[UA] 1950s UA

[S McDaniel]

I figured The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit would be an
archetype, a version of the precedent for the Loyal
Laborer and the Everyday Man.  He rises to incredible
importance, until splintered over the following
decades and modes of thought.

--- Chad Eagleton <ceagleto at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> There are a lot of things that don't necessarily
> need
> to be avoided, just retooled. With the skin mags I
> don't see why you wouldn't have the foundations for
> the future WECHBY. And why not have the characters
> run
> into people before things get going. Maybe they meet
> a
> 5 year old Alex Abel who shines shoes. You know set
> the seeds for things that will be. You can make the
> players be Sleepers laying the smack down on New
> York.
> 
> I had been toying around for a long time with
> running
> basically a TNI game set in the late 50s early 60s.
> But instead of answering to Alex Abel, the players
> would report to Howard Hughes in his Vegas base
> where
> he pisses in a milk jug and summons Bugsy's demon.
> 
> As far as detective stuff. As already stated: Mickey
> Spillane and James Elroy. Then we have John D.
> MacDonald, Richard S. Prather, G.G. Fickling, Wade
> Miller, David Dodge and tons of other stuff. I'm
> sure
> you find a collection of period stuff at the
> library,
> just skip the early stuff like, or read it anyway.
> Hammett is just as valid in 1940 as he is in 1956.
> On
> tv you've got Westerns (avenging cowboy hero) and
> Dragnet and Highway Patrol. Lat 50s brings us Perry
> Mason, Richard Diamond, Peter Gunn, and 77 Sunset
> Strip. Noir movies still totally valid--just watch
> the
> later ones like Kiss Me, Deadly and Touch of Evil.
> 
> You could give every session and approriately 50s
> trashy paperback title, you know--Confessions of a
> Hophead, I Was A Cult's Sex Slave.
> 
> And be sure to throw in scary Soviets, crazed
> motorcycle gangs, reefer madness, comic books, and
> the
> Korean War, and someone being the godwalker of THE
> TEENAGER...
> 
> --Chad
> 
> 
> 
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