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Marvel Multiverse Table Top Role-Playing Game - Summer 2023

  A new Marvel TTRPG is heading our way for Summer 2023. I have some really fond memories of the Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying game put out by TSR in the 1980's. It was right along side Dungeons & Dragons as one of my introductory games to ttrpgs. This new game looks to be based purely on a six-sided dice system. The playtest rulebook for the game is available now for anyone who wants to run an early version of the game through its paces before the finalized version comes out next year. I'll admit I'm curious enough make that purchase myself. Here is the official press release from Marvel:  MARVEL LAUNCHING CORE RULEBOOK FOR NEW TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING GAME IN SUMMER 2023   ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK’ AVAILABLE JUNE 2023   FOLLOWED BY ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG’ AVAILABLE JULY 2023     Use the D616 game system to embody your favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains!     New York, NY— August 22, 2022 –  New adventu
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ND Hollywood Moment: 01/22/2011

X-Men: First Class – News and Photos Abound


Image Credit: Murray Close
Image Credit: Murray Close

Entertainment Weekly and the LA Times both had  great articles full of coverage for the upcoming film, X-Men: First Class. A prequel for the X-Men big screen franchise, not a reboot. Taking facts from the interview with the director, Matthew Vaughn, this X-Men film will start the story in the very beginning with most of the film being set in the 1960′s. It gives a lot of attention to the two men who will later be known as Magneto and Professor X, showing their relationship evolve as they take on the evil organization known as the Hellfire Club, a name that should familiar to fans of the X-Men comic books. There is a mixed reaction on the ‘Net to this approach, but I have to say I’m onboard already. I like going back to the beginning with the X-Men, I feel the original team was still one of the strongest group of characters.

Younger Magneto with Helmet

Plus going with this original group of heroes means NO WOLVERINE. I could not be happier about that. I mean the wild little canuck is fun, but the X-men were cool before he came around and hopefully this movie will prove that.



Alright lets get to casting. In the Hellfire Club Kevin Bacon will be Sebastian Shaw and January Jones as Emma Frost, the White Queen. For our band of mutants fighting for their cause we have Michael Fassbender as Magneto, James McAvoy as Professor X, Jennifer Lawrence  as Raven Darkholme aka Mystique, Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy aka Beast, Lucas Till as Havok. This sounds like a strong cast, choices that make me feel even better about the prospect of this film. After the X-Men Last Stand and the Wolverine movie being such disappointments, its nice to look forward to an X-Men film again.

Young Charles Xavier from X-Men First Class film


Image Credit: Murray Close

All info comes from Entertainment Weekly and The Los Angeles Times
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