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sgtcallistan · 10-31-2009, 11:23 AM

Amy's Amazing Adventures / Amazing Adventures in Archaeology. An often re-interpreted / re-visited campaign beginning in 1929, normal tech, using real history, 'Boy's Own Paper' / 'Girl's Own Paper' style adventures and pulp history equally.
Minor Brit noblewoman, her friends and employees have jolly adventures, discovering ancient tombs to raid, meeting Doctor Jones, thwarting the nazis' sinister agents, going to tea parties / murders, studying old haunted houses and churches (sourcing M.R. James ghost stories), going to symposia, meeting new friends in new lands, meeting old schoolfriends in old kingdoms in India or Africa.
Not very cinematic, except where cinema crosses over with the high-jinks typical of 1920's/30's adventure fiction.
Less 'Indiana Jones', more 'The Adventures of Jack Harkaway from 'Ensign' magazine'.
Deliberately a more innocent style than the later re-imaginings by Hollywood or TV.

10-31-2009, 11:23 AM	#21
sgtcallistan Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chatham, Kent, England	Re: GURPS Community Campaign & Adventure Repository Amy's Amazing Adventures / Amazing Adventures in Archaeology. An often re-interpreted / re-visited campaign beginning in 1929, normal tech, using real history, 'Boy's Own Paper' / 'Girl's Own Paper' style adventures and pulp history equally. Minor Brit noblewoman, her friends and employees have jolly adventures, discovering ancient tombs to raid, meeting Doctor Jones, thwarting the nazis' sinister agents, going to tea parties / murders, studying old haunted houses and churches (sourcing M.R. James ghost stories), going to symposia, meeting new friends in new lands, meeting old schoolfriends in old kingdoms in India or Africa. Not very cinematic, except where cinema crosses over with the high-jinks typical of 1920's/30's adventure fiction. Less 'Indiana Jones', more 'The Adventures of Jack Harkaway from 'Ensign' magazine'. Deliberately a more innocent style than the later re-imaginings by Hollywood or TV.