# Larger Than Life tags: #game/adventure-wargame/larger-than-life ![[Larger Than Life (cover).jpg|600]] Two Hour Wargames' pulp-action adventure game — the one where the one-eyed bartender nods at "the large fellow in the corner" and you already know someone's about to pick a fight with M'tawbe's axe. **Larger Than Life** runs the THW Reaction System at 1930s-pulp scope: two-fisted heroes, shadowy conspiracies, and globetrotting adventure where the reaction test decides whether the plan goes off or the whole thing goes sideways in a hail of bullets. ## Setting The world is the pulp magazine cover come to life: dames, dastards, and larger-than-life heroes trading lead across the globe. It plays a broad action register — you're the sort of fellow who walks into a bar with an axe and has opinions — and the fiction is wherever the adventure takes you. There's no sprawling canon to memorize; the tone is the setting, and the tone is loud. ## Mechanics The **Chain Reaction / THW Reaction System** under the hood: **Reputation**, **2d6 taken-versus-Rep**, the **In Sight** reaction test in place of strict initiative, and the reaction tables that keep a gunfight from ever being a polite exchange of turns. It's the same man-to-man engine as the rest of the line, dressed in linen suits and fedoras. ## Editions - **Larger Than Life Director's Cut** (2015) — by Ed Teixeira. *In the library.* **Larger Than Life** is a **[[Two-Hour Wargames]]** game by **Ed Teixeira** from the same [[Chain Reaction|Reaction System]] family as the rest of the line. ## References - [Two Hour Wargames — Two Hour Wargames site](https://twohourwargames.com/)