Pulp Hero

In a Pulp HERO campaign, how would you handle practicisoners of certaion psuedsicentific systems? Hypnoisis was a common theme in the pulps,. frequently used for nefarious purposes. There was also the infamous practice of having "monkey glands" implanted in one's body to increase the supply of testosterone. Complete and utter nonsense, but an alarming number of people believed it. Then there was the practice of phrenology, which was dying out but still had some followers. A lot of people were still convinced that you could determine a person's mental faculties and abilities by reading the "bulges" in their head. Finally, in a darker vein, there was the then…

To clarify matters, I don't mean 'serial' in the sense of the Republic serials. What I was looking for here was a discussion of serial (or 'legacy' if you prefer) string villains in your pulp games. That would be villains that continue in a 'string' or line built around a common set of equipment, powers, or theme but are not the literal same man, and may have different motivations. I wrote an example of this up for M&M where the villain was actually a series of different men wearing the same costume and using the powers it granted them at the behest of the suit's inventor, but it occurred to me that I'd never asked if anyone had done something like that. So.... …

(Cross-posted from the StarHero list) http://www.merzo.net/ Is a website that's set up to show starships from TV, Fiction, and film in comparison to each other sizewise. While that's not a great deal of use to Pulp Hero GMs, it also features entries in the 10x to -2x range for the Hindenberg and several real-world skyscrapers that might well be useful.

I have recently been loaned a "50 Mystery Movie Maga-Pack"; a collection of DVD's which mostly date from the 30's and 40's featuring such Pulp characters as "Bulldog Drummond". "Sherlock Holmes", "Dick Tracy", "Mr Moto" and even "Nancy Drew". I haven't got to it yet but one of the films seems to be a version of Wilkie Collins' classic "The Moonstone". Starring many well known actors such as Basil Rathbone, Ray Milland, Boris Karloff (playing a villain, of course in one of the films and a hero "Mr Wong" in another), Peter Lorre,Richard Basehart, Robert Young and Orson Wells. It is from "Payless" and while some of the films are scratchy, they make a great "period" resource…

Go to http://www.pulpfigures.com/new.php?custID=207341482321151545934 Behold the prototypes for Evil Hooded Minions. Then wipe the drool off your chin.

Here is a link to a post I made in the Dark Champions forum. It should work equally well for Pulp Hero though.

'Brazilian Stonehenge' discovered Tropical Stonehenge may have been found Did ancient Amazonians build a 'Stonehenge'? Long story wiki-short "In May 2006, archeologists announced they had found a pre-colonial astronomical observatory possibly 500 to 2,000 years old near Calçoene, which is in the Amazon River basin near French Guiana. Archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA) said that the observatory is a circle built of 127 blocks of granite, each 3 meters (10 feet) high." So with it what you will.

Wasn't someone looking for a copy of Trail of the Gold Spike recently? There is one up for grabs on eBay but you've got pretty limited time to bid.

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Heres a question for both the main researcher(ie Steve) as well as the others out there. when/what are the breaks between Western Hero, Victorianna Hero and Pulp Hero? I know they are probably in that order but what sort of general dates are we looking at? (like 1860-1890 WH, 1890-1920 VH, 1920-1930 PH) or should WWI break that up? if ya don't get me give me a week and ill rephrase.....

Hey Steve...any chance we'll see some more of your Hero Plus adventures for Pulp Hero? I've got them all so far..and I'd love some more.

Hello all, Thanks again to everyone who helped with the Cthulu stuff a bit back. Since then I have formulated an outline for the openign game. My players (my wife and her sister) have decided they wanted to play a sort of Old West Pulp Horror setting. The characters are both female, and interesting set of problems in such a setting in itself. One of them is a sort of con-artist who maquerades as a soiled dove. The other is a lady cowboy, a sort of rough and tumble "I'm as good as the the boys" sort. Anyhow, my idea for the first adventure and how to get them into the mythos is to use the old "mysterious gift" idea with a bit of a twist. The game opens …

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Theban Mapping Project Under "Sites", you can get printable tomb drawings...

Hello everyone, Does anybody know if there is a good online resource for Lovecraftian style stuff? I am running a small game for a couple folks and would greatly appreciate anythign that can save me some grunt work for what is basically a side game. Thanks, Eli

http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/ This just has to be a plot waiting to happen.

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Greetings pulpsters, Has anyone GM'd a game or games where the players gained/used a group pool for their experience to pay for group items, such as bases, hirelings, or to purchase things such as group abilities or skills? I'm looking for some advice or maybe some groundrules for offering this up to a group. Jak

I just stumbled across a delightful webcomic set in the 1920's called "The Rainbow Orchid". Here's the description from the website: The artwork is excellent; deliberately reminiscent of Herge's TinTin (which I enjoyed as a kid). This one looks to be a great source of inspiration for Pulp Era adventures as well as entertaining in its own right. Here's the URL: http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/webcomic/stripIndex.php

http://www.break.com/index/basejumpfly.html Wow.

In the Pulparize It! thread, JakSpade and others came up with the notion of making a Pulp scenario based on the show Friends. It sounded like a fun, light-hearted convention game, so I ran with it. The scenario practically writes itself, and I’ve got the characters maybe 90% done… but I could use a little help with the last 10%. I confess I wasn’t a big fan of the show (I’m not really a sitcom guy), so I was hoping some folks with more familiarity could give me a few ideas. I’m not terribly worried about staying “canon†– just giving them all decent combat skills has obviously required a fair amount of reinvisioning -- but I would like the characters to …

I ran over the Memorial Day weekend which lead to the following moments that stick out in my mind: The party's toughest character, a former Olympic boxer and big game hunter is bailed out of jail by his wife (amazingly, he was not guilty of the crime of beating the four men to death and stuffing them into a closet he was accused of). Once they get home the following conversation ensues: Wife: "Oh! I almost forgot! One of your friends came to see you today - a polite German man, very tall - he waited a little bit, and had some tea, but had to leave. He wanted me to tell you that he'd try and catch back up with you later." Player: "Did he leave a name?" …

There are some seriously strange people at Toy Vault (http://www.toyvault.com) but I think this time they've gone too far. I give you, Cthulhu the superhero: Definately the scariest cross-genre idea (and image) I've ever seen. Still, that's not the most horrifying picture they've got, overall. I'm not talking about Santa Cthulhu: I'm talking about Elvisthulhu! Oh dear sweet god NO! Don't let it be real! Don't let it get me! Above all, DON'T LET IT START SINGING!!

I think it was time for that thread a long time ago. So finally, here ist is: TOPIC - Lost Worlds A,B,C: a) Nobody really missed them. You are the sucker for the lost map, paying hundreds of $ for it to the half-mad Spaniard. c) When you get there you are LOST in no time! d) The Nazis are already there. e) The vulcano is getting active as soon as you get there (was okay for the last couple of 1000 years). f) Everywhere else evolution took care of the REALLY BIG TOOTHY CRITTERS - but not here ... g) All are flesh-eaters. h)Your flesh is the sweetest. j) Where is Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Spider or Indiana Jones when you need them to save your day…

Hey all Thanks to no home internet and new firewalls at work, it\\\\\\\'s been over a year since I was on the boards. And I\\\\\\\'m only here because I\\\\\\\'m using an anonymous surf client to get through! I feel like Tom Cruise in MI and keep expecting to hear the heavy tread of security guards outside my office before I finish typing! So, before I get dragged away, I\\\\\\\'ve been running a Pulp game for about 8 months or so irregularly - well, actually I started running it for one group every month then when they were about 5 adventures in, started running it for a second group every week. I got twice the mileage from the material and it made for some int…