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Cosmic Enforcers

Started by The Evil DM, November 19, 2007, 03:52:44 PM

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The Evil DM

I was down at a used bookstore today and found a copy of a game called Cosmic Enforcers. It was $9.00 I didnt pick it up but made note of it. It looked like a palladium game, but it wasn't. It was Myrmidon Press.
I saw it had a decent review on rpgnet.
I'm back in that part of town tomorrow and I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble.

Does anyone have any experience with this game?
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I am almost certain I have this game, but I'm uncertain if it is the one I am thinking of (meaning I have it, but the one I am thinking of might be some other game...)...

If its what I'm thinking of, the cover has some weird armored alien looking dudes.

Setting: Earth is invaded by ugly zombie looking aliens who have enslaved other races, Earth is saved by a space fighter pilot turned into psychic jesus, and the alien energies create superhumans (though not another psychic jesus...).

So, you can play aliens or humans, and everyone is a superhero of sorts. Its level and classed based, so you have 'power armor hero' and 'superhero' and 'psychic hero' classes, and your 'super strong guy' has to be X level before he can do superstrong stuff Y.

It is a bit goofy, though the artwork is generally excellent.  The prepackaged adventure, however, is rather horrific.

Basically, alien bug god thing possesses a suicidal TV clown, who goes on interstellar TV show for kids (with, as you can imagine, hundreds of kids in the audience) and seals the studio down, murders everyone on TV, demonically possesses the heroes that are sent in... and then the PCs go into the abatoir to find out what happened.

Rather horrorific extreme for a superheroey game.

Other than the level/class thing, I can't really say what the mechanics were off hand.  I know the classes used different mechanics to determine powers (bionics and power armor used 'budget's to buy gadgets, superhero types had 'slots' for powers (powers followed level progression)...

It may have involved a d20 is all I can say off hand.
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The Evil DM

Thanks Spike,
I called the store and asked them to hold it for me. sounds interesting. and I almost never play the sample adventures anyway.
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