Steve Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 As a type of Pulp setting, this one is probably one of my favorites, the Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers type of world. What are some great "Raygun Future" settings out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Well, how about popping over to the Hero Games website store, and downloading Solar Smith and the Sky-Pirates of Arcturus for a measly $2.50? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 I already own it. I need more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 While not directly 'Flash Gordon' (or even HERO System for that matter) you might want to look for/at the 'Gernsback' alternate Earth from the GURPS supplements Infinite Worlds, and Alternate Earths. The basic plotline (without, I hope, breaking too much copy-write) is that Nicola Tesla was able to control some of his mental health issues and ended up marrying Anne Morgan, daughter of millionaire and philanthropist J. P. Morgan. The added stability of his wife and the financial support of his father-in-law allowed him to turn a variety of his hypothesized inventions (such as broadcast power) into reality. -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 There is a Savage Worlds plot point called Slipstream that was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 steal Captain Proton from Star Trek Voyager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 There's an element from Blackwyrm Games's The Algernon Files: The Fires of War (a generally excellent setting/supplement for HERO Pulp/Golden Age supers gaming) that might fit with your purposes, On an alternate-timeline Earth, Imperial China exploited its early technological superiority to other civilizations to a degree it never did on our world, ultimately making it master of the planet. That included building on China's early successes with black-powder rockets to achieve manned space flight centuries before our civilization, and ultimately to colonizing the Moon. A freak dimensional convergence causes the Moon from this timeline to swap places with our own, along with its millions of inhabitants and China's ruler, the justly-named Emperor of Heaven, who now aspires to make himself master of this Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 Century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 GURPS Alternate Worlds One has Gernsback, an alternate Earth where Nikola Tesla married J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne which stabilized his personality and gave him resources to advance technology at a faster pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 There was a Buck Rogers game put out by TSR back in the day. It was based on the original comic strips, not the '70s TV show. Worth looking into if you can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardogchamp Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 You may know of it already, but GURPS has a sourcebook/setting based on the Lensman novels by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 I wasn't thrilled with the system, but Cosmic Patrol by Catalyst Games has some good world-building bits. I could see most of it dropping into a Solar Smith game pretty easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Slipstream, Cosmic Patrol and the GURPS books were pretty good idea sources. Thank you for the suggestions. For a darker look at a "Raygun Future" setting, I recently came across a miniseries called "Ignition City" by Alan Moore that's proving to be pretty interesting. It's set in an alternate 1950s where Earth fought wars with expies of the likes of Ming the Merciless and the Martians and has decided to turn its back on space exploration. Ignition City is the last operating spaceport on Earth and gives a strong Mos Eisley vibe mixed with noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Your last post made me think of a question. By "Raygun Future" are you thinking: 1950's tailsitter and/or saucers like Rocketship XM, Destination Moon, Earth vs the Flying Saucers and Forbidden Planet. Or 1930/40's horizontal rockets like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and so on. The 50's shows tended to be more 'modern' and tried to be more 'realistic' while the 30/40's shows were more serial action story with the rockets just as backdrop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 As far as rocketships go, either design would be all right with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Well the only 3 actual Rocketship pulpy style games actually available are the aforementioned Slipstream and Cosmic Patrol plus a Cubical Seven game called Rocket Age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 In 1952 Republic Pictures put out the 12 part serial Radar Men from The Moon. It featured George Wallace (not the Governor) as Commando Cody, who flew using a jetpack, and used a rocketship to travel to the moon. He even had a ray gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 And in the vein of Commando Cody...there is this 'gem' of cinematic enterprise: http://www.dhentertainment.com/projects/16.monarch-moon/ -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I thought he was looking for gaming settings. I'll have to do some digging to get movie/TV/books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_tamer Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 GURPS Tales of the Solar Patrol looks interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 GURPS Tales of the Solar Patrol looks interesting. Don't like the system, but their books are always great as source material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 I liked Tales of the Solar Patrol as well. For a more humorous setting, "The Jetsons" could be interesting, since it has more of a Pulp Hero feeling than Star Hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 The Jetsons was originally broadcast in 1962-63, so it's definitely post-pulp-era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan. The original novella the created Buck Rogers. Modern copies are usually both novellas in the two part story: Amageddon 2419 A.D. (1928) and The Airlords of Han (1929). Great books and not what most people think of when they think Buck Rogers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 And in the vein of Commando Cody...there is this 'gem' of cinematic enterprise: http://www.dhentertainment.com/projects/16.monarch-moon/ -Carl- Great site! I actually have Time Cop 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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