Pyramid Review
The Authority Roleplaying Game and Sourcebook
Published by Guardians of Order
Written by Jesse Scoble, John Chambers, John Snead, Matt Forbeck, Matt Keeley, Mark C. MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh, & David Pulver
Art by Bryan Hitch & John McCrea
Edited by Mark MacKinnon & Jesse Scoble
352-page full-color hardcover (48-page Authority supplemental in b&w); $44.95
Not since Aberrant have players had such a chance as this to flex their muscles in an RPG -- not their roleplaying muscles, but their characters' actual muscles. The Authority, based on the DC/Wildstorm comic book of the same name, is about superheroes whose power seems to approach that of the divine.
For anyone unfamiliar with the funny books, the Authority is a group of heroes gathered by the disillusioned Jenny Sparks, living embodiment of the 20th century. She's seen the half-hearted, corrupt measures used by the United Nations and their ilk, and she's convinced she and her team can make a real difference in the world. She puts the baddest metahumans on the block -- including the Doctor, shaman to the world; nano-infused gadgeteer the Engineer; and Jack Hawksmoor, God of Cities, among others -- onto an enormous city-ship that can traverse space and parallel dimensions, and makes her intentions known to the squabbling peoples of Earth: Behave, or suffer the consequences. Fortunately for humanity, the Authority seldom needs threats to make its point. Instead, perils show up . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 20, 2005
Copyright © 2005 by Steve Jackson Games. All rights reserved. Pyramid subscribers are permitted to read this article online, or download it and print out a single hardcopy for personal use. Copying this text to any other online system or BBS, or making more than one hardcopy, is strictly prohibited. So please don't. And if you encounter copies of this article elsewhere on the web, please report it to webmaster@sjgames.com.