MRQ Pulp/Modern?

[zozotroll]

Anybody done any work on this? If you have any house stuff you have done please let me know.

The old nasty RW intruded onto my Pirates game, and apperently I was the only one interested in Stupor Mundi. They are not ready to venture into Glorantha, so I am going to try Pulp as bait. But that means I have to be ready to run it, and I dont want to invest more time than needed on something that may not go anywhere. If it does then I dont mind the time, but am a bit tired of work on settings that no one but me ever sees.

Any bits are appreciated.

 

[Magistus]

Check out:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30730

Also I suggest checking out BloodQuest:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=24054&it=1

It's Modern horror sorta like CoC, but it can be adaptated to your needs.

 

[zozotroll]

Thanks I downloaded Bloodquest. Just enough to get started, cheap enough that if I never use it I wont worry about it.

 

[Utgardloki]

I've been doing a lot of thinking about running a modern game using Runequest rules. My era of interest is in the 1970s, but finding enough other people interested in this setting seems harder than I thought it would be. (I should start making a list about why you'd want to adventure in the 1970s.) So my work on this project has been rather on and off.

If you have any questions, feel free to post, and people will pipe in with their opinions. I think Runequest would be an excellent system for modern adventures.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

(I should start making a list about why you'd want to adventure in the 1970s.)

Life on Mars

I don't know why that link isn't working properly - I suspect that the Forum parser is confused by the brackets - You'll have to cut and paste into the address line of your browser...)

 

[Rurik]

Check this:

http://basicroleplaying.com/forum/b...ltimate-pulp-western-gear-files.html#post8255

 

[zozotroll]

Thank you Ruric, that does fill in a few gaps. I have a lot of reference books on small arms and aircraft. And Military vehicles. Cameras and Typewriters are a lot harder to find out about.

For anybody else interested in gear, there ia a great book titled "and a 1o' pole". It has hisotry broken down into 12 periods from stone age to curreent. For periods whenthere was mostly barter, the price system is more for comparetive value. It is interesting to see how the worth of things goes up and down from period to period.

For me the best part is not weapons or big ticket items, but stuff like a quart of beer, or a hairbrush. Litle things players want, but I have no idea what they might have gone for in 1930. It is by no means exhaustive, but it does have a very large amount of items.

 

[klingsor]

The 1970s would be a pretty good era for adventuring: the cold war, bush wars in Africa, the end of the Vietnam War, a real space race and best of all no mobile phones!

Britain was a pretty dystopian place as well with the strikes there is a real danger of revolution as well. You have the IRA as well as many other terrorist organisations all over the world though I would think them ungamable from either side. From what I have seen of gamers as the security forces they would make an <insert name of South American or African dictatorship> death squad look like the Salvation Army.

 

[Astromancer]

A Nomad of the Timestream , a series by Micheal Moorcock, part of the Eternal Champion sequince, takes place in several alternitive 20th Century Earths. With really cool Zepplins in the first novel.

Maybe we'll get a Runequest Plup/modern that way.

 

[Sinisalo]

Britain was a pretty dystopian place as well with the strikes there is a real danger of revolution as well. You have the IRA as well as many other terrorist organisations all over the world though I would think them ungamable from either side.

Uh...in the seventies we could leave our back doors open, knew our neighbours, had affordable and publicly owned transport system, could get a doctor or policeman to come out at any time of the day. When the mediarati paint an ugly picture of the 70s they mean: "how horrible no latte and look at those horrible proles being uppity"

Britain today is in a state of chaos but thats alright cause we have mobile phones and big brother.