Pyramid Review
Godsend Agenda
Published by Khepera Publishing
Written by Jerry D. Grayson
Additional writing by Brian Vinson, Jason Tondro, & David Thrush
Art by Matt Drake & Renee Grayson
224 b&w pages; $23.95
2002 continues to be the year of the superhero game, opening with the return of the venerable Hero System and Champions and soon to close with the massively-open-content Mutants & Masterminds. Almost unnoticed in this wave is a book from Khepera Publishing, Godsend Agenda: Super heroic [sic] Roleplaying. Don't be fooled by the subtitle. This is not a comic book superhero game. What is it, then? Let's examine the book and the general mechanics first, and then the "Godsend Agenda" setting, and perhaps we can approach an answer to that question.
The book is a full-size 224 page trade paperback . . . a good size for a core rulebook. The front cover is a fashionable deep brown, with the title, subtitle, and a symbolic icon representing one of the major factions of the setting world. The back cover features some color art of major characters. Interior pages are comfortably laid out, with a few graphical embellishments to the margins that do not intrude on the reading experience. Sidebars are presented with a mock-papyrus background; this has been done before -- badly -- in the Hercules & Xena RPG, but the background chosen here is light enough as not to interfere with seeing the text.
Line art mixes with grayscale throughout, with a full 41-page graphic story leading the book, and setting . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 22, 2002
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