History TabletopGame / SentinelsOfTheMultiverse

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Rook City expansion. Based on the more gritty, realistic side of comic books, it features an industrial complex and crime-riddled city as expansions, a [[OneManArmy one-woman-army]] and a TechnicalPacifist OldMaster
[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Auto Mechanic]] for heroes, against such villains as a VampiricDraining, drug-dependent serial killer, a CorruptCorporateExective crime boss and his [[TheDragon Dragon]], and a mutated rat-man that lives in the sewers.

** Healer: Tempest, Legacy (1940s), Argent Adept, The Scholar
** DPS: Ra, Haka, Fanatic, Chrono Ranger
** Nuker: Tachyon, Bunker, Absolute Zero, Expatriette, Fixer, Night Mist (all of whom require some time to get out combinations of cards which then trigger ForMassiveDamage.)
** Buffer: Legacy, Argent Adept
** Debuffer: Night Mist, Visionary
** Pet Master: Unity
** Crowd Control: Tempest, Visionary
** Jack of All Trades: Wraith, Mr. Fixer

* BadassCrew: La Capitan has taken advantage of her ability to travel through time to aamass the most badass crewmen she can find from across time, resulting in a team consisting of World War One flying aces, superpowered samurai, power-armored demolitions specialists, and more.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Rook City expansion. Based on the more gritty, realistic side of comic books, it features an industrial complex and crime-riddled city as expansions, a [[OneManArmy one-woman-army]] and a TechnicalPacifist OldMaster [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Auto Mechanic]] for heroes, against such villains as a VampiricDraining, drug-dependent serial killer, a CorruptCorporateExective crime boss and his [[TheDragon Dragon]], and a mutated rat-man that lives in the Rook City sewers.

* StraightGay: Tachyon. The only references to her sexuality is in one of her giant dumps of random bits of info, where she mentions spending weekends "with the wife" and the Freedom Four #1 comic.

* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Staff Always Works]]: Ra can use the Staff of Ra's power to deal projectile damage. The staff is destroyed upon doing this however.

** Tank: Legacy, Haka, Bunker (though anyone with an Armor ability will do in a pinch.)
** Healer: Tempest, Legacy (1940s)

* AttackDeflector: Iron Legacy's Superhuman Reflection, Wraiths' Smoke Bombs, Tachyon's Synaptic Interruption, Mr. Fixer's Driving Mantis Style.

* BossGame: The game is always a battle between a team of heroes and a powerful villain. With few exceptions, the heroes' sole win condition is to incapacitate that one being.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Omnitron-X has one or two of these.

* {{Mooks}}: Many of the villains can summon characters from their villain decks have these. Baron Blade's Blade Battalion, Voss's alien army, Matriach's birds, Omnitrons's drones, the Chairman's Thugs, and La Captians' crew all come to mind.

* [[ShootingSuperman Shooting Legacy]]: Heavily lampshaded in one of Legacy's damage reduction cards. Getting shot at by {{Mooks}} is apparently a perfect moment for Legacy to think about what's for dinner.

* ZergRush: The Matriarch's entire style. Her individual birds do not hit very hard, but when there's ''twenty'' of them on the field at once, on her second turn, it doesn't matter.

* AttackDeflector: Iron Legacy's Superhuman Reflection, Wraiths' Smoke Bombs, and Tachyon's Synaptic Interruption.

** DPS: Ra, Haka, Fanatic

** Jack of All Trades: Wraith

* YouDirtyRat: Plague Rat.

* PosionousPerson: Gene-Bound Bionaut. Naturally comes with a toxic immunity.

* [[ShootingSuperman Shooting Legacy]]: Heavily lampshaded in one of Legacy's damage reduction cards. Getting shot at by {{Mooks}} are apparently perfect moments for Legacy to think about what's for dinner.

* StatusQuoIsGod: A solid effort at aversion, rare among board games. The expansions flow in chronological order, and new promo cards show character growth for heroes like Ra and Fanatic, Haka being the last surviving human, along with a VillainousBreakdown for Baron Blade. Teasers for upcoming sets hint at greater changes to come, including [[spoiler:the death of Legacy.]]

** Citizen Winter, Citizen Spring, Citizen Summer, and Citizen Autumn

** Citizen Blood, Citizen Sweat, and Citizen Tears
** Citizen Truth and Citizen Dare
* TheWildWest: The 'Silver Gulch, 1883'environment deck. It even has a wagon full of dynamite, which always blows up at the least opportune time.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The powers and abilities of each character in their backstories vary from the way the characters work in the game, the most obvious being Legacy, who despite being a FlyingBrick, plays as a party buff deck.

* MadScientist: Baron Blade. He become seven madder in his promo card form "Mad Bomber".

* {{Mooks}}: A good chuck of villains who can summon dudes from their villain decks have these. Baron Blade's Blade Battalion, Voss's alien army, Matriach's birds, Omnitrons's drones, the Chairman's Thugs, and La Captians' crew all come to mind.
* MoreDakka: Bunker and Expatriette use guns. Lots and lots of guns.

* RobotMaster: Omnitron's deck is capable or sicing Drones on the heroes, and can rebuild them from the trash should the heroes trash them.

* SlaveMook: Voss's army has a rather sizable portion of it made up of these.
* StatusQuoIsGod: A solid effort at aversion, rare among board games. The expansions flow in chronological order, and new promo cards show character growth for heroes like Ra and Fanatic, along with a VillainousBreakdown for Baron Blade. Teasers for upcoming sets hint at greater changes to come, including [[spoiler:the death of Legacy.]]

* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Staff Always Works]]:a can use the Staff of Ra's power to deal projectile damage. The staff is destroyed upon doing this however.
* ThemeNaming: Present pretty much eerywhere, but Citizen Dawn's deck takes the cake

* TheWildWest: Silver Gulch, 1885.

* AlienInvasion: Grand Warlord Voss is trying to cause one. Should be have 10 minions out when he starts his turn, [[NonStandardGameOver it's successful]].

* CastFromLifePoints: Several cards like Solar Flare, Pushing the Limits, and Golem Unity's base power deal the user damage as a way of paying for the cost of the effect they grant (and they must deal at least ''some'' of that damage to themselves, otherwise the card is destroyed). Most of these are for the heroes, but Citizen Dawn has one for her self (Channel the Eclipse).

* CatastrophicCountdown: A couple villains (and one of the environments) feature this as their main threat to the heroes. Of course, each of them is a completely different mechanic to fit the theme of the fight.

* LegacyCharacter: Ignoring the pun, this is Legacy's schtick. Every Legacy gains all the powers of the previous Legacy, and adds new ones for the next Legacy.

* {{Mooks}}: A good chuck of villains who can summon dudes from their villain decks have these. Baron Blade's Blade Battalion, Voss's alien army, Matriach's birds, Omnitrons's drones, the Chairman's Thugs, and La Captians' all come to mind.

** And the TCF ConQueror and TCG Stalwart, both which belong to Grand Warlord Voss.

** TheChick: Tachyon.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Tachyon. Okay, she's blonde. But, with a great sense of humor (she memorably described her lab team as "only the top scientific badasses") and standing at a full six feet tall, she fulfills most of the name, and certainly fits the archetype.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Tachyon. Okay, she's blonde. But, with a great sense of humor (she memorably described her lab team as "only the top scientific badasses") and standing at a full six feet tall, she fulfills most of the name, and certainly fits the archetype.

There are currently 18 known heroes. 10 are included in the base game, 2 are in the [[DarkerAndEdgier Rook City]] expansion, 2 in the Infernal Relics expansion, 2 are from the 2013 Shattered Timelines expansion, and 2 are promotional heros only available to those who contribute to the Kickstarter for upcoming expansions or online from their website. All of the base heroes, as well as Unity (the first promo hero)have alternate forms with a different amount of maximum HP and a different innate power. These are also only available for contributing to the kickstarter, although there are plans to release unlimited versions in the unspecified, distant future.

* Legacy:
** {{Expy}} of CaptainAmerica and Superman, he provides some front-lines damage dealing as well as moral encouragement, strengthening the other heroes and protecting them from harm.
** GameplayAndStorySegregation: In theory, he has Supermanesque super-strength. In reality, he is one of the worst damage-dealers in the game, focusing instead of buffing his allies and shielding them from harm.
** TheHero and designated leader of the Freedom Five.
** LegacyCharacter: So much so, that it's been his family's codename for generations! Each one adds a new power to the growing set, too.
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** Baron Blade will cause a ColonyDrop should he have 10 cards in his trash.

* AlienInvasion: Grand Warlord Voss is trying to cause one. Should be have 10 minions out when he starts his turn, it's successful.

** TheHero: Legacy.

* {{Mooks}}: A good chuck of villains who can summon dudes from their villain decks have these. Baron Blade's Blade Battalion, Voss's alien army, Matriach's birds, Omnitrons's drones, and the Chairman's Thugs all come to mind.

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[[folder: General Tropes]]

* OneLiner: The flavor text on a lot of the cards. Several of these are a ShoutOut of some sort.

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[[folder: Heroes]]

** ComboPlatePowers: danger sense, flight, super strength, invulnerability, and three other unknown powers. His daughter adds an "atomic glare" to the mix.

** [[ShootingSuperman Shooting Legacy]]: Heavily lampshaded in one of his damage reduction cards. Getting shot at by mooks are apparently perfect moments to think about what's for dinner.
* Tachyon: The Flash as a woman, a scientist who had her [[AppliedPhlebotinum molecular structure accelerated]] by a lab accident. Specializes in playing and drawing an excessive number of cards and in doing sudden bursts of damage.
** FragileSpeedster: Subverted, gameplay-wise. She's not a hugely durable character, but not one of the most [[Squishy Wizard]]s, either, and instead of burying the enemy in small attacks, she prefers to charge up a single, massive one.
** HotScientist: Certainly.
** TallDarkAndSnarky: Okay, she's blonde. But, with a great sense of humor (she memorably described her lab team as "only the top scientific badasses") and standing at a full six feet tall, she fulfills most of the name, and certainly fits the archetype.
** StraightGay: The only reference to Tachyon's sexuality is in one of her giant dumps of random bits of info, where she mentions spending weekends "with the wife".
* The Wraith: The universe's answer to [[ComicBook/Batman Batman]], a rich young woman who swore never to be victimized again after she and her boyfriend were brutally attacked by criminals. As you would expect, has an array of gadgets, and acts as a hybrid of damage and support powers.
** MoreDakka: Of a sort. Wraith relies on having plenty of equipment cards in play to either mitigate or deal extra damage. One card, however, allows her to chuck all of her equipment at any target, and deals two damage for each equipment card lost this way. The damage tends to be spectacular.
** TeenGenius: At age 17, she was about to graduate from college with a triple major. This level of ability is meant to explain how she could become The Wraith in a mere six years, while still being visible to high society (instead of the decade-long disappearance it took for Bruce Wayne to become Batman).
* Bunker: A Lieutenant in the US Army, Tyler Vance, who was selected as part of the "Bunker Project," a mobile weapons project testing the capabilities of a mech suit, complete with multiple forms of weaponry and enhanced defensive capabilities.
** MoreDakka
** PowerArmor
* Absolute Zero: A janitor at the lab run by Doctor Stinson, who was caught in the same lab accident as Tachyon. As a result, his core body temperature dropped to 1 or 2 Kelvin.
* Unity: a plucky young intern of Dr. Stinson's, she is a technopath, allowing her to turn metal and gadgets into sentient, autonomous mechanical golems to do her bidding. All of them are completely adorable.
* Tempest: An alien escaping from enslavement at the hands of Grand Warlord Voss, M'kk Dall'ton is a member of a race capable of manipulating the weather, allowing him to utilize lighting, rain, and other weather patterns to demolish his enemies.
* Fanatic
* Ra
* Haka
* Visionary
* The Scholar
* Expatriette
* Mister Fixer
* Argent Adept
* [=NightMist=]
* Chrono-Ranger
* Omnitron-X

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[[folder: Villains]]
There are currently 13 Villains, four in each of: the main set, Rook City, and Infernal Relics. A thirteenth hero was available as a special promotion through a Kickstarter project. Each villain has his own deck of cards and a double-sided "rules" card. A certain trigger will make the villain "flip" and change tactics.
From the main set:
* Baron Blade: Legacy's Nemesis, and a mad scientist. He plots to pull the moon into the earth, destroying the world. When that doesn't work, he attacks the heroes directly.
* Omnitron: A gigantic self-aware robot, which rebuilds its robotic minions from the discard pile.
* Grand Warlord Voss:
* Citizen Dawn: Expatriette's nemesis (and mother). Leader of a cult of super-powered "citizens."
From the Rook City Expansion
* The Chairman: Mr. Fixer's nemesis. An expy of the Kingpin, with hints of Ra's al-Ghul. Is behind all the organized crime in Rook City.
* The Matriarch: Tachyon's nemesis. She has power over birds. Lots and lots of birds...
* Plague Rat: Chrono-Ranger's nemesis: An anthropomorphic rodent and plague spreader. He infects the heroes and makes them fight each other.
* Spite: The Wraith's nemesis: A serial killer hooked on experimental drugs. When he's loaded up, he becomes something else.
From the Infernal Relics Expansion
* Akash'Bhuta: A massive being that fights with the very forces of nature.
* Apostate: Fanatic's nemesis. A dark angelic being, bearing foul relics that grant him even more power.
* The Ennead: Ra's nemeses (yes, plural). A team of archaeologists who have absorbed the power of the Egyptian gods, and use it for evil.
* Gloomweaver
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[[folder: Environments]]
* Megalopolis
** CityOfAdventure: Hostage crises, derailing trains, imminent civilian casualties, Megalopolis has it all.
* Atlantis
* Mars Base Wagner
* Rook City -- {{Gotham City}} to "Megalopolis's" {{Metropolis]]. Home of the Wraith.
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The game also employs LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Visit the (currently in progress) [[characters/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse Character sheet]] for more information on the cast.

** A environment even has one. Silver Gulch 1883's Lost in the Past card causes the heroes to be lost in time (I.e. Game Over) should the environment end it's turn with no cards in the trash. And can put a card back into the environment deck at the ''start'' of the turn.

* Dreamer turns the standard win condition of reducing the Villain to 0 HP into the lose condition: for the heroes to win the Dreamer must flip and then a certain number of her Projections must be killed.
* A environment even has one. Silver Gulch 1883's Lost in the Past card causes the heroes to be lost in time (I.e. Game Over) should the environment end it's turn with no cards in the trash. And can put a card back into the environment deck at the ''start'' of the turn.

* Grand Warlord Voss: Tempest's nemesis, and an alien invader. The heroes have to fight through his army of mooks before engaging him directly.
** AlienInvasion: A pretty straight example of the trope. If too many of his minions are on the field at any given time, he's considered to have conquered Earth and it's game over.