TheImperialKhan

Re: pulp hero over opinions? I wouldn't go that far. But I have to say that I don't care for the Hero threatening a woman with a gun. It's just not appropriate for the genre. Also I think the original JI cover had more pazzaz. But you be the judge. Here's the JI cover to compare.

Re: Pulp Hero, after looking it over Finally! I hold Pulp Hero in my hands. The wait has been agonizingly slow but I finally have it Now to settle down for a nice long read. Contentment at long last.

Re: Masterminds and Madmen Thanks, Ben. I was worried it had been canceled or something.

I see it in the scheduled for 2005, but it's not showing up among the Pulp Hero sub-list. Is there a problem here?

Re: Pulp Hero, after looking it over Has anyone ever told you you've got a meanstreak?

Re: Pulp Hero, after looking it over Lucky B******s. My copy hasn't even shipped yet. And I ordered it a week ago.

Re: PULP HERO -- What Do *You* Want To See? Ok Steve here's the big question: how were the sales at GenCon? By that I mean how did they compare to the other big GenCon releases of the past? Better? Worse? About the same?

Re: What Champions Books Would You Like Published in the Future? Brainfart! Brainfart! Brainfart! I could have sworn it was Strike Force. But I just checked the thread and sure enough Steve was right and I feel like a complete f***ing idiot! Oh well, it'll teach me to double check rather than relying on my increasingly poor memory.

Re: What Champions Books Would You Like Published in the Future? I'm afraid you haven't been paying attention to the Pulp Hero board. A few weeks ago Steve mentioned that he and Aaron are in talks to do just that. A new version of Strike Force. We had asked for a new version of Lands of Mystery as well as some of Aaron's other stuff for JI but all in all I can't say we were too dissappointed in what we got.

Re: New Pulp Art Consider yourself repped.

Re: Dr. Doom vs Iron Man There's nothing bad about being correct.

Re: Dr. Doom vs Iron Man In The Iron Manual Stark himself puts Doom on top though not by much. On a scale of 1 to 10 he puts his armor at 9 and Doom's at 10. He also doesn't seem to think that Doom is trying real hard. The quote runs something like: "If Doom really put his mind to it he could create a suit of armor that could rip mine apart as though it were made of aluminum foil."

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? Well you know I'll do my part. I didn't mean that you would re-arrange the shedule through 2006 btw. I meant that you'll know what to put on the schedule for 2007.

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? You know, Steve, I'm getting the impression that, like Aaron 20 years ago, you're really enthusiastic about the Pulps and are really hoping that this will go big. Not just because of the financial considerations but also because you have a lot of ideas for supplements and sourcebooks that you really want to bring out. This thread is mainly to help you decide what to bring out first. So... Did I make my Deduction roll or blow it?

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? Although the Pulp-era is traditionally the 20s and 30s there were many pulp stories that take place earlier in the century. Perhaps a sub-genre book on the 1900, or even 1890, through the end of The Great War would be a good idea. Sort of a bridge between the Victorian and Pulp eras.

Re: Campaign Ideas: Why are they on this ship? This might be useful to you. It's the paradigm for a campaign that I ran a while back: http://www.geocities.com/blademaster01757/starhero.html

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? Well to start off with I'd say definately make Lands of Mystery a go. The original was one of the best supplements HERO has ever put out and I'm sure that Aaron has come up with more stuff to cram into the new edition. In addition I'd really like to see a setting book, either the Hudson City 1935 you were talking about a while back or something else. And sub-genre books, lots of sub-genre books: Pulp Sci-Fi, Pulp Occult, Pulp Espionage, etc. A book of short adventures or just adventure ideas would be very useful as well. As I recall Aaron had a good half a dozen or so product ideas in mind for JI which never went forward. If he has no time for them I'm sure they could be handed off to other writers. I recall one of them was an Undersea setting/supplement that involved a Captain Nemo type setting up an Empire beneath the Sea of some kind. I, myself, had been in talks with Bruce Harlick to write a Flash Gordonesque Pulp Sci-Fi setting book called Zarkon: the Planet of Peril about 5 or 6 years ago. Nothing ever came of it at the time, but the idea is even more viable now that Pulp Hero is coming out. If not done by me then by someone else. I think you're off to a good start with what you have on the schedule but I would suggest moving the setting book up if you can. I really believe the Genre, Enemies and Setting books should be released as close together as possible as these give the Players and GM what they need to dive right into the game with a minimum of fuss. Just my $0.02

Re: Master and Commander, Star Hero style. Actually the captain's share of the prize money was reduced from three eighths to two following the mutinies at Spithead and The Nore in 1797 to give a greater share to the crew. The Admiral commanding the station that a ship was attached to recived one eighth. If there was a squadron commander between the station commander and the captain, usually a Vice or Rear Admiral but sometimes a Commodore, then he would recieve one the captain's eighths. Prior to the mutinies the majority of the crew recieved one eighth of the prize money to split between them. After they got one quarter. So everyone wanted a piece of that action and although the common sailor didn't get a fortune, he still got a nice chunk of change. Allow me to illustrate with an action from my novel: After the battle of Machias Bay in which one French frigate of 32 guns, valued at about 17,000 pounds, was captured by the five ships of Sinclair's Flying Squadron. The prize money was devided up as follows - 2125 L to the Station Commander 2125 L to the Commodore 850 L per Captain 96 L 12 s per Lieut., Sailing Master and Marine Officer 88 L 11 s per Bosun, Carpenter, Surgeon and Master’s Mate 73 L 5 s 5 d per Midshipman, Purser, Gunner and Marine Sergeant 5 L 16 s 10 d per man for the remainder of the ships companies So the average sailor gets a bit less than six pounds. A house could be bought at this time for 100 pounds so the average sailor got about 6% of the value of a house. Up in my neck of the woods houses start at $300,000. Six percent of that is $18,000. Even assuming that inflation has been less pronounced and the true value is say a third of that, we're still talking about $6,000 to the common seaman. Keep in mind this single capture was devided by five crews averaging 180 men each. If it had been a one-on-one fight the prize money for everyone below Commodore would be five times greater. And that concludes our lesson in 18th century Royal Navy Economics for today.

Re: Lands of Mystery He said in this week's editorial that it's bigger than Fantasy Hero which came in at a whopping 416 pages. Yippee!!! All that pulpy goodness is only a month away.

Re: Greatest Western Movies of all Time Hey I like Catlow too, Baldy, as you are also aware. And as for Yul Brynner, I don't think I ever seen him give a bad performance. But the perfomances in Gunfight at the OK Corral were just as good. Particularly Douglas, he had me believing he couldn't win a fistfight with a healthy 16-year-old. This is Kirk Douglas... the man who exudes I can kick your scrawny ass by just smiling at you! That's acting. BTW did you ever see a western he did with Henry Fonda called The Was a Crooked Man? Excellent movie with some fine supporting perfomances by Burgess Meredith and Alan Hale jr.

Re: Greatest Western Movies of all Time I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Gunfight at the OK Corral with Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday and in a very small role a man who would achieve stardom as an old country doctor in space... DeForest Kelly as Morgan Earp. And a guilty pleasure for me is Draw! starring James Coburn and Kirk Douglas.

Re: Star Pulp Hero Don't forget the classic Rocket Ship Galileo which George Pal later made into the movie Destination: Moon.

Re: Your Best Ironman Which armor?

Re: Femme Fatales Definately Spicy Story material.

Re: Femme Fatales Ah the infamous Lady X !