5e-compatible action fantasy. Our rules aren’t crunchy; they’re pulpy.

This is the official blog for Pulp Arcana, a tabletop role-playing game based on Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition.

I wrote this game because I’m as much of a power gamer as I am a storyteller. I’m frustrated with having to sacrifice theme for power or the other way around. This is a game where the best abilities look and feel like they do in the movies and comic books.

Playing tactically should make you feel like you’re the hero in a movie, not just like you’re good at the game.

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This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

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Scott Mackall Gilman

Writer and Designer

Scott Mackall Gilman is a writer and game designer career in visual effects. Besides building his design chops on the dmsguild, he’s been honored with awards for his sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writing at film festivals such as the Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival, Horrorigins, and the Monthly Film Festival. Scott is an Adventurer’s League Writer, a contributor to Shewstone Publishing’s Drintera Project, and a one-shot author for Dungeon In A Box. He also works on dialogue and narrative design in video games, such as Last Broadcast on Steam. You can normally find Scott listening to a Butler, Lovecraft, or Abercrombie audiobook while he writes a new screenplay or powerbuilds his latest TTRPG character on a spreadsheet.