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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 1533983" data-attributes="member: 3457">Pulp as a genre is not defined by an era but by a style of writing. A little cursory research will reveal that...Pulp has been confused with an era because of the popularity of Doc, SHadow or Indiana Jones but Doc and Shadow are not all there is to Pulp, just the most recognizable aspects. Indiana Jones, while pulp inspired (Doc), takes more of a serial based influence, like Jungle Jim, in the same way Star Wars was inspired by Flash Gordon serials and Buck Rogers. Why is it so many people confuse Flash Gordon with Pulp when it isn't so focused on a particular era (even the strip today is set in the NOW, not 1930s) and never appeared in a Pulp Magazine as we know FLash Gordon? Because Pulp is a style of writing and not an era as I said above. James Bond is considered a pulp hero in spite of his exploits being 1950s and 1960s. The Destroyer novels are pulp novels (y'know, Remo WIlliams). Now Pulp is a loaded word these days amongst RPG players because of games like Adventure or even Gangbusters, but they aren't the majority who will look at you and say "what is pulp". You talk to some pretty hardcore Pulp fans, it is pretty much just the era in which the books were written that informs the fiction than a particular fictional era or genre.WOTC used the wrong word though...Jason</blockquote>