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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8422126" data-attributes="member: 86653">Ah. Why didn't you say so? That's a horse of a different color. Yes, of course it's jarring and weird to have swim, jump, climb, etc as different skills when playing a pulp hero. That's because CoC isn't built for that. Pulp Cthulhu is like slapping a band-aid on a full-body burn. It's like mixing oil and water. CoC is great for survival horror but it's rather terrible at action-adventure, even with Pulp Cthulhu. There are dozens of systems that will do pulp infinitely better than CoC.Not including vitally important information, like playing the action-adventure pulp variant of CoC is certainly bad form. If you want recs for games / systems that do pulp better than CoC, try one of these. Achtung! Cthulhu, the new 2d20 one. Adventure! Amazing Adventures. Atomic Robo RPG, Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, Fate Condensed. FGU Daredevils. GURPS. Hollow Earth Expedition. Justice Inc. Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes. Pulp HERO, the single best pulp sourcebook even if you don't use the system. Pulp Heroes d20, from Polyhedron (Jan 2002). Rocket Age. Rocketship Empires. Savage Worlds. Space 1889. Thrilling Tales. Two-Fisted Tales. Pulp gaming is very much my jam.</blockquote>