Pulp Hero
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10 Lost Cities and Mythical Civilisations
by Guest Celt- 6 replies
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10 Lost Cities and Mythical Civilisations of the Ancient World Not the usual mix of Atlantis and Shambala either. With an interesting take on the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah.
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An awesome resource for your PH games. http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html
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Where does this go? Machu Picchu news
by Guest Celt- 7 replies
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Secret Door Discovered At Center Of Machu Picchu (cross posted from NGD, found by tkdguy)
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35 Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Sudan Necropolis
by Guest Celt- 0 replies
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35 Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Sudan Necropolis I love the word 'necropolis'.
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Modern-day Pulp? 1 2
by tkdguy- 29 replies
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I recently had this idea about doing a Pulp campaign in a modern-day setting. The game mechanics wouldn't be too different, of course. It's mostly the visuals that need a bit of tweaking. To me, Pulp has a certain look, which should remind people of another era. The trick then is to give the game a retro look while staying in the modern world. It's not that hard to do. Describe the people the PCs meet in suits and fedoras or in dresses. Have them drive around town in a Chrysler PT Cruiser. If they need to fly somewhere, let them hop on board a Cessna Caravan, or maybe even a Zeppelin NT. If you add music to your games, some of the songs by Norah Jones and Dave Matthe…
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Pulp Hero Resources International Superheroes - Pulp Heroes http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/pulphero.htm The Zepplin Age http://www.heliograph.com/zeppelinage/ Pulp Era Slang Thread http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=706502#post706502 1948 Signals Campaign http://www.1948-signals.org/character/new_char_pulp.shtml Pulp Adventures http://www.icewebring.com/ICE_Products/RMSS/RMSS_5701_Pulp_Adventures.shtml Adventure House - Pulp Superhero Index http://www.adventurehouse.com/pulpdata/pulp_superhero.htm Art-Nocturne The Art of Ver Curtiss http://mysite.verizon.net/pulps.fan/Art-Nocturne/pulp%20hero.htm Cinem…
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Paul Malmont has announced that he is working on a sequel to The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril. I can't wait.
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A great tool for Pulp games involving long-lost civilizations and ancient artifacts: http://www.event12.com/index.html
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No, really. They found it a while ago. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49999550/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/deadly-caves-where-it-all-ended-maybe-hades-began/#.ULl4r4NlHa4 If you can't find a hook in that...
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I think it can be done. I think there is a baby in that bathwater. To me, from the pulp stories I have read, the racism had two sides to it. One part is the easily discarded xenophobia and white supremacy. The other part though, in which races are often given lush descriptions that emphasize their exotic differences from the Western world (sometimes even within the West) is worth keeping in my opinion if one approaches it intelligently and sensitively. I've read stories in which other races feel as different from our heroes as elves, dwarves, and orcs do from humans. On the one hand, this implied a certain level of inhumanity - especially for African blacks. On the o…
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We've lost all website order data from between the 8th and the 11th. I have some backup records, but they don't tell me everything I need to know. If you ordered during that time (even PDFs), please contact me at jason@herogames.com. I'll need to know what you ordered, what your shipping address is, and the last 4 digits of your credit card to verify your identity. Furthermore, all customers who have been inconvenienced by this data loss shall receive a set of six Hero Dice when that product becomes available in the near future. Thank you once again for your patience. “The Management”
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I want to build a Adventurer's team that is not comprised entirely of Caucasian nationalities. The characters are all highly proficient and successful, which is why they've been gathered into a team (think of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). This is set in the mid-twenties or thereabouts. I've been poring over the Pulp Hero book and supplements. Found some about exotic nationalities, but not a lot about PC-level roles. Example character roles I'm already toying with are: Aviator, Ship Captain, Grease Monkey, Modern Major General, Professor/Scientist, Great White Hunter and Nordic Ox (Hans). Example nationalities so far seem to be French, Irish, British, …
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“I dun't keer what folks think—ef Lavinny's boy looked like his pa, he wouldn't look like nothin' ye expeck.” WILBUR WHATELEY [b]Val CHA Cost Roll Notes[/b] 20 STR 10 13- Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH Damage [2] 12 DEX 4 11- 15 CON 5 12- 18 INT 8 13- PER Roll 13- 18 EGO 8 13- 15 PRE 5 12- PRE Attack: 3d6 4 OCV 5 3 DCV 0 6 OMCV 9 6 DMCV 9 3 SPD 10 Phases: 4, 8, 12 5 PD 3 Total: 5 PD (0 rPD) 5 ED 3 Total: 5 ED (0 rED) 7 REC 3 30 END 2 13 BODY 3 30 STUN 5 [b]Total Characteristics Cost: 92 Movement:[/b] Running: 18m/36m Leaping: 4m/8m Swimming: 4m/8m [b]Cost Powers & Skills[/b] 5 [b]"A Score Of ... Red Sucking Mouths":[/b] HKA 1 point, Constant (+½…
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Thought you guys might enjoy this a physics paper an explanation of call of Cthulhu involving gravitational lensing.
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Russian Nazca-like Space Elk discovered
by Guest Celt- 9 replies
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Mysterious Elk-Shaped Structure Discovered in Russia It looks more like a hill figure like can be seen in England, but I suppose Nazca has a catchier feel.
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Another great location from National Geographic!
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The latest PDF from Elvensong Street Press (i.e., me ) is now available! Legions Of Hell is a direct result of feedback from you, the HERO System fan. When I posted a couple months ago about PDFs of monsters I was considering creating, I got multiple suggestions to do a PDF of demons. Well, ask and ye shall receive. Legions Of Hell contains character sheets for nearly sixty demons. Within its pages you’ll find such terrors as the Barbtail Demon, Book Demon, Crowned Demon, Fell Assassin, Infernal Soldier, Prince of the Pit, Slime Demon, Worm Demon, and Demonticore! Each demon is ready for use in any game -- they could be minions of DEMON or the Demonologist in a Cha…
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And io9 seems to think it was OK.
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Everyone with half a functioning brain knows that diving on a live hand grenade to save your friends is one of the single most selfless, balls-out heroic acts of valor that any human being can perform. It takes a special, rare kind of person to come face-to-face with their own destruction, resist every natural impulse of self-preservation, and unhesitatingly give themselves up in a final, purely-selfless feat of bravery, trading in the most precious thing a human has to offer – their life – so that others might live. It's such a paragon of ultimate selfless human sacrifice that nowadays it's the standard go-to analogy for everything from taking all the blame for a team-wi…
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Oriental Mysticism - check Nazis - check From space - check It's the perfect Pulp McGuffin. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/buddhist-iron-man-found-by-nazis-is-from-space.html/
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Larger than life, but real.
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More like Pulp meets D&D, actually. And why not? Shadowrun did D&D meets cyberpunk! I tackle Weird Adventures on my blog, and I'm currently figuring out how to create a bunch of character templates. Character templates are different from the package deal approach to character creation; I'm basically doing a Star Wars d6 approach to character creation, but using the Hero System. Sort of a quick chargen option to make it easy for pickup games. Check it out!
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For those people looking for inspiration or background for their Pulp Hero games, http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio is a collection of radio programs from the Twenties, Thirties and Forties. No Shadow, I'm afraid, but you can listen to adventures of Superman, Batman, The Cisco Kid, Phillip Marlowe and Strange Doctor Weird (?!) Then finish up with some Glen Miller.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm6QCZk_yvs While the Xenozoic Tales setting does not take place in the 1920s or 1930s, it is a very pulp-ish setting, and so I feel my question is most appropriate on this board. What kind of major lost technology do you think would be worth basing a quest around? A nuclear bomb has appeared in the comics, and solar panels were mentioned, so those are right out.
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This is from AOPA magazine June 2012 pages 56 to 63 and based off of manufacture’s calculations. Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” Richard Williams a reporter for Seattle Times dubbed it the Flying Fortress. In production from 1935 to 1945, 12,731 of models A through G (last and most heavily armed model with 12 x .50 cal BMG) were constructed by Boeing, Douglas, and Vega. Eleven are still airworthy today. The belly gun is a Sperry ball turret with two .50 cal Browning machine guns. The ball turret gunner could not wear a parachute while in his battle station. The B-17 is an “electric” plane, electrical operated hydraulics where used. This is one of…
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