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« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2009, 10:37:41 AM »
Put me down for a copy too please Pat.

In the meantime, is it ok if I post my thoughts and details of my feeble stab at Pulp, powered by Spycraft ?
Maybe come up with a few new Talents or Specialities or re-work existing ones?

I think creating Gadgets from the Pulp Genre in SC would be cool too. Rocket Pack, anyone ?

Any assistance greatly received. Thanks.
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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2009, 11:42:52 AM »
Just thought of a few more inspirations. Some a bit cheesey though.

In the 1980s ? , there was a series called Tales Of the Gold Monkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey. A bit of a scaled down Indy Jones but good fun too.

Then there are those Doug McClure classics - At the Earths Core, Land Time Forgot, People Time Forgot and Warlords of Atlantis. Rubber Dinosaurs and Monsters, Square-jawed heroes, Mole machines and incredible cavewomen !!!

Best inspirations I find though are the Doc Savage, Avenger and Shadow novels and the incredible covers http://http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pd.php?pcode=docsavagenv14b
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« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2009, 11:45:05 AM »
Corrupt. You wouldn't know what a straight line was if you walked up to it and shot it in the back.
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« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2009, 11:54:42 AM »
Wow. Excellent.

I was thinking of turning the Intruder class into a Gangster (complete with Thompson SMG) and Corrupt would gel well with that, although in a Pulp Noir type of game, i guess anyone any one might have it.

 
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« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2009, 12:45:28 PM »
Quote from: snake on April 24, 2009, 11:54:42 AM
Wow. Excellent.

I was thinking of turning the Intruder class into a Gangster (complete with Thompson SMG) and Corrupt would gel well with that, although in a Pulp Noir type of game, i guess anyone any one might have it.

 

You probably want the Thug class for that.
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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2009, 05:52:26 PM »
Quote from: snake on April 24, 2009, 10:37:41 AM
Put me down for a copy too please Pat.

Thanks for everyone's support!

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In the meantime, is it ok if I post my thoughts and details of my feeble stab at Pulp, powered by Spycraft ?
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Absolutely! That's what the License to Improvise is all about. Our intentions for future products shouldn't stop you guys from going wild and having fun. Make new tools! Make new settings! Make the game yours!

Besides, if you come up with something awesome, we might even hire you. It's happened before... Smiley
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« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2009, 05:55:47 PM »
Quote from: snake on April 24, 2009, 11:42:52 AM
In the 1980s ? , there was a series called Tales Of the Gold Monkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey. A bit of a scaled down Indy Jones but good fun too.

Listen to this man for he preacheth the gospel. Tales of the Gold Monkey was mighty.

(The rest of his suggestions, and the rest in this thread, are awesome as well.) Wink
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« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2009, 08:38:54 PM »
Yes, it was.... What a great show. I couldn't wait for Saturday night to see this one when i was a kid. Everyone in the house loved that silly show, both my parents, my two brothers....

Ah, good times in front of the TV with the whole familiy!

What I am working on is The Spider (as well as The Octopuss) and. of course, a Man of Bronze adaptation... With quite a bit of nice thingies borrowed from Planetary. Throwing a pinch of Chandler and Hammet grittiness so my players don't think its too easy being heroes, and I am having fun... I suppose they are, too.  Wink

Then, some (or most) of the plots from Tintin's adventures are easily converted to pulpier goodness.

Finally, some might jump out of their skin, but I did love TaleSpin just because of the dogfights and the island base in the middle of the Pacific and because it was Disney's pulpiest achivement! Many good ideas to be plundered for you aerojock-oriented games.
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« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2009, 09:16:40 PM »
I always liked the game Crimson Skies and I have often thought of running an RPG in that world.  I wants me a zeppelin.
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« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2009, 10:15:38 PM »
Quote from: Bill Whitmore on April 24, 2009, 09:16:40 PM
I always liked the game Crimson Skies and I have often thought of running an RPG in that world.  I wants me a zeppelin.

I wish Virtual World would have stuck around long enough for a Crimson Skies adaptation. That would have pwned all!
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« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2009, 10:35:19 PM »
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Amazon doesn't have The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne!  Cry

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« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2009, 12:08:35 PM »
Unfortunatelly, with CS still in the hands of Microsoft Games Studio, the licensing alone would require some much dough that making it "come full circle" and become a new MASTERCRAFTED rpg setting, would be almost impossible.

Still, noby said we could not "reinvent" the Aeropulp subgenre, right?  Wink
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« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2009, 10:32:44 PM »
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It's a pulp-ish thing and one of its biggest inspirations is The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.

Hmm... sounds a bit like an upcoming RPG called Fantastic Worlds. Great idea for a setting either way, and plenty of literary inspiration available to players and GMs.
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« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2009, 02:36:21 AM »
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It's a pulp-ish thing and one of its biggest inspirations is The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.

Hmm... sounds a bit like an upcoming RPG called Fantastic Worlds. Great idea for a setting either way, and plenty of literary inspiration available to players and GMs.

What I've got in mind only started there. It's diverged wildly since then. Smiley
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« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2009, 02:57:37 AM »
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