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Path of the Bold
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Volume #2. This super-hero short story anthology of heroes and villains is a collection of tales set in the universe of the Silver Age Sentinels role-playing game. This collection explores the thematic concepts of power, responsibility, and conflict.
Volume #2. This super-hero short story anthology of heroes and villains is a collection of tales set in the universe of the Silver Age Sentinels role-playing game. This collection explores the thematic concepts of power, responsibility, and conflict.
208 pages, Paperback
First published June 14, 2004
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James Lowder
85 books103 followersaka Richard Awlinson, J D Lowder, Jim Lowder
James Lowder has worked extensively in fantasy and horror fiction on both sides of the editorial blotter. He's authored several best-selling dark fantasy novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and has had short fiction appear in such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Genius Loci. He's penned comic book scripts for several companies and the city of Boston. His book and film reviews, feature articles, and role-playing game design work can be found in such diverse publications as Amazing Stories, Milwaukee Magazine, and The New England Journal of History. As an editor, he's directed lines or series for TSR, Green Knight Publishing, Chaosium, and CDS Books. He's helmed more than twenty anthologies, including Hobby Games: The 100 Best and Curse of the Full Moon. In the media, he is a regular contributor to the Public Radio show "Lake Effect" in Milwaukee, provided werewolf lore on the TV show Weird or What? and tabletop game industry lore for the documentary The Dreams in Gary's Basement, and served as a puppeteer on the indie film Misfit Heights.
James Lowder has worked extensively in fantasy and horror fiction on both sides of the editorial blotter. He's authored several best-selling dark fantasy novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and has had short fiction appear in such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Genius Loci. He's penned comic book scripts for several companies and the city of Boston. His book and film reviews, feature articles, and role-playing game design work can be found in such diverse publications as Amazing Stories, Milwaukee Magazine, and The New England Journal of History. As an editor, he's directed lines or series for TSR, Green Knight Publishing, Chaosium, and CDS Books. He's helmed more than twenty anthologies, including Hobby Games: The 100 Best and Curse of the Full Moon. In the media, he is a regular contributor to the Public Radio show "Lake Effect" in Milwaukee, provided werewolf lore on the TV show Weird or What? and tabletop game industry lore for the documentary The Dreams in Gary's Basement, and served as a puppeteer on the indie film Misfit Heights.
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May 25, 2019
Like all anthologies, some stories are better than others, but the majority of stories in this volume are very good. These stories are all set in the world of the Silver Age Sentinels role-playing game from Guardians of Order, but the main characters from that setting are rarely the main characters in these stories, these stories concentrate on lesser known (or brand new) superheroes.
This is the second anthology in this line, I haven't read the first, but that didn't impact on my enjoyment of these stories. There shouldn't be too much culture shock for people new to the setting, other than the existence of superheroes, there are really only two major differences between this world and ours - New York City is known as Empire City; and the island of Thule has risen in the North Sea (between UK and Norway) and is home to one of the major supervillains - Kreuzritter (pretty much a Dr Doom clone).
The stories in this anthology aren't just superheroic slugfests (although there is some of that), they make an attempt to look at how a society like ours may be changed by the existence of metahumans. Most of these stories are pretty short - in comic book terms very few would be the main story, most would be the 8-page backup story that used to be a feature.
If you're into superheroes, this is worth a read.
This is the second anthology in this line, I haven't read the first, but that didn't impact on my enjoyment of these stories. There shouldn't be too much culture shock for people new to the setting, other than the existence of superheroes, there are really only two major differences between this world and ours - New York City is known as Empire City; and the island of Thule has risen in the North Sea (between UK and Norway) and is home to one of the major supervillains - Kreuzritter (pretty much a Dr Doom clone).
The stories in this anthology aren't just superheroic slugfests (although there is some of that), they make an attempt to look at how a society like ours may be changed by the existence of metahumans. Most of these stories are pretty short - in comic book terms very few would be the main story, most would be the 8-page backup story that used to be a feature.
If you're into superheroes, this is worth a read.
February 7, 2010
Not quite as good as the first volume, Path of the Just, it nonetheless had a couple really good stories.
February 13, 2016
Excellent collection of superhero short stories set in the "Silver Age Sentinels" roleplaying game universe. Highly recommended to any comic book fan.
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