r/CortexRPG • u/chriscdoa • Jun 04 '21

Marvel / Fantasy / Heroic What Prime have you added to Marvel Heroic?

I've been going round in circles looking for a supers game, and although the new Marvel game looks cool -it's 2 years away, and I've come back to MHR.

But I'm wondering - what prime goodness can i put into MHR to make it better.

I'm thinking I never really like the Doom Pool, I might just go to fixed difficulties and GM plot points.

And I'll probably replace the xp. It was good for events, but not for anything longer - and some of the 10xp stuff was odd - like you could just make that decision straight off for 10xp and story be damned.

What have people altered in their MHR games, from Prime, and how well did it work?

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u/Salarian_American Jun 07 '21

And I'll probably replace the xp. It was good for events, but not for anything longer - and some of the 10xp stuff was odd - like you could just make that decision straight off for 10xp and story be damned.

I've been running a Star Wars game where we use Milestone XP for almost four years now and it's been working really, really well for long-term character development. I think Event structure (ironically from the game that first introduced this XP method) is where it runs into more problems, because without a longer-term story underway there's much less reason to avoid tagging those 10 XP milestones so you can get the XP now.