#RPGaDay2016, Day 16 - Historical person you'd like in your group. What game?

For my answer, I'm creating a fantasy that Edgar Rice Burroughs is proficient in GMing RPGs. He runs a campaign in which we all discover Pellucidar for the very first time. Using the Hollow Earth Expedition RPG.

There. That's my answer.

Buried People of Pellucidar

In the third book, Tanar of Pellucidar, there is an encounter with a curious being.

This species is described as the following [according to the ERB site]:

Coripies
The Coripies, or “Buried People”, are perhaps the most gruesome race to have evolved within Pellucidar. They are an underground race native to the island of Amicop, apparently descended from surface dwellers. They are humanoid in form, but lack aby discernible facial features. They are totally blind, and skin covers their eyes, which roll grotesquely beneath the covering membrane. They have heavy fangs and webbed talons, with which they tear apart their prey. This usually consists of cave fish , toads and lizards, but they relish the flesh of other warm-bloods as a break from this.

This seems to be the only image of a Buried People. It appears to be a depiction of the one-on-one fight Tanar has with the first one we encounter, where Stellara assists (in spite of what the image would suggest).

Tarzan at the Earth's Core artwork

This book is looking good...

At the Earth's Core by Sequential Pulp and Dark Horse

Sequential Pulp and Dark Horse Comics are teaming up to produce a new adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's At the Earth's Core. It's adapted by Martin Powell and the artist is Jamie Chase. There are a few examples of his work here:

Mara the Queen of the Mahar

In 1996 to 1997 there was a television series called Tarzan: The Epic Adventures. It ran for one season. Joe Lara starred as Tarzan in the two hour pilot and the following series. It was set between the time when Tarzan has tasted civilization, but before he is married to Jane Porter. Many of the episode plots used places and characters from the original Burroughs' books- including Pellucidar. Cory Everson is cast as a human/mahar hybred Queen of the Mahar, Mara.

It looks pretty bad. It has been described as worse than Xena & Hercules (but I kinda liked those). It appears that the series has yet to be released on DVD. As bad as it looks, I am tempted to find it.

There was a toy line that was loosely related to the show which even expanded to many characters and creatures from Barsoom (although they never appeared in this show).

Visit this link for more about these toys.

R. A. Salvatore wrote a novelization of the pilot episode in which some plot elements revolved around Pellucidar. This book is one of only three non-Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan novels that were authorized to be written.

Earth-ERB

DC Comics is about to reboot their whole line of titles or something. Unrelated to that bit of information, there is a DC Comics Wiki that catalogs all of the publisher's realities. In some form every multiverse setting is represented. This catalog covers everything!
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

At one time DC Comics owned the rights to produce Edgar Rice Burroughs' titles. They had a nice run of Tarzan which spun off Korak and Tarzan Family. There was a series that covered other Burroughs stories- like John Carter and Carson of Venus as well, called Weird Worlds. All of these belong in the Earth-ERB reality of the DC Multiverse.

Here are some DC Comics Wiki links of interest:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Clayton_(Earth-ERB)
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Pellucidar
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Abner_Perry_(Earth-ERB)

Dian the Beautiful

Caroline Munro as Dia

Pellucidar by jerrycarr

Savage Pellucidar by jerrycarr

A Quiet Day in Pellucidar by jerrycarr

Pellucidar in The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan was a animated television series that spun off the successful animated film Tarzan. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the Disney version of Tarzan (I can say I am a big fan of Tarzan in general, however), I do appreciate the writers of the series mining actual Tarzan mythology as a source for the series. For such a relatively mainstream format to reference Pellucidar as they did, is awesome and unique. Tarzan visited Pellucidar in Edgar Rice Burrough's novels. It was the one book that crossed the Tarzan series with the David Innes Earth's Core series. Tarzan at the Earth's Core was the 13th Tarzan book as well as the 4th Pellucidar book. This episode does not reflect that plot as David Innes, Abner Perry or any native humans appear.

To be knit-picky, though, there remains a lot to be desired on how they did it.  The scene in which Tarzan and the Porters enter Pellucidar is a bit disappointing in that they climb down a rope. I believe there is about 800 miles of earth between the surfaces. About midway gravity shifts it's pull. So they should've climed down out of the outer-world and up out into Pellucidar (which would be impossible with a rope- even if you 800 miles of rope). This episode glosses over that with the valuable little time to tell the story the have instead of using that time to educate the audience on the science of a hollow world. Their focus was the existence of dinosaurs. How they get there was minor. Wider shots of the background revealed what I originally thought were floating islands, but I believe were supposed to be stalactites, establishing Pellucidar to be a huge cave instead of the established setting. It's a children's show and they're forgiven for just writing the setting into the episode.

Included is the Phil Collins theme song.

Media in the Hollow World

This blog is intended to follow and report on media that feature hollow planet settings. Initiated with the love of Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar books and DC Comics' Warlord series, this author really likes the idea of the Hollow World.

Pellucidar

Reading another Edgar Rice Burroughs book - Pellucidar. The 2nd book in the series about the Hollow Earth. I like this series far more than the John Carter of Mars and its quickly gaining on Tarzan. This book is better than the first one- At the Earth's Core.