I played my first session of Marvel Heroic RPG tonight

And it went fantastic . We played the Breakout mini campaign in the back of the players guide, and with most of the players never having played before, Roll20 really stepped up and helped us all learn. I usually play D&D 4th Edition with Roll20, so trying out a system without maps, grids, or tokens was kind of scary. I thought that maybe it wasn't the point of Roll20 and we would be better off using another program, but we decided to stick with it instead and man did it pay off. Here is our map from the game tonight. Being able to create boxes, pull dice directly from the chat box for effects and having a visual Doom Pool really helped us learn what we needed to learn. One other thing I want to mention is the ability to chat as a character. It was invaluable for this game, as people could speak as their hero or their secret identity without any confusion. We did most of our roleplaying in the text box and talked rules on Skype, so it helped a lot to keep people relaxed and roleplay characters they may not even be familiar with. All in all this experience made me appreciate Roll20 even more than I did before, and thought I would share how great this thing works even for more roleplay focused games.

I want to do this. We play in person, but OMG. Dumb question: How do you do that? Do you need 3d dice enabled? I can't seem to drag or find a way to do that....

If you /roll you can click individual dice and pull them out so in a situation like this You can click individual dice results and drag them into the playspace. I just tested this on my game and it still works, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I don't think we have 3d Dice enabled. I don't think you can drag the final result (like the 31) but you could grab any of the individual dice and pull them out. You can then right click them and choose a side if you want to use them to keep track of numbers like plot points or such.

I can't remember, but that might be a supporter/mentor level feature. Edit:  Yep - at least as of  March 13 .

Ah that makes sense. I love it. I'm sure it'll make the transition to normal feature eventually.

My god, I had no idea you could do that with the dice. I like the idea of the Marvel Heroic too and I'd be interested in picking it up. Is it just called Marvel Heroic?

Its called "Marvel Heroic Roleplaying" There is a second Marvel game, but this is the one I'd recommend. Make sure its by Margaret Weis productions, and I'd think about picking up the books soon since I think they're pulling the license. Its a fun game and with the books released you could basically do anything you need/want to do.

Just to echo Khildith, MWP lost the license and the game isn't available for download anymore.  If it's something you're interested in, grab a copy before it becomes a collectors item.  There's some talk that they might release a version not tied to the Marvel setting, but that's not confirmed and might not happen anytime soon anyway.