Reeling from The Authority

Recently acquired (About more than two weeks ago.) this hefty-priced RPG book, The Authority RP and Resource Book, after hearing a lot of buzz regarding this. Read it as much I can from cover to cover, mostly reading the inside track regarding The Authority in terms of its characters, its tech, the concepts and all that stuff how it relevant in making such a character and operating in its setting. I am rather impressed as other owners of this RPG book have acquired and made reviews of. It has very good production values, also which merits it long awaited release date since they have to consult and negotiate with DC Comics proper.

The rules set that's used in this RPG is based on Guardians of Order pre-existing system, the Tri-Stat system, which is the very system that operates Big Eyes Small Mouth anime RPG and Silver Age Sentinels superhero RPG. It makes perfects sense since the scope of action and imagery in Authority warrants not much use of a crunchy system to emulate this since its touted to be of "widescreen" magnitude where excessive reality modelling would bog down gameplay.

The game's design and production staff also including one person who did assist in the workings of the Wildstorms CCG. (*Reminisces the acquisition of such CCGs though its now in a state of disarray thanks to niece and her peer problems that time while blogwriter was in Seattle.*) Too bad no characters of Authority made it to appear in the CCG that time, though Stormwatch would be cool to look into when sourcebook comes out for it hopefully.

The game is pretty much all set to go for starting players and GMs though it would be much better for it with people who are familiar with the Authority setting by reading the comics proper or other works of Warren Ellis for better ideas (Global Frequency anyone? ;) ).

The blend of the Authority setting and the simplicity of the Tri-Stat system makes it a very good mix to use. Of course other pre-existing superhero RPGs would do a good job at emulating though it would require some ceiling to break and more so with the number crunching called for than usual.

I'll wrap my brain some more around this book until then. Next time.