John Desmarais

I've pulled shed loads of material for Golden Age supers and pulpy science fiction from this site (and the site it spun out of) over the years - plus lots of great reading.

Although I tend to lean heavily on fictional cities, for real cities I favor New York and London. New York has everything you need in a campaign city, and most (American) players are at least passingly familiar with it. London has everything NY has, but gobs and gobs of history to exploit.

Well, no Pulp Hero (or Dark Champions) in the immediate future, but I am doing a Champions game (something with a high-power Marvel feel and lots of aliens) next Saturday if you feel like making the drive.

I think the players, particularly in a Pulp Game, want to fall for it.

I went ahead and started a write up based on the character description on comicvine.com. It's looking a lot like what you've described above.

I'm not too concerned with total cost. When dealing characters adapted from other sources much of the high total cost is a matter of how the writer perceives power scales in the source setting (the old "how strong is Superman?" question). Any relatively well thought write up would give me a place to start or things to steal and scale to my game. P.s. Answer to Superman question: Either at least as strong as the strongest hero or regular villain in you campaign, or at your campaign max is you have one.

<two-cents worth> They may not be valuable, but they are very useful if cheap. When I was younger and a much more active gamers I frequently found myself in the role of "permanent backup GM", running games when the regular GM was unable to make it. Mathis meant I was frequently running one-shot games on very short notice. I would have loved to have had available to me then the type of cheap one-and-done adventures that digital publishing has made prevalent now. </two-cents worth>

Hey, anyone in Heroville done a write-up of Doctor Solar (Gold Key, Valiant, Dark Horse, and now Dynamite)? One of my players wants to play a character based on him and Im feeling lazy.

So, I'm guessing that inviting you to play and running this would be weird?

I would also count comic books as an outgrowth of the pulp industry.

Ooooo. I like that.

Oriental Mysticism - check Nazis - check From space - check It's the perfect Pulp McGuffin. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/buddhist-iron-man-found-by-nazis-is-from-space.html/

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore What kind of apples?

Re: looking for non-Causasian pulp roles One of the guys in the Pulp game I'm currently in is playing a character based on Queequeg from Moby Dick. Time period is a little off, but it's working.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Alright, you can't simply drop the term "Irish Nachos" out like that and not describe them.

Re: Time Frame for Appearance of Superhumans My default setting closely mirrors the history of comics with super heroes (as opposed to pulp-style masked weirdos) first appear in 1938. I than have plot rationales to explain/justify the various generally accepted "ages" of comic history (Golden, Atomic, Silver, Bronze, Iron, & Modern. It also includes a Pulp era that predates GOlden). This gives me a setting I can use for any era of game that has a sense of historical depth and continuity.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore THis may actually be worth trying.

Re: Zeppelins http://www.worldskyrace.com/ An airship race around the world.

Re: Your "2012" Pet Gaming Projects The "first" edition of Hackmaster was basically AD&D reskinned to resemble the game described in the comic. Mostly playable, some of the add-ons were cool, some wern't. The new edition of Hackmaster is a whole new game (Kenzer's AD&D license ran out) designed b the guys at Kenzer. I've not played it, but I've read bits and pieces of it. It looks interesting.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore The flavor is actually one of the normal Doritos flavors (I've forgotten which). The characters are Taitsukun or “Mr. Bodysuit”, a pair of trademarked Japanese cartoon characters Frito-Lay licensed as part of a campaign to appeal to adults in Japan (better not to ask). Now, this is not to say that there are not some unusual Doritos flavors: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/35-strange-doritos-flavors-from-around-the-world

Re: The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC Actually, he's not a walking skeleton. All of the "soft bits" of his body are invisible. Only his bones can be seen.

Re: Character inspiration: Julie D'Aubigny How much more over the top could you get relative to her reality?

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

Re: TUALA MORN -- Interested In More Stuff? What? Ridiculous. (I can't do this - being something of a completist junkie fan-boy, once I buy one of the them I'll have to buy all of them).