Absolute Power – Slipcase Edition – 2-Volume
Dedicated superhero gamers and role-playing aficionados won’t want to miss this, because there’s no better way to present Absolute Power than in a stunning two-volume collected set wrapped in a protective slipcase. Both volumes feature vibrant leatherette covers – Book One in red; Book Two in blue – with padded boards and silver foil logo stamping on their covers and spines. The durable slipcase is printed in full colour with the cover illustrations from Books One (the Guard superhero team) and Two (the White Rooks supervillain team) printed on opposite sides. It’s a combined 672 full-colour pages printed on premium glossy paper with durable Smyth-sewn bindings.
Absolute Power Book One: System contains everything you need in 336 full-colour pages to create characters across the entire spectrum of superhero power levels, from novice teen wonders to street-level vigilantes to world-renowned metahuman leaders to cosmic godlike entities. The intuitive and easy-to-learn full Tri-Stat System game engine follows character creation. These rules include everything you need to start playing through superheroic adventures right away, and a bonus chapter details a selection of optional and expanded rules. Book One also includes dozens of pre-built items and gear to equip your characters, a diverse selection of companions, sidekicks, and minions to accompany them, and a comprehensive chapter that explores facets of playing a superheroic character.
Absolute Power Book Two: Essentials provides exquisite setting and genre context for the character creation and game system presented in Book One. This 336-page, full-colour volume opens with an in-depth study of superhero Game Mastering techniques that provides invaluable advice on running dynamic stories at your gaming table. The next several chapters explore the Absolute Power campaign setting, detailing how the Sentinel-Earth world has evolved and changed since the events from 2001 that were detailed in the Silver Age Sentinels RPG timeline. With expanded sections on campaign history, Empire City activities and organisations, Sentinel-Earth geopolitial realities, alternate dimensions, universal cosmology, and extra-planetary civilisations, the Absolute Power setting is waiting to embrace your adventuring ideas. Finally, dozens of diverse canonical heroes, villains, and neutrals across the full power-level spectrum are presented with detailed game stats, backgrounds, and personality profiles.