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After months of brawls in dockside bars, escapes from headhunters and a lot of bad whiskey, the Astounding Tales! team (which is a lot like Doc Savage’s crew, but without the ripped clothing) have hammered out a much expanded second edition of Astounding Tales! (official rules of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair).
Keeping the basic rules simple enough to allow fast, cinematic action, we’ve added:
- The Amazing Wizzo Card Sequence, for those who want a more formal turn sequence
- A more detailed character creation system, with special traits for Comic Sidekicks and Femmes Fatales. New Skills and characters.
- Rules for things like traps, zombies, robots and snipers. Airships. Planes. Hypnotism. Two scenarios you can play straight out of the book – 'The Bride of the Yeti’ and 'Biggles defies the Swastika’.
- Crazy stuff to create insane Pulp adventure titles.
Grown to twice the original length and almost busting out of its jacket, AT2 is being pasted up by a team of trained chimps under the amazing mind-control of Patrick Wilson, Mastermind behind The Virtual Armchair General. Then a massive print operation concealed beneath a tropical island will roll out the first 10,000 copies. And then it will be on newsstands throughout the world, alongside Black Mask, Weird Tales, and Dime Detective.
A limited subscription scheme will offer Pulpsters the chance be the first on their block to own AT2 at an astounding introductory price.
Look for more information, together with lurid promotional gimmicks, in a few short weeks!