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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 8307588" data-attributes="member: 27252">A much more appreciated response.I do think that there is some evidence of Pulp Cthulhu being a response to other ‘pulp' game titles - insofar that it was originally mooted by Chaosium as a supplement for the D20 version of the game, way back in about 2001/2. It was vaporware for many years, but was then listed as a Kickstarter stretch goal for 7E, and this gave the impetus for it to be made. Prior to that, Chaosium had released the BRP Pulp Adventures title, at a time when there was a fair glut of pulp game supplements being released for other games. The genre became popular at the turn of the millennium, with White Wolf’s Adventure! being the arguable catalyst for the trend.I think it is worth noting that H.P. Lovecraft’s work literally was ‘pulp’, as it was printed in pulp magazines, but the meaning of pulp did not necessarily mean ‘heroic action’. See Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction as another example of this. However, in gaming, the term has generally come to mean ‘heroic action in the interwar period'.However, I do think the point that you allude to, here is that, regardless of system, the real draw of Call of Cthulhu books is found in the quality of their research and writing. While I have my criticisms of the system, at whatever dial to be honest, I cannot fault the historical information, the presentation or the imagination that goes into their campaigns.  That is what appeals to me.</blockquote>

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