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Tactical Tuesday gears you up with strategies and tips for enhancing your TTRPG experience.
Wonderous Wednesday Tips, tools, and news from the Worlds of Pulp™ for most TTRPGs..
Friday Frights and Fables Wretched realms and crooked paths in the woeful worlds of horror. featuring ideas and resources for Worlds of Pulp™ and beyond.
Each article is thoughtfully crafted by T. Glenn Bane and a team of passionate contributors, offering fresh perspectives, creative materials for generic TTRPGs, and updates on Scaldcrow's latest news and projects.
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Tactical Tuesday: The Cosmic Foam
Reality is a fragile thing, dear reader. It’s not the unyielding constant we like to believe it is. Imagine, if you will, that our universe is but one bubble in a vast cosmic foam, each bubble a separate reality, brushing, colliding, and sometimes merging with others. This is the essence of Bubble Theory—a concept that can turn your pulp sci-fi TTRPG into a mind-bending journey through overlapping dimensions, surreal events, and the very fabric of existence
Tactical Tuesday: Lock, Load, Lingo!
his ain’t some prim-and-proper linguistics lecture wrapped in tweed and tenure—this is boots-on-the-ground, grease-under-your-fingernails kind of slang construction. If you’re writing for a military-pulp tabletop RPG and your characters are still saying “Let’s go!”—then brother, you’re in for a rude awakening. Real warriors spit language that’s half-code, half-comedy, and all grit.
Stories and Blogs
31 Days of Halloween: Carpenter’s Fog Legacy
The Fog (1980)******* (7 out of 10 stars)Directed by: John CarpenterStarring: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, John Houseman, Charles Cyphers, and Nancy Loomis.“My gauges must be wrong. The wind is blowing due east. Now, what kind of fog moves against the wind?” – Stevie WayneJohn Carpenter’s “The Fog” (1980)…
31 Days of Halloween: On the Mind’s Edge
Dreamscape (1984) ******* (7 out of 10 stars)Starring: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, and Eddie Albert. “A nightmare is just a dream that you don’t want to have.” — Alex Gardner “Dreamscape” takes a deep dive into the unsettling world of parapsychology, a realm that was both fascinating and feared during…
31 Days of Halloween: Jigsaw’s Deadly Puzzle
SAW (2004) ******* (7 out of 10 stars)Starring: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, and Monica Potter. “I want to play a game.” Jigsaw The film “SAW” opens with a grim and gritty atmosphere that immediately grips the viewer, with its filthy dilapidated, abandoned backdrop. The unsettling air is thick with tension,…
31 Days of Halloween: Myth Meets Monster
Gargoyles (1972) ******* (7 out of 10 stars)Starring: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey.“Oh. Don’t worry, dear. It gets worse.”—Dr. Mercer Boley Gargoyles is a unique 70s offering into the horror genre, blending legend and mythology with a traditional monster movie setup. An isolated desert, where an anthropologist and his daughter must face…