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Author Topic: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game  (Read 7021 times)

Offline Laughing Ferret

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Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« on: November 30, 2012, 07:16:38 AM »
I've been collecting miniatures & ideas for skirmish rules for awhile now for a Prehistoric Pulp setting.  
I'm a big fan of E.R.Burroughs & J.Verne and as a kid I watched the original Land of the Lost whenever it was on, so I guess I'm not surprised to find myself doing this project. I wanted to wait until I got some progress on it before posting it here as such- mostly because I know I can easily get distracted by other projects and backburner an idea.  

The introduction to it is rather long, with some fun and silly pictures, so if you'd like to see the beginning of it you can find it on my blog here:

http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2012/09/planning-prehistoric-pulp-project.html

But in the interest of space I won't copy the whole thing over into this.

The jist is a skirmish game where each player controls a hunting party of a sentient species: cavemen (us) neanderthal,  australopithecus sapien, great apes, yeti, gigantopithecus.. or one of the 2-3 dinosaur men species I have planned, or the planta, a plant-based sentient species.  In addition to your opponent there are also non-player threats of a variety of beasts.  Each species will have some different abilities to make their gameplay unique.

I've posted on this site for the planta, giant gorilla and the raptors and a caveman party started the whole thing earlier this year with an LPL round.

Here's some group pictures of what's been finished so far.  and if you'd like to see some w.i.p and individual posts on them you can find them on the blog under the 'prehistoric pulp' tag. I'll try to update here with future progress too







« Last Edit: November 30, 2012, 10:43:08 PM by Laughing Ferret »
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Offline Lowtardog

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2012, 07:56:52 AM »
Lovely work :-* I did something a few years ago and used LOTO High seas tweaked for tribal warfare and used scenarios form Necromunda etc.

Offline JollyBob

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2012, 10:05:45 AM »
Lovely looking stuff.  :-* Makes me want to break out my Lost World stuff again.

Offline Prof.Witchheimer

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2012, 11:16:16 AM »
awesome setup!

Offline Melnibonean

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2012, 01:11:54 PM »
Looking very nice. Love those trees - very primal.
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Offline Mason

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2012, 02:19:14 PM »
Great looking scnes.
Love the minis and those trees are fantastic!
 :-*

Off now to go and peruse your blog for more.....


Offline smokezombie

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2012, 02:25:59 PM »
Trees are top notch. Really big and prehistoric looking. How did you make/where did you get them from?
"The sword sung on the barren heath,
The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield."
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Offline Alfrik

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2012, 03:48:29 PM »
Little flower guys make me think they will have a "berry berry" good time ;)
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Offline aggro84

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2012, 04:07:24 PM »
Very nice. I am looking forward to seeing more!

Offline Legion1963

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2012, 06:02:03 PM »
It looks lovely that table and miniatures. I think the trees are mostly of the aquarium or terrarium variety. As use a lot of that stuff myself i recognize some of them. It's great to use for 28mm rpg and there's a huge sellection of different ones (not only trees but rocks and hills with caves, asian temples and very nice houses) from various brands. Cheers

Offline Laughing Ferret

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2012, 06:47:21 PM »
Thanks all  :)

Yes, the trees are from a Pet Store.  -the first aisle I head to when making pet supply runs is the aquarium aisle, though I have no fish  ;)

I have a ton of terrain from this source, all very fun pieces.

Offline d phipps

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2012, 07:08:01 PM »
Beautiful terrain!  :-*  Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2012, 04:33:04 AM »
Great looking terrain.
You can find alot of stuff at the pet store,
to use in gaming.
Love what you have done.
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Offline Calimero

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2012, 02:05:18 PM »

Amazing stuff! 8)
A CANADIAN local hobby store with a small selection of historical wargames miniatures (mainly from Warlords). They also have a great selection of paint and hobby accessories from Vallejo, Army painter, AK Interactive, Green Stuff World and more.; https://www.kingdomtitans.ca/us/

Offline smokezombie

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Re: Prehistoric Pulp project: setting & skirmish game
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2012, 02:43:20 PM »
I was just looking at these pics again to see the cave men. Are they copplestone? When I noticed the t tex peeking in on the action in the background. Love it. Great set up. It really made me smile.

 

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