Tag: T. Glenn Bane | Page 2

Frights & Fables: The Lady Sinclaire Affair

You can run The Lady Sinclaire Affair with any ruleset you like. Nothing here leans on a particular system’s dice or stat blocks. Instead, you’ll find atmosphere, locations, NPCs, clues, and encounter hooks — everything you need to guide your players from light into shadow over the course of a single evening.

52 Weeks: Shock and Nah…

There are films that unfold like dark revelations—each act peeling back another layer until the full, dreadful design is laid bare before us. Others seize us immediately, their terror undeniable, their grip unrelenting from first frame to last. And then… there are those curious misfires that promise nightmares, yet deliver only restless fragments of other, better dreams.

Words & Wonders: Action-ize or Bust!!

Let me show you how we approach it over at the Scaldcrow Games table, using what we call the Action-ize Method! — principles drawn straight from the action movies that built the genre. These ideas work at any table, with any system.

Tactical Tuesdays: City Bodega The IT-Mart!

A bodega is a little corner store crammed into the ground floor of some old city building. It’s a grocery, sure — but that word doesn’t cover the half of it. You want milk at three in the morning? They’ve got it. You need a phone charger, a lottery ticket, a can of soup, a pack of smokes, a sandwich, and a birthday card, all in one stop? They’ve got that too.

Mazes & Mondays: Under the Bone Totem

Years ago, one of my players proudly informed me that he’d learned everything there was to know about wilderness survival from fantasy roleplaying games.

Frights & Fables: Dealing Up Halloween

Here is what you will learn: when to pull, how many to pull, and — the true gift — exactly what every single card means, from the humble two to the dreadful ace. Each one carries its own Halloween face. Let us deal.

52 Weeks: Elegance and Terror

not merely a film; it is the first cry of a new predator in the night. With this debut, Dario Argento did not knock on the door of Giallo—he shattered it, talon-first, and flew screaming into the genre’s blood-soaked heart.

Words & Wonders: Campfire and Firesides

Storytelling is older than history itself, my sweets — it is history, before history knew its own name. Our distant grandmothers and grandfathers told tales to explain the thunder, to warn of the wolf beyond the light, to remember the dead and honor the brave.

Tactical Tuesdays: Pulp-Adventure Bivouac!

Picture the scene. Your party has clawed through three brutal encounters, spent nearly every resource, and limped to the edge of a dark treeline. Then someone at the table says three little words: “I make camp.”

Mazes & Mondays: Heroes are a Fool’s Debt

The tavern owner nailed their unpaid bill to the wall as a memorial. Years later, that yellowed scrap of parchment was still hanging there, gathering smoke. My players thought it was the funniest thing they’d ever seen.

The tavern owner did not.