Post originally by Dan Davenport at 2003-06-30 03:58:02
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Michael wrote:
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<b>I know what you mean. On the surface, pulp should be the perfect genre for gaming. Funky villains, heroes with cool powers, scope to include as much weirdness as you want (weird science, martial arts, super powers on a variety of levels, magic, mentalism etc etc etc).

But nobody has ever really nailed it. Don't know why. For my group, the Nile setting for Torg came closest, and I believe that Justice Inc. was pretty popular in its day.

Why isn't pulp the most popular genre of all (or at least, second-most-popular, behind fantasy)?

Curiously,

Michael</b>
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It may just be that pulp doesn't lend itself to groups very well, insofar as there's not the same kind of heroic team model to follow that there is for supers.

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Dan Davenport