The Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game is set to launch its extensive public playtest later this week. Last year, Marvel surprised the gaming community by announcing plans to develop its own tabletop roleplaying game, that would allow players to either play as one of Marvel’s many superheroes or create their own character to face off against a legion of Marvel villains. Instead of licensing the rights to an established tabletop roleplaying game company, Marvel instead hired veteran RPG designer Matt Forbeck to build a new game engine crafted specifically for the Marvel Universe. Forbeck is a veteran game developer, having worked on previous Marvel tabletop roleplaying games in addition to a long list of credits of design work for both licensed tabletop roleplaying games and original worlds. Forbeck also wrote revised versions of the venerable Marvel Encyclopedia, a tome containing detailed descriptions of hundreds of Marvel characters.
