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The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game: Guide to the X-Men
X-pand your Universe. The first supplement to the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game is bursting with dozens of new profiles, maps, diagrams and descriptions of all things X-Men. Plus a brand new Marvel Universe Adventure!
- GenresRole Playing Games
94 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2003
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Marvel Comics
9,959 books406 followersMarvel Publishing, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media. Marvel Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, owns Marvel Publishing (since 2009).
Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Wolverine, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Daredevil, Thor, the Sub-Mariner, the Punisher, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, and the Silver Surfer; antagonists such as Dr. Doom, the Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Venom, Magneto, Sabretooth, Galactus, the Red Skull, the Kingpin, and Bullseye; and others. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locales set in real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The comic book arm of the company started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, with the company later that year launching Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others. Marvel has since become the largest American comic book publisher, surpassing its longtime competitor DC Comics.
On December 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion.
--from Wikipedia
Note: Although currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, this author is kept separate due to it's long history prior to it's acquisition - over 70 years.
Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Wolverine, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Daredevil, Thor, the Sub-Mariner, the Punisher, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, and the Silver Surfer; antagonists such as Dr. Doom, the Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Venom, Magneto, Sabretooth, Galactus, the Red Skull, the Kingpin, and Bullseye; and others. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locales set in real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The comic book arm of the company started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, with the company later that year launching Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others. Marvel has since become the largest American comic book publisher, surpassing its longtime competitor DC Comics.
On December 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion.
--from Wikipedia
Note: Although currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, this author is kept separate due to it's long history prior to it's acquisition - over 70 years.
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March 7, 2025
First the good.... they fix the error with one character from the mainbook.
The bad is... well... which characters they include (and don't) are really strange. They including characters whose history with the team were very brief. It KINDA made sense because they were active members of X-Teams when the book was in production... though somehow had been gone from the X-Titles by the time the book saw print. It made these inclusions at the cost of including characters who were X-Team mainstays for years, were new characters who were just being introduced and/or were about to get hyped up again. Other inclusions were sorta baffling. It included Cypher- who in 2003 had been dead for 24 years. It didn't include Warlock or Douglock. Just Cypher. You know who the book didn't include who was actually starring in an X-Men adjacent book at the time-- Deadpool.* But to me, biggest and worst exclusion, who admittedly is difficult to build in terms of game mechanics, but I did it on my own because I needed him when I ran a game-- is Strong Guy.
All these exclusions might be excusable if this were a licensed RPG where there was conceivably no way they could have known in time. But here's the thing... it wasn't. This game was created by Marvel's short lived consumer products division and published by Marvel itself. Marvel's editorial team gave it the once over. It had quite a few typos... more than the one or two in the main book or the Avengers book.
However it makes up for it with something I really am glad one of the three books that made it to print included... a tour guide to The Savage Land.
* Yes, I am aware there were three books for that were abandoned mid development. 1. Spider-Man and New York City 2. Fantastic Four and Space and 3. Guide to the X-Men vol 2. Spider-Man and the FF books were eventually leaked though the premade adventure was never completed. The X-Men volume 2 was barely started on but would have contained MOST of the characters people complained were missing from the first book... plus many characters introduced after that.
The bad is... well... which characters they include (and don't) are really strange. They including characters whose history with the team were very brief. It KINDA made sense because they were active members of X-Teams when the book was in production... though somehow had been gone from the X-Titles by the time the book saw print. It made these inclusions at the cost of including characters who were X-Team mainstays for years, were new characters who were just being introduced and/or were about to get hyped up again. Other inclusions were sorta baffling. It included Cypher- who in 2003 had been dead for 24 years. It didn't include Warlock or Douglock. Just Cypher. You know who the book didn't include who was actually starring in an X-Men adjacent book at the time-- Deadpool.* But to me, biggest and worst exclusion, who admittedly is difficult to build in terms of game mechanics, but I did it on my own because I needed him when I ran a game-- is Strong Guy.
All these exclusions might be excusable if this were a licensed RPG where there was conceivably no way they could have known in time. But here's the thing... it wasn't. This game was created by Marvel's short lived consumer products division and published by Marvel itself. Marvel's editorial team gave it the once over. It had quite a few typos... more than the one or two in the main book or the Avengers book.
However it makes up for it with something I really am glad one of the three books that made it to print included... a tour guide to The Savage Land.
* Yes, I am aware there were three books for that were abandoned mid development. 1. Spider-Man and New York City 2. Fantastic Four and Space and 3. Guide to the X-Men vol 2. Spider-Man and the FF books were eventually leaked though the premade adventure was never completed. The X-Men volume 2 was barely started on but would have contained MOST of the characters people complained were missing from the first book... plus many characters introduced after that.
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