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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1280716" data-attributes="member: 571">What about the rest of the citations?Publishers of a certain type of fiction and "true story" magazines used a low quality paper to print their product on. Made primarily of wood pulp the paper gave us "the pulps" as a term for those magazines. Stories published in these magazines became known as pulp fiction. Which in turn became a catchphrase for writing of particularly poor quality.The pulps also became known for a particular style of fiction. Lots of action and gosh wow stuff with little characterization and minimal plotting, aimed at an adolescent to young adult male audience (the girls had their own magazines). Stories, I should add, with an irrepressible optimism . No matter how dire the situation, how overwhelming the opposition, the hero or heroes would win through.That's the difference between pulp on one side, and noir and punk on the other, hope. In noir you can win, but there's always loss of some sort. In Casablanca, for example, Rick gives up the love of his life to ensure important intelligence reaches London. In punk you don't have even the hope of winning anything substantial. Life is just plain hopeless. What victories you do win are empty, for The Man remains in power.From what I've seen of the setting, I find pulp fantasy most applicable. Adventure, travels, exotic lands and people. Dark cults, conspirators and cabals, steadfast allies, all the tropes of pulp fiction in its glory days.We could see a zeppelin adventure some day.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So wait. Hold judgement until the setting guide (or whatever they call it) comes out. Then give it a good looking over and let us know what you think.Once I couldn't stand dark chocolate. Then I grew old enough to appreciate it.</blockquote>

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