One of the things that I love about Pulp Alley is that you can grab a handful of miniatures from any genre, setting or period, define them as a Pulp Alley League and it all just works. I often say that over the years I've used Pulp Alley for Cavemen to Spacemen with...
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Pulp Alley D&D Dungeon Crawl part one
Yesterday Mike & I got together to give the ideas that I had mentioned in my Reuse & Recycle blog about using some old board games such as the 2003 Dungeons & Dragons board game as the basis for a Pulp Alley Dungeon Crawl game. We played the first scenario...
Reuse & Recycle – Pulp Alley D&D Dungeon Crawl
If you've not come across Pulp Alley yet, let me explain. Although the cover and title of the book might suggest that it is a rule set for gaming in the Pulp era of the 1920's to 40's, that is not the full story. It does of course excel at Pulp era gaming, but in...
Campfire Chaos
A month or so ago I came across a terrain system for 3D printing in MyMini Factory called Hexhog Tabletops. The system is made up of roughly 3" across the flats hexagonal tiles that are clipped together with OpenLock clips to make up very detailed model landscapes....
A Street off the Aventine
Updated 16th July 2024 This is my hobby blog detailing my work on developing a detailed First Century Rome terrain set for playing Gangs of Rome, Pulp Alley , Songs of Shadows & Dust and Cohors Cthulthu. Miniatures from Sally 4th Might of Rome / A Street of the...
Pulpam Angiportum: Sepulcrum Serpentis – Eventus II
The Thing in the Well.... concerning events on the edge of a dark and forbidding forest, somewhere in Northern Gaul where Tertius and has companions have been drawn by a disturbing dream foretelling the power of a dark God from the Province of Aegyptus growing and...
Pulpam Angiportum: Sepulcrum Serpentis – Eventus I
It all started with a comment from my son Lewis, about The Ancient Pyramids in Egypt being as ancient to Cleopatra as Cleopatra is to us. As a long term Pulp Alley fan having a huge interest in all things Roman (real and fictional) It occurred to me that it could be a...
Pulp Alley: Rome vs Cthulhu
Over the last year I have been working on a number of Rome themed gaming projects. We are at the moment running a Kickstarter campaign, For the Glory of Rome that includes some fantastic Early Imperial Legionaries and civilians sculpted by Iain Lovecraft. They are the...
Pulp Alley Wars of Ozz ‘A quartet of witches in the fog’
Dave Phipps, Pulp Alley author and altogether good guy has been busy working on a Magic Supplement for Pulp Alley. I was very excited to hear about this, I can see loads of potential for skirmish / semi rpg based games with D&D characters, Frostgrave style...
Rob Roy 28mm Miniatures
Ever since I saw the Rob Roy movie back in 1995, I have always thought that the plot has a lot of skirmish gaming potential. The very talented Iain Lovecraft has designed a set of miniatures and terrain and David Phipps from Pulp Alley is developing some scenarios to...
Perilous Planets: Starfleet needs a new crew
Yesterday I was sitting at my desk, thinking that I would very much like to start a new Star Trek inspired Pulp Alley campaign. We have played many Star Trek themed games in the past, it is one of my favourite genres, so it made sense to me to have a new crew for a...
Wars of Ozz / Pulp Alley Skirmish
On Friday Doug, John and I got together to play a Wars of Ozz skirmish game using Pulp Alley. The game was set in a semi submerged area of post apocalyptic ruins, where rumour had it that there was an ancient treasure hidden, waiting to be claimed by who ever could...
Bond in Venice
Recovering the plans had been complicated. Special Agent Hinks had not expected the British Agent, Bond to at the Cathedral rendezvous. They had been compromised. That is when the fun really started. A fast Carlson was in position, keys in the ignition to take them to...
Pulp Alley – The Four Faces of Dr Fang
Last week Mike and I got together to play the Pulp Alley Scenario - The Four Faces of Dr Fang from the Pulp Alley Scenario's Book. This is one of my favourite scenarios, I've played it multiple times, set in different genres and it is always a lot of fun. I...
Harlot’s Den
Harlot's Den is the latest Sally 4th Kickstarter. The miniatures are sculpted by the hugely talented Iain Lovecraft and are available to either 3D print at home, or as top quality physical miniatures, cast in plastic. The set contains eight ladies and six gents...
Pulp Alley: Going Underground!
A few weeks ago Doug, John and Keith came over for a four player game of Pulp Alley. We were trying out something a little different, a Pulp Alley Dungeon Crawl with hidden terrain. At the start of the game all areas apart from the four starting areas were covered up...
28mm Pulp Alley Discworld Zombie Action
The setting: An underground dungeon hidden beneath some zombie infested ruins! Last week I got together with my son Lewis, over Zoom to play some Pulp Alley, one of our long time favourite games. We have a second webcam mounted on the ceiling above the games table to...
Ice Troll Attack!
Thanks to Mike Strong for this beautiful comic book rendition of yesterdays Pulp Alley game. The game was a huge amount of fun. Everything in the photos (miniatures, buildings & ships) apart from the Ice Troll and the modular terrain boards are from Iain...
Viking Saga – Midsummer Avalanche
Viking Village - 3D prints from Iain Lovecraft's Viking Saga This morning Mike came over for another exciting game of Pulp Alley, this time set in a Viking Village were the peace has been disturbed by the sudden appearance of 'Avalanche', a Snow Troll of monstrous...
Tiger Lilly is being held hostage! Pulp Alley in Neverland
An exciting battle report of a Peter Pan Pulp Alley game played using 28mm metal Peter Pan miniatures.
Pulp Alley – The Legend of Robin Hood’s Bay
Last Friday, Doug and I got together to play a Robin Hood themed game of Pulp Alley. Rather than playing in the more familiar environment of Sherwood Forest, we were taken by the local legend of Robin in action in North Yorkshire. "An English ballad and legend tell a...
Last voyage of The Beagle, Star Trek inspired Pulp Alley
Captains Log Incidental Stardate 2042.3UCP 1-36 Beagle Crashed Landed, Planet Sorrel in Betelgeuse SystemDispatched to investigate a temporal anomaly in the Betelgeuse system The Beagle suffered catastrophic damage from a serpent like plume of tachyon radiation...