Thanks to vajrabot, I have just discovered a new blog that is definitely worth checking out, depending on your interests.

shorpy.com has a whole bunch of interesting materials on it that would be useful to various folks. Go check it out. :)

Since I have a penchant for Pulp Adventure rpgs based in the 1930s, and given that this genre of roleplaying is very popular these days, I thought that I would post a poll here to see what folks think of Pulp Adventure RPGs... So, please be kind enough to vote. Any comments and thoughts are welcome, of course. :)

Poll #1394140 Favourite Pulp Adventure RPG
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What is your favourite 1930s Pulp Adventure RPG?

As mentioned in one of my recent entries, I've just discovered a new rpg called Hollow Earth Expedition and felt that I should write a journal entry about the game. But where to start...?

Something else that I'm a fan of is the Pulps. You know, the action and adventure magazine stories, books, and movies of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's that had a style all of their own. For that matter, I also have a thing for those time periods, and some of the music from that era, so it's no surprise that I've run and played in some roleplaying games that were set against that time period. The fiction of Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also has a place in my heart that gets mixed in with all this. I mean, who can forget Doyle's _The Lost World_ (the book, not the movies and tv series, although the BBC adaptation was superb), Verne's _Journey to the Center of the Earth_, and Burroughs' Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars novels?

I've run some games based on this stuff as well, but many of the rpgs out there that have done the Pulp genre have thrown in other elements into the genre, such as horror, the supernatural, and science fictional aspects of that time's fiction. I'm not saying this is bad, and I'm not going to mention specific rpgs here, because most of the readers of this entry will be able to figure that out for themselves.

And then in mid-August, I heard about a new Pulp Adventure roleplaying game called Hollow Earth Expedition (HEX for short), published by Exile Game Studio that sounded *perfect* for what I have always wanted to see as a Pulp adventure rpg.

I won't go into any detail on what the Hollow Earth Theory is, other than to refer you to the Wikipedia entry on the subject, but will concentrate on the HEX roleplaying game.

Be warned, as this is somewhat long.

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I hope that others will come to see this game, and how simple and yet flavour-filled it truly is. The fact that it deal with the Pulp fiction and stories of the 1930's in such a faithful manner adds to the quality of the game, and makes it one worth checking out, even if it is a niche rpg market.

Besides, I'm in the process of running a HEX Play by E-Mail (PBEM) version of the game using Yahoo, so... Perhaps some folks who read the info contained herein might be interested in playing in the PBEM. However, if nothing else, this is a roleplaying game that is well worth checking out.