What are the best game systems for Pulp and why?
What are the best game systems for Pulp and why?
David Thompson
Ryder Ramirez
OSR or a BRP-family system
They're closest to the source material. New D&D heavily diverged, Chaosium stayed the course after making their own version of OD&D.
Juan Ward
White wolf put out an old game called Adventure! that was specifically trying to play pulp adventures. Not sure how worth it it is since it's from old white wolf and most of their stuff from that era was mechanically kinda iffy. That and there's only a corebook.
Austin Evans
> BRP
Pulp Cthulhu perhaps?
Aaron Foster
Savage Worlds, obviously.
Kevin Jenkins
Fate. It was literally designed in its first version for pulp fiction style games and it's held true to that ever since.
Jason Watson
Savage Worlds, no question. Pulp was the whole idea. There's even a maneuver to shoot the chandelier down on your foes.
Ian Carter
Spirit of the Century, for more pulp Fate specifics.
Hollow Earth Expedition is another pulp game.
Oliver Perry
Bump
Ian Evans
>Pulp was the whole idea
And gothic vampires was the whole idea behind World of Darkness, but it turned out to be a superhero system if you look at the mechanics. Intentions don't guarantee results.
Parker Rogers
what is chaosium own version of OD&D?
Luis James
Luke Bell
Savage Worlds is awesome for pulp. Flexible enough to allow for easy crazy shit but it's still with a lethal edge.
Ayden Mitchell
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Ethan Davis
Seconding Spirit of the Century. They even put out a huge-ass reference book (reads like an encyclopedia) that collects everything pulp ever.
Joshua Fisher
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Noah Russell
It's not specifically built for it but the Hero System is great for Pulp.
Brandon Jenkins
I'm a big fan of Savage Worlds, but I'm very interested to try Ubiquity/Hollow Earth Expedition.
David Lewis
I was gonna try and post the pdf but its too big, so here
drive.google.com
Faces the same set of issues as all early white wolf games. Second edition coming out soon(tm) apperently but even thats gonna be a couple years I'd say, they need to get through aeon and aberrant first.
Hunter Rivera
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Juan Lewis
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Jonathan Jenkins
I love these old covers.
Fun fact: Young Isaac Asimov's first crush was on the snake-like alien Moon Mother from the cover story right here. He was one of us from an early age. (source: Asimov's "Before the Golden Age")
Oliver Rogers
Spirit of the century