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Offline Howard Whitehouse

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Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« on: 31 December 2009, 01:57:22 AM »
After a very long gap (which I put down to a combination of incarceration in Peru and experimental eye surgery conducted by scientists who turned out to be, er, evil) the second issue of 'Astounding Adventures!' is available for pre-order.

Despite our ludicrous pretension that AA2 is, in fact, a pulp magazine from 1937, the publication is a set of four intricately plotted scenarios taking us from one damn tropical island infested with giant rats to another infested with Nazi operatives to an idyllic English village full of Bolsheviks, mad scientists and part-time blood cultists.

They are all designed for Astounding Tales!, but - since a pulp scenario is a pulp scenario - they fit most game systems. Indeed, we've included (with permission, of course) sections on how to convert the terminology of Astounding Tales to several other fine sets of rules.

Publisher Patrick Wilson ('The Virtual Armchair General) did this rather fine write up on TMP recently, showing pictures and telling you how to get this fine, fine  'magazine' (wink wink) at a low, low initial price.
So, here ya go --

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/512139/

I do all my own stunts

Offline Howard Whitehouse

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #1 on: 31 December 2009, 02:22:29 AM »
Oh, yeah, the cover ---


Offline warrenss2

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #2 on: 31 December 2009, 03:18:10 AM »
SWEET!!!!!!!

I love Astounding Tales!!!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Offline d phipps

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #3 on: 31 December 2009, 03:36:54 AM »
Whoo hoo! Looks like lots of fun!

Offline Uncle Mike

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #4 on: 31 December 2009, 04:49:00 PM »
Great cover!!! How many pages?

Offline Howard Whitehouse

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #5 on: 01 January 2010, 05:03:45 PM »
Great cover!!! How many pages?

I'm looking at the PDF Patrick sent me. Looks like 54, which is a weird number for a page count. I expect that'll change a bit in the printed form.

Of course, that's 378 in dog pages.

Offline Howard Whitehouse

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #6 on: 06 January 2010, 03:52:41 AM »
Order by midnight on Wednesday! :o

See what Patrick says here -

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/591437/

H

Offline Wirelizard

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Re: Astounding Adventures #2 a'comin' soon!
« Reply #7 on: 06 January 2010, 04:40:33 AM »
Emailed to order my copy!

Slightly confused as to whether printed copies of the actual Astounding Tales rules are still available as well? Printed copies of both would be nice, although PDF is acceptable, as I've access to a very nice printer at work...

 

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