In May 2016 we presented the Pulp Adventure Bundle, an all-new, two-fisted collection of RPGs that conjure the spirit of the old pulp magazines — high-spirit, high-action tales you’d expect to star Indiana Jones, Doc Savage, Flash Gordon, or The Rocketeer. This bundle presents several fast-playing rules systems — Warbirds, all three corebooks for Troll Lord’s Amazing Adventures, and one of the most fondly remembered pulp RPGs, White Wolf’s Adventure! The collection also included a wide range of supplements set in Egypt, the South Pacific, the floating islands of Azure, and the rocketing reaches of spaaaace.
There were four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $56), all presented as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:
- Adventure! (Onyx Path Publishing, retail $9): The pulp-era counterpart of White Wolf’s larger “Aeon Continuum” setting introduced in the companion RPGs Aberrant and Trinity.
- Amazing Adventures Corebook (Troll Lord, retail $20): Play any kind of pulp sub-genre — swashbucklers, steampunk, gaslight horror, sword-and-sorcery — with this SIEGE Engine toolkit from the publisher of Castles & Crusades.
- Warbirds (Outrider Studios, retail $15): In an alternate reality of crimson skies and floating tropical islands, fighter pilots are celebrities flying for glory and endorsement contracts.
- Heroes of Rura-Tonga (Griffon Publishing, retail $12): If you saw the 1980s TV show Tales of the Gold Monkey, you’ll like this systemless supplement with all the elements for a 1930s pulp campaign in the South Pacific.
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got our entire Bonus Collection with six more titles (retail value $77):
- Amazing Adventures Companion (retail $20) and Manual of Monsters (retail $15): Fill out your Troll Lord collection with these two indispensable supplements.
- Slipstream (Pinnacle Entertainment, retail $10): This rockets-and-rayguns setting for Savage Worlds sends you into a planet-hopping adventure beyond a black hole. (Includes the free Savage Worlds Test Drive rules.)
- Pulp Egypt (Griffon Publishing, retail $20): A packed sourcebook of 1930s Egypt and all the plot elements for three different campaign types in this mysterious land.
- Warbirds: Space Age (Outrider, retail $6): The prop-plane RPG moves into outer space with this new Warbirds supplement that debuted in this offer.
- You Must Be Mad! (Outrider, retail $6): This Warbirds Mad Science Sourcebook presents detailed scientist NPCs, laboratory examples, new rules, and dozens of new science projects and plot hooks.
That’s a total retail value of US$133. In the 1930s that would have bought you 1,330 copies of pulp magazines (or a Louis XIV walnut dining table) — this collection gives you more stories than that! Ten percent of your payment (after gateway fees) went to this offer’s designated charity, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
