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Sounds like Hell's Kitchen ... in spaaaaaaaace! 😂 Don't forget Ninja Burger. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/11881/Ninja-Burger-The-RPG-2nd-Edition?src=hottest_filtered

Ten Candles RPG? https://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles

But Sydney Greenstreet (Kaspar Gutman from the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon) is fun as Wolfe and has great interplay with Gerald Mohr's Goodwin. The 1950-51 radio show is as much about their relationship as about the week's latest murder (because as Agatha Christie said, it always has to be murder; mere larceny isn't high stakes enough). True, though, the 1980s Canadian Broadcasting Company radio show doesn't have the same sparkle. Don't know if it is more faithful to the books.

The guns, not the creatures, are psychic. If a PC acquires a weapon from a downed opponent he risks mind control/possession by whatever broadcast power is enabling them to operate. Creatures and cultists are simply pawns of this centralized controlling force, be it a computer, alien or ancient entity. If they can resist domination the adventurers have a chance to wrest control of a weapon from ... whatever it is. However, since the power is broadcast, the high-tech gear only works within a certain range of whatever originally gave it its oomph. Nero Wolfe radio and TV episodes can be watched/listened to for free on YouTube. Leg man Archie Goodwin gives Wolfe his oomph. Otherwise he'd never work at all. Goodwin needs his paycheck to chase blondes, who have a different kind of oomph in either series.

Sounds very anime. 🙂 All the PCs must be teenagers in tight white spandex uniforms.

Yes. That's why I thought you'd enjoy this discussion.

For something different, check out the "Cthulhu Clue" thread.

I've never read it. I will have to hunt it down.

These are definitely fun!

It wasn't that the monsters were wimpier in Howard's tales but that his protagonists were quite a bit younger and manlier. No aging academics or antiquarians for him! "The Hoofed Thing" and "A Witch Shall Be Born" are good examples. A bit of testosterone (or heroic skill points) is what your PCs need. 😉

Hmmm, she escaped with the Handsome Lead (tm) in Lowlander IX, the LEGO Disney Princess Movie, The Revengers: Iron Legacy, Man, and with the evil emperor's hunky great-grandson in Solar Wars -- Absolutely No Hope. I suspect it is the princess. 🤔

Nah, the goblin horde will double-cross Conan and he'll be forced to aid the PCs to ensure his own survival. Then he will run off with the nubile princess the adventurers just rescued from the Goblin King (but she won't mind even if they and her father do). Darn! How does he keep getting away with this stuff?

Yes, BRP heroes are much more fragile than PCs in other games, so using tactics and terrain to your advantage is a must. Better to sneak around and pick off your foes one at a time than to wade into a crowd, even if they are mooks.

Jared Leto as "Elric!"? (Ducks; flees precipitously)

The Queen of Sheba gets mentioned twice, in 1Kings 10:1-13 and in 2 Chronicles 9:1-12, pretty much duplicate passages. She comes to negotiate a mutually beneficial trade deal and is impressed by Solomon's wisdom and wealth, which she says exceed the rumors she heard back home. She praises the God of Israel for both in terms that make one wonder whether she is a believer herself. Then she goes home. And that's it. No torrid romance. No occult shenanigans. No details on her age or appearance or religious and political views. All we know is that she was loaded and had a list of tough questions for the King of Israel to answer and he managed to wow her on both points. 😉 So far, Queen of Sheba sounds more like Judge Judy than Megan Fox. Yikes! 😳

Don't forget Kipling! He's not all jungle tales and Just So Stories. 🙂

The monograph "Berlin '61" may be slightly late for the time period you want but its Cold War sensibilities may provide the bleak outlook you are seeking. It is set in a divided city roiling with intrigue where no one's loyalties can be trusted.

STR 32 is plenty to slap around a group of goons. Damage resistance 12 is pretty good but she's not completely bulletproof is she? So she's got to fight smart and sneaky, take 'em by surprise and not have scruples against fighting dirty if she has to. Very pulpy! With her POW 9 and APP 15 she's got a winning enough manner to pull a fast one but isn't so attractive that she can't blend into a crowd.

What? Undead Revolutionary War soldiers who behead random travelers isn't good (or is it bad?) enough? 😱

Merge this with the Don Quixote thread in the Pendragon section and the Sancho Panzer meme and we've got a post-apocalyptic campaign on our hands! I can totally see Don Quixote on his faithful hog Rosita taking on Washington Irving's Headless Horseman on some deserted Mad Max stretch of highway.

1981, from the guy who brought you flesh-eating zombies in the first place.

The original version of Star Lord was much more of a Space Ghost type character than the thieving rogue we met in Marvel's recent Guardians of the Galaxy movies. But yeah, Space Ghost is a manageable "cosmic" hero, as is Adam Strange (basically, John Carter with more clothes). When we get to guys like Adam Warlock or Marvel's original Captain Marvel , or any former herald of Galactus, things get dicier. However, doing Lensmen (Green Lantern Corps before there was a Green Lantern) is certainly reasonable.

When do we get to see your write-up? 🙂

(Darth Vader voice) "Ahhh, yes, a sister. If you cannot be turned perhaps she can!" Luke/Merlin: "Nooooooooooooo!"

But that raises the question, was it really an alien entity or the effects of the nation's new favorite "medical" substance? Because you know those alpacas are totally toking it up behind the barn regardless of what the humans are doing over by the well.