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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keefe the Thief" data-source="post: 3856452" data-attributes="member: 49552">No. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Because if we use the word "pulp" nowadays, it mostly means something else that it originally designated. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine" target="_blank">Pulp Magazines</a>   were cheap, inexpensive novels that featured larger-than-life heroes who fought... things and had ... adventures. Heh, you see, already pretty hard to describe. Because Pulp has no clearly defined attributes that the story authors were aware of: basically they are action-adventures that want to write fun with a big F and utilize any kind of villain, storyline, strange event possible in order to reach that goal.If we today talk about pulp, we no longer talk about that old magazines and stories alone. We refer to a style, a flavor for a story that is not very well defined but shares some common themes with it´s "ancestor stories".  The problem is: everybody has it´s own idea of pulp.Let´s demonstrate this. Think about your normal D&D adventuring party: Elven Wizard, Dwarven fighter, Human Paladin etc. Now, this is the first Eberron adventuring i conceptualized after getting the setting: - A female shifter ranger, who hangs around with Daask gangmembers, respecting them as her pack but being torn about their drug trafficking and their violence.- A dwarven artificer who drinks heavily, wears a fedora, has been thrown out of house Cannith for good and likes to give every magic item he creates a dark twist.- A human wizard/psion who experienced the Mourning himself and has to be bound and gagged every night because of the terrible violent nightmares he has since then.- A warforged monk with style who talks like an english butler all the time while kicking several kinds of snot out of his enemies.- A halfling palading who is always dressed in simple, drab clothing, wears an old and battered breatplate (+5), a old notched bastard sword (holy avenger) and is so respectful of life and people that your teeth ache.Their enemies include: A red-robed wizard who rides on the back of a giant bat and is really a transformed warforged. Scores of nameless Gnoll ninjas that attack in swarms. Vicious warforged samurai who will die for their lord without a thougth. And so on.For me, this is pulp.  <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" /></blockquote>

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