6 best superhero RPGs for Marvel, DC and indie fans

Ready to jump into a superhero TTRPG? If you’ve watched every film in the MCU, are always hanging around your local comic shop, and already know what colour your cape would be if you got bit by a radioactive spider, then this is the list for you. D&D can make you feel pretty powerful but it doesn’t compare to having superspeed or turning into a blazing inferno. These superhero RPGs are a chance to try out every power you’ve ever dreamed of, to solve mysteries in a noir setting, and to become both a hero and a villain. So, whether you want to don some tights in the Golden Age of comics and create your own iconic rogues gallery, become a magical girl from your favourite manga, or join The Avengers, we’ve got six games for you.

Intro 00:00
Mutants & Masterminds 01:05
City of Mist 04:07
Granma's Hand 07:32
Masks: A New Generation 10:55
Marvel Multiverse Role Playing Games 14:31
Anyone Can Wear The Mask 17:56
Outro 21:34

Buy Mutants & Masterminds here:

Buy City of Mist here:

Buy Marvel Multiverse RPG Playtest here:
------------------------
Join Dicebreaker+ to get access to exclusive videos and perks:

For our policies on editorial content and reviews please read here:

[KensanOni]

Sentinel Comics should have gotten a mention, as it is one of the best Superhero RPG's released in this decade. There hasn't been something quite as good and flexible, that highlights the various modes of game play that RPG's have in a long while. It is well worth a look.

[ryand]

Masks is great, the best system I’ve played in which you can have high-powered characters and low-powered characters on the same team and still have both feel relevant to whatever’s happening.

[jenuine]

I started playing City of Mist thanks to Maddie! It's so much fun, easy to play and get creative with your character building while drawing on folklore, god's and goddesses etc. Thanks Maddie for another great video and breakdown!

[shoulung]

The Hero/Champions system is easily the most crunchy, but also flexible, system out there, and Palladium has a nice system as well.

[brentage]

Hearing a game called Anyone Can Wear The Mask just makes me think of the end of Into The Spider-Verse: "Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you do now."

[DisembodiedTroy]

Heya! How did I miss this?! Fantastic breakdown for M&M, all of us at Green Ronin Publishing thank you for the mention!

[j.p.holiday]

The 80's Marvel Superheroes RPG by TSR had me in love for decades. The Character creation had all the design tools available to make your hero as detailed and nuanced as you wanted it to be.

FASERIP

[derrickhaggard]

Just recently got into Masks A New Generation and I love it.

[AscendantOat]

I quite enjoy the power profile mechanic from Worlds/Galaxies in Peril: You come up with your power and define a limited toolkit of specific ways to use it. These are grouped by difficulty so you have a structure to understand your limitations. When you try something new it's harder, but roll well enough and it's added to your toolkit for you to use at will.

Spider-Man is a great example here. He starts off having difficulty just sticking to walls and swinging on webs. He can keep adding to his toolkit by figuring out new creative uses for his webbing. He can lob blobs at his foes, tie things up, make parachutes, launch projectiles like a sling, and so on.

[chemicalgirl]

I love this! Maddie is an incredible host, i’m dying for that top x

[ThesKickAss]

ICONS Assembled Edition is awesome. It's made by the same guy who made M&M. It's simplified to get you playing faster. It also uses elements from FATE.

[RenartRegal]

Thank you, Maddie and the Dicebreaker team, for pointing out City of Mists! I’ve never heard of this one before, but I’m definitely going to try and track it down - I’m looking for a rules-light system to dip my toes into GMing (and maybe just have an excuse to run something superhero-themed)!

I would love to hear of more recommendations if/as they come up!

[phillee]

This was very informative. there were a couple of games there that I have never heard of and I will definitely be looking up. The presenter had great energy and she seemed really enthusiastic. Which makes me want to check out your channel. So thank you for bringing this to light.

[cybermerlyn]

Savage Worlds
You can adjust the gritty level of the game via Settings Rules and with the Super Powers Companion (SWADE)
and Necessary Evil. I have not found anything yet that I cannot play. I will say the City of Mist game is amazing, in all games I love to use the "A CASE IS LIKE AN ICEBERG" section from the GMs guide when creating things for any game I am running.

[GrognardPiper]

I still prefer the original Marvel Super Heroes FASERIP RPG.

[mahadada]

Loved the video. For me the greatest SUPERHERO RPG is DC Heroes RPG from Mayfair, specially the 3rd revised edition. It’s incredible! I was very sad during the pandemic that that no Online platforms didn’t adapted its tables and rolls to play with it

[phantommouse]

Champions is a great Super Hero RPG also. It has a lot of math, but you can play any type of hero that you want. It's one of the original Super Hero RPGs to boot, so it has a lot of old school goodness about it. For a little more cash, it has a Java based character generator that takes care of the math for you.

[willmendoza]

I love Masks. Best PTBA based game I have played, by far.

[tsunodaishi]

nothing can beat the old TSR marvel superheroes game

[stephenmanning]

I backed Absolute Power, my group likes the style so far. Shout out to Heroes Unlimited/After the Bomb -- great fun for char gen, but difficult to run