So what’s this Pulp thing all about?

Well a few friends of mine (Rob, Mike & Tom) have been talking about doing some pulp style games. Pulp gaming is basically something along the lines of Indiana Jones or the mummy movies. The term Pulp refers to the Pulp magazines of the 20’ & 30’s about crime fighting and exploration.

We are also influenced by skirmish style games that you control only a handful of figures. Our little group has been doing this sort of skirmish gaming for a few years now with games like Necromunda & Mordheim as well as a few modifications of these rules. Recently we have been influenced by the Lord of the Rings game by Games Workshop. In fact I have even written a set of rules that are for Pirates using this system.

So after talking about it we all decided to take the Pulp plunge and start doing something. This Blog is the first step, and we have started purchasing figures & terrain to start this little project. Right now Mike is casting Hirst Arts molds, Tom Rob & I are purchasing figures & Mike & I just ordered a few Crescent Root buildings.

We are also exploring a few different rule sets right now which are Chaos in Cairo by Scott Pyle, .45 Adventures by Rattrap Productions and exploring doing or own using a LotR variant that Rob has been working on. Right now we are just trying to get in a few games using each system.

Another great source of our rekindled interest has been the Lead Adventures Forum http://forum.backofbeyond.de/ which these guys do some awesome pulp style games. What makes them so awesome is that they have nicely painted figures, lovely terrain and there games are based around a storyline that is linked from the previous game. This has been something that we all have wanted to do. Terrain is something that can make or break a game in my opinion, and these guys have some beautiful stuff.

So are goals are to find a nice set of rules that will allow us to do gaming from things like giant gorillas named Kong, to stopping evil Nazi’s from trying to take over some religious artifact, to stopping some mad scientist from building a death ray gun to try & conquer the world!

So there you have it, our newest little project, stay tuned for more…

Tim