Pyramid Pick: Century Station (for Heroes Unlimited)

Pyramid Pick

Century Station (for Heroes Unlimited)

Published by Palladium Books

Written by Bill Coffin

224 pages, $20.95

I can honestly say that I feel guilty for liking this book as much as I do. I mean, Palladium games are just not cool, right? It's all munchkin Rifts and stuff, right? Well, not really. I've enjoyed most of the Rifts books that I've read. Okay, some of them.

And I'm not ashamed to say that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of my all time favorite games.

Consider that disclosure. Because, like I said, I really like Century Station.

It's the first setting book for Heroes Unlimited, Palladium's superhero game. I've never looked at HU, to be honest. A couple minutes flipping through it was all I needed to say "Wait, I play Champions."

Apparently, as revealed in CS, HU does not have a base setting. It's given many NPCs (Lots of them. . . tons) and some interesting extra-terrestrial stuff (Aliens Unlimited is out in its second edition), but there's no set "universe." Apparently, they've realized that it's pretty much de rigueur to have a setting to go with your system. Which is good. What's better is the one they're building, starting with CS, looks like a good one.

The city of Century Station is never really localized, although it seems to me to be in California somewhere. It's an old mining town that never really developed, floundering its way through the 20th century.

Until Project Daedalus came to town. 25 years ago, the town was revitalized . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: July 21, 2000

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