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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: Retro Scares, Real Laughs
House (1985)******* (7 out of 10 stars)Starring: William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, and Kay Lenz.“The house knows everything about you. Leave while you can.” (Aunt Elizabeth) Back in 1985, as a teenager, the horror scene was thriving with new releases every month. “House” might not have been the peak of terror, but its entertainment…
31 Days of Halloween: Beacon of Isolation
The Lighthouse (2019)******** (8 out of 10 stars)Starring: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.“Why’d ya spill yer beans?” (Thomas Wake) From the moment “The Lighthouse” starts, you’re hit with the raw power of the sea and the isolating presence of a lonely island, all captured in stark black-and-white. Initially, I was skeptical about how this artsy…
31 Days of Halloween: Santa Carla Nights
The Lost Boys (1987)******** (8 out of 10 Stars)Starring: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Dianne Wiest, and Edward Herrmann “You’re a creature of the night, Michael. Just like out of a comic book!” (Sam Emerson-Corey Haim) Back in ’87, “The Lost Boys” hit theaters and became a must-see…
31 Days of Halloween: Sardonicus Unmasked
Mister Sardonicus (1961)******* (7 out if 10 stars)Starring: Guy Rolfe, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, and Oskar Homolka. “…when my master says Krull do this thing, I do the thing, whatever it may be.” (Krull) Amidst the haunting call of a ship navigating a fog-laden sea against the shadowy backdrop of a brooding London, William Castle…