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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.
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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.
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Tabletop RPGs are Socially Relevant
Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) have been around since the 1970s, and they have only grown in popularity since then. These games are unique in that they allow players to create their own characters and storylines, immersing themselves in a fantasy world of their own choosing. But RPGs are much more than just a game –…
Call of the Watch Crow, part-10
Recap: Kall-Ku found the cavern of The-Well-of-Slaves, hidden deep beneath the temple ruins of the beast-god, Taranis, where he was first baptized years ago in the ways of a warrior; the well was fouled by the body of Elana, the very woman who recruited him to escape the planet and join an army of contra-imperial…
Call of the Watch Crow, Part-9
Recap: Barely escaping a Skin-Jacker’s hover platform moments before it exploded, the Mercenary-Slave, Kall-Ku took shelter in a dilapidated ruin as a raging acid storm passed overhead. The loyal War-Shuck remained at Kall-Ku’s side braving the dark ruins with its battle-brother. The only light source was a blue-green glow that emanated from the Mercenary-Slave’s wrist…
Call of the Watch Crow, Part-8
Recap: Seeking escape from the V’Lusian world, Mercenary-Slave Kall-Ku journeyed across the toxic swamp, escaping vile Piranha Women, and monstrous creatures of the swamp. He was later captured by a heinous Skin-jacker, seeking to line his coffers by selling the flesh of stragglers. After defeating his captor, he liberated a magnificent War-Shuck (a genetically engineered…