From Panel To Play: Moon Knight

CP48 Moon Knight

When the moon hits your eye, like the might of an ancient Egyptian god that grants you incredible powers, that’s-a Moon Knight…

Marc Spector’s journey to becoming the hero Moon Knight was not a simple or straightforward one. A former boxer, U.S. Marine, CIA operative, and mercenary, Spector was already an extraordinary man before the events that would transform him. After joining the archaeological expedition of Raoul Bushman, Spector’s employer double-crossed him and left him for dead.

That’s when Spector’s life took a turn for the strange. The Egyptian god Khonshu approached the dying man and offered him a second chance at life in return for serving as his avatar on Earth. Spector agreed and was resurrected with superhuman abilities as the Moon Knight, his strength, endurance, and reflexes becoming stronger as the moon grows full. And like the phases of the moon, Moon Knight goes through a cycle of changes as he passes from one personality to the next.

Moon Knight’s miniature captures him dramatically looking over the city from atop a rooftop, the wind pulling at his enormous cape. His posture is that of a poised sentinel, with his cape giving him a dynamic feeling of movement to offset his steady posture.

Moon Knight brings a lot of options to the tabletop for his Threat. His martial prowess is reflected in the speed and accuracy of his attacks. With his Bo Staff, he has the innate ability to reroll any number of attack dice and has the potential to Stagger his target with a wallop upside the head. For targets at range, Moon Knight carries a stack of silvery Throwing Crescents, which he can pepper his target with thanks to the Rapid Fire special rule.

When Moon Knight wants to land a heavy hit, he can spend 4 Power for the Avatar of Khonshu Mystic attack. Appearing within Range 1 of his target, Moon Knight lays down a Strength 7 strike that pushes targets of Size 2 or less.

This stealthy, wall-crawling character has something else up his white sleeves in the form of his innate power, Multiple Personalities. This makes him an unpredictable threat that can throw your opponent’s plans into disarray, since not even you know what the Chosen of Khonshu is capable of turn to turn. At the start of his activation, you roll one die. Depending on the result, Moon Knight might gain an extra action to advance, more dice on his next attack roll, extra power… or nothing at all! The phases of the moon might be predictable, but Marc Spector is not.

If you’d like to learn more about the moon god’s chosen champion, be sure to check out his full rules when they become available, and don’t forget to pre-order your own copy of Moon Knight alongside Blade from your local gaming store or our website. Until then, this has been Atomic Mass Transmissions’ first look at this hooded crime fighter.

Atomic Mass Transmissions, signing off!