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This could be interesting! http://www.serialsquadron.com/booksmags/magazines/index.htm http://www.serialsquadron.com/booksmags/magazines/index.htm ... All new...
Peter
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Jul 1, 2006
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THE RETURN OF `ASTOUNDING TALES!' RIDES AGAIN – SOON! After months of brawls in dockside bars, escapes from headhunters and a lot of bad whiskey, the...
Howard Whitehouse
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Jul 1, 2006
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The first published review of Amazing War Stories was just posted at Tabletop Gaming News. http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/?p=2047 I'm very happy with what...
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Jul 5, 2006
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Has anyone tried True 20 from Green Ronin for Pulp games? Its faster than standard D20. Opinions please1 Rhe website is www.true20.com Peter ... Now you can...
Peter
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Jul 6, 2006
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I think it would work great (have not tried it myself though), since it is based on Mutants and masterminds i'm sure it could handle the genre well. I have...
J. Carpio
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Jul 6, 2006
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I still have Pulp Era in one of my game binders. It actually the first pulp Rpg I ever played. I hope you dust it off and publish it, Peter ... Be smarter than...
Peter
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Jul 8, 2006
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The second edition of Pulp Era will have allot of the elements from the original verson that was Web published back in 98. Right now it is just a matter of...
J. Carpio
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Jul 8, 2006
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Pulp Era - I have the current edition, purchased through Amazon. What are the differences between it and the second edition? I was not fortunate enough to...
Brian Courtemanche
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Jul 8, 2006
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The Chapter 13 press yahoo group has a copy in the files area. I put it up for a short time to get some feedback on what was liked and was not liked about the...
J. Carpio
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Jul 9, 2006
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... While I am biased, I like the simplifications and a number of logical reductions in the system. ... -- David Bolack <db@...>...
David Bolack
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Jul 10, 2006
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The last few posts have got me wondering: How many folks here are role players as opposed to minis folks? And how many of the role players use minis in their...
Jud Cole
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Jul 11, 2006
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... I'm 100% a role-player. I've never really gotten into minis and they just aren't for me. As to system, it just depends on the type of game that I want to...
Chris Helton
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Jul 11, 2006
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I'm a roleplayer too, but my group sometimes uses minis to simulate the setup for fights. But we don't use mini rules at all, sticking strictly to the rping....
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Jul 11, 2006
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I've used GURPS for a lot of stuff - hadn't tried it with Pulp. Forgot that I used CoC many years ago - abandoned it because, at the time, their weapons were...
Jud Cole
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Jul 11, 2006
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I'm a 50-50 role player/minis gamer. It's part of the reason I wrote the .45 Adventure system. I wanted something that felt a little like both. I don't have a ...
Richard Johnson
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Jul 11, 2006
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... I think of "very gritty" as being at cross purposes with a pulp game. Four color doesn't figure into things though, since that's a descriptor for comics...
Chris Helton
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Jul 11, 2006
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My taste in pulp runs more to Black Mask or the old men's adventure magazines. Long before I read Doc Savage and the Shadow I read Raymond Chandler and Rex...
Jud Cole
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Jul 11, 2006
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... This is a big part of the reason why I think people have a problem with discussing what is and isn't Pulp. To me, you're discussing "pulp as medium"...
Chris Helton
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Jul 11, 2006
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I'm also a roleplaying and not a minis guy. We play in the living room, without a table, so we don't use minis at all. I've run pulp with Fudge, GURPS,...
Michael Bowman
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Jul 11, 2006
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I tend toward an expansive definition of Pulp both in terms of subjects and the time period. I agree that four-color doesn't fit in, but I do include the...
Jeb Boyt
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Jul 11, 2006
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What I've run has changed. My earlier pulp games were crime fighting in NYC, at the darkness level of the Shadow, say. But I eventually realized that I'm much...
Michael Bowman
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Jul 11, 2006
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I am a roleplayer... plain and simple. One of the reasons I wrote my own Pulp game is because I never really liked much out on the market for the genre. I love...
J. Carpio
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Jul 11, 2006
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... I've even struggled with the simple phrase "use minis in an RPG" To me that phrase means (at least) one of four things. 1) Use specific rules for minis...
Marc Gacy
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Jul 11, 2006
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I have a group that games in Seattle 1924. We started using the Adventure! system which at first was fun but the quantity of d10's rolled to accomplish...
johnny bliss
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Jul 11, 2006
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I totally understand, I used to play Vampire and I know the storyteller system and the Bucket of Dice method. I like % as well. The first edition of my game...
J. Carpio
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Jul 11, 2006
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Started out using Justice Inc rules [ Champions], use a d20 system the rare times I GM. Normal GM likes to use Fuzion. I like minis but don't use table top...
David McMahon
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Jul 11, 2006
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What I meant by "4 color" is a more wide open style. If, for example, a player in my game wants to try to set the fuel from a truck on fire, I'm going to take...
Jud Cole
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Jul 11, 2006
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But then does Pulp as Genre mean only Doc Savage, The Spider, The Shadow, and other costumed crime-fighters? Let's skip detectives - how about Lost Worlds...
Jud Cole
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Jul 11, 2006
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... Indiana Jones is firmly in the category of the Neo-Pulp while Burroughs is Victorian, much like the works of H. Rider Haggard, Sax Rohmer or H.G. Wells. ...
Chris Helton
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Jul 11, 2006
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Well I started out a wargamer only. Then when D&D came out and I switched to Rpgs only. Around 6 years ago I started playing both. But time restriction made...
Peter
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