Marvel Multiverse RPG: Avengers Expansion

Avengers Expansion is a forthcoming major supplement for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, written by Matt Forbeck. The book is scheduled for release on September 17, 2025. It is a 256-page hardcover expansion (ISBN 978-1-302-96513-6), with full-color artwork and cover by Paco Medina & Jesus Aburtov. Its purpose is to bring the Avengers—a core and defining group in Marvel lore—deeper into the RPG with new characters, locations, legendary equipment, and large-scale heroic content.

⚔️ What It Adds — Key Contents & Features

Here are the confirmed new features and mechanical additions in Avengers Expansion:

Expanded Avenger Roster & Villains: Core heroes like Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor are prominently featured, along with many other Avengers and their iconic foes. Some characters previously missing (in the core rules) will be added or newly detailed.
Legendary & Iconic Gear: Rules for crafting and using legendary items (iconic weapons like Captain America’s shield, Thor’s hammer-Mjolnir, Iron Man armor variants) and utility gear are included. These items include origin, powers, restrictions, and a Power Value cost mechanic.
Headquarters & Bases: Guidance on creating Avengers headquarters, such as Avengers Tower, as base of operations, with mechanical benefits, narrative stakes, and likely rules for upkeep. These HQs help situate teams and give anchor points for campaigns.
Large-Scale Battles / Encounters: The expansion emphasizes content for handling epic, large-group fights or villainous threats that require more heroic scale. Such content seems tailored to letting players feel the weight of Avengers-level threats.
New Locations & Maps: In addition to heroic gear and HQs, the expansion adds playable locations tied to the Avengers mythos and presumably includes maps for these places.
Updated Iconic Item System: A revised system for “Iconic Items” that gives items more structure: specifying their origin, powers, restrictions, and how many Power Picks (a resource in the game) are needed to own them. This updates and refines how such special gear functions.

🔍 How It’s Likely to Play at the Table

Based on the announced features, here’s what to expect when using Avengers Expansion in play:

Higher power tone matches classic Avengers stories: This expansion lets the table run stories that are more epic, more legendary. When dealing with threats large enough for many Avengers, you’ll likely need to leverage HQs, iconic gear, and large combats more than before.
More player options & thematic gear: Players who want to embody the Avengers will have more tools and options to build characters that feel like the iconic heroes: more item-options, gear that is recognizable, and mechanics to support those heroic archetypes.
Preparatory load increased: Because this expansion adds more gear, more items, more notable NPCs and locations, GMs (Narrators) will have more reference material but also more to prepare. For example, integrating iconics, balancing large gatherings of foes, handling the mechanical weight of legendary gear.
Epic scale risk / reward: Battles with many foes or high-stakes threats will probably demand greater coordination, resource management, and narrative investment. Use of powerful iconic items will shift expectations: when do you grant those, how to restrict abuse, etc.

✨ Highlights

Some of the best expected features, per what has been announced:

Iconic Item System: Giving major items like Cap’s shield or Thor’s hammer mechanical detail (origin, restrictions, power picks) is very welcome—makes them feel more than just story flavor.
Avengers HQ & Base Rules: Having a heroic base like Avengers Tower with rules is exciting; creates a narrative center, a place for downtime, mission launching, resource investment.
Veteran Heroes & Villains Added: For players who felt the core rulebook omitted certain Avenger characters or variants, this expansion helps fill gaps.
Scale Up for Epic Play: The inclusion of rules for large-scale battles, more challenging encounters, and legendary threats means that campaigns can accommodate Avengers-level conflicts (rather than just smaller hero vs villain bouts).

⚠ Things to Watch — Caveats & Potential Issues

Overlap & Redundancy: Some heroes and items may already have profiles or gear in the Core Rulebook or other expansions, so duplication or retreading may occur. Buyers who own many expansions might get overlap.
Balance with iconic gear: Iconic items with high power value can risk unbalancing play, especially if many PCs have them—or if villains have comparable gear. GMs will need to control the distribution and maybe tweak restrictions.
Complexity & reference burden: With more locations, more items, more heroes/villains, there is more material to look up. For groups that prefer lighter sessions, this might slow things. The visual or digital indexes, quick profiles will help, but there’s more to absorb.
Cost vs use: At a list price of about US$49.99 for the hardcover, and given the number of expansions already released, some players may wonder if the parts they most want (profiles, items, maps) justify the full price.

🧭 Who Should Get Avengers Expansion

Make sure you already own the Core Rulebook of Marvel Multiverse RPG, because this is an expansion, not a starting book.
Players/GMs wanting to lean into classic Avengers stories: assembling well-known teams, using signature items, setting up Avengers HQ, and facing big threats.
Marvel fans who want canonical Avengers heroes and their iconic gear in up-to-date stat form, including characters previously un-profiled.
GMs who enjoy large-scale conflict, base-building, and narrative depth in superhero campaigns.

For casual players uninterested in large Avenger mythos, or who prefer smaller-scale heroics, some content might feel “extra.” But even then, there are bits (iconic gear, maps) usable in more modest sessions.

🎯 Final Verdict

Marvel Multiverse RPG: Avengers Expansion looks to be a strong, well-designed next step for the game. It packs in content that’s thematic, mechanically rewarding, and evocative of what Marvel fans tend to want when they think “Avengers.” The iconic gear, HQ mechanics, increased scale for conflict, and deeper character & location content promise lots of potential.

There are trade-offs—a bit more complexity, potential overlap, price vs selective use—but for many groups, especially those already enjoying Marvel Multiverse RPG, this expansion is likely to deliver more fun, more options, and a satisfying level of “heroic scale” that some earlier supplements only hinted at.

If your table wants to go big—Avengers big—this is the one to reserve. If you’re newer or prefer smaller stories, consider whether you’ll make full use of what it offers. But even viewed as a collection of gear, hero profiles, and maps, it seems well worth checking out.