I was planning on writing a blog post relatively soon about one of my favorite games not featuring "Dungeons & Dragons" in the title:

However, I noticed that the main person responsible for creating the game - a certain Mr. Jeff Grubb - wrote an interesting post regarding the genesis of the Marvel Super Heroes RPG. For those interested, by all means, please go read it: HERE.

I'll save most of my own thoughts on the Marvel Super Heroes RPG for a later time, but suffice it to say I found it to be a great, easy game to play. It also emulated the superhero genre quite nicely - when playing a character, you felt like you could do anything you'd ever seen or read in a comic book. I've played other superhero systmes where that simply wasn't the case - your character would take forver to heal from a simple battle, or be unable to even do simple things like running from rooftop to rooftop. The fact that Marvel Super Heroes could do so while using a pretty simplistic rules system was always something impressive to be.

Besides ... FASERIP. That's just a great name for a rules system involving superheroes.

Time to get out the boxed set this weekend ...