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Roll Call/GM Screen

Silver Age Sentinels GM Screen

Published by Guardians of Order

Illustrated by Ed Northcutt

Three-panel screen; color exterior, b&w interior; $4.95

Silver Age Sentinels Roll Call

Written by John Davies, Jason Durall, John Karakash, & Aaron Rosenberg

Additional writing by Jeff Mackintosh, Jesse Scoble

Interior art by Alberto Belmonte, Terry Pallot, Klaus Scherwinski & Daniel Kiessler, Chad Sergesketter, Chris Stevens

32-page b&w softcover; $9.95

Silver Age Sentinels -- both the Tri-Stat and d20 System versions -- has been out since last year, but supplemental material thus far has been mostly fast play guides and folios for your players' characters. Now Guardians of Order gets into the meat of the matter with Roll Call and the GM Screen, both dual-statted.

The GM Screen is only three panels wide, but the players' side illustration is a masterpiece of superhero artwork by Ed Northcott. Spanning all three sections is a single full-color scene -- a massive battle royale on Liberty Island, with Sentinel and Kreuzritter at the center of the stunning set piece. Giving not just the look but the feel of a super-powered donnybrook, if this mighty marvel doesn't put a player in the mood to fight the good fight, they're playing the wrong game.

On the GM's side are all the charts and tables necessary for quick reference during play. The leftmost panel has a large chart of weapons of all kinds -- bladed, firearms, bows and arrows, and so on. The middle panel has improvised weapons (the sorts of things . . .

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Article publication date: February 19, 2003

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