New Events for 2013!

[Prophetsteve]

For me, I would like to see the progression of the big events. We had Breakout and Civil War, so I would like to see the other major stories in that "meta plot"

Secret Invasion
Siege
Fear Itself

AvX (would bring the stats up to current levels)
SHIELD (cause I would love to have stats of Leonardo Di Vinci)

...and something supernatural based, as it seems lacking at the moment.

[Shingen]

For me, I would like to see the progression of the big events. We had Breakout and Civil War, so I would like to see the other major stories in that "meta plot"

Secret Invasion
Siege
Fear Itself

AvX (would bring the stats up to current levels)
SHIELD (cause I would love to have stats of Leonardo Di Vinci)

...and something supernatural based, as it seems lacking at the moment.

Fear Itself was fairly supernatural, what with ancient gods and all and the Defenders reforming. Also, I'd say Dark Reign is pretty important in there as well.

[cero]

Yeah, I would like to see Secret Invasion, but for sure I hope we do get the Dark Reign with Seige supplement (even if Secret Invasion has to be a supplement for Dark Reign!).

Then yeah, follow that up (2014!) with Fear Itself as an Event and that brings us to AvX and whatever Marvel are doing next year!

[Edowan]

AvX (would bring the stats up to current levels)

The problem is, as soon as the AvX would be published, the stats wouldn't be at their current levels.
That's why the choice of using 'event-based' characters, instead of generic or most recent characters, make sense.

For the new events, one should be careful about not picking good or important stories. But stories which will make a good game, which is very different.
Civil War is great because chosing side and dealing with the opposing side give a lot of opportunities to the player to make choice.
Annihilation... I guess it can bring a lot of travels and some diplomacy (and ass-kicking) to oppose the annihilation wave (you don't really have choices to make, I can't see PC siding with Annihilus)
Secret invasion could work if you can build up the paranoia and the investigation.
But not every event can work well.

[cero]

Agreed, I tried to do a World War Hulk event before, and really it only works as a mini-event with the Illuminati as PCs. With their stats imminent I may actually do this mini-event as a break session, but agreed in not all Events work well.

I do however think Fear Itself would be awesome to run, what with the Worthy to start with...

[Prophetsteve]

The problem is, as soon as the AvX would be published, the stats wouldn't be at their current levels.

But they would be closer than an event that was over 5 years ago. That's a long time for some of these characters.

Not all events work for this game structure, I agree. AvX has the potential to be an important cross-roads for Marvel, in the same vein as Civil War - do you support the X-Men in protecting the phoenix (with the promise of a revitalized mutant species) or do you support the Avengers in dealing with the Phoenix permanent-like (because its too much of a risk)?

Personally I would just like an event that was released within the last year or two, just so I have more up-to-date stats.

[Prophetsteve]

Yeah, I would like to see Secret Invasion, but for sure I hope we do get the Dark Reign with Seige supplement (even if Secret Invasion has to be a supplement for Dark Reign!).

Its why I picked Siege as the event rather than Dark Reign, as it had event-structure that could be tapped for a book. Reign was just the over-arching plot of the previous year or two - not an actual event that one could codify in a supplement. The supplements then could go into detail about the previous year, though.

Cabal Supplement (Dealing with HAMMER, The Hood, etc.)
Avengers Supplement (Mighty and New Avengers, etc.)
X-Men Supplement (Which would also serve as an Messiah Trilogy sourcebook)


Not sure if Secret Invasion has legs to be an Event book, as a lot of the stat blocks for the Skrulls would be "Nameless Skrull with X-Men Powers" and "Nameless Skrull pretending to be Black Bolt".

[MidnightBlue]

Not sure if Secret Invasion has legs to be an Event book, as a lot of the stat blocks for the Skrulls would be "Nameless Skrull with X-Men Powers" and "Nameless Skrull pretending to be Black Bolt".

Actually...the fun, to me, of a Secret Invasion campaign would be if the players may or may not be playing with a skrull or two or all among the party.

Even more interesting if the other players didn't know it...only the player playing the skrull and the Watcher.

Not sure how that would work...it would take some doing, especially in a system that is geared for being all-cards-on-the-table...no or few secrets.

It would definitely take some thought, but a paranoia driven storyline could be a lot of fun.

[Supplanter]

Not sure if Secret Invasion has legs to be an Event book, as a lot of the stat blocks for the Skrulls would be "Nameless Skrull with X-Men Powers" and "Nameless Skrull pretending to be Black Bolt".

Secret Invasion was funny because all of the interesting stuff, IMHO, was in the tie-ins. It's kind of remarkable how little actually happened in the main book. An event book that caught the essence of Secret Invasion would really be a program guide to running rotating solo-hero transition scenes.

Which, um, hm! Kind of interesting actually.


Jim

[Spidermaniac]

Events that I would like to see:

Secret Invasion: It might have to take some liberites with the original story but an Event that focussed on paranoia, tennsion, and the sci-fi/horror elements of the plot would be awesome. Include rules for one or two sleeper agents to shake up the party. . .

Dark Reign/Seige: I'd love to see a villain-centric Event, although Dark Reign was more of a theme than a plot/arc. The tension of the villains playing heroes was intiguing and could create a lot of interesting RP.

Messiah Complex/Messiah War/Second Coming: An event to put the focus on mutants that could involve a wide mix of mutant characters searching for baby Hope, protecting her in the timestream, and then facing the purifiers and Nimrod in a final showdown.