Pulp RPGs General Thread [+]

[Aldarc]

The Troubleshooters might not be intended to be pulp, but I think it would work quite well for it.

Doh! I knew I was forgetting one!

 

[Ulfgeir]

Doh! I knew I was forgetting one!

Was quite an impressive list you got though.

 

[Enaknomolos]

I'll add Dicey Tales to the list. It's Barbarians of Lemuria adapted to pulp, and it does it excellently.

 

[Staffan]

Here's a partial list of pulp RPGs, supplements, and resources.

TORG is fairly pulp-ish in its default mode (though perhaps it's more appropriate to call it "action movie"-oriented), but has the Nile Empire as an extremely pulpy sub-setting with overtones of Egyptian mythology.

Encourage your players (and you, for your NPCs) to think of the character as being played as a famous pulp character, or by a larger-than-life actor. Whenever you take an action, if you think to yourself, "how would Brian Blessed play this scene?" or "What would Indiana Jones do here" you will soon be playing a pulp game whether you intended to or not ...

You misspelled BRIAN BLESSED. His name should always be written in capital letters.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Daggerheart has a very pulp feel especially at tiers 1-2. At present there are too few non-magical character choices for me to think it's there for "standard pulp" and all the official gear is fantasy but it's only a few pages of a supplement away from doing a good Indiana Jones set in the 1930s

 

[JConstantine]

Anyone have any tips, tricks, recommendations, etc for pulp gaming?

This isn't strictly true when looking at the old pulp serials, but for me, the core of what makes a good pulp story can be summed up as "ordinary people in extraordinary situations." So I try to keep that in mind for pulp games.