day of ragnararok pulp?

[kahuna's bro]

i bought the pdf for day of ragnarok and was wondering since thebooks storyline is set during an alternate ww2 couldn't this be considered a pulp game sine the goldenage never came due to the midgard serpent being awakened?

[ghost-angel]

You could play it as Pulp; but it's generally not optimistic enough. It's firmly a Post-Apocalyptic Setting - nothing at all to do with "Golden Age" or anything like that.

[RexMundi]

Pulp is a pretty Broad Genre. It doesn't have to be limited by Dates on a Calendar. Ed Brubakers Incognito for example, is full blown Pulp, in the Modern Age of Now.

Day of Ragnarok though, certainly a post apocalyptic setting, certainly with a few minor tweaks of game play, function more "Pulp" like, then PA like as well.

Pulp is always good. :D

~Rex

[kahuna's bro]

amen to that

[lemming]

There's plenty of pulp elements to it. You're fighting Ratzi's for instance!

[Susano]

There's plenty of pulp elements to it. You're fighting Ratzi's for instance!

Actually, you're not. They're all dead. You're fighting commies. On the other hand, Ken Hite did say it was basically Conan versus the Snake Cult in the 1950s, so in a weird way it's Swords and Sorcery. But I'd call it Pulp more than anything else, since you have a lot of larger-than-life heroes dealing with utterly strange and bizarre creatures and situations and fighting them with fists and Tommyguns.

[lemming]

Actually, you're not. They're all dead. You're fighting commies. On the other hand, Ken Hite did say it was basically Conan versus the Snake Cult in the 1950s, so in a weird way it's Swords and Sorcery. But I'd call it Pulp more than anything else, since you have a lot of larger-than-life heroes dealing with utterly strange and bizarre creatures and situations and fighting them with fists and Tommyguns.

Ahem, Page 83 shows the top five place to kick Nazi butt. I will concede, many more godless commies to fight.

[Susano]

Ahem, Page 83 shows the top five place to kick Nazi butt. I will concede, many more godless commies to fight.

Yeah, but Hite admits himself it's more commie smashing than Nazi stomping.

[RexMundi]

It's still Pulp though, we all know Pulp Trumps EVERYTHING else in levels of Cool.

~Rex :D

[rjcurrie]

Yeah, but Hite admits himself it's more commie smashing than Nazi stomping.

To be honest, does it really matter? In pulp, they're both basically mindless followers of an evil ideology.

[Susano]

To be honest, does it really matter? In pulp, they're both basically mindless followers of an evil ideology.

I think in certain elements of flavor, yes, but over all, no. Nazis seem to have that mystic bent, while commies seem to go for more weird science.

[Darren Watts]

DAR could only be made pulpier by the addition of more wood shavings. My own mini-campaign featured Operator #5 as an NPC and had the PCs plundering Doc Savage's lab in order to find a tunneling machine. (It also featured Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty from Kerouac's "On The Road," and borrowed a bit of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, specifically the Ant Hill under the Pentagon (which has five sides because it's a pentagram to keep the demons in, of course, and was designed by Thomas Carnacki.)) dw

[RexMundi]

Darren's showing off again. He is of course, compleatly correct as usual, and once again shows, Pulp, can not be stopped nor constrained by mere ambiguousness of the bad guys. :D

~Rex