When looking for a place online to host your next Marvel Multiverse RPG session, you’ll want to make sure you’re making the best choice, as hosting the game on the wrong platform can sabotage everyone's gaming experience. In a system like Marvel Multiverse that relies on keeping track of stat blocks, utilizing dynamic skills and powers, and incorporating iconic characters, let’s identify the greatest possible home for your Marvel Multiverse party.
The best VTT for Marvel Multiverse would firstly be one that allows the party to remotely roll and reroll dice, specifically your traditional d6s. In this ‘d616’ system, success is determined through players rolling three d6s, adding them up, including bonuses, and seeing if it (meets or) beats the target number set by the Game Master. However, unique to Marvel Multiverse, one of these three dice should have the Marvel logo replacing the ‘one’ side. When adding up the dice, the Marvel represents a six, and more excitingly, a Fantastic Success, meaning something extra good happens alongside your action. An Ultimate Fantastic Success, or this system’s equivalent to a critical success, is when across your three dice you roll a six, a Marvel, and another six, an homage to the primary canon Marvel universe designation, ‘Earth-616.’ A VTT hosting Marvel Multiverse should have some way to identify which die has the Marvel, as those Fantastic and Ultimate Fantastic successes are foundational elements of the gameplay.
The driving reason a lot of people pick up Marvel Multiverse is to embody their favorite comic book heroes in an immersive TTRPG experience. To facilitate this, the core rulebook of Marvel Multiverse comes with premade, ready-to-use character sheets for many of the most famous names in Marvel, such as Iron Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Kamala Khan, and more. These sheets are filled with powerful and unique attributes designed to represent the characters' special abilities and proficiencies in the game system. Moreover, there are multiple resources on the sheet that the player is responsible for keeping track of during play. It’s important to know how much Health, Karma, Focus, or Damage Reduction is available at any time in a session. Therefore, the VTT you choose for Marvel Multiverse should provide an easy way for you to monitor these values, and as a bonus, have a way for you to quickly check what a skill or ability does.
Fortunately, there is a VTT that fits these requirements and suits Marvel Multiverse perfectly. Not only does it ‘fit,’ but the Marvel Multiverse TTRPG is fully integrated into the Roll20 VTT system, providing players with the special d616 dice, easy-to-fill/use character sheets, and a rulebook accessible online. There’s even a module created specifically for Roll20, ‘Revenge of the Super Skrull,’ where one of your fellow players is secretly a Skrull in disguise.
The Roll20 VTT is equipped with Marvel Universe maps and character art assets for your character’s ‘token’ and the places the game will take you, alongside an upload function for your homebrew heroes and backgrounds. It lets players have their character sheet, setting, dice, and rules virtually available on the same website. It’s hard to suggest any other VTT when Roll20 has made it so simple to start playing Marvel Multiverse, so if you’re going to begin a new game online, Roll20 is certainly the Ultimate Fantastic choice.
Finn Halpern is a Chicago-based writer, passionate about TTRPGs, nerd culture, and the art of storytelling.
