The Astounding Tales! team ( just like Doc savage's crew, but even more skilled) has begun a Yahoo Group in honour of the impending release of AT2. here's the ridiculous blurb (sorry, 'valuable information') about it :
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Astounding Tales! is about Pulp. High Adventure. Men in snappy fedoras and dangerous dames, with blazing .45 automatics in one hand and a knife in their shoe. Chinese criminal masterminds and their minions. Men of Bronze who carry small explosive charges hidden in their back teeth. Beings who wish to destroy the Earth, or at least New York City, or subdue the populace with mind-numbing drugs to do their fiendish bidding.
It’s the world as seen in cheap magazines and low budget movies from the 1920's to sometime in the Fifties, when television and comic books took over. Film Noir, hard-boiled novels, pulp magazines with Charles Atlas advertisements in the back, that sort of thing. A world where most of Africa, Asia and South America are covered by impenetrable jungles, where Southern California is inexplicably dark and rainy, and where most of Canada is under an ice-cap year round. A world where down-at-heel private eyes fight vulgar, flashy hoodlums, but also where heroes – often cunningly disguised by wearing a tiny silk mask, which fools even their closest friends – save the world from ambitious mad scientists, laughably inept aliens and, quite often, the Germans. A world with garish posters featuring a lot of Colt automatics, green gripping monster hands, and women in far too much mascara and far too few clothes for respectable tastes.
This group is about playing Astounding Tales!, expanding and developing the basic system into new areas (Sixties spy romps? Cheesy barbarian fantasy? Victorian Adventure?), sharing scenarios and ideas. And buying drinks for one another in seedy bars. The designer of Astounding Tales!, Howard Whitehouse encourages creative additions and improvements from players, writers, thinkers and apes with pens. It’s not like anyone’s getting rich off this stuff ----
Sign up at
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/astounding-tales/You probably won't regret it too much ---