Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Thrilling Tales is a neat site with a neat, pulp-ish, smartly illustrated multiple branching story. It’s hard to describe, so give it a visit and play around.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Legio Wargames offers Legio VI Macedonia, a set of free wargames rules for playing games set in the Helenistic through the Republican Roman eras. They’e designed for 6mm figures, with one 20mm x 20mm stand equaling 300 - 500 heavy infantry.
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Friday, September 04, 2009
For your Pulp, Superhero and Super Science games, here’s a cute “Device Name Generator.” It randomly generates impressive, but nonsensical two- and three-word names.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
EGBZine is an online archive of more than 10,000 pages of Edgar Rice Burroughs goodness—stories, articles, art and more. If you’re contemplating (as I am) a John Carter of Mars game, this is a good place to start.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
I grew up on Jonny Quest and think that the original is one of the best ever created. It’s certainly a great piece of pulp. Here’s the first part of a two hour documentary on the making of Jonny Quest. The entire thing is in pieces on YouTube.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Pulp fans may find the Atomic Rocket site interesting. It has a wealth of information on the imaginary rocket ships of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
For fans of “Pulp” miniatures games, here’s a page with everything you ever wanted to know about the classic movie serials, like Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Fighting Devil Dogs and more.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
For your pulp science fiction games, here’s a paper model of a Flash Gordon style single seat speeder-flyer.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
This one is really cute. It’s a paper model of a Buck Rogers looking girl on a retro style rocket.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Fans of Lost World type games may be interested in some harticles on the Cryptomundo site that sow early 20th century newspaper stories on the search for the Mokele-mbembe, a dinosaur-like creature thought by some to still be alive in Africa. You can also look at the articles in a pdf format.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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