…at the Pepperland Cafe
Poll Results
Ok, so I should have known that “A Mix Of Any 2 Of The Above” would be the winner. With that in mind, and having just re-read “Weather The Cuckoo Likes”, I will use the popular “Cut Ups method to combine the other choices by twos.
Please wait one moment, while I draw slips of paper from a hat.
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OK, the results are in. New Poll Time!
While all of those sound kinda cool, a couple made my brain hurt.
And two clarifications: CyberPulp is my name for the pulp world I created for RPing. It assumes that Nicola Tesla built an improved electrical version of Babbage’s analytical engine, starting the computer age in about 1920. Science is more advanced than it was in our world, come the 1930’s when most of the roleplaying goes on.
Fantasy Pulp is simply taking the ever popular D&D type of world and inserting pulp tropes.
So, vote, my loyal minions, VOTE! AhhhhHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Rather than a Babbage Engine, which is really just a mechanical analogue computer, wouldn’t Tesla’s computing breakthrough come with his ideas of Teleautomation (which used electronic logic gates). I can easily seeing him having built computers at least as sophisticated as those of Bletchley Park’s (the Bombe was a massive electro-mechanical device) well before 1890 or so (that’s more than 50 years in advance of our history). [Even earlier, if he had been recognized a the genius that he was, and hadn’t gotten involved with that hack Edison.]
So roll on the Tesla Transdimensional Portal, finally complete 40 years after he published his justly famous Dynamic Theory of Gravity!
I still think you need to combine some of these.
Like “Hard SF Pirates” with “Alternate History Pulp”.
Or “CyberPulp Time/Dimensional Travel” with “Post Apocalyptic Paranormal Investigators”.
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Yeah, cos they aren’t strange enough, right? :)
The strangeness all cancels out!
What’s left is pure distilled cool!
FREX “Vandals of the Trans-Dimensional Void!”
or “Time Raiders of the Lost Space-Ark!”
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