Pulp Alley

Pulp Alley and the Emperors Finest

Pulp Alley and the Emperors Finest

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

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...

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Reuse & Recycle – Pulp Alley D&D Dungeon Crawl

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...

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Campfire Chaos

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....

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A Street off the Aventine

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...

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Pulp Alley: Rome vs Cthulhu

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...

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Rob Roy 28mm Miniatures

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...

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Wars of Ozz / Pulp Alley Skirmish

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...

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Bond in Venice

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...

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Harlot’s Den

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...

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Pulp Alley: Going Underground!

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...

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28mm Pulp Alley Discworld Zombie Action

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...

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Ice Troll Attack!

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...

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Pulp Alley – The Legend of Robin Hood’s Bay

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...

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