Pulp Hero
Two-fisted thrills and adventure in the world of the Twenties and Thirties!
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This was the unused character concept from Darren's Day After Ragnarok campaign. I always wanted to play a flying ace in a Pulp game, but I missed my shot. Darren's proposed campaign structure (us traveling by vehicle across the ruined wasteland) wouldn't have been as dramatic if we could just travel over all of the encounters. He was quite right to discard it, though had the campaign continued I would probably have seen action -- once you've seen the miasma in the heartland, you have very little urge to go through it again, I'd wager! I love the name I came up with for him. Karmakaze helped me develop it by suggesting the outrageous names Pulp Heroes tend to carry!
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So, I used to play in a Day After Ragnarok campaign run by Darren. I proposed two solid concepts that gelled, and Darren chose this guy. I based him on an idea I'd had about a boxer still being dangerous in old age. I remember a story about a former golden gloves boxer, beating up a mugger when he was in his 70s and sending the younger man to the hospital. That's the kind of guy I wanted to play. His personality kind of emerged from my assessment of everyone else in the group -- I like to make sure we've got all angles covered in that department. We were lacking the dark spot, the shady guy who's one of the good guys, but you wonder if it's just because no-one's mad…
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Of course, some of these "mysteries" might not be, but as this is the Pulp era, one must never let the facts get in the way of a good adventure! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_disappearance#Search_and_rescue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimini_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident
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Found this article on Gizmodo about the Nazi Jet pack. Seems the thing allows jumps over 18ft and since the jet wasn't in constant use didn't require special Uniforms. http://gizmodo.com/5524604/real-bloody-flying-nazi-soldiers-with-jet-packs Tasha PS because the only thing better than Mad Science is Evil Nazi Mad Science!
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Just picked up a book in the bookstore called Operation Red Jericho. It's a Young Adult book set in the 1920s and really reads like a pulp adventure. More than that, the book has a secret organization, villains, and TONS of pictures from the era, diagrams of the Q ship that the protagonists find themselves on, diagrams of the hidden guns on the ship, maps, postcard, advertisements, interesting pseudo science and real science, drawings of the other secret organization, historical anecdotes, newspaper clippings throughout the book and lots more in the Appendices. Not only can you crib NPCs and plot ideas from this, you can scan/photocopy the various sidebar articl…
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Brightly Rosewater: Greetings! I am Brightly Rosewater, half-elven heir to the emerald petal throne of far-off Grjhosdfghj. My debating opponent is Gronads the Uncouth. Say hello, Gronads! Gronads: grunt Brightly Rosewater: That will have to do, I suppose. In any case, our debate today will be about the relative merits of Tolkenian high fantasy (grand scale struggles of good and evil with elves! Yay!) vs the pulp fantasy that was typical of the 1930s (bar fights and buxom wenches! No elves! Boo!) As I am far more articulate, I shall begin. High fantasy's treatment of women is to put them safely on a pedestal and out of harm's way, not slobby-drooly lusti…
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The rest of the site is pretty cool as well, but the keenest thing on it was the Random Pulp Science Fiction Title Generator from Cornelius Zappencackler's DERANGE-O-LAB: http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/title-o-tron.shtml. Given how much Pulp Adventure relies of standard tropes and cliches, having a good title is darn near having a plot.
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Just found a book at a local library, The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury by Jim Harmon and Don Glut, which is a rather entertaining review of most of the major serials of the 30's to the 50's (Flash Gordon, Captain Marvel/Shazam, Frank Merriwell, Gene Autry versus the Hollow Earth...). I remember these shows from Sunday and Saturday morning TV in the 70's, mostly having seen the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers ones. Have any of you ever seen any of them, and if so, which ones did you enjoy?
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250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields in 2011 http://gizmodo.com/5366082/250+foot-long-hybrid-airship-will-spy-over-afghanistan-battlefields-in-2011
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The Nazi never fail to provide some of the best pulp. Link
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I've been thinking about a weird little hybrid. Part Pulp Hero (since why it's here), Part Golden Age Comicbooks, and Part Dark Champions style game. I could have put this sucker on any 3 of these boards but I think the Pulp post WWI setting is key. The idea is to take desidably Golden Age characters and thrust them into an ongoing cold war the Pulp era heroes have been fighting since the beginning of WWI. Basically the spy game taken to a super-science and mysticism extreme. Germany's true power after the war with the rise of the Nazi party is super-scientists that grew vengful at the fall of the old empire. Basically Victorian Era rivialries carried forward into th…
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HERO System Martial Arts (HD Character Pack) 6.99 The characters, abilities, styles, and templates from HERO System Martial Arts in Hero Designer format. You can pick it up here.
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...from the real world! Giant Lizard discovered in the Philippines! Definitely cool!
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Here's a wealth system I devised for my own campaign: MONEY & Gadgets From pg15 of Pulp Hero: "...the gm must make sure the player doesn’t abuse his wealth to the detriment of the game" Baloney. Only a no-good vodka swilling bolshevik commie would tell a man he can’t spend his money any way he wants to. In this campaign, money can cost serious points, but you can do whatever you like with whatever you have! The amount of money you start with is based on a 2 week paycheck. For the ordinary character, it means you have $200 to spend on equipment for this adventure. Cash does not accumulate from adventure to adventure, and neither does equipment. If you…
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Shane Black directing and writing Doc Savage film.
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It's been floating around the past week or so but not been mentioned here as far as I can tell. Doc Savage: Man of Bronze is being developed over at Columbia Picture with Shane Black set to direct. Who is Shane Black? He is the writer behind the Lethal Weapon series and also wrote Last Action Hero and Long Kiss Goodnight. He also directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which had Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2010/02/columbia-pictures-picks-up-doc.html http://gordonandthewhale.com/shane-black-to-direct-doc-savage/ http://www.cinemaspy.com/article.php?id=4078 Black is co-writing the screenplay with Anthony B…
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A long, LONG, time ago when hero products still came in boxes and comics cost less than a buck (yes, THAT long ago) a number of game systems tried the 'programable adventure' format. For the younger among you, it worked like this: read a numbered paragraph, make a decision, then go to the specified paragraph. In short, the book was the GM, and the reader the player. Hero did this twice, once in Champions and once in Justice Inc. Should it be revived? Where I am (western Montana) there are no hero players at all, let alone Pulp players, and pbem just doesn't do it for me. Too darn slow. Who wants to try? I'll go first: Make a 100pt character. How you make it is i…
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Came across this site with photo dioramas using 11" action figures/"Barbie-type" dolls: http://www.marwencol.com/
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And I missed it coz I was working.... Steampunks gather for Great Exhibition
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http://wotw-goliath.com/video_trailer.html ~Rex...finds much good things here.....discuss.
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http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/12/02/Impressive-teaser-for-BUCK-ROGERS-in-the-25th-Century-webseries If you'll excuse me, I need a little alone time now.
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i was please to see the pulp era martial artist golden tiger from the hudson city book written up in HSMA but i didnt see a listing for golden tiger kung fu should we use one of the kung fu styles and rename it golden tiger?for example he culd be an expert in what is today caled kenpo
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The Art of Manliness Dictionary of Manly 19th Century Vernacular Admiral of the Red: A person whose very red face evinces a fondness for strong potations. All-overish: Neither sick nor well; the premonitory symptoms of illness. Also the feeling which comes over a man at a critical moment, say just when he is about to “pop the question.” Sometimes this is called, “feeling all-over alike, and touching nowhere.” Anointing: A good beating. A case for the application of salve. http://artofmanliness.com/2010/03/10/manly-slang-from-the-19th-century/
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