What product would you like to see for new roleplayers?

[June Jazz]

June,

You might look at MapTools, with the player-designed MHR campaign. It's a solid virtual table, and the MHR campaign does an adequete job of keeping the distinctions going.

Thorguild

Though it's not likely to materialize anytime soon, I'd love to see a digital app. Like, something you can use to play the game over iPad or Android devices out of the box. If it's done right then something like this could go a long way to reaching outside the usual RPGing demographic as well as easing the learning curve for new players.

Oh I know about MapTool. I just played a MHR session last night on it based on the "new" Secret Wars. Had a fun time with my original Spider-Girl character bapping Hobgoblin.

Thing is, MapTool is entirely generic, not exactly user friendly, and has too many curtains to pull back to see everything. It's terribly inelegant and while the campaign frameworks help they don't save the interface.

What I'm suggesting is a virtual tabletop built specifically for Marvel Heroic, which makes the dice visual (a must in my opinion since there are dyscalculic RPGers who have terrible difficulty playing otherwise, like me), neatly organizes play, and maybe even has a feature to plug in Events.

[Spatula]

What I think would be cool is an examble of play based on actual pages from a comic. Take a few pages from a fight from a well known book (X-Men, FF, Avengers) and on one side show the actual panels, and on the other a description of play...

It would show more "rules based" PRers the idea of the narative design, and help show known marvel stunts with the characters (Fastball Special, Cap's multiple takedown with the shield, Nove Flame, etc.)

Just a thought.

That's exactly what my Let's Play... Amazing Spider-Man thread is all about, minus the panels (cause, y'know... copyright). However, you can find the comics on youtube (search for "Amazing Spider-Man #2 Vulture" for example) and follow along with the action!

[Hastati]

Having just bought two hard copies of the game to play with my kids I would say the biggest drawback with the current version is that the hero datafiles are not on separate card stock or at least perforated to pull out of the book. Basically, to play the game I now need to hand copy the datafiles to the blank PDF datafile so that everyone can have their own datafile.

Frankly, I wish I had bought one hard copy and one PDF copy of the rules, then I would have been able to print out the datafiles to hand out. A very small, but annoying, niggle for myself, but I could see it being off putting for a complete newbie, especially a youngster buying the game and wanting to play with his pals.

[SavijMuhdrox]

I gotta agree with Hastati. Some kind of separated datafiles would be great.. like handing a player his/her character.

Sure you can photocopy or print out the pages prior; but thats really not as easy as it sounds, especially if you've got players who change their mind every five seconds anyway..

I wanna be Beast, no Cyclops, Who's Armor? no Wolverine.. yeah.. Wolverine.. is there Deadpool?

it might help limit frustration, but i can totally just print the gosh darn thing too i guess.. though card stock versus flimsy paper would be another bonus.. and it makes upgrading to add-ons a more enticing physical purchase