BRP Interplanetary

[Kloster]

Originally Posted by Simlasa

I'm glad it isn't a licensed version of ERB's settings... that frees it up a lot, content wise, and keeps anyone from having to pay exhorbitant licensing fees.

If this really comes off it's gonna be pretty darn great...
I've already got a minds-eye full of swashbuckling sabre fights on skyships zipping over alien ruins and strange jungles full of dinosaurs... with some half-naked green princess eagerly waiting rescue.

Why 'half' naked?

Runequestement votre,

Kloster

[Aycorn]

Originally Posted by Simlasa

Yeah, I can't say I've read any examples of the genre that weren't overtly sexist... I'm sure that can be overcome without too much trouble, but I still want to rescue a green princess...

Try the now-obscure 70's DC comic "Starfire" - with a hero(ine) who was not only female but Asian (interestingly enough).

Of course, she did wear skintight clothing that showed off her assets. But then she also ran around skewering green bad guys with a sabre, so, y'know...

[badcat]

Some examples of the genre went beyond 'sexist'. The Gor series, by John Norman for instance.

[tal]

Originally Posted by Kloster

Why 'half' naked?

Runequestement votre,

Kloster

Cause the jewelry counts as clothing!

Jason,
Will there be any horror elements?

[Kloster]

Originally Posted by tal

Cause the jewelry counts as clothing!

...

In that case, the elfquest rule of armored jewels should apply.

Runequestement votre,

Kloster

[Simlasa]

Originally Posted by Kloster

Why 'half' naked?

Runequestement votre,

Kloster

Well, actually... IIRC just about EVERYONE in those stories was half-naked... men, women, giant 4-armed martians... the only ones I remember sometimes being clothed were usually evil cultists... most often bent on doing bad things to the afore mentioned half-naked green princess.

yeah... more princesses than Disneyland... mind you, there were a whole lotta princes too.

[badcat]

Anyone else remember the Otis Adelbert Kline novels? One of the Burroughs-type planetary romance novelists...'Prince of Peril', 'Planet of Peril', 'Port of Peril', 'Swords of Mars', 'Outlaws of Mars'. He did a Tarzan knock-off too. For some reason I liked his stuff more than ERB. That isn't saying much because a lot of the stuff I liked then I can't stand now. Just wondering if anyone else had fond memories of this writer. Some of the stuff in his books would fit right in with a 'planetary romance' supplement. Sort of a fully auto needle thrower gun, powder that ignites when it touches water, etc. Lots of princesses with no clothes, of course.

[Atgxtg]

Well, to be fair, a lot of that was the sign of the times. "Fantasy Romances" were escapists literature in the true sense, including escape from the rather stick society conventions of the time. People had different beliefs back then. Almost anything written from that long ago is sexist and racist by todays standards, even if it was not meant to be so, or even viewed as such back then.

Plus sex sells, and we are talking about the industry that coined the phase "bondage cover".

[drohem]

This was perpetuated in the original Star Trek series with Captain James T. Kirk.

[jarulf]

This sounds like the game I've been waiting for for some 30 years or so.
I want my four-armed friend with gun and sword and green-skinned princess in silky veils and tiara. I want ruins of ancient cities built from cyclopean stones and toppled pillars half-covered in creeping vines of poisonous flowers, used by the priests of the Ivory Eidolon to make Dream Wine.

So, you can put me down for a copy too :-)