SKJAM! Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Detective Conan: Teenage amateur detective James Kudo and his sort-of girlfriend Rachel Moore go on a date to Coney Island. After solving a bizarre murder, James stumbles on evidence of crimes by a mysterious organization of men in black. The criminals decide not to shoot him, but instead use a new experimental poison that's supposed to be untracable. As it turns out, the formula instead shrinks James to a pre-adolescent state. Realizing that he and those around him will be in danger if the Blackcoats know he's alive, James takes the name of Conan Edgar. He now lives with Rachel and her father Richard Moore, the world's most incompetent private eye. Conan continues to solve crimes, though he must now use stalking horses due to his apparent youth. Actually, this series requires relatively little adjustment to be set in the Thrities. Some of the gadgets may require a second look, and Rachel's combat skills will be much more remarkable for the time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Up in Smoke - FBI Special Agent Richard Marin, aided by the wandering Chinese boxer known only as Chong, hits the mean streets of Los Angeles to get to the bottom of a sinister narcotics ring!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Not sure if this one's been done yet: The Thirteenth Warrior: An educated and bookish American diplomat assigned to visit a powerful African tribe gets swept up in adventure when a crisis occurs and the tribe needs thirteen warriors, one of whom is "no Africa-man," to find and destroy an evil lost city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Oscars/Grammys/Tonys/Emmys: The adventuring community comes together once every year to promote the spirit of adventure and discovery with the "Tubies", awarding the various personalities of the year with "Tubie", a large gold-plated statue of a vacuum tube. The categories for award are such diverse topics as "Best Scientific Discovery", "Best Creation", "Best Supportive Assistant", "Villian You Most Love To Hate" and "Best Criminal Capture". Adventurers, scientists, masked avengers and sidekicks from all over New York City come out to show their support for the cause, and to ge their award, of course. And it's always a good place for masterminds to show their distaste for their nemesis, and perhaps stop them from getting their awards... Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Actually - the early movie industry would make a great setting for a Pulp campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I, My, Me Strawberry Eggs: Something strange is going on at the exclusive Faversham Academy for Girls, something that calls for the investigative skill of a pulp hero! The catch is that the Academy is off-limits to men. So our hero must disguise himself as the newly hired female physical education instructor with the help of a mad inventor's gadgets. The disguised hero must deal with the man-hating principal's screeds, the suspicious vice-principal's prying, the growing attraction of one of the pupils to her new teacher...and figure out what the heck that dying man meant by "strawberry eggs" before it's too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Harold and the Purple Crayon aka The Peril of the Purple Pen! The nefarious Harold Crockett, having obtained a supply of (insert monster or extradimensional entity here) ichor, is using it to enact his revenge on his enemies. By using the purple ichor as ink in an enchanted fountain pen, Harold can draw things that spring into reality, even life, for a short period of time. He can also use the pen to write out events of a limited nature in a special tome, and those events will come to pass. So far, he has been using his ability to write the future and his purple monsters to kill off enemies and rivals, but soon his attention might turn to other goals... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Hedwig and the Angry Inch Tommy Gnosis, All-American, joins forces with Hedwig, the "Mr. & Mrs." of a travelling German carnival, when they get caught up in a Gestapo plan to assassinate J. Edgar Hoover!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Hellsing: It's 1936 and the Thulegesellschaft (Thule Society)' date=' backed by Himmler's new [i']Sonderkommando H[/i] (Special Unit H) are scouring the world for occult artifacts and secrets. Rumor has it they are looking for ancient mystical superweapons, such as the Ark of the Covenant, the Lance of Longinius, the Holy Grail, Excaliber, the Vajra of Indra, and even the original Bowie knife. But there are hints of an even darker purpose beyond collecting reputed magical tomes and records of ancient Catholic witch trials. It is whispered that certain members of the Thulegesellschaft are engaging in research designed to create unstoppable soldiers. Soldiers who are superhumanly fast, strong, and nearly impossible to harm. Soldiers who can't be killed because they are already dead, and worse yet, prey on the living (such as Allied troops) for sustenance. Enter the Hellsing organization. Started late in the last century after a certain incident with an Eastern European nobleman, Hellsing is Britain's own occult arm. Specially equipped to fight the exact enemy it is feared the Germans are bent on creating, Hellsing uses both technology and ritual to put down the black magics of the Nazis. And if the rumors are true, they have one (or more) (highly) "special operatives" of their own.... PS: The Thulegesellschaft and Sonderkommando H really existed! Probably arrogant of me, but I think I was the guy who first told the board about Sonderkomando H[axen], the SS's special group of a dozen historians and specialists in medieval Church law, recruited straight from the concentration camps in some cases, who spent almost a decade studying German witchcraft trials. [Himmler apparently wanted to prove that the Catholic Church had 'blood guilt' for killing German pagans; when the research didn't prove that, he buried both the research and the researchers.] But it's got to be admitted, Special Action Group Witchcraft is an evocative name, especially when they answered to no one short of Himmler himself. PS -- Very good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Probably arrogant of me' date=' but I think I was the guy who first told the board about [i']Sonderkomando H[axen][/i], the SS's special group of a dozen historians and specialists in medieval Church law, recruited straight from the concentration camps in some cases, who spent almost a decade studying German witchcraft trials. [Himmler apparently wanted to prove that the Catholic Church had 'blood guilt' for killing German pagans; when the research didn't prove that, he buried both the research and the researchers.] But it's got to be admitted, Special Action Group Witchcraft is an evocative name, especially when they answered to no one short of Himmler himself. PS -- Very good idea! Actually, I pulled all of that from Delta Green, which is where I heard of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Fantastic Voyage. A dear friend and important man has an affliction that cannot be diagnosed! All cures have failed. But you have the opportunity to use his research to aid him; You climb into a full-size diving bell and bring your diving gear then are shrunk down to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream. THRILL at combat with the defenders of the body, the White Blood Cells! TREMBLE as the forces of infection wrestle with our intrepid hero. GASP as the team encounters the evils of the Malignant Tumor! And for extra fun, they can discover that their true adversary is a competing scientist who has the same technology, inside the Doctor's Bloodstream causing harm. Exploratory Surgery was never so compelling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Running Man - Ben Richards was a member of the American Volunteer Group in China. He was accused of strafing a village and killing the civilains there, a crime that was actually committed by the ruthless drug runner Damon Killian who was covering his tracks. Killian fears that Richards knows the truth, so when Richards is transported back to the US to stand trial, Killian takes the ship and strands the crew and prisoners on an island full of paid killers. Fighting his way through the challenges, Richards (and those trapped with him) will discover the truth and clear his name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Actually' date=' I pulled all of that from [i']Delta Green[/i], which is where I heard of them. Which makes me think it is a simple matter to make any Lovecraftian story or Cthulhu adventure into a Pulp adventure - you merely change the tone. Make the bad guys more defeatable, and add more physical means for their defeat. Pulp is really investigation, then action. Cthulhu already has the investigation part - you just need to tone down the horror, and up the action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Jurassic Park: Mad scientists Weevil Underhill and Rex Raptor have managed to swallow their animosity just long enough to create a way of producing dinosaurs from the blood in the stomachs of amberized mosquitos. (Also giant prehistoric insects, but no one wants to hear about that.) The eccentric millionaire who sponsored the experiments, Mr. Holland, decided the best way to exploit, er showcase the discovery is with a zoological park devoted to the magnificent creatures. He's converted an island off the Gulf Coast into a haven for dinosaurs, and has invited a group of scientists, adventurers and potential investors (that is, the player characters), along with a couple of his grandchildren, to see this amazing place so that they can spread the word. Sadly, Dr. Underhill has been approached by agents of a foreign power who want to weaponize this discovery, and he's arranged for the safety precautions to suffer catastrophic failure at nightfall, just in time for a trapical storm. Mayhem ensues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Actually - the early movie industry would make a great setting for a Pulp campaign. Yes! Especially given all the rumors of espionage that swirled around the film community. I want to do something about two movie stars who are actually rival spies, one for the British Secret Service and the other working for the Nazis. (There is one myth about a particular real-life actor having been a Nazi spy that has been debunked so throoughly that I would rather not repeat it if I didn't have to.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! James and the Giant Peach - Drawn by rumors of gigantic flora, jungle explorer James Henry Trotter journeys to a hidden glen in the Amazon and must rescue a gentle race of intelligent arthropods from the Mad Scientist who created them to staff his army of world conquest!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Which makes me think it is a simple matter to make any Lovecraftian story or Cthulhu adventure into a Pulp adventure - you merely change the tone. Make the bad guys more defeatable' date=' and add more physical means for their defeat. Pulp is really investigation, then action. Cthulhu already has the investigation part - you just need to tone down the horror, and up the action.[/quote'] Hunt down copies of Brian Lumley's Titus Crow novels for much, much more on just that topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Hunt down copies of Brian Lumley's Titus Crow novels for much' date=' much more on just that topic.[/quote'] I found them unreadable. At least the one I tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Which makes me think it is a simple matter to make any Lovecraftian story or Cthulhu adventure into a Pulp adventure - you merely change the tone. Make the bad guys more defeatable' date=' and add more physical means for their defeat. Pulp is really investigation, then action. Cthulhu already has the investigation part - you just need to tone down the horror, and up the action.[/quote'] Chaosium may eventually publish its Pulp Cthulhu, according to their web site they expect to have it out in late summer or early fall of '06. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Pulp Cthulhu? Sounds like a variant on Whack-a-Mole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Pulp Cthulhu? Sounds like a variant on Whack-a-Mole. I played the playtest version last year at GenCon. It was quite a bit of fun. It was sped up and designed to be more action oriented. Many characters had 'feats' that gave them a more pulp hero feel. For instance my character could touch objects and psychically read its history. Another character had something like Brobdingnagian appearance, was huge and had extra strength so he could help flip a car over. It had rules for car chases, more advanced rules for combat, and a more pulp theme/metaplot ran through the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I found them unreadable. At least the one I tried. Couldn't agree more. He's very much a "wannabe Mythos writer". In my opinion, anyway. However - that doesn't stop me from suggesting that people able to enjoy his stuff shouldn't take ideas out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Pokemon: Teenager Ash Ketchum becomes involved in the seedy world of cockfighting when he comes into possession of "Pick 'n' Choose," a feisty yellow bantam. Ash wanders the Dustbowl looking for the next chance to prove his training skills, and picking up new roosters with specialized talents. Naturally, Ash actually spends most of his time interfering in other people's business, as there's always a problem that needs solving in each town he visits. Fortunately, he has the help of Misty Waters, a tough as nails broad who follows Ash around supposedly in hopes he'll pay her the money he owes her; and Brock Stone, a ranchhand searching for his missing father. They are plagued by members of the Rocket Gang, which is named after its use of rockets in its crimes. James (a playboy who left home because he wants to avoid marriage), Jessie (whose family was dirt poor even before the Depression) and M. E. Owth (midget cat burglar) have been tasked with bringing the pit fighting circuit under the control of the Rocket Gang's mysterious leader, Giovanni. (In reality, Giovanni just sent them on this futile quest so he could concentrate on taking over the more lucrative rackets.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! True fact: "Pokemon" is Japanese for "pocket monster." JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! True fact: "Pokemon" is Japanese for "pocket monster."Nobody better try an' catch mine is all I'm saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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