Pulp Hero
Two-fisted thrills and adventure in the world of the Twenties and Thirties!
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The Fires Of War, BlackWyrm Games' character book of golden age superhumans and pulp novels, is accepting pre-orders now. Cheer for heroes like: Doc Epoch and his Timesavers, who protect the timestream from those who would tamper with it; Quincy Harkness, vampire hunter; Quentin "King Congo" McKenzie, explorer and gamesman extraordinaire; Hiss at villains like: The Emperor of Heaven, Chinese ruler of the Red Moon that sometimes orbits Earth; Maximus Rex, the dinosaur leader of the Saurian Dominion; Fantasia DuPris, femme fatale, and her lizard-like bodyguard, Scaleface; The book, the second in the Algernon Files line, contains over a hundr…
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Has anyone ever tried doing anything with real-world people from the 20's-40's who could have been pulp characters? My personal favorites are both from Mongolia, oddly enough. The first is Roy Chapman Andrews, the explorer and paleontologist who went looking for fossils in Mongolia in the middle of the Chinese Civil War. Not only did he have to face the unforgiving Gobi, he got in battles with bandits, dealt with suspicious government officials who thought he must be either a spy or a treasure seeker, did some medical work for various local tribesmen, and somehow during all this found the time to dig up a few fossils. I imagine him as a very high-point total characte…
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Aside from the better-known Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote a short series of stories that dealt with Professor George Edward Challenger, gadfly of the Victorian scientific establishment and diehard iconoclast. With the Challenger stories, Doyle attempted to do for the young men's adventure story market what Holmes had done for the mystery genre. In that he was fairly successful - while Challenger never enjoyed Holmes' popularity, the first Challenger story, The Lost World, had a hand in kick-starting the moribund "lost land" adventure story. The theme, of humans visiting a remote and isolated area to discover dinosaurs alive in our time, was to be revi…
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Pulp Reading 1 2 3 4 5
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I'm sure plenty of you are interested in the pulp genre/era and have done your own researching and reading on the topic. What books have you run across that you'd recommend? The PH draft bibliography is already about 2,500 words long, but there's always room for more.
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I have been thinking of trying out a Pulp Hero campaign for my players. Thanks to comic reprints, they are familiar with some of the genre staples: Mad Scientists Oriental Masterminds Evil Mystics But I can't find a good example of the "Dragon Lady" type. The mysterious Oriental beauty that can go from stealing the Hero's secret plans, to becoming his love interest, to trying to poison him, all in one adventure. I know I could probably dig up some books eventually, but players are never all that patient, so can anyone recommend any films or TV shows that might be available on video with a decent Dragon Lady? Thanks in advance, KA.
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It's Pulp-Tastic!
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Looking for Firearm Resource 1 2
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Does anyone have a link to an online Firearm Encyclopedia type website? I'm looking for a site that I can search on by year of manufacture (ex. show me pistols made in 1916) Thanks.
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Digital Hero subscribers who are interested in playtesting/testreading the Pulp Hero manuscript can find it in the usual place. We're looking forward to hearing what you think! Please post any questions or comments in the "Company Questions" thread of the same name.
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S. John Ross
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Just wanted to say that I didn't realize S. John Ross was going to contribute to PH until I read today's front page. Booyah! Can we get him to do some graphic design work for DOJ, too? E.g., Fief is gorgeous.
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Jules Verne's masterpiece, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), has something of an interesting history. Literature critics on the continent praised Verne for the scientific fact that peppers the narrative, and lauded his rich, three-dimensional characters. Meanwhile, critics in England and America complained about the lack of science in a science fiction novel, and thought his two-dimensional characters were little more than caricatures. For over a century, this was the state of things. Then, in the mid-1970s, Walter James Miller put out The Annotated Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. In it, he described how he discovered that the original…
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I saw the announcement for the new Pulp Heroes book and I'm pretty psyched for it! Next to 'Western Hero' this is probably the book I've been looking forward to the most! How easy will the new book be to use with my 4th ed rulebook? I haven't looked at the 5th ed in detail really so I don't know what kind of changes have been made. I'm guessing it wouldn't be hard to use with 4th ed...cuz'...Hero is Hero is Hero...but I might be terribly, terribly wrong as well!
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When I get my hands on a copy of Pulp Hero I'll write up the villain (and his henchman) from Richard Connell's short story The Most Dangerous Game. Unless someone wants to do it for me... here's a link to the story (very old story, circa 1923, so it's probably public domain): http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts/danger.html
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One of the cool things about editing the work of good writers is that I get to chance across funny little tidbits and turns of phrase they include in their work before anyone else gets to see them. Some of you may remember my glee at Scott's sentence about mole-men in Villainy Amok. As I near the end of PH, I'm editing the sections that S. John Ross wrote for the GMing chapter. One paragraph discusses making that which is exotic even more exotic. His title for that section: Add More Yaks Funniest section header ever!
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Plot Seed - Ladies Night
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This is a plot seed that I used for my last Pulp game. It could also easily be used for a Dark Champions game. It is based on a cheesy thriller movie I stumbled across on the USA Network (Pulp and DC resource central!). In the movie, the villians are a father and son grafters. These guys set up a delivery service. In the course of making their deliveries to businesses, the son scouts for women in financial positions (like accounts payable) who also seem to be vulnerable or lonely. He picks up some clues from their work area, and then flags the mark for his father. The father (played by the actor who was also Starsky) then finds the mark and seduces them. …
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I touched it! My precious! I held Steve's Pulp Hero notes / manuscript rough in my hands. I got to read some bits and pieces of it. Pulp Hero is going to be so frikkin' awesome that everyone must buy 2 copies!
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I recently heard "Rocket Ride" by Tom Smith at a convention and it got me thinking. As I understand it Pulp hero is the world of pre-Golden age. Good and evil were clear cut. Plots were straightforward and resolved quickly and completely. There was also a space "version" where you had rockets with tail fins, villians with style and knew how to wear a cape, bubble helmets, space pirates, real heroes who are not all muscles and guns. Ignore little details like light speed, gravity, and steam in a vacuum. I mean ignore it, not explain it with technobabble. Will this be in the Pulp Hero book? And if there is a Star Pulp hero, why not a Fantasy Pulp hero? I guess it rais…
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Shameless Plug
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The Amazing Adventures Pulp campaign has been revived (hopefully). I'm working on the website again. I hope some of you will find the information on it useful. http://home.earthlink.net/~ddoepke/index.html I will take requests if anyone wants to see more specific content.
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I've finally come to my decision on what sort of Pulp Campaign I'm going to run. I'm going to be posted details as I work it out here in the pulp thread so that others can share, contribute, or just steal the ideas as they want. In the game, for one reason or another the players have an interested in an ancient civilization known only as "The Crossroaders". The civilization once had cities located in Australia, Africa, East Asia, and South America. One of the mysteries is how this society was able to cross the globe with great ease. It is, of course, this mystery that will attract is fair share of advesaries. I figure the game will be mostly exploration of n…
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We got a couple of notes about upcoming classic car auctions in Buxton, Derbyshire, UK, through at work on Friday. We're not interested, but I figured some you may be. Even if you can't afford the tens (sometimes hundreds) of thousands of pounds needed for the choice vehicles, you may want to read the cars' histories and see the pics so at least your characters could own them. The next auction (July 26/27) includes a 1934 Lagonda Le Mans racer (expected to fetch between £280,000 and £350,000 - so dream on!) and three 1920s/1930s Morris Cowley tourers (far more reasonable at between £5,000 and £10,000 each). Link: http://www.classic-auctions.com/car_ent…
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Steve Long was asking about Tales of the Gold Monkey and linked to the site. From there I took a look at the shows they offered on DVD. Among them was "Legend", starring Richard Dean Anderson and John DeLancie. It looks like they had some good guest stars, as well. Also, "Bring 'Em Back Alive", with Bruce Boxleitner. Here's a brief description: So, has anyone seen these shows? If so, would you recommend them? Any other similarly "forgotten" shows that might be good?
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Every pulp story needs 'em, so let's post some. Pics or character sheets your choice. Let's bring on the Bad Girls! Here are a couple of a classic FF from the 70s and 80s: Ms. Sybil Danning.
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Be nice, it's my first real fiddling with Photoshop. The USS Manhattan was originally laid down in 1928 at both the Brooklyn Navy Yards and the Wingfoot Lake Hanger facility. It was an attempt to go one step beyond even the audacious dreams of the USS Acron and Macon, that were then only just in the blueprint stage. Moving beyond merely the extended scout concept, the USS Manhattan would mate the striking power of a full airwing (40 aircraft) with the speed and versatility of the blimp. A new doping process was used as well as secrets in lift technology that are classified even to this day. It is rumored that what began with the USS Manhattan culminated in th…
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