Fangirl.nu: Pulp RPG Resources

Updated 06/07/09. Additions in red.

Background Informaton
- The Dirty 30s!, a pulp sourcebook for any RPG based in the 1930s
- In the Time of Lovecraft, a Cthulhu player's guide to the 1920s and '30s
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen
- America in the 1930s by the American Studies at UVA
- American Cultural History, 1920-29, a subject guide by Kingwood College Library
- American Cultural History, 1930-39, a subject guide by Kingwood College Library
- Map of interwar Europe, including the rise of fascism
- Map of governments in the 1930s
- World War II Secret Agent Briefing, a player handout containing a typical MI6 agent's knowledge at the start of WWII [PDF]
- Money
  - The Value of a Dollar [PDF] What cost $1 in 1937 would cost $14.81 in 2007. Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2007 and 1937, they would cost you $1 and $0.07 respectively.
  - Currency exchange rates during the 1930s, from Dirty 30s!
- Transportation
- Specific Locales
  - Streets of Shanghai, a guide to Shanghai in the 1920s
  - Muirhead's Short Guide to London, Chapter 1 (pub. 1928) [PDF]
  - Federal Writers' Project, region, state, and city guides (pub. 1935-43)
  - Pocket Guides to... (pub. 1942-44)
- Miscellaneous Topics
  - The Ninety-Nines, information on pioneering aviatrixes
  - Nazi occultism on Wikipedia
  - Top 100 names of the 1930s, from the Dirty 30s!
Gamemastery
- The Pulp Avengers, a guide to game mastering pulp adventures in the 1930s and 1940s
- Lester Dent's Pulp Fiction Master Plot
- Writing Pulp Adventures
- Danger Magnet!, a free online magazine supporting Hollow Earth Expedition
- The Valley of the Pharaohs, a standalone RPG by Palladium; contains information about ancient Egypt, including maps
- Ultimate Pulp Era Gear Archive, mostly a pictoral guide, but with years of production and limited technical specs
- Adventure Modules
  - The Iron Chancellor's Revenge, a scenario for Savage Worlds based on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  - We're Archæologists, Not Grave Robbers!, a NAGS adventure set in Egypt in 1908 (eight NAGS, GM's map, players' map) [PDF]
  - The Moon Monkey Mystery, an adventure for Spirit of the Century [PDF]
  - The Deadly Clutches of Doctor Lo, an adventure for Two-Fisted Tales
  - Untold Stories (of the Great Flood), a Savage Worlds adventure set in 1927
  - Bring 'Em Back Alive!, a GURPS Cliffhangers adventure set on "El Honduragua" in the 1930s
  - The Charioteer's Tomb, an Any-System Key adventure set in Egypt in 1935 [PDF]
  - Enemies on the Horizon, another Any-System Key adventure set in Egypt in 1935 [PDF]
  - Gift of the Gods, an Any-System Key adventure set in the South Pacific
  - Stranded in the Hollow Earth, a demo adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition [PDF]
  - Castaways, an introductory adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition [PDF]
  - Vertigo, an adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition [PDF]
  - River of Death, an adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition [PDF]
  - The Secrets of Bugswallow, a surface world adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition set in 1936 [PDF]
  - Target: Atlantis, a surface world adventure for Hollow Earth Expedition set in 1936 [PDF]
  - The Flower of Al-Kiar, a Gear Krieg adventure set in Morocco in 1937, featuring a young British botanist [PDF]
  - Tower of Babel, a GURPS Cliffhangers adventure set in 1937
  - The Eye of Kilquato (Revised), a Savage Worlds adventure set in South America in 1939, featuring premade characters [Scroll down to "Genre Supplement - Pulp!"]
  - The Eternal Nazi, a Savage Worlds one-sheet adventure set in South America in 1940 [PDF]
  - Michael Chumbler's Pulp Scenarios
- Adventure Nuggets
  - Tomb of Sobekhetep, a setting for pulp games including adventure ideas and character hooks [PDF]
  - Great Explorer Dead, a mini-supplement for Spirit of the Century about Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer [PDF]
  - New Pope Elected, a mini-supplement for Spirit of the Century
  - Pulp Adventure Magnets by Brian Misiaszek
  - Death Stalks the Orthagon, a pulp plot skeleton
  - Random NAGS Adventure Generator
  - Ideas for Pulp Campaigns from The Pulp Avengers
  - Heinrich von Richtofen, cousin of Manfred, a villain for Two-Fisted Tales
Props/Graphics/Maps
- 1930s Western Union Telegram
- NAGS Society Letterhead
- Newspaper Clipping Generator, just needs to be color shifted for the proper period touch
- Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator, applies an aging effect to the image you upload
- Sepia photographs of Mayan ruins
- Map Collections Online, collected by the American Studies at UVA, but includes world maps
- Maps of Egypt by the National Geographic Society
- NYC Subway Maps, 1920-1940
Music
- American Popular Music, 1900–1950, a subject guide by Kingwood College Library
- Dismuke's Electrically Recorded 1920s & 1930s Phonograph Records (see also Radio Dismuke)
- Vitaphone Varieties, featuring mp3s of popular music circa 1900-1935
- Glen Richards' Hot-Dance and Vintage Jazz, featuring mp3s of hot-dance and jazz music of the 1920s and 1930s
- The 1920s Radio Network, a continuous Big Band and Old Time Radio service
- 1920s Big Band on Pandora by Music Time Machine
- 1930s Swing Band on Pandora by Music Time Machine
- GABB Radio, my Pandora station built on Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Bunny Berigan
- Rapture Radio, my Pandora station built on the music of the Art Deco–styled video game BioShock
- Sting, Sting, Sting, article on using quick clusters of notes to end scenes (four downloads included)
Spirit of the Century
- System Reference Document
- Wiki
- Characters built around each of the 28 skills (WIP)
- Villains built around each of the 28 skills (WIP)
- Alexander of Crime, a villain
Terra Incognita