Rules Help: the Alter ego rule

Happy new year 🙂

Today just a short little rules article as I've seen people confused by this rule a lot lately:

"While a Roster may contain any Crisis Protocol character, it cannot contain multiple copies of a character with the same Character Name and Alter Ego (the individual behind the mask)!"

(Core rulebook page 9.)

The important word here is and. What it basically boils down to is: you can't have the exact same character twice in your roster. Only the Sentinel MK4 has a special rule on its card that overrides this.

Now what is important is that there's an additional rule for squad building (so the models you play in a game):

"Characters in a player’s Squad may not share the same Alter Ego."

(Core rulebook page 11.)

So while you can have multiple characters with the same alter ego in your roster, you can't play them in a game together.

Let's use Peter Parker and Spider-Man as an example:

Allowed in a roster:

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Amazing Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Spectacular Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

While it has multiple Peter Parkers and multiple Spider-Mans they are all different characters with their own stat card so it's OK to have them all in the roster.

Not allowed in a roster:

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

You are not allowed to add a character with the same Superhero Name and Alter Ego twice to your roster. So no doubling up on one specific stat card (except Sentinel MK4).

Allowed in a squad:

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

While both characters are named Spider-Man they have different alter egos and different stat cards.

Not allowed in a squad:

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Spectacular Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

While the two have different stat card they share the same alter ego. Which is not allowed in squad building.

I hope this helps clear up the confusion. Feel free to ask any follow up questions 🙂

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