ADVENTUUUUURE!!!

Yes, the world must be ending, as I'm voluntarily running a White Wolf Press game for my Tuesday night group. But it's not like that! Really! No vampires, no fey creatures, and most importantly of all, no angst. Instead, it's 1930's Pulp, a genre with which I am embarassingly familiar. I love 30's and 40's detective fiction, I love B movies and serials, and I love over-the-top, goofy characters and horribly stereotyped NPC's.

But how did this happen?
See, I love my Tuesday night group. I love playing anything with them, be it RPGs or boardgames, or whatever. I'll play any system with this group, just so we can play together regularly. BUT.... God, I hate the d20 system. We spent the entire summer and our few sessions last spring playing D&D, and while I had lots of fun, I could go the rest of my life without rolling a d20 and I wouldn't cry. Combat is so....friggin.....slow....and....boring. Plus, dungeoncrawling holds limited appeal for me--unless, of course, it's in the TrueDungeon! So when the last d20 adventure ended, and we were kind of dithering about what to do next, and someone said, well, we could start a new D&D adventure... I said wait! Don't panic. I'll run something for us. Runequest was out, since i'm running that for the southside group at the moment and didn't feel like 2 RQ's at once. Cthulhu is out because Anne won't play it. So I decided it was time to actually use one of the many RPGs on my shelf that I own, but have never actually run. (This august brotherhood includes such gems as Pendragon, Time and Time Again, Brave New World, The Morrow Project, Werewolf, and so on...) What better choice than a game I bought 3 years ago, knowing that I could not help but love it purely due to its cornball setting? ADVENTURE it is! So now my players are deeply embroiled in a plot that I am writing even as they discover it--I'm taking a very free-flowing approach to GMing for this one, and it's actually kind of fun. The characters include Reggie Anno, a circus performer who can play the trumpet using carefully controlled flatulance (his weapon is a blowgun, naturally) and M. Louis Blasteur, a mad scientist with a host of cool little gadgets. We also have Brighetta Rosen, a linguistic genius, Charles Armagh, a wealthy playboy, and Delilah Davenport, also known as "Double D"--her fists and her charms are legendary. Wish us luck!