Pulp Hero

I was trying to find out some copyright information and came upon this wonderful site filled with art from Virgil Finlay. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/r/imagenetion-virgil-finlay.html Filled up with a ton of pics that could add to any Pulp game. And for those who likes giants http://www.imagenetion.net/matrix/vfinlay2/pages/XXX_025L_Virgil_Finlay_The_Goddess_of_World_21.htm

Some interesting pictures from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4977870.stm

Ben's just uploaded our latest HPA -- The Tablets Of Destiny: When a Nazi archaeological expedition in the Near East requests a hero’s help with a mysterious matter, the heroes find themselves plunged into a race against the Third Reich to find the Caves Of Marduk, avoid deadly traps, and recover one of the most powerful relics ever created — the fabled Tablets Of Destiny! The Tablets Of Destiny is a Pulp Hero adventure designed for characters built on a total of 150 Character Points or less. The optimal number of PCs is four to six, but you can scale it up or down based on the number of opponents you pit against the heroes in various encounters. And for a …

If so, how did they work out for your games? What were your player's reactions? What worked for you about some of them and didn't work about others? Inquiring writers want to know!

Atlantis, the Antediluvian World The complete text and illustrations from this 1882 book by Ignatius Donnelly can be found here. (Just the text can be gotten from Project Gutenberg if you prefer). This book is one of the most interesting and most well crafted Atlantis theories I've read (mostly because the author, in addition to being a reasonably good writer, makes no pretense of channeling ancient beings or other mystic claptrap). Most of his findings are based on similarities between widely separated cultures that he interpreted as evidence that all civilization expanded outward from a single point (a now sunken continent in the mid-Atlantic). He cites variou…

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Is there someplace that lists about how much different military vehicles cost their respective governments? Pulp hero (it's name be praised) has such info for civilian cars and trucks, but doesn't say, for example, how much a Sherman or a Panzer would cost. Mostly I'm just curious.

All four GMs for our upcoming 1905: The New Century Campaign got together for lunch yesterday, and one of the things we agreed on was that we would definitely use Heroic Action Points in our pulp campaign. The only other thing we were in complete agreement on was that the points could not be saved or transferred; otherwise each GM will probably assign and use them as he sees fit when he's running. We trust each other enough that we see no reason to use identical approaches since we each have our own styles as GMs. I thought, since we see a number of obviously top notch Pulp Hero games written up in this forum, that it might be informative and interesting to see how other …

I've been thinking about creating a couple of journalist characters. What I would like assistance with is how they would have become journalists. While at least one school of journalism existed during the Pulp era, it appears that most journalists learned the trade some other way. Googling various historical journalists has provided some hints, but very few have their early careers outlined in useful detail. Basically, what I like are people's opinions on what would be the youngest age at which it would be plausible for a character to be a journalist at a major metropolitan newspaper (New York Times equivalent), and the shortest path by which they could hav…

I am in the middle of working up deck plans for various ships. Now for Age of Sail warships I have tons of references. One entire section of my library is filled with books, which is great for my ongoing project to map out an armed merchantman, which IMO is the best ship "type" for a RPG in that era. But on to the relevant problem at hand. I have found some, some not many, books that cover the merchant ships of 1880-1930 era. But nothing with any real usable detail. What I would really like to find is a book that has detailed coverage of a “tramp†freighter of the early 1900’s. You know the Pulp staple small freighter that carries 10-20 passengers and hold…

I would sugest that you expand the book to include the 40's, this will allow for the "Evil Scientist" to have advanced technology a Decade ahead of the time while giving cross genre appeal for all those Golden Age Champions games.

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Two new HPAs for Pulp Hero are now available in the Online Store! HPA #19 -- Fangs Of The Scarlet Serpent: When an ancient serpent-cult rears its scaly head on the streets of Singapore, a message for help from an old friend brings the heroes running to the British colony city. There they clash with the cult and track it to its local lair... just in time to find out about a deadly ritual they have to stop! HPA #20 -- Nazi Death-Zombies Of The Congo!: When a young African boy comes to the heroes for help fighting the “fire demons” that are kidnapping women and children from his village, the heroes discover that the Third Reich has built a secret mine in the Belg…

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I have picked up all the Thrilling Tales adventure so far...they look good but I really wish we had a Hero stats for them..as I am hoping to start up my Pulp Hero campaign soon (thank Steve Long profusely for Hero Plus adventures). Anyone out there used any of these adventures (and thus made Hero stats for them) for your Pulp Hero campaign? or is there any chance Hero/Adamant will do Hero stats for them?

I admit that the name of the header is really bad, but I couldn’t come up with something better. Hopefully the moderator of this forum edits it. Anyway, the reason I called it beyond LXG is because I intend to do something similar and I need some help to do it. From what I understand of LXG, every named character (except for one, I think) can be found in the Victorian literature. I want to create a similar world, but instead of using Victorian characters I intend to use Pulp Fiction characters. A few characters from Film Noir, Gold Age Comics or the Victorian Age might be welcome, but the majority of the characters should be more or less obscure pulp character…

Howdy, folx! Several of you asked me to post reports if I ever started a PH campaign, so since I kicked one off last night, I figured I’d oblige. These reports are likely to be much shorter and briefer than some others we see posted, because (a) I don’t want to spend too much time on them, and ( since I plan to use a lot of HPAs, or turn other adventures I run into HPAs down the road, I don’t want to give away too many details. Dramatis Personae Before I launch into a review of the first game, I should tell you about the characters and players: Roy Austin, Aviator and Scientist (played by John Losey) Jake Brand, Treasure Hunter (played by Dean Nicholson) …

Hi, This goes hand in hand with my other thread on good HPAs for a new group and a one-shot - does anyone have any pregenerated pulp characters they would be willing to send me the stats for and let me use for this one-shot? My players are entirely new to Hero and I don't know if I'm going to have the time myself before the weekend to come up with characters from scratch; I'd really like to be able to hand my players some pregens and let them pick from those to save time and get on with the adventure. Can anyone help? I guess at the end of the day I can use the characters from Randall's Raiders but that means folding back the spine on my book to make photocopie…

Guys, Just wondering which Hero Plus Adventure you would suggest would be the best 'starter' adventure, playable in a one-shot, for a group new to Hero - I already have Spears, Malay, Voodoo, Vulture, Sikral and Inner Earth but would entertain trying any of the others I don't have. Any of those good candidates? It's probably going to be me and two players (and maybe some NPCs if necessary) if that helps the decision-making process. Thanks!

I've been tinkering around with some character ideas and am asking for your help in filling them out. When I wrote up Sora-Hime; (http://surbrook.devermore.net/original/sorahime.html) I wanted to create the rest of the crew of the Airracuda. I know that Captain Lance Pallant is the leader of the team, as well as the pilot of the Airracuda. What I'm trying to do now is fill in the rest of the cast. Here is my initial idea: Pallant is an American and is in his mid-twenties (maybe five years older than Sora-Hime, who's roughly 21 or so). As he was 24-25 in 1928, he was too young for World War I, but his older brother may have served (as a pilo…

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Just (finally!) got the book, love it, even if that ghoul character seems a bit nasty for Pulp, but I have one rather specific question: is the Skymaster G-8 gone bad? I can't help but to get that vibe off of him, especially with his mysterious past and his skill list (his Disguise and Acting both seem oddly high for a mainly aviation villain). Did the horrors of WW1 drive the formerly heroic G-8 over the edge? Or did Herr Doktor Krueger nail him with a dose of mind-altering nerve gas in their last battle?

I've been reading through Mm&Mm (Masterminds & Madmen), and have for the second (I think) time come to a reference I think might be a goof. On p.120, in the sidebar, is "...looking...in the Middle East, a tall blonde human named Eichmann." Earlier (sorry, I don't remember the page) is another refrence to an adventurer-type Nazi named Eichmann. The only Eichmann I know of was a death-camp commander, and not likely to be traipsing around the world; also, I get the feeling the ref.s in Mm&Mm are not supposed to be to a historical person. However, in Pulp Hero (page 395-397) is the NPC Oberfuhrer Hermann Eichenwald. Is the "Eichmann" of Mm&Mm s…

I think it's very cool that Adamant is going to be converting Pulp Hero stuff to the d20 (not that I play it). That excellent material needs a wider audience for sure. Any chance that there could be a Hero version of their upcoming Mars: A Game of Planetary Romance in the pipeline? That's a game that just begs to get the Hero System treatment

Kind of an odd question here, and I hope it counts as Pulp-related: I had an uncle who lived in the Pulp era. he was tough, nasty, and while he never had actual boxing training, he had a killer right that could and routinely did knock a man out in one shot. He became infamous in his home neighborhood when he beat up the local bully at the age of 14 -- a man who won several drunken brawls, was about 6'3" and weighed in at 250-300 pounds, and got wiped out in two punches without even getting a shot off. (It was because he cheated my uncle out of a days' wages during the Depression. Uncle Bill asked for it. The bully laughed and told him to "Come and take it if you think you…