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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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New Character: The Man on the Corner

By Glenn Bane

“Happy” Francais Blatti is The Man On The Corner, a character that can be used easily in Rotwang City, or Cape Noire, or really any other setting. Sometimes folks in a community may have need to get a message or a plea to the local mobster or gang boss. The question is how do you…

The Scorpion in…Consequence and the Fat Cat

By Glenn Bane

Alfrancais Brainvine, the magnate, slurped down another oyster, discarding the shell into a bucket beside his desk. He grabbed a letter opener with his chubby, oyster soaked fingers and with the other, a stack of papers.     The first letter was doubtlessly another shameless plea from the Victory Arms tenement. They all said the same thing.…

Merry Christmas Crow Crew

By Glenn Bane

Everybody here at Scaldcrow Games would like to wish each and every one of you a Very Merry, safe, and memorable Christmas! We’ll see you again after the New Year. We have exciting things planned for 2022. Look for our New Years Update! In the meantime, enjoy the holiday, and may your dice never let…

Remembering the Beginning

By Glenn Bane

I was remembering how I first began a lifelong fascination with tabletop role-playing games and was considering what they meant to me. It occurs to me that the reasons that I latched onto them may also be relevant to some of you.  So here is the story… Before, discovering gaming, life was pretty quiet and…

A Look Back: T. Glenn Bane

By Glenn Bane

Looking back almost ten years (pre moustache), I have been recalling the first collaboration I was ever involved in, and the remarkable people that shared that dream with me. All I can say about the energy that we all had was, well…it was electric.

Welcome Everybody

By Glenn Bane

My name is Glenn Bane. My favorite people have always been gamers. Whether sitting around my gaming table, playing at a convention, or part of an online campaign, I love meeting new gamers. It’s why I call this blog Geek Opera, because its not just about me, but rather all of us. An Opera has…

A Look Back: Drew Meyer

By Glenn Bane

Davey Beauchamp put me in contact with Drew Meyer, a creative mind with a penchant for theatre and gift of explosive ideas. Davey suggested that I meet Drew, stating that he had many interesting ideas. I spoke with Drew and discovered that yes…yes he did. I had a casual business meeting with Drew and near…

A Look Back: Davey Beauchamp

By Glenn Bane

Davey Beauchamp is a visionary designer and writer whom I am very proud to have worked with and hope to work with again. This interview was given back in 2012. With the ten year anniversary of APA coming up, I feel that it is imperative that I find some project for us to come together…

Stories and Blogs

31 Days of Halloween: Three-Witches Glee

By Glenn Bane

Let us descend into the cobwebbed corridors of memory, where celluloid ghosts flicker and dance upon the silver screen.

31 Days of Halloween: Twin Lenses of Poe

By Glenn Bane

Welcome, my dear fellow travelers upon the eerie planes of cinema, to a labyrinthine tale where the haunting whispers of Edgar Allan Poe serve not as the foundation, but as the muse. Two Evil Eyes offers not a devout tribute to its literary progenitor but rather a platform for the darkly distinctive imaginations of two cinematic titans, George A. Romero and Dario Argento.

31 Days of Halloween: Colors of Fear & Fire

By Glenn Bane

Before the name “Lecter” became synonymous with gourmet cannibalism and suave menace—before the perfumed gloss of mainstream thrillers and slick serial-killer dramas—there was a whisper in the dark, a haunting prelude cloaked in dread and sharp neon.

31 Days of Halloween: Eyes-Closed, Fear-Open

By Glenn Bane

When A Nightmare on Elm Street first appeared, it landed differently for us than it might for the young people of today.