Tag: Writing | Scaldcrow Games

Worlds & Wednesdays: Where I Game From

Every week, I share the best parts of what I’ve learned. My perspectives, my design notes, the stuff I got wrong and how I clawed my way back from it.

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.

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.

Frights & Fables: From Old Bones

Building New Horror From Old Bones Come closer, my darling devotees of dread. Draw the curtains, dim the lamp, and let us talk shop for a spell. You have heard it whispered a thousand times: there are no new stories. And I confess, there is a bitter truth buried in that old bone. But I…

Words & Wonders: Edge of the Impossible

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. The heroes I was shown, the ones I feared for and cheered for, were action heroes. They faced impossible odds and walked away. Sometimes limping. Sometimes bleeding. But they walked away. That image never left me. It bled straight into the games I run and the settings I build.

Frights & Fables: Monstrosity & PC Agency

There is a peculiar temptation among those who curate horror at the table—a desire to strip control from the players entirely. After all, what is more terrifying than helplessness? What more chilling than the realization that one’s fate has already been decided?

Frights & Fables: Science vs Morality

There is a question that lingers in every laboratory where the lights burn a little too long, where notes are written in a hurried, trembling hand, where progress is measured not in breakthroughs—but in boundaries quietly discarded.

Frights & Fables: Artful Horror

We recoil from the malformed, the violent, the openly monstrous. We recognize such things immediately as dangerous, unnatural, and—if we are fortunate—avoidable.

Frights & Fables: Uninvited Thoughts

Whatever the world may inflict upon us—fear, uncertainty, chaos—we cling to the belief that within the chambers of our own thoughts, we remain inviolate. That what we think, we own. That what we feel, we understand.

Frights & Fables: The Cost of Knowing

The Price of Knowing Friday Frights and FablesBy T. Glenn Bane There is a moment—so delicate that one might miss it entirely—when curiosity ceases to be a virtue. It does not announce itself. There is no warning bell, no tremor in the ground, no hand reaching from the shadows to still your advance. It arrives…