Pyramid Review
Omlevex (for Mutants & Masterminds, Silver-Age Sentinels, & Champions)
Published by Z-Man Games
Written by Cynthia Celeste Miller, Shelly Bateman, Trever Harwell, Benjamin Rodgers, Jordan Steelman, Bryan "Mortis" Wylie, Jon Miller, Jon Ogden, George Todorovski, Kirt Dankmyer, & Eddy Webb
Edited by Eddy Webb, Jordan Steelman, Trever Harwell, Jason "Valdier" Orman, & J.P. Meyerson
Art & Graphics by Jeff Stephens, Bong Dazo, Eugene Perez, Jason L. Blair, Jared Brown, Trever Harwell, Stephen Shepherd, Charles Silbernagel, Tim Stiles, Ben Wisosos, Pascal Agunaou, Jeff Austin, Dick Ayers, Robert Thomas Baumer, Rainier Beredo, June Brigman, V. Shane Colclough, Rol Enriquez, Samuel Galentree, Kevin Hill, Joel Klampert, Michael Jason Paz, Eugene Perez, Jr., Tony Perna, Roy Richardson, Josef Rubinstein, Craig Shepard, George Todorovski, Chad Solomon, Herb Trimpe, Blake Wilkie, & Mike Zeck
144-page b&w softcover; $22.95
Silver Age Sentinels predicated its game world on the idea of heroes reminiscent of the 1960s in the modern day: all the clear-cut, slam-bang action of then with none of the pessimism or angst of now. Z-Man Games adds a new layer of verisimilitude to the effort with their compatible product, Omlevex.
In fact, "compatible" is the watchword: The book has stats for Silver Age Sentinels, Champions, and the Mutants & Masterminds Superlink. Characters are written up in the language of this last rules set, and provides appendices for converting to the first two.
Omlevex is . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: August 6, 2004
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