Adventure Across the World

[Kathulos]

Thanks for the update Eric.
I loved "China Cloud" and have been waiting for him to do another inthe style/series.
I'll have to look for it next week when I go looking for new books.

[Kathulos]

Just throwing up a link to the new Knightraven Studios. Not only is it the home of three of the most exciting of the new Pulp currently being written. But it now includes something special.
Go to the Free Library and look through dozens of free Victorian science fiction and Pulp noverls and stories. Almost all of which can be mined for ideas to include in your next Ravaged Earth Adventure.

[Kathulos]

One of the things i love about RE is that you don't have to limit yourself to just the standard Pulp tropes. The setting allows you to creat your own style of Golden Age superheroes. The only problem is that there are few examples of some of the lesser known characters from that time. Until now.
Jess Nevins is currently working on the definative encyclopedia of Golden Age heroes.
Until he completes his work, he has it online HERE.
You should find a good foundation for any character you are instreted in creating.

[Eric]

Excellent information here! Thanks for posting the link. RE has some pretty neat heroes, including cape-wearing superheroes, psionicists who use the power of their minds to manipulate the world around them, magicians who tap into the elements and weave actual magic, or gadgeteers who create fantastic gizmos from Aetherium!

Eric

[Kathulos]

That's the reason I love RE.
It allows for a world where Indiana Jones and The Bat-Man can both be in the same city at the same time.
Or an adventure where Hugo Danner, look him up, and Clark Kent work side by side with Doc Savage and Capt. Hazzard to prevent the Lemurian Lizardmen from taking over the Hawaiian Island.
The ability to mix and match character styles and genres let's me create adventures that would be too over the top for a normal Pulp setting.
But here I can start with a seemingly normal kidnapping story and build it up to a large scale alien abduction event.
Now I just need to wait for it to get released.

[Kathulos]

In case any of you pulp fans might have forgotten, this month, Febuary, marks the 80th anniversary of two of the biggest icons of the Pulp Era.
It was in this month of 1933 that the first Doc Savage magazine hit the stands.
At the same time the 8th Wonder of the World, King Kong, was first released in threaters.
So why am I bring this to your attention?

Well, next month Altus Press will be releasing a new Doc Savage novel, Doc Savage: Skull Island.

The story opens when Doc returns from his Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole to discover the cold corpse of Kong lying on his doorstep.

“I know this creature,” he tells his dumbfounded men.

Tasked to dispose of the remains, the Man of Bronze then tells the untold story of his epic encounter with Kong back in 1920, after Doc returns from service in World War I, long before Kong became King Kong.

Doc Savage: Skull Island is a multi-generational story in which Doc and his father—the man who placed him in the hands of scientists who made him into a superman—sail to the Indian Ocean in search of Doc’s grandfather, the legendary Stormalong Savage, whose famous ship has been discovered floating, deserted, her masts snapped by some incredible force.

The quest for Stormalong Savage leads to the fog-shrouded Indian Ocean—and Skull Island! There, Doc Savage faces his first great test as he encounters its prehistoric dangers and tangles with the towering, unstoppable Kong.