I find the exploring the wild theme very intriguing. Have not played a game in that setting. Images of Frank Buck, The Land That Time Forgot, Allan Quatermain, the Lost World (Conan Doyle, not Crichton). Yea I know the last two are Victorian, same genre.
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My thought was to base it on the PCs.  I mean, if the PCs were Tarzan, the Shadow, and a PI, some adventures would be wilderness, some would be crime/supernatural, and some would be crime normal.  I figure each adventure would kind of start with one PC and be centered around their concept.

the ones I have that came in the bundle include 4 urban domestic, one wilderness, and one in Asia, and it looks like it has a pretty good adventure generator.
There is also the Lost Eye of Kilquato if you haven't played that.

I'll read up on running pulp to make sure I get the right feel for the game

In reply to OggyBenDoggy (msg # 923):

Haven't played in hardly any SW pulp and that was short lived here on RPOL. Had a game back several years ago using Hero Games Danger International!

Really got my mind a going with the pulp thing.
Found a few sites relating to turn of the century clubs.

The Adventurers Club
http://www.adventurersclub.org...n_about_the_club.php

The Explorers Club
http://www.explorers.org/index...about/about_the_club

Either of those could certainly work as a reason for the PCs to know each other, and as a ready source for overseas adventures.

Since a fair amount of pulp is also domestic/urban, could start with maybe one outdoorsy person in one of those clubs, and a G-man or PI type hunting a fugitive who has escaped to the wilderness.

or since the adventurers club took reporters, a reporter could have a foot in both worlds

Pulp comics for free

http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1555

Excellent!
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What do you guys like to use as a system for doing your chase scenes? I know there are a couple official systems - the one presented in the SW Deluxe and other in the previous SW, but are there other systems that are better, or add-ons to either of the two official systems that enhance them? Is there a different RPG that has a better chase system?

I just use the Deluxe system to be honest. But I have only ran like two chase scenes ever.

Anyone heard of this game? would love to know a little bit more about it as I might pick it up this afternoon

TimeZero;

Welcome to TimeZero!
TimeZero is the new, exciting time travel setting from Gramel. In this setting you will play as a trained Operative, a member of TimeGuard, the secret organization that fights time crimes along the continuum.
Time thieves, chronoterrorists and many other incredible dangers await you across the millennia of human history!
You need this book and a copy of the Savage Worlds core rules to play this game. It is divided into two parts: the Player’s Guide, where you’ll find background details and rules for quickly creating time-cop agents, and the Game Master’
s Guide, containing advice on running a time travel game, how to design your time-travelling adventures and a selection of time travelling opponents.
In the next few months Gramel will publish several TimeZero adventures, where you can prove your skills, saving the continuum.
Now synchronize your watches, because time waits for no man!

I've not heard of it but it sounds like you would need a degree in history to play.
That may make it hard to find players.
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or use wikipedia :)

As long as the GM has enough knowledge to craft the adventures, the players simply need to have the ability to fit into various time periods, their instructions would come from the mission given to them.

Their issues to adapt to different periods can easily create much of the fun, a la Time Tunnel or Quantum Leap.

Back from GenCon, got in a SW game while I was there, and also picked up a new setting book, along with one I picked up at Origins, I need to get a game put together.

I played in a SW Supers game using the MMorpg "City of Heroes" as a base.  I played CoH quite a bit before it died, and had never played a supers game using SW so I thought it was a perfect game to give a shot to.  I enjoyed it quite a bit and the super powers companion, so I may have to take a look at a game, either as a player or GM.

I picked up The Widening Gyre; a Steampunk setting from BlackWyrm Press, written by Bill Keyes.  It is an interesting looking setting, and I am sucker for steampunk so I look forward to giving it a read.

At Origins I picked up Tunseal, a prehistoric setting that I have not gotten a feel for yet, but it looks interesting.

If anyone has played one of these systems I would love to hear your comments on it.

I saw the book at the local game shop (The Source in the Twin Cities). It looked like a very nice little book. Explorers Edition size and shape.

I'm starting a game for kids at my FLGS.  They've requested a Guardians of the Galaxy style game, and I'm happy to oblige.  I found the plot for Marvel Heroic's "Annihilation" storyline, so I'll be loosely be running them through that.

For setting rules, I'm using Slipstream.  I'm not sure if I have the Sci-Fi Companion, but I can get it if needed.  Otherwise, does anyone have any suggestions for source material, ideas, that sort of thing?  The MHR story is pretty open-- it's mostly a series of events, so encounter design help would be nice.

You could look at the Super Heroes Companion or Necessary Evil to build more powerful heroes/villains

But as Guardians had a solid SciFi/Space Opera feel ... I think you'll be fine with what you're using

Yeah, I don't want to go four-color Supers for this.  The Guardians are mostly space opera heroes, they're not the type of heroes that go flying around with capes on.  Their opposition may be on that level, but I'd rather create them with similar power scales in mind.

Sure but the nice thing about the SPC is that it is VERY scaleable ... you just limit the number of power points the character get.

If your foe leaves melee you get a free attack.  It's a normal melee attack, no mods; should the GM roll it for the players to speed things up?

Hmmm...that's a tough one. I'd say no because it might affect what happens and a player might want to Benny. If you're fine running the risk of having to edit your post because a player wants to Benny a few days later, then go for it, it would save time assuming no edits.

I haven't been, it just came up in a game.

It's kind of like the way a player can bennie a hit.  You roll to hit and damage, tell them N wounds, then they bennie.  You roll the free attack and damage, if that drops the extra you can move on, if not then you have to ask.

it saves asking every time.

Yea, seems like a great way to handle it Oggy.

YOu know, I really want to back Last Parsec.

Then then I thought, I have Kaisers Gate, Mars, Weird War Rome what I've never played.  Plus Numenera and The Strange.
Getting the books just to read might be cool, but...

In reply to OggyBenDoggy (msg # 945):

I'm RIGHT with you Oggy ... got WWR and DLNoir sitting collecting virtual dust.

Not sure how I feel about it requiring the SciFi companion either.