# Larger Than Life *Created:* 2026-10-05, *Modified:* 2026-10-05 ![[Larger Than Life (cover).jpg|600]] 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** is Two Hour Wargames' 1930s pulp-action adventure game — two-fisted heroes, shadowy conspiracies, and globetrotting derring-do where the plan either goes off or 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** (original) — the 1930s pulp-action original. *In the library.* - **Larger Than Life Director's Cut** (2015) — by Ed Teixeira, the current edition. *In the library.* ## Supplements - **Mission St. Mary** — a Larger Than Life supplement. *In the library.* ## References - [Two Hour Wargames — Two Hour Wargames site](https://twohourwargames.com/)