German Publishing Revolution

[Frank Tarcikowski]

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[Eero Tuovinen]

That's cool. I had this idea in 2005; we have a similar pulp culture in Finland. Haven't had time to investigate the practicalities, but I'm glad somebody is doing it. I wonder how they're going about bridging the gap from reading a pulp story to playing a game about it, though. That seemed tricky to me.

If you get the book in question in your paws, be sure to let us know what's inside.

[matthijs]

Google shows a Maddrax RPG PDF at what looks like the official site (www.maddrax.de).

[oliof]

The PDF is an older version, the new one is more streamlined, people say.

[Frank Tarcikowski]

I've got it, but only skimmed through the pages as yet. It's mostly crunch (races, skills, combat maneuvers, equipment, creatures, as much as you can put on 64 small pages) and a very brief breakdown of the setting. It looks reasonable enough. The interesting part, however, will be the adventures published.

[Jason Morningstar]

Isn't this similar to what Mike Pohjola's doing with in Finland, Eero?  News-stand distro, magazine format, accessible content? 

[Eero Tuovinen]

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[xenopulse]

Man, I used to consume liberal amounts of John Sinclair in my early teen years.

Come to think of it, they had a multiple choice adventure in at least one of the issues, where you got to "play" Sinclair as he was going through a vampire-infested house. That was a proto-RPG-thing, I imagine.

Now, I'm really curious to see how this experiment turns out. If they want to do a John Sinclair game, I'll offer my services.

[Grumpy]

Any chance we could get it in France ?
I mean, does a website sell it or do you have to go pick it from a german newsstand?