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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 Video | Marvel's Doctor Strange | Second Trailer



This trailer is actually a few days old since it was presented over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con. I've been hesitant to post it because I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I love the casting choice of Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Dr. Stephen Strange. Dr. Strange has long been a character I've enjoyed reading, from the reprints of the old Stan Lee & Steve Ditko comics to the most current series that is being published now. I think the trailer looks good and the effects are definitely there conveying the dimension bending aspect of Dr. Strange stories. But on the other hand it doesn't feel right to me.

The martial arts feel of Dr. Strange's allies and nemesis' in action doesn't have the feel of the comic books to me. The special effects of reality bending are really well done on one hand, but on the other hand they don't seem much different than we've seen in movies like Inception.  And while I get what is they are trying to accomplish the wow factor isn't there for me. Dr. Strange is always about the weird and strange, I wanted to see more of the weird. I wanted to see odd creatures and worlds that bend the senses. I'm putting a lot on a trailer which shows a fraction of a larger film, I know this. I"m just saying this peek didn't satisfy the way so many other trailers have over the past weekend. Mr. Cumberbatch looks damn cool as Dr. Strange though.

Check out the trailer yourself, let me know if I'm being too harsh.


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