Sunday, October 18, 2009

Pulp Heroes, Golden d20 and Old Time Radio

Other than one nicely illustrated but poorly thought out 4-pager in DUNGEON magazine, I and my team were the first to bring out a d20 pulp adventure roleplaying game. Unacknowledged by the hacks in the industry although desperately copied at every turn, we took not the predictable armchair expert approach that killed d20 rulebooks but instead went back to the inspirations for efforts such as Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (we predated that too by the way) and the Wold Newton collaboration.

GOLDEN had a massive timeline at the back of the book, incorporating pastiches and public domain characters from the dawn of time through to the 1950s when the GOLDEN timeline petered out. The gauntlet was then picked up by ETERNIUM, which took the same universe as the pulp era GOLDEN and translated it directly into today, along with the companion books ZOMBIENOMICON and ZOMBIENOMICON 2: GORDIAN WORLD.

All in all I think it was the best tabletop gaming of my life, incredible fun and incredibly inspiring. I am delighted that now, in animated form, the entire panoply of the GOLDEN and ETERNIUM universes (along with the dystopias of RED DRUMS and MONKEY ON YOUR BACK) will finally reach the wider audience they richly deserve!

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