Why no one plays sci-fi RPGs

[Desdichado]

You mean Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. There were pulp sci-fi back in those days. Even the mini-game Iron Lords of Jupiter is an example of a pulp sci-fi RPG.

That's what George Lucas tries to emulate with his Star Wars films.

Well, it's not that I mean those, although they are also great examples. Either way, swords of Uranium that give you kewl powers!!!!!!!!1111!!! doesn't strike me as a particularly pulpy convention.

And for Star Wars, it depends on if you are watching interviews on Star Wars from early in the series lifecycle or late. Now, he'd have you believe that he always intended Star Wars to be a mythical Cambellian "Hero's Journey" whereas earlier he apparently was simply trying to make Flash Gordon-esque serials. Where's the rolleyes smily when you need it?

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, Pulp have hosted many different genres in those days, not just sword & sorcery and high adventures. "Superscience" was simply made up to move the story along.

They seem to coexist with the traditional science fiction genre novels, however big the gap between them.