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Title: Silver Age Sentinels: D20 Edition by Mark C. Mackinnon, Stephen Kenson, Jeff Mackintosh, Jesse Scoble ISBN: 1-894525-63-9 Publisher: Guardians Of Order Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Character Classes for Superheroes?
Comment: I have spent a long time looking for the perfect superhero RPG and this is NOT it. Not only did I find the book painfully hard to read because of the busy border and cramped looking layout, it tries to pigeonhole superheroes into character classes. I just couldn't imagine playing a superhero that was a 2nd level Costumed Hero and a 3rd level gadgeteer. Go play mutants and masterminds. It may be a bit more expensive for a smaller book, but it is so much better for this genre.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Flexible Superhero RPG That is Actually Complete
Comment: Silver Age Sentinels (SAS) is 336 pages of D20 superhero gaming goodness. It is not, however, like most of the other D20 games that you may have read or own. Instead of trying to jam D&D into a pair of spandex tights, Guardians of Order (GOO) chose to adapt the excellent D10 Tri-Stat version of their game to D20. While most of the core D20 concepts like character class, hit points, armor class, etc. are still intact, other concepts or mechanics might work a bit differently or have a different name. For example, objects have an armor rating instead of a hardness and armor absorbs damage instead of increases armor class.
At the heart of SAS is the flexible power creation system pulled straight out of the Tri-Stat version. Picking powers is a simple matter of paying a set number of points for each level of the power. There is no need for a calculator. You should have little trouble simulating most any super power you will find in comics and the simple power modifier value system allows you to easily personalize each power for your character.
Over a hundred pages of the book is devoted to the Empire City campaign setting (which is New York City with the serial numbers filed off). You get a short history of the world, a timeline and an overview of the current global situation, all of it taking into account the presence of super beings and their influence of course. A mini-atlas of Empire City details sites of interest around the city. As a blessing for the Game Master (GM), the book includes complete write ups for seventeen heroes and villains, and a selection of adventure seeds.
If you aren't adamant that your D20 games have to be completely compatible with D&D and you enjoy superhero gaming, SAS should bring you many hours of entertainment. It has most of the flexibility of a rules-heavy system like Hero, while maintaining the D20 concepts that you already know and love. Throwing in a campaign setting and lots of GM advice makes it one of the best deals in gaming today. Check it out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good superhero RPG'ing, Good d20, Good book
Comment: This is worthwhile purchase if you like d20. I'm using it for both item design, enemy/GM Char design, AND superhero RPG.
The rules are solid, and I like 99% of this book. And the art is great! It's B&W art, but it adds to the 'silver age' feel. I wish it included a GM's screen, but what books do?
My biggest complaint is that the Index is lacking.
That said, I have seen no other d20 books as nice as this except for the Wizards' D&D books and d20 Modern.
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Title: Urban Arcana Campaign Setting (d20 Modern) by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Eric Cagle, David Noonan ISBN: 0786926597 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Core Rulebook (d20 Modern Roleplaying Game) by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman ISBN: 0786928360 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 06 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Player's Handbook: Core Rulebook I (Dungeons & Dragons, Edition 3.5) ISBN: 0786928867 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Monster Manual: Core Rulebook III (Dungeons & Dragons, Edition 3.5) ISBN: 078692893X Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Dungeon Master's Guide: Core Rulebook II (Dungeon & Dragons, Edition 3.5) ISBN: 0786928891 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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