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Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'' meets ''[[The Rocketeer (Film)|The Rocketeer]]'' in ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]''. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One--the Musketeers fight demons.
Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' meets ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'' in ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One—the Musketeers fight demons.


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Setting Contains Examples of:

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* [[Auto Doc]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement had an Auto-Doctor as a possible Weird Science gadget.
* [[Auto Doc]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement had an Auto-Doctor as a possible Weird Science gadget.
* [[Diesel Punk]]
* [[Dieselpunk]]
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Any character with the Reckless Driver skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Any character with the Reckless Driver skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: one of the sample characters is a superintelligent chimp who disbelieves in a Surface World.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: one of the sample characters is a superintelligent chimp who disbelieves in a Surface World.
* [[Food Pills]]: Nutrient Pills, a possible Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Food Pills]]: Nutrient Pills, a possible Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[For Science!]]
* [[For Science!]]
* [[Ghostapo]]
* [[Ghostapo]]
* [[Great White Hunter]]
* [[Great White Hunter]]
* [[Hollow World]]
* [[Hollow World]]
* [[House System]]: Ubiquity, a dice pool system based on counting evens.
* [[House System]]: Ubiquity, a dice pool system based on counting evens.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: The jack of All Trades skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: The jack of All Trades skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jet Pack]]: An Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jet Pack]]: An Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Subverted. Warmth wakes up Antarctic horrors.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Subverted. Warmth wakes up Antarctic horrors.
* [[Lost World]]: Dinos abound in the Hollow Earth.
* [[Lost World]]: Dinos abound in the Hollow Earth.
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]
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* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: The Wheelbike in the Weird Science chapter of the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: The Wheelbike in the Weird Science chapter of the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: played straight with Frozen City of Terror.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: played straight with Frozen City of Terror.
* [[Poison Is Corrosive]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement mentions an Amazon rain forest wasp which has a sting with venom so caustic it causes 2nd degree burns.
* [[Poison Is Corrosive]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement mentions an Amazon rain forest wasp which has a sting with venom so caustic it causes 2nd degree burns.
* [[Pulp Magazine]]
* [[Pulp Magazine]]
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: an ancient, corrupt Atlantean featured in ''Frozen City of Terror''.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: an ancient, corrupt Atlantean featured in ''Frozen City of Terror''.
* [[Shout Out]]: Multiple examples
* [[Shout-Out]]: Multiple examples
* [[Stock Phrases]]
* [[Stock Phrases]]
** [[Come With Me If You Want to Live]]: Used by Erich Reinhardt in the adventure "Prisoner of the Reich" in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
** [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: Used by Erich Reinhardt in the adventure "Prisoner of the Reich" in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]: Panzerkampfkruppen are basically Nazi AT-STs (the mini walkers from [[Star Wars]]).
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]: Panzerkampfkruppen are basically Nazi AT-STs (the mini walkers from [[Star Wars]]).
* [[Two-Fisted Tales]]
* [[Two-Fisted Tales]]
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Latest revision as of 17:53, 9 February 2020

Feeding Nazis to Dinosaurs since 2006.

Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think Indiana Jones meets The Rocketeer in Journey to the Center of the Earth. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One—the Musketeers fight demons.

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