kahuna's bro Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 i bought the pdf for day of ragnarok and was wondering since thebooks storyline is set during an alternate ww2 couldn't this be considered a pulp game sine the goldenage never came due to the midgard serpent being awakened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? You could play it as Pulp; but it's generally not optimistic enough. It's firmly a Post-Apocalyptic Setting - nothing at all to do with "Golden Age" or anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? Pulp is a pretty Broad Genre. It doesn't have to be limited by Dates on a Calendar. Ed Brubakers Incognito for example, is full blown Pulp, in the Modern Age of Now. Day of Ragnarok though, certainly a post apocalyptic setting, certainly with a few minor tweaks of game play, function more "Pulp" like, then PA like as well. Pulp is always good. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted December 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? amen to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? There's plenty of pulp elements to it. You're fighting Ratzi's for instance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? There's plenty of pulp elements to it. You're fighting Ratzi's for instance! Actually, you're not. They're all dead. You're fighting commies. On the other hand, Ken Hite did say it was basically Conan versus the Snake Cult in the 1950s, so in a weird way it's Swords and Sorcery. But I'd call it Pulp more than anything else, since you have a lot of larger-than-life heroes dealing with utterly strange and bizarre creatures and situations and fighting them with fists and Tommyguns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? Actually' date=' you're not. They're all dead. You're fighting commies. On the other hand, Ken Hite did say it was basically Conan versus the Snake Cult in the 1950s, so in a weird way it's Swords and Sorcery. But I'd call it Pulp more than anything else, since you have a lot of larger-than-life heroes dealing with utterly strange and bizarre creatures and situations and fighting them with fists and Tommyguns.[/quote'] Ahem, Page 83 shows the top five place to kick Nazi butt. I will concede, many more godless commies to fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? Ahem' date=' Page 83 shows the top five place to kick Nazi butt. I will concede, many more godless commies to fight.[/quote'] Yeah, but Hite admits himself it's more commie smashing than Nazi stomping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? It's still Pulp though, we all know Pulp Trumps EVERYTHING else in levels of Cool. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjcurrie Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? Yeah' date=' but Hite admits himself it's more commie smashing than Nazi stomping.[/quote'] To be honest, does it really matter? In pulp, they're both basically mindless followers of an evil ideology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? To be honest' date=' does it really matter? In pulp, they're both basically mindless followers of an evil ideology.[/quote'] I think in certain elements of flavor, yes, but over all, no. Nazis seem to have that mystic bent, while commies seem to go for more weird science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Watts Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? DAR could only be made pulpier by the addition of more wood shavings. My own mini-campaign featured Operator #5 as an NPC and had the PCs plundering Doc Savage's lab in order to find a tunneling machine. (It also featured Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty from Kerouac's "On The Road," and borrowed a bit of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, specifically the Ant Hill under the Pentagon (which has five sides because it's a pentagram to keep the demons in, of course, and was designed by Thomas Carnacki.)) dw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Re: day of ragnararok pulp? Darren's showing off again. He is of course, compleatly correct as usual, and once again shows, Pulp, can not be stopped nor constrained by mere ambiguousness of the bad guys. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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