Customer Reviews

Aberrant Deluxe

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A good game. Only problem is that I know nothing about the world it is set in. This is after reading the "background" section many many times. I have no idea what many of the different goverments/factions do. Project Proteus for example. What are they and what are they doing? Only problem tho. Otherwise a very good game.

I haven't played RPG's for years, but when I saw this book sitting on the shelf it intrigued me, when I flipped through the pages it intrigued me even more. I bought the book to keep me busy on a very long plane trip, and i was surprised how well thought out the system and the campaign setting was. Since buying this book, I bought the supplements that follow and have watched this world blossom and grow into one of the best campaign settings of all time. Even if you don't play the game you will enjoy the paranoid tapestry that the setting is founded on. X-files meets Watchmen.

Great game for anyone who enjoyed the super hero RPG's of old but became to respectable to make time to play them.

A few years back, White Wolf renewed the way most people played Role Playing Games (RPG) with the World of Darkness books. They were gritty, dark and violent, they were too much similar to our own world for our comfort and they dared to touch parts of gaming barely touched on those years. As time went by the system began to lose momentum thanks to a predicted apocalyptical end no far from their future that never came (they seem to have taken an interest to solve those problems lately but that is yet to come). After the World of Darkness they came with a new system set in a futuristic alternative world far from the ever doomed present that they offered before, the name of the setting is Trinity and is not worth the effort to explain , however this system parted from an event in our time in which a phenomenon not yet explained granted "powers" like those of a god to some individuals, it was like winning the cosmic lottery. At first it looks like the classic superheroe game, but as you delve further in this settting you begin to see the differences, you are not only admired, you are a public icon, people buys whatever you eat or dress with. What is the point on stealing money when you can win twice as much with a Nike ad? But not everything is flowers and kisses, there is a dark secret that is going to turn all the heroes into villains in a matter of years (that is because of the Trinity system continuity on the future) and the whole world is going to come to war between the gods and the mortals. Whatever comes for the future of these system it is going to be interesting and i have already bought a ticket for the ride, will you too?

First and foremost - this is an excellent rules system for allowing the simulation of most super characters from DC, Wildstorm or Marvel (granted they won't be starting characters).

It is fairly easy to use and unique for gaming products, it has an index - something you'll need for character creation the first few times.

The biggest disappointment is the scatter shot presentation of world material, which is 4 color and feels like an immersion into the world, it lacks organization and some clarity. For most GM's this shouldn't present too much trouble as they begin to steal from their favorite comics.

Overall this is a great game, and well worth the money, especially for the hardcover! Buy it, you won't regret it.