Pyramid Pick: Silver Age Sentinels

Pyramid Review

Silver Age Sentinels, Deluxe Limited Edition

Published by Guardians of Order, Inc.

Written by Stephen Kenson, Mark C. MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh, Jesse Scoble

Additional Writing by David L. Pulver, Lucien Soulban

Cover Artwork by Bob McLeod (illustration), Liquid! (coloring)

Interior Illustrations by Storn Cook, Jeff Mackintosh, Ed Northcott, Chris Steward, Barry Winston

336 pages, full-color hardbound; $44.95

It's turning out to be quite a summer for superheroes. Not only is Spider-Man swinging pretty at the box office, there's a slew of super action in the works on the roleplaying front. Godlike and the new edition of HERO are already out, a new Champions volume is on the way, and Guardians of Order is muscling its way onto the scene with Silver Age Sentinels Deluxe Limited Edition RPG (a d20 version and an unlimited edition are scheduled as well).

The setting is Empire City, a proud and bustling town rife with adventure and peopled in part by superheroes of many stripes. Empire City is actually New York City with a different name; most everything else is the same without even a change of serial numbers. It has the same boroughs, the same buildings, and a mayor named Giuliani (the timeline starts in 2001). It's also home to the world's premiere super team, the Guard, who make their home in the hollowed and renovated shell of the Empire State Building -- the old one was all but destroyed by an invasion from a parallel universe called . . .

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



Article publication date: July 26, 2002

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