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Tag Archives: Inkscape
Templates for Cards
Because I happen to have a stockpile of them around the place, several years ago I started using pre-punched Avery business card sheets as gaming cards – Encounter Cards and vehicle cards in .45 Adventure, stats sheets for minor characters, … Continue reading
Posted in Historicals, Inspiration, Links, Pulp
Tagged downloads, graphic design, graphics, Inkscape
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RCW Cards & Blinds In The Flesh
Finally got around to printing and cutting out a full set of the Russian Civil War Mud & Blood cards I created a few weeks ago, as well as the earlier Blinds. Here’s the full set spread over my painting … Continue reading
Posted in Historicals, Inspiration
Tagged graphic design, Inkscape, RCW, Russian Civil War
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RCW Cards for Mud & Blood
The TFL rules “Through the Mud & the Blood” use a Game Deck of cards for initiative and game events. The construction of each deck will vary for each game depending on the forces available but there’s a limited total … Continue reading
Russian Civil War Blinds
A number of the TooFatLardies games, including Through The Mud And The Blood, feature “Blinds” — markers used on the table at the start of the game to disguise the exact location and composition of your force and introduce some … Continue reading
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Tagged downloads, Inkscape, M&B, RCW, Russian Civil War, TFL, TooFatLardies
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Jurassic Pulp II: Rex Stomps Back!
Back in October 2009, near the beginning of this pulp craze of ours, I ran a game I called “Jurassic Pulp”, inspired by that T Rex vs SUV chase scene in the original Jurassic Park movie. We used Model Ts … Continue reading
Posted in Pulp
Tagged 45 Adventures, 45A, 45A2e, convention, graphic design, graphics, Inkscape, pulp
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An Egyptian Souvenir
OK, I’ve never actually been to Egypt. But it’s a classic in pulpish destinations (and the closely-related Lovecraftian/Cthulhuian destinations!) and while I’m obviously biased, I like how this luggage tag or sticker has come together. Done in Inkscape, as usual. … Continue reading
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Tagged Egypt, faux, Flickr, graphics, Inkscape, pulp, retro, typography
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The Caribbean’s Hidden Paradise!
ore pulp graphic lunacy via Inkscape and the peculiar inside of my skull. This time it’s a travel poster to that oft-forgotten tropical hellhole paradise, The Republic of Costa Guano, which with it’s various neighbours will, eventually, form the background … Continue reading
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Tagged 45A, Flickr, graphic design, graphics, Inkscape, pulp, typography
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Dirt Roads from Caulking
A graphic tutorial I whomped up for the heck of it, as usual in the incomparable Inkscape.
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Three: Inspiration
A necessarily brief, personal and idiosyncratic tour through some websites with noteworthy archives of 1920s/30s posters, postcards, luggage tags and other graphics. Some photos, some stuff that’s technically outside our chosen era but still cool, and far too short, but … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Misc, Pulp, Tutorials
Tagged faux, fonts, graphic design, graphics, how-to, Inkscape, links, retro, tutorial, typography
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Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Two: Fonts
This is the second in a series of posts (three or more) aimed at introducing gamers to some of the resources out there they might not be aware of for making their own graphics & such. It’s based on our … Continue reading



