Thrilling Tales

by Gareth-Michael Skarka, Walt Ciechanowski

SAVAGE TALES OF TWO-FISTED PULP! The pulse-pounding excitement of the pulp magazines and cliffhanger serials of the 1930s and 40s, for use with the Savage Worlds rules system. Grab your fedora and your ivory-handled .45s, and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

Genres: Role Playing Games, Pulp

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

About the author

Gareth-Michael Skarka is a writer, game designer, consultant, graphic designer and veteran of over twenty years in the entertainment business, having worked on properties ranging from Star Trek to Doctor Who and more.

He is the creator of FAR WEST, a transmedia setting that mixes elements of Chinese Wuxia, Spaghetti Westerns and Steampunk, and is the founder and director of Adamant Entertainment, which began as a game design studio before expanding into publishing and transmedia development.

The married father of three lives in the old frontier (in Lawrence, Kansas), but works in the new one.

Reviews

[Alfonso Junquera perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un juego de rol que usando el sistema de reglas del Savage Worlds nos da los medios y la información suficiente para poder organizar partidas de estilo pulp (ya sabeis La Sombra, Doc Savage, Tarzan,..) en la epoca de los años 30 y 40. Luchando contra Nazis, Thugs, Cientificos Locos , Marcianos o lo que se nos ocurra.

Un buen juego que recomiendo a todos los que les guste este estilo de partidas y/o novelas.

[John Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

fantastic sourcebook for pulp era games has me really really wanting to run a game.

[Krzysztof · Rating 4 out of 5]

To my surprise, this was one of the better Savage Worlds sourcebooks that I read. Chock-full of truly pulpy ideas, it provides a very good summary of how to create a session based on the motifs from 20s and 30s magazines. It's rules-light, with just a few new Edges and Hindrances, some pretty standard equipment and a bunch of enemy templates. Everything else is considered with story ideas, atmosphere hints and other suggestions. I thought it's not going to be as strong, given my mixed opinions on most SW sourcebooks, but I was pleasantly surprised!