Astounding Tales & Astounding Adventures

A couple of years back I bought Astounding Tales & the 3 copies of Astounding Adventures from the Wargaming Vault, these where published by The Virtual Armchair General which is a company run by  (from what little dealing I had with him)  a very charming gentleman named Patrick R Wilson, who some of you might know from having dealings with or from LAF.

Now at the time I was a bit of a lost soul hobby wise & couldn't seem to figure out what I really wanted my hobby to be or about, the basic idea behind the rules is you play the game out in the guise for your making movie's, this to me was a light-switch been turned on in my head.

Now you can play these rules as a straight up RPG or  a RPG using models, with the GM becoming the director & players becoming actors (eat your heart out TV7 :) now I could imagine how with the right mined people & a few bottles of good scotch how this game would work, but sadly I could never see how it could work as a solo game.

So did I waste my money ? hell no as I found them a very fun & enjoyable read, plus I'm a great believer of that things can often be useful in a different way then the one you bought them for & there are many gaming adventures with in the books that could be played out using other rules.

Why are you telling us all this Frank  you ask ? fair question, well the sets props & makeup departments of the studio's have all been very busy lately but all those high payed stars have been hanging around doing nothing & how is a studio's meant to turn a buck if its not releasing movies ?

So looking for a story I turned to Astounding Adventures to see if I could find one that I could pull off  with what I had & settled for one called Phantom Jungle, this is whats called a two reel movie, in other words there are to games in the adventure, but I did just the first one after throwing a few rules together, well as its says in the book pulp gaming is all about the story not the rules :)

The movie is now in the can & should be released in the next couple of days as there's just the finial bit of edition to be done, when I shot it I was going to just play it out as a straight movie but  as I started on the edition it just didn't feel right, so I though why not do it in away as to pay homage to the spirit behind it.

So after a few bottles of good scotch :) I set to work, will this film turn out to by the flop that they were hopping to make in the Mel Brooks classic movie  The Producers ? tbh I don't know but you guys have been warned so if you pay in to see it & don't like it don't go looking for a refund as none will be given :)

That's a rap for this post, as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed :)