DC/Wildstorm's "The Authority"

[IDreamofBunnies]

I find this comic book series, the successor to the late "Storm Watch" series pretty good. It features a group of superhumans who have placed themselves above the law to serve a greater good. They openly defy the status quo, refusing to work within the framework of any government. They mostly combat hostile aliens and forces from myriad alternate realities but various neo-conservative and clandestine multinational interests conspire to bring them down.

Most recently in the series, the team just barely manages to recoup after an alliance of multinational conglomerates, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and Canada replace them with more compliant superhumans with similar powers, and for their troubles the Authority took over the United States setting up their team leader as the President. Now revived and revamped American superheroes from WW2 and later are leading a popular revolution against the Authority.

Does anybody else read this series at all? And does anybody else think it would make for an interesting RPG?

 

[IDreamofBunnies]

Just had to post one more thing about my favorite minor character from the series. A monsterous enforcer serving the global elite, Seth was once an inbred mountain hillbilly, he was transformed into a 6 billion dollar super weapon with over 1000 super powers including bizarre ones such as: X-Ray Strength, Rainbow Breath, Shame Vision, and Larynx Freezing Vision. He proved to be more than a match for all the members of the Authority more or less put together. He was finally defeated when Jenny Quantum said the secret "off switch" phrase intended to be used if Seth ever proved to be troublesome to his masters, a phrase that would never be spoken in any realistic situation, "Welcome to the Oval Office President Gore".

 

[IDreamofBunnies]

The thirteen people who read this thread besides myself have no opinion or view whatsoever? Wow.

 

[IDreamofBunnies]

Because I already play Tri-Stat BESM and D&D 3rd Edition I decided to plonk down the 45 bucks and get the Authority sourcebook. It's meant to be played with Silver Age Sentinals d20 but I prefer the Tri-Stat rules for something as open ended as a superhero game. If anybody wanted to play an Authority game it could be freeform or Tri-Stat.

I think the setting and characters of the Authority are mildly compatible with the standard DC universe, barely though. While their super-humans are generally on the same scale of power, nothing would ever get done because The Authority would piss off the JLA and JSA, amongst other heroes and teams and would be constantly fighting them. Marvel characters don't fit too well though, as much as I love Marvel (more than DC/Wildstorm, really) I have to admit that DC/Wildstorm characters would own on most every Marvel character combined other than say...Adam Warlock with the Infinity Gauntlet.

 

[Screech]

Well I for one will reply to this thread!

I like The Authority. Mainly because they are not your typical superheroes. Instead of just beating up a villain and sticking them in jail, they compleatly obliterate the villain's forces as violently as possable and cause the villain to cop it in various ways. For exmple, using The Carrier to burst a forcefield protecting an oriental villain (I forget his name), using Apollo to fly through the middle of a base belonging to an intergalactic fossil-fuel production company, and so on, and so forth

Of course, Planetary was prety damn good too

 

[IDreamofBunnies]

The Planetary/ Authority crossover featured H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulu (or however you spell it)