Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

[Steve]

What elements of Pulp Hero would work well within a Post-Apocalypse setting?

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

I can't think, of an element that doesn't. Many of the greatest Pulp Stories, ARE Post-Apocalyptic. As for specifically out of the book for Pulp Hero, I'll let you know tomorrow.

 

~Rex

[Susano]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Just read Day After Ragnarok. It has mad science, air pirates, giant snakes, Nazis, Commies, Tommy guns, strange magics, two-fisted heroes, and plenty of strange lands to adventure in.

[L. Marcus]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

In some Post Apoc fiction there's a anti-technology feel, whereas much of Pulp is very enthusiastic on the whole Progress area. But it's no hard and fast rule, of course.

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Don't forget you can have the Technology Worship thing in equal amounts as the Techno-Phobia. Lot of potential in Post Apocalypse. The REAL structure of Buck Rogers (it's initial run, and the current Dynamite Comics title), would give you what you want as an atmosphere as well.

 

~Rex

[Prometheus]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

What elements of Pulp Hero would work well within a Post-Apocalypse setting?

 

A sense of wonder.

 

Pulp (at least adventure pulp) portrays the world as awe-inspiring on a grand scale, its heroes larger than life. A campaign needs some of that to really get it right. When the characters stumble across the ruins of Las Vegas it should have shades of Xuchotl from Red Nails, a expedition into the Rad-Zone should remind the players of At the Mountains of Madness. The heroes recapturing a stolen gas tanker should share as much with the chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark as it does with the escape in The Road Warrior.

 

I'd say that, bar none, Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales (aka Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) is the best example of these two brought together. The caveat is that Xenozoic is lighter on the action, its apocalypse isn't nuclear, and the (ironically) more familiar mutants and rad scorpions have been replaced with dinosaurs. The feel however- from the ancient library vaults hiding powerful weapons of war, to the island teeming with malevolently intelligent wildlife- is pure pulp.

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Bah, beaten to the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs example by a Greek Titan. Excellent example though by the way.

 

~Rex

[Deadborder]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Good Example? Best example. Cool 50's cars and Dinosaurs. Can't be better then that.

[Susano]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Good Example? Best example. Cool 50's cars and Dinosaurs. Can't be better then that.

 

Ahem... see my comment about The Day After Ragnarok.

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Indeed. Day after Ragnarok is very Pulp meets Post Apocalypse (As well as being a very fun scenario). I've got a soft spot for Cadillacs and Dinosaurs though. I think I may have to put that together for a freebie game come Con time. Gonna drag the 6e stuff along with me, and already opened up some holes in my normally insane demo schedule for Mongoose so I can actually run and play some stuff for myself for once heh.

 

~Rex

[Susano]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

I'll admit, I was never big on Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

I'll admit' date=' I was never big on [i']Cadillacs and Dinosaurs[/i].

 

Lot of Cyberpunk-ish folks weren't. It's a bit of an anti Cyberpunk direction in a lot of ways.

 

~Rex

[AnotherSkip]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

'splains things then why I never got into it.

[RexMundi]

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Hey it's, Post Apocolypse, with Pin Up good looking broads, Cadillacs that Run on Dino poo, and your blue collar Mechanic is the hero. I loved it.

 

~Rex

[lapsedgamer]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Bah, beaten to the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs example by a Greek Titan. Excellent example though by the way.

 

~Rex

 

Xenozoic Tales has some of the best pen and ink artwork I have ever seen. I never saw the cartoon when it was on, but the books are gorgeous.

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

The Cartoon looked like the Comic. Animated. I enjoyed it a lot really. Then again it combined three of my favorite things. Dino's, Old Cars, Betty Page good looking pin up Girls, and the Hero, was a grease monkey that used an Allosaur as a guard dog. Heh. What's not to like? Granted, it is the polar opposite of something like the works of Masanume Shirow, so it wouldn't appeal to everyone, but it WOULD, make for a great movie, heh.

 

~Rex

[assault]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

I only saw a few episodes of the cartoon, but the awesome just dripped from it. I'd love to see it again. Hmm...

[RexMundi]

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel

 

Half tempted to write up a game for it, print out a Xeno-cover and make a GM screen, and hang out in Open Gaming one night at Gencon or Origins and see who comes along to bite. heh.

 

~Rex