Pulp Hero
Two-fisted thrills and adventure in the world of the Twenties and Thirties!
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Need a speedy motorcar for your Pulp Heroes? Auto Union Type 52 Concept, 2023 (1934), by Audi.
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This is a long shot. Back in the day, I remembered a website with very brief writeups of Dr. Fu Manchu and his minions (dacoits, thugs, lascars, etc.) I believe it was for third edition. I was trying to find this site the other day, but I can't find any evidence of it, or that it even existed. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Alternatively, if you have writeups for either Dr. Fu Manchu or the various characters and/or agents of the Si-Fan (or adjacent) I'd love to see them! I'm trying to populate my nineteenth century San Francisco with a variety of shady criminal characters of various backgrounds and cultures.
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Oops, I did it again! I bought something from the bundle of holding.... It was, as the title says, the They came from beneath the sea! bundle. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TCFBS I am interested in seeing how it deals with the old b movie stuff and how I might integrate into a Pulp HERO game. There is some decent things on making quips etc have some combat emphasis and playing to the tropes. Doc
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So along with Pulp Hero one of my favorite Pulp games is Amazing Adventures. Much like Pulp Hero, AA has a group of pre-generated characters as well. They are fifth level characters and since I have been getting back into running Pulp Hero and since I like both games I have decided to try and convert these characters to my all time favorite system. Now, since they are very different systems I am not going to try and do a direct conversion as that will be too difficult. Instead I am just get as close as I can to the concept of the characters. Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated. So here is the leader of the team.
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I figured Pulp Hero GMs might have fun with this bit of news, link below Jade Mosaic Mask Discovered in Tomb of Mysterious Maya King in Guatemala Because ancient relics and hints of a tale of a king beheading a god mighhhht make for a good plot seed
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Was thinking of getting motivated to run a Pulp campaign and was wondering what good Pulp films are out there to watch. This is what I've come up with so far: 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark 2. Temple of Doom 3. The Last Crusade 4. King Kong (2005) 5. The Mummy (1999) 6. The Mummy Returns (2001) I left kingdom of the Crystal Skull out intentionally since it takes place in the 50's but it still might fit because of the story. I know there are more Pulp films out there. I googled pulp movies but the only thing that comes up is Quentin Tarentino's very unpulp movie.
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Character Sheet: https://www.herogames.com/files/file/643-crash-corrigan/ Background Ray 'Crash' Corrigan is a recent graduate of Annapolis. Professor Norton has been investigating a series of earthquakes. Crash accompanies the professor and a small party of explorers on his rocket submarine to seek out the source of the quakes, and they wind up in Atlantis. The warlike Atlanteans, led by the mad tyrant Unga Khan, seek to sink the surface world so that Atlantis can rise back to the surface. They are opposed by the more peaceful Atlanteans led by the high priest Sharad. Our band of intrepid explorers land in the middle of this confl…
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Indiana Jones always has a cool opening scene. Can you think of a cool 1935-era opening for a pulp game? There are some criteria: -Imagine it is for a group of low-powered PC's, meaning there have to be obstacles, rolls, and a feeling that they are doing something and making decisions rather than passively experiencing something -It should have some element of spectacle, like, I think every Indiana Jones opening has that element -It should have a pulp feeling if possible Thoughts? Ideas?
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Off a dingy street in the bad part of town, you can find a small office. That is, if you don't mind walking up six flights of creaking stairs. The guy inside doesn't look like your average gumshoe, even though he seems to be trying to. Under the battered fedora, inside the threadbare trenchcoat, he looks a lot more fit than you expected. Maybe an ex-boxer? No, his features are a little too perfect for that. And he never has five-o'clock shadow, even when you know he was up all night. He won't talk much about his past. The most anyone has ever heard is that he got involved with his best friend's wife, and things went really sour from there. After that he …
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I don't have the Pulp Hero book, but I was wondering whether it would have stuff/character powers for a colonial America game based in the FIW period? I have this idea for a mixed fantasy and historical game based on my reading of the Crucible of War book by Fred Anderson. It covers the Seven Years War from the American perspective and gives tremendous setting materials for a game to be based on it. I don't know what style to run the game in yet, but I'm fascinated by the period, and the concept of Wilderness War. Maybe I'll throw in some werewolves and goblins.
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Character sheet uploaded to: https://www.herogames.com/files/file/636-dominopdf/ I had very low expectations going into this, mostly because of the trashy Domino Lady comics put out by Moonstone and Eros. I know, a pulp snob calling comic books trashy. The hypocrisy!!! But I was pleasantly surprised by the original stories from Saucy Romantic Adventures. They are quick reads, about 20 pages each. A typical plot breakdown: someone being blackmailed asks The Domino Lady for help, or The Domino Lady is casing a big score. She will meet with one of her contacts. If the contact is tall and handsome, a make-out s…
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Was given permission by Steve Long on Facebook to post this. It's not fancy. It should fit pretty well on a 3x5 card or at least some card stock. Mainly did this so I could put mine up somewhere safe and not loose it.
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Handy blog post if you need to dispose of those pesky pulp heroes: Villain’s Toolbox – a list of deadly methods for murder
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Posted this on Facebook and Twitter, why not here. Peanuts Manor of Mystery. Linus summoning the Great Pumpkin in 1930s. WWI ace Chuck Brown and his co-pilot/Beagle Snoopy. Peppermint patty and her secretary Marcie (Marcie served in the war and due to shell shock calls most people "Sir") Schroeder is a concert pianist and Lucy has come back from overseas studying under Freud and others. Sally is Linus' maid so she can be close to her "sweet baboo". Pigpen is the caretaker and has been under Linus' thumb for so long he's the Igor/rienfield of the gang. Franklin is the butler (no jeers it IS the 30s). You can't tell if Pigpen has been gardening or digging graves…
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I just thought that I would start a new thread to ask other fans of the Pulp genre what "pulp" or pulp style books they have been reading recently. Recently I have discovered a series of books featuring a two fisted American hero named "Hardluck" Hannigan , written by Bill Craig. The first book in the series is "Emerald Death" and already (i've read the first eighty or so pages ) we have an American adventurer in Africa in the 30's involved with a beautiful aviatrix, her adopted father (who apparently studied in Tibet alongside one "Kent Allard"), nazis with a giant airship (with its own squadron of fighters on board),and a race to find an emerald with mystical proper…
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Hey all, I'm starting a new Pulp HERO campaign in order to teach HERO System to some new players. After some preliminary planning and some brief correspondence with Steve Long, I've settled on Hudson City as the setting, and using the Carthage Club (Hudson City, p. 59) as the McGuffin to get all my players together as new adventurers. I'll eventually work them towards membership in the Empire Club, but that'll be after they've had some success as members of the Carthage Club first. I think it will be set in the 1930s, although there is a chance it may be set earlier if the players prefer it. What I'm looking for are some adventure seeds for the players'…
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Is there map of Hudson City as it was back in the 1930s? I'm digging in to Pulp Hero and I'd love to reference a map to Hudson City. I can see there's one for Dark Champions but that's present day? Is there one for the 1930s? Thanks
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Background: Kindly old Doctor Coffin owns the Mortimer chain of funeral homes in Hollywood. But he is secretly Del Manning, Hollywood actor and the man of 500 faces who has faked his own death so that he can now act freely to solve crimes. His first few adventures follow a familiar pattern - someone is killed in Hollywood, Doctor Coffin makes himself up as the victim and terrifies the guilty into confessing. In later stories he travels to New York to battle such criminals as The Monster of Manhattan and The Chicken King. Personality: When he lived as Del Manning, he avoided the Hollywood social scene, preferring the company of ‘…
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Despite it's more modern setting, there are a number of elements in this movie that seems more Pulp than any other genre. I only found one thread when I searched on it. Ghostbusters HERO I mean seriously, a campaign about ghostbusting with the toys they were running around using just seems to scream Pulp.
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I just uploaded two character files (pdf and hdc) for Brian "Coffin" Kirk and his ever-present sidekick, Tank. Arch Whitehouse wrote these aviation pulp characters for Flying Aces magazine. Seven stories were eventually published, which you can read on the Age of Aces website: "Vulture's Vortex" from Flying Aces, v27 #3, October 1937 "Skyguns of Singapore" from Flying Aces v29 #3, June 1938 "Scourge of the Steel Eagles" from Flying Aces v30 #3, October 1938 "Clue of the Breda Brood" from Flying Aces v32 #1, April 1939 “Hawks From the Smoke” from Flying Aces v33 #1, August 1939 "Balloons For a Breda" from Flying Aces v36 #1, August 1940…
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So, I was working up some pulp characters into Hero System 6E format, and it occurred to me to wonder what other people may have done? Anybody done up Doc Savage (yes, I've seen Darren Watts' version, I want to see other people's take)? How about G-8 and his Battle Aces? Or Clickell Rush, the Gadget Man?
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Anyone have an idea for a basic system for designing tanks for Hero system, specifically World War 2 tanks and vehicles? Stuff like Horse Power = STRength Tonnage = BODY Cannon = Damage and penetration (advantages: armor piercing, piercing etc.) Armor Thickness = DEFense You catch the drift...I'm looking to translate real world stats into Hero equivalents thus making possible to use any vehicle in a game. Otherwise I could use a stat block for a Sherman or a Panzer IV so I could scour my war game -library and convert armor statistics and stuff into DEF values and gun penetration and damage. I'm creating a system for …
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