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[mamba]

Which doesn't help much if you're looking for a faux-late-Middle-Ages setting, does it?

no, but I am not sure that we have a shortage of those

 

[Lanefan]

no, but I am not sure that we have a shortage of those

Perhaps, but there's some things of which you can never really have too many.

 

[CleverNickName]

It's okay to like stuff that's bad. I love "Howard the Duck" even though it's widely understood to be a terrible movie. And that's okay! I can't help it if nobody else appreciates a master of quack-fu.

You don't need a list of increasingly farfetched reasons to "prove" something is The Best^TM in order to like it.

 

[Faolyn]

Burgers are ruled by a queen. Her name is Jucy Lucy.

Oh gods, that cheese and sauce are horrifying.

 

[payn]

Oh gods, that cheese and sauce are horrifying.

No sauce, just delicious golden cheddah lava!

 

[overgeeked]

It's okay to like stuff that's bad. I love "Howard the Duck" even though it's widely understood to be a terrible movie. And that's okay! I can't help it if nobody else appreciates a master of quack-fu.

You don't need a list of increasingly farfetched reasons to "prove" something is The Best^TM in order to like it.

I love Howard the Duck.

 

[J.Quondam]

The stories in the pulp magazines, especially the hero pulps, are some of the most entertaining, if not the most entertaining stuff you’ll ever read. Imagine getting a 40-60,000 word novel every month…or twice a month…starring Doc Savage or The Shadow. And so much fun to read.

If you’re not familiar, the pulp heroes were the precursors to comic book superheroes. Think street-level superheroes with less spandex, more violence, and better slang.

For anyone interested in sampling pulps of all sorts, the Internet Archive has digitized a ton of them:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

That link points to a handful of collections of different publications spanning 1890s to 1980s or so, in the usual genres like sci-fi, fantasy, western, romance, and so forth. (Not much heroes, though, afaict.) It's a pretty random selection of mags, but it's fun to just pull one at random and flip through old pulpy stories of "two-fisted adventure and torrid romance!"

(And of course, these things are definitely "products of their time," so keep that in mind.)

 

[Reynard]

A LOT of writers got started in the pulps. There's a lot of crap in there, but there are also gems.

 

[Pedantic]

They mostly have the illusion of mechanical progression.

We really should demand the actual thing, but someone would have to actually playtest the high levels and figure out just what an adventure past level 12 actually is.

 

[Aldarc]

It was said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. I think that it's about the same when it comes to a lot of fantasy adventure roleplaying games, including D&D, when it comes to its fantasy "medieval European" inspired backdrop. It's mostly these things in name only. It neither feels medieval nor European. It feels modern and American in its thinking, tone, and manner. And many of the appeals I hear GMs make to "medieval Europe" for their world-building or simulationist decision-making logic often goes off gross misunderstandings and misinformation about the European Middle Ages.