play, theme, and execution in our break down of the Marvel Multiverse role-playing game.
Basic mechanics/d616 system- Like most other RPGs, this system is roll dice, add number, see if successful. What sets this system apart is the basic mechanic of 2d6 and a separate d6. The separate d6 is your Marvel die where the six is a six, but a one is used as a six. Thus you have two normal dice and a die with two sixes increasing the likelihood of higher rolls.
Edge, trouble and Karma– Like most other modern RPGs, this system has reroll abilities. If your character has advantages like equipment or special powers, you can reroll dice, taking the higher roll. Trouble is the opposite of edge where the game master, called the narrator, can make you reroll dice and take the lower value. Karma is a resource you can spend when you choose to reroll a single die on any check.
Character Generation- Character generation is relatively easy. Your group chooses a rank between 0, basic human, to 25, god-like power, a concept, archetype, basically a class, spend ability points, pick backstory elements that function as traits, choose powers,and calculate final scores. This is a very class-based system, so you choose a class and that’s what you do. Right now you can’t blend classes, but this is a playtest. The archetype you choose determines how your different character attributes change as you level up and spend points to advance. Interestingly, each attribute also has a corresponding defense value similar to DnD 5e for saving throws.
Powers- Powers are the equivalent of feats in DnD. Your backstory, rank and concept affect what powers you have access too. Also interestingly, there are the equivalent of feat trees as you can become more powerful in a particular area.
Combat-Combat is similar to most other RPGs. You start with initiative and on your turn you can take different actions like easy actions, actions like talking quickly, standard actions, attacking or doing something complicated, movement, and off turn actions like reactions. Attacks are against specific defenses, and success means you do damage according to your archetype. Damage is reduced by specific damage resistances which give a specific value.
Ok, let’s see our thoughts on it.
Mechanics or Crunch– This system feels like an interesting evolution of the GURPS system mixed with modern ideas. The system works decently well, but the system makes a few strange steps to make the d616 system happen. The idea of a die having two sixes is interesting but it’s done because the basic universe for the Marvel comics is the 616 universe ( for reference we live in the universe 1218). That said, the basic ideas are things most RPG players will know and love and pick up quickly. 4.5/5
Theme or Fluff– There isn’t much to say except this is done well. You have the Marvel comics people doing the Marvel Comics RPG. They know their characters so what you see here feels like the Marvel comics. 5/5
Execution– I love everything I see here with one exception. The book has a great layout, solid writing, and good pictures. It has several premade characters and a whole adventure all for under 10 bucks! What I don’t like is I can’t just buy a PDF. I can buy digital via roll20, but I can’t just go to drive thru RPG and buy a PDF. This is good for the comic shops, but I want to read this via my tablet or phone via PDF. This is strange as I can buy via Kindle, so why not the usual places? 4.5/5
Summary– Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Games is a good evolution of game design and production. The system is good despite the quaint use of the die that breaks down to two sixes on it. The story is solid as solid stories and theme is what Marvel does. The execution is great, but I am annoyed that I can’t buy this where I get most of my RPGs. Overall, this is a solid game that, if you or your fellow true believers want a comic book adventure oneshot, is well worth picking up. 93%
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