Pulp Hero

I just discovered the existence of a document called the Voynich Manuscript. It's a small book, apparently written in the early 17th century, containing mysterious illustrations of plants, astrological drawings, and biological/chemical processes with large numbers of "nymphs". Accompanying the illustrations is text written in a script that has no apparent connection to any known alphabet or language. The document has defied all attempts at translation or decryption, and at determining the author. In short, this book is a blank slate, waiting to be whatever it needs to be for your campaign! Zeropoint

I posted the rough draft on the other Mongo thread (since deleted to save on bandwidth). Here is the updated version of the map, I made a few changes/additions but it is basically a more clear version of the original. I have a larger map for those who would like.

Of all the exotic images that the West has ever projected onto Tibet, that of the Nazi expedition, and its search for the pure remnants of the Aryan race, remains the most bizarre. On the nineteenth of January, 1939, five members of the Waffen-SS, Heinrich Himmler's feared Nazi shock troops, passed through the ancient, arched gateway that led into the sacred city of Lhasa. Like many Europeans, they carried with them idealized and unrealistic views of Tibet, projecting, as Orville Schell remarks in his book Virtual Tibet, "a fabulous skein of fantasy around this distant, unknown land." The projections of the Nazi expedition, however, did not include the now familiar search…

How about the floor plans to the California Zephyr? http://calzephyr.railfan.net/cars/plans.html

I don't think THIS site was posted previously, but I could be mistaken. even MORE cool early flying wings and blended wing body aircraft. http://www.twitt.org/PreBurnelliPatents.html#top

Flash! We have only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!

'Nazi aircraft carrier' located

I posted the first couple of sessions of my Pulp Supers game (Hudson City 1938) to the Champions forum, and it was suggested I mention it here. Check it out. I'd link to the thread but I don't know how.

Then do I have a deal for you! one barely used 1939 Snowcruiser! WEB REPRINT of article in INVENTION & TECHNOLOGY Magazine - Winter 1993 The Snow Cruiser - Antarctic Expedition Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology Project No. 1-69

My 1st Character to the boards so be gentle He was created for Oddhat's Pulp Game [/img]

DAYA CLAYTON, AKA DIANA PRINCE Val Char Cost Roll Notes 25/40 STR 15 17- Lift 6400.0kg; 8d6 [3] 23 DEX 39 14- OCV: 8/DCV: 8 18 CON 16 13- 14 BODY 8 12- 13 INT 3 12- PER Roll 12- 14 EGO 8 12- ECV: 5 20 PRE 10 13- PRE Attack: 4d6 20 COM 5 13- 5/15 PD 0 Total: 5/15 PD (0/10 rPD) 4/14 ED 0 Total: 4/14 ED (0/10 rED) 4 SPD 7 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 9 REC 0 36 END 0 36 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 111 Movement: Running: 9"/18" Gliding: 10"/20" Leaping: 8"/16" Swimming: 2"/4" Cost Powers END "Amazonian" Physiology Notes: The daughter of John Clayton, aka Tarzan, and La of Opar. Diana is possessed of a blood line…

I have no idea if this should really be in Star Hero, but it is out there enough to be pulp in feel.

I will not get my Nazis in time for GenCon and I am running a WWII adventure. Has anyone seen printable stand-up figs out there? I am running three games and I am trying to get them all packed this week so that I am not freaking out or getting my heinie kicked by Adult Onset Procrastinitus. Help a brother out?

Okay, the obvious choice is Weta Workshop's THE WORLD OF KONG: A NATURAL HISTORY OF SKULL ISLAND, however, there are a number of other sources I'd like to recommend: A LIVING DINOSAUR -- Roy Mackal The search for the mokele-mbembe, the sauropod of the Congo, also lists other dinosaurs of Africa. SEARCHING FOR HIDDEN ANIMALS -- Roy Mackal Contains the buru, a 15' lizard from India, and Pulp-era stories of the man-eating tree of Madagascar. AFTER MAN -- Dougal Dixon THE NEW DINOSAURS -- Dougal Dixon Both books detail life on Earth after an extended period of evolution. After Man presumes it is 50 million years after man has vanished from the Ear…

Over at the Pulp E-Zine list we have a writing contest starting this week. http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/pulp_ezine/ Pulp E-zine Adventure writers Contest Submit a Mini adventure suitable for use in a Pulp oriented game. This may be a Role-playing or a Miniatures styled adventure. The adventure should be no more than 3000 words. Maps and map legends are not included in the word count. try to be as generic as possible in regard to Stats etc. the less system specific the better that way everyone can mold the adventures to their system of choice (GURPS, Hero system, .45 adventure, Two-fisted tales, Top Secret/SI, Dime Heroes, Thrilling tales, Etc.) …

I had a chance to play a demo of this at Gen Con. Basically, it's 1936 and the Earth is, well, hollow. I'm still reading the rulebook, so I haven't gotten to the worldbook section (working on combat right now), but I like the source material -- it makes for a good framework for long-term weird science pulp game. There are digging machines, Nazis, dinosaurs, mad scientists, Atlantis, and who knows what all (my idea for a demo scenario will use a Land of the Lost map I found and Sleestaks!), and seems open to endless possibilities. The system itself is fast and quick, albeit a little clunky (there's some interesting HERO system touches -- at least, what looks like…

I played this character years ago: Lance is an actor, but much more physical than most. He learned swordfare to work with Erol Flynn, and likes to brawl his way around swashbuckler style. He was a football player in college. He's also hiding a secret: his parents are Russians of the Bolshevik movement. They moved to the US before Lance was born, but have kept quiet about this fact for fear that other Americans would see seeds of distrust with the Rynovik family.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2434192005 Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors CHRIS STEPHEN AND ALLAN HALL The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents. Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior. According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.…

Mousechief has a game comming out set in the 1920's. It's about teenage girls and their quest for adventure. It looks to me like a cross between The Maltese Falcon and Scooby Doo. http://www.mousechief.com/ I found these guys on Craigslist, looking for beta testers. Might be a fun gig if you live in the Bay Area and can get a few days off: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cpg/195925931.html

Pulp-era Rayguns to blast heroes, dinosaurs, monsters, and Nazis with. http://www.wetanz.com/updates/rayguns/index.html

Joe Friday Player: NPC, created by Jack Webb Val Char Cost 11 STR 1 12 DEX 6 12 CON 4 10 BODY 0 11 INT 1 11 EGO 2 13 PRE 3 10 COM 0 4 PD 2 2 ED 0 3 SPD 8 4 REC 0 24 END 0 25 STUN 3 6" RUN 0 2" SWIM 0 2" LEAP 0 Characteristics Cost: 30 Cost Martial Arts Maneuver 3 Punch: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +0 DCV, 4d6 / 2d6 Strike 5 Hold that!: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +1 DCV, Grab One Limb, Block 3 On the ground!: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +1 DCV, 2d6 / 0d6 +v/5, Target Falls 5 Drop it, Mister!: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +0 DCV, Grab Weapon, 21 STR / 10 STR to take weapon away Martial Arts Cost: 16 Cost Skill 3 Bureaucratics 12…

came across this on the coast to coast site. good plot thread. http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/montmonster/ have fun have not look over the site. Lord Ghee

http://www.gobostoncard.com/attractions/5WITS.html I'm totally going to be doing this in two weeks when I go to Boston. If there's interest, I'll post a review.