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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: d phipps on July 30, 2013, 06:34:08 AM
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Mila and I are moving forward with updating and clarifying the Vehicle rules for Pulp Alley.
In addition to the rules for basic automobiles, we're also playtesting rules for armored cars, tanks, airplanes, and more...
As always, we could use your help. So please let us know what you'd like to see in the Pulp Alley vehicle rules. And if you have any interest in playtesting some of the new vehicles rules, please feel free to PM me directly.
If we can get enough playtesting done, I'm thinking we may have this finished within a month and released in PDF format only. Gentlemen, start your engines!! ...
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Engine started!
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Wacky Races?
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We've been messing with the beta rules you sent me several months ago, and enjoying them. People crashing cars has become a regular thing in our PA games... it has in fact become part of our pulp lore, that our pulp games end with every vehicle crashed (including a wagon, a few games ago) and every dog dead!
PM sent for the latest version!
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Wacky Races?
lol lol
Will there be some rules for boats as well?
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Dinglebat and driver look forward to it's release ;)
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We've been messing with the beta rules you sent me several months ago, and enjoying them. People crashing cars has become a regular thing in our PA games... it has in fact become part of our pulp lore, that our pulp games end with every vehicle crashed (including a wagon, a few games ago) and every dog dead!
PM sent for the latest version!
I have to admit, I enjoy seeing the cars wreck and explode! lol lol
The basic mechanics have remained mostly the same as the beta-test version, but we've made a couple minor changes based on playtesting and feedback from players. Mostly, we've tried to explain everything much better and added more examples.
I'll get some pages over to you pretty soon, Brian (maybe a day or two).
Will there be some rules for boats as well?
Yup, I think this is pretty important. Boats will follow most of the basic vehicle mechanics, but will have 3 fairly simple differences -- just to make it feel right. AND we're testing 'flying boats' as well! :D
Wacky Races?
We've already been doing some races as we keep playtesting the basic mechanics, and they have been lots of fun! We've also been working on a new Resource table (Gear Points) for some cool and wacky vehicle modifications. lol
As always our goal is to keep everything fast, fun, and easy to play. So far I'm really happy with how well everything is playtesting.
More to come...
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Dave,
Would love to try these out. I have a bunch of cars for my mobsters which just tend to sit there acting as scenery at the moment.
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Dave,
Would love to try these out. I have a bunch of cars for my mobsters which just tend to sit there acting as scenery at the moment.
Cool, Ian. I'll shoot you a few pages to try out.
The goal here, is to make it easy to include cars, boats, planes, and such in a game -- without bogging the game down or shifting the focus off the story/scenario.
...and tanks! :D
...and giant alien walkers from Mars! lol lol
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I'd love to try them out as well Dave.
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I'd love to try them out as well Dave.
Sent. Please try the basic stuff when you get a chance and let us know what you think. :D
THANKS
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Sent. Please try the basic stuff when you get a chance and let us know what you think. :D
Completely forgot about these first thing this morning while getting ready for today's Pulp Alley game! :-[
Mind you, we did try the Weird League rules for the first time, and found them to be good. And weird. The Shadow is a creepy sod, especially when he uses his gifts to seemingly teleport straight through solid stone walls and vanish right in front of multiple witnesses.
We also had five people playing today, a local record for a Pulp Alley game, and the system still chugs along quite nicely with five players and thirty figures on the table!
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Completely forgot about these first thing this morning while getting ready for today's Pulp Alley game! :-[
Mind you, we did try the Weird League rules for the first time, and found them to be good. And weird. The Shadow is a creepy sod, especially when he uses his gifts to seemingly teleport straight through solid stone walls and vanish right in front of multiple witnesses.
We also had five people playing today, a local record for a Pulp Alley game, and the system still chugs along quite nicely with five players and thirty figures on the table!
I think that's one of the best versions of The Shadow I've seen. Using the Dark Pact bonuses was a excellent idea!
We've been really happy with how well Pulp Alley plays with larger groups. I think we'll need to come up with even more scenarios for 4+ players.
THANKS
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I would like to see how these rules work for a Car Wars game type setting.
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With the main rulebook and expansions do you think their will be a compendium on the horizon with everything in it? much like the Gaslight Compendium
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I would like to see how these rules work for a Car Wars game type setting.
That's a fun idea! I played lots of Car Wars long long ago. lol lol
With the main rulebook and expansions do you think their will be a compendium on the horizon with everything in it? much like the Gaslight Compendium
I think it makes sense to eventually make something like that, and we've already talked about whether we'd want to try doing it as a hardback or trade paperback. However, it will be at least a year before we get around to this.
FYI -- After we get Pulp Vehicles done, I'd like to finish Pulp Leagues. Together, these two books will add at least two more character types, more abilities/perks, and new ways to use your resource/reward points. So, I'd want to include both of those books in any sort of compendium we do.
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Let's get ready to rumble!
Here's a pic of one of the vehilces we're using to playtest our new armored vehicle rules for Pulp Alley --
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A Copplestone Castings -- Mgebrov Single-Turret Armoured Car
More to come! :D
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With those skulls on it's hull it looks like your personal ride Dave! :D
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Why do I ge the feeling that the Pulp Alley is going to war....?
first a pompom, then a plane, now an armoured car......
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Nice ride!
:-*
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With those skulls on it's hull it looks like your personal ride Dave! :D
Indeed! I do need one of these to drive when we go shopping. And Mila can sit in the turret. lol lol
Why do I ge the feeling that the Pulp Alley is going to war....?
first a pompom, then a plane, now an armoured car......
I guess we'll need a tank as well...
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a Copplestone Castings model – 1/56 scale Vickers Medium Mark III Tank
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top PJ :)
is an invasion underway on Perilous Island? Or Pulp Egypt for that matter?
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for true pulp chase goodness please include
* rules for motorcycles with sidecars - special ability to detach and reconnect them at high speeds mid chase :P
* camels/yaks/horses and any pack animal that can get a head of steam up in a chase
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for true pulp chase goodness please include
* rules for motorcycles with sidecars - special ability to detach and reconnect them at high speeds mid chase :P
You mean like Pete and Billy's Conjecture Cycle? lol
Oh wait, didn't Batman have one of those too? lol lol
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This reminds me, that I have an old Copplestone RR Armoured car basecoated somewhere.... I should probably dig it out and get it finished. Apart from that, I have a lot of die-cast inter-war cars, so when I get a few games under my fedora, I might jump in on this.
I read the pdf of the main rules, and I can't wait to find the time to make a couple of Leagues for a trial run...
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This reminds me, that I have an old Copplestone RR Armoured car basecoated somewhere.... I should probably dig it out and get it finished. Apart from that, I have a lot of die-cast inter-war cars, so when I get a few games under my fedora, I might jump in on this.
I read the pdf of the main rules, and I can't wait to find the time to make a couple of Leagues for a trial run...
Oh nice! I was wanting to get one of those RR cars on my last order, but they were out of stock.
Mila has been doing lots of gunnery practice while playtesting the new Guns vs Armor rules. She really enjoys blowing stuff up. :o
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Mine is the older version that is slightly smaller than the current one, but it will do :)
Now, get some me days with 28 hs instead of 24 so I can get some stuff done.... >:D
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If possible don't forget to include stats for these type of vehicle's too Dave. ;)
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Is that a classical Cylon ship? :o
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Is that a classical Cylon ship? :o
Looks like it, along side an ole testors UFO.
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Is that a classical Cylon ship? :o
Yep. I :-*'s me EBay. ;)
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Yes, I still have my Cylon fighter from when I was a kid.
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If possible don't forget to include stats for these type of vehicle's too Dave. ;)
Oh coool! Wish I still had my old Cylon ship. I haven't seen one of those in years. :D
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Oh coool! Wish I still had my old Cylon ship. I haven't seen one of those in years. :D
neither had Bill Adama 8)
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neither had Bill Adama 8)
Indeed!
I toted that old model around the country for 15+ years -- always intending to chop it up once I found the right terrain project. Somewhere along the way it escaped. I'd like to think it rejoined the fleet. lol lol
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naah
I'm sure Starbuck grabbed her gun and brought in the cat...
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I'm sure Starbuck grabbed her gun and brought in the cat...
Heresy!!! lol
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say that when You watch the new Riddick movie :D
sorry for the diversion
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for true pulp chase goodness please include
...camels/yaks/horses and any pack animal that can get a head of steam up in a chase
& forget ye not the humble mule, with his sire, the donkey...
Ol' LongEars is a weapon dangerous at both ends, despite his utility...
How many of us missed the pack horse in the opening scenes of "Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Pack animals and adventure go hand n'hoof together, ANYWHERE!!
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Mules and other pack animals? Yup, it'll give Mila a reason to use Sam and Dean more often.... lol lol
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Here's mine, but still on the 'pile' and unnamed at the moment. :( The shield looking thing is actually a big pizza plate for the expedition. ;)
Pic's show both sides of 2.
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I haven't checked in in a while, but here's a vote for dogsleds! I continue to have plans for mounties in the great white north...