They aren't bad, and are passable as 'It could be this guy' and the stories behind them save the characters from actually BEING the characters who they are probably based off of. There is a thinly-disguised Tick character, an Impulse-look-alike, and what seems to be a Green Lantern (and Corps) called the 'Runestone' in the book. The backgrounds are standard backgrounds, except they run 'into' each other and work into a sort of sub-campaign.

The pictures are passable here except for the Saint guy who has a face like a sphincter. The characters included with the game, the Guardians, are playable and unique to each other but look somewhat weak, which is probably because they are made with a cheap amount of points. They even put the map for the game on one of the main reference pages. The picture of (who I can only suspect is) Morganna looks terrible, as does most of the art in this section. There is even a thinly-disguised Blade in the game, who's a combo of a Klingon and a vampire (as a Star Trek fan, I found this funny). The 'sex-scene' style section that is read to the players when Morganna (A thinly-disguised Elvira) gets on stage is hilarious. All in all, the adventure looks like it might be tough to pull off, but it's detailed, though a couple times there are paragraphs repeating themselves. Other trails lead to Sorcerers of the Shore (A thinly-disguised WOTC) and their game of fairy magic, Glamour (a thinly-disguised Magic). The characters can even enlist the help of Devilish Games (a thinly-disguised Chaosium) to help summon B'Luga the Whale God (a thinly-disguised Ctulhu) to help them out. They discover through various clues that all fingers point to the Bloodsuckers Larp (a thinly-disguised Vampire LARP), where they have to fend off a bunch of rabid fans who are more than they seem. Following the trail leads the characters to suspect the star of another space show (a thinly-disguised Babylon 5). One of the 'fan suspects' is the man who created a boardgame where you have to kill a starship captain (a thinly-disguised Cheapass Games game named 'Space Captain Jimmy' instead of Kill Doctor Lucky). They find out that this guy who used to be the star of Space Trekkers the New Wave (a thinly-disguised Star Trek tv-show) had been killed. The adventure that went with the insert runs like this: The heroes go to a gaming convention called ConCON. What really got me was that this was just the insert. If you wanted to go in depth, they recommended clan names like 'Slobberatu' and 'Venture-Capitalists'. Each character has Depression Points and the goal is to get rid of the depression points and be the least depressed bloodsucker by the end of the game. It describes an undead LARP (a BLURP) where you play a depressed vampire (or ghoulie) and have powers which include Soul Suck and Atomic Soul Suck (which are acted out by a wedgie or an atomic wedgie).

The Bloodsuckers insert was part of the adventure included with Sidekick, something you pass out to your players, and it was funny. The art didn't impress me either, but at the back of the book was a small insert for a game called 'Bloodsuckers Live', and just after reading a couple lines, I had to get this book. They also had another book called the Sidekick Sourcebook, which I picked up to look through as well. I didn't pick up the Blood of Heroes book, because I had also heard that it was simply a reprinting of the old 3rd Edition Dc game, but I flipped through it and I wasn't too impressed. I had heard of them online, they bought the rights to the old Dc system from Mayfair. Walking down the aisles, I passed by a small booth where the word 'Heroes' caught my eye. Since so many people already reviewed this beauty called Aberrant, I'll tell you a different story. They didn't have it out yet, but I did get an Aberrant from White Wolf, and I got to hear about Champions 5th edition. I really enjoy superheroic roleplaying and was looking to purchase a copy of Pinnacle's Brave New World. I went to Origins this weekend looking for a couple new games I had heard of.

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