Steve Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Despite it's more modern setting, there are a number of elements in this movie that seems more Pulp than any other genre. I only found one thread when I searched on it. Ghostbusters HERO I mean seriously, a campaign about ghostbusting with the toys they were running around using just seems to scream Pulp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters They are also said to be a good layout for a lot of mystery adventures. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters How about an adjustment of the time period to the '20s and '30s? I think that it could easily make the transition. Think of all of the angry dead from the Great War, or the flu epidemic. Of course, you'd also have real cults trying to pull in ancient evils, and the Art-Deco buildings would be a bit newer, though no less dangerous. And would gangsters who die leave really nasty gangs of ghosts? The proton accelerators need a bit of tweaking, perhaps based upon this newfangled Radio and maybe lots of vacuum valves to make them a little less certain to use (more fragile). Laser containment grids are out, but maybe you could hold the spooks with a Tesla coil or two. Thomas Edison could rail about how dangerous the equipment is, and threaten to shut it down. If set in the early to mid-twenties, you could even have Harry Houdini try to bust them as frauds. You could use Aleister Crowley as a reoccuring villain, or unwitting dupe. Now, if I could only talk my players into a game... JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters Radium powered ether acceleration contrivances combined with a device to manipulate and contain ectoplasmic anima for the purposes of safe disposal with minimum causal entropy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters Heck, if you want pulp technobabble you can't do better than E.E. "Doc" Smith. Obviously a ghost is actually a disembodied pure intelligence; to affect it you'll need a sixth-order tractor ray projector (thought being a sixth-order wave), while trapping it would require a zone of force generating a total stasis in the sub-ether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmakaze Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters I'm running a modern pulp/horror game now that's been heavily influenced by Ghostbusters. Lacking a Gozer-type event, the PCs don't have the general acceptance the Ghostbusters earned from the movies, but one of the PCs is a pretty thinly disguised Egon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game Show Man Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters Did someone say "update?" I've started posting writeups of the original Ghostbusters characters on the Ghostbusters HERO thread mentioned above. Check it out and advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFaust Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters Thomas Edison could rail about how dangerous the equipment is' date=' and threaten to shut it down.[/quote'] He's just jealous; he couldn't get his necrophone to work, and here these shlubs are, running around and capturing the things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters There have been a few Victorian and later inventions that would fit well with a Pulp Ghostbusters campaign. As already hinted at, at the time of his death Thomas Edison was working on a device that could be used to communicate with the dead. He died in 1931, the device still unfinished, though some claimed to have been shown prototypes. While checking it out, I stumbled across a site that had some additional info: supposedly, Edison contacted people at a seance in 1941 and suggested improvements. I haven't been able to find out much more about it, but given the popularity of EVP, there must be something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters How about using Harry Price? He was the father of ghost investigation. http://www.harryprice.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Re: Ghostbusters Here is a link to a photo of the ghost hunting kit Harry Price used. http://www.harryprice.co.uk/Gallery/Price/price_ghostkit.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2022 Cast Thread Necromancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted May 8, 2022 Report Share Posted May 8, 2022 Would this work? To my mind, Ghostbusters is first and foremost a comedy, and most (if not all) pulp, while it may have supernatural elements, is, to my mind, as serious as a heart attack followed by a murder indictment. Talk about crossing the streams here. Perhaps if someone could point out some comedic pulp adventures I might be able to reconsider my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted May 9, 2022 Report Share Posted May 9, 2022 5 hours ago, wcw43921 said: Perhaps if someone could point out some comedic pulp adventures I might be able to reconsider my opinion. The 1999 Film, The Mummy with Brendan Frazer Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted May 9, 2022 Report Share Posted May 9, 2022 “THERE’S A SNAKE IN THE PLANE JOCK!!!!” I give you Raider’s of the Lost Ark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted May 9, 2022 Report Share Posted May 9, 2022 I think there's a difference between comedic elements in an action/adventure story (Raiders, The Mummy) and a comedy film with some action elements (Ghostbusters, George of the Jungle). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2022 Abbot & Costello films from that era maybe? They met Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman. There’s also the Sailor Steve Costigan series of stories by Robert E. Howard. Ninja-Bear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted May 11, 2022 Report Share Posted May 11, 2022 Ghostbusters was not a comedy movie! They were dealing with serious problems with serious consequences. Except that the arguable protagonist (Pete Venkman) takes nothing seriously and lives his life cracking wise, and since he's portrayed by a brilliant actor (Bill Murray) with impeccable comic timing, who makes us laugh multiple times in every scene, we think it's a comedy. Hence, the original licensed Ghostbusters RPG, while brilliant, slightly missed the point of the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 11, 2022 Report Share Posted May 11, 2022 I do think Ghostbusters is a comedy. Sure there are moments of drama and horror, and the consequences are serious; but almost everything is pushed that extra bit bigger, louder, more incongruous, until it verges on the absurd. And all the Ghostbusters say funny things, although Peter is the only character who's aware he's saying funny things. We laugh at the other characters because they're oblivious to the jokes, but we laugh with Peter because he lets us in on the joke. BigJackBrass, Steve and Chris Goodwin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted May 16, 2022 Report Share Posted May 16, 2022 Like new Shimmer, which is both a floor wax AND a dessert topping, Ghostbusters managed to be both wacky comedy AND supernatural horror. A truly incredible achievement. Bairtd Searles, the movie and TV reviewer for Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction when it came out, compared the initial "play the supernatural for laughs" to the frothy fantasies of Thorne Smith, sliding seamlessly to something worthy of H. P. Lovecraft. He was gobsmacked. Dean Shomshak wcw43921, Steve, Tjack and 1 other 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted May 16, 2022 Report Share Posted May 16, 2022 8 hours ago, DShomshak said: Like new Shimmer, which is both a floor wax AND a dessert topping, Ghostbusters managed to be both wacky comedy AND supernatural horror. A truly incredible achievement. Bairtd Searles, the movie and TV reviewer for Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction when it came out, compared the initial "play the supernatural for laughs" to the frothy fantasies of Thorne Smith, sliding seamlessly to something worthy of H. P. Lovecraft. He was gobsmacked. Dean Shomshak Nice pull on the SNL reference. Wasn’t that Dan Ackroyd as the pitchman and Bill Murray as the husband? That’s double points. ****EDIT**** Nope, sorry, the judges just checked the game tapes on YouTube and it was Chevy Chase as the Pitchman and Ackroyd as the husband. But you keep your original score. Resume Play!👨⚖️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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