We here at the Cult always love to draw attention to nifty looking projects, and if ‘cyberpunk fantasy gang fight wargame’ doesn’t sound nifty to you than I’m moderately confused as to why you are on this website. Currently entering its last week on Kickstarter, Gangs of the Undercity is a new IP tabletop wargame from the lovely people at Fragging Unicorn Games (full disclosure: the Cult’s own Allegory does freelance work for them), putting you in charge of either a pregenerated or custom built gang battling to survive and thrive in the crumbling undercity of Neo-Babylon. Think that sounds cool? Don’t just take my word for it, hope over to their Kickstarter page and look at the pitch video, as well as the preview pics of the beautifully sculpted models you’d be using. Go on, I’ll wait…
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Looks cool, doesn’t it? Even cooler, the project funded on day one, so this is definitely going ahead, and stretch goals are adding all sorts of goodies for everyone, from new models and gangs, to a short story collection building on the setting (full disclosure again: Allegory has written one of the stories in the collection, and has a small roll in the Undercity audio drama that you can listen to here). Plus, with everything so far along, delivery is estimated for end of the year, so you won’t have to wait too long to get your hands on those awesome models and snazzy terrain. We here at the Cult are certainly looking forward to getting to play this beauty, and you can bet we’ll give you our thoughts when we do. In the mean time, you’ve got until 5:59am BST Sunday 16th of August to make your pledge and secure your slot in the battle for undercity supremacy.
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Gangs of the Undercity
Posted in Kickstarter, The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Cyberpunk, Fragging Unicorns Games, Gangs of the Undercity, Kickstarter, Undercity, Wargaming on 9 August 2020 by bloodiedSpecial Report – The Grand Tower Hotel
Posted in Kickstarter, Podcasts with tags 1920's, Kickstarter on 14 March 2020 by MawdrigenIn this special episode, Mawdrigen sits down with Matt Madigan to discuss The Grand Tower Hotel, a 1920’s source book containing 300 pages of NPC’s, maps, and information on the world of American Luxury hotels in the roaring prohibition years.
Cult Special Episode – Heart The City Beneath – Drowned (Without SE) – Session 1
Posted in Actual Play, Kickstarter, Podcasts, Third 100 with tags Body Horror, Heart, horror, Kickstarter on 29 September 2019 by MawdrigenClick Here for the Heart: The City Beneath Kickstarter
Join us as we delve into the parasitic nightmare realm of the Heart as our band of ne’er-do-wells, penitents, and people with magical diseases try to save their home from becoming their very watery grave. The Kickstarter for this Game is currently live, so go back it, and let them know we sent you!
There is a sound effects version for those of you unlike me with no hearing issues!
Cult Special Episode – Heart The City Beneath – Drowned (With SE) – Session 1
Posted in Actual Play, Kickstarter, Podcasts, Third 100 with tags Body Horror, Heart, horror, Kickstarter on 29 September 2019 by MawdrigenClick Here for the Heart: The City Beneath Kickstarter
Join us as we delve into the parasitic nightmare realm of the Heart as our band of ne’er-do-wells, penitents, and people with magical diseases try to save their home from becoming their very watery grave. The Kickstarter for this Game is currently live, so go back it, and let them know we sent you!
This is the Sound effects version, there will be a no effects version for people like me with hearing issues!
The Cult Special Episode – Cthulhu Wars Onslaught 2 and 3
Posted in Kickstarter, Podcasts, Second 100 with tags board games, cthulhu, Cthulhu wars, Kickstarter, Onslaught 3, Strategy Game on 17 July 2017 by MawdrigenIt’s a Special Episode!
With the start of the Cthulhu Wars Onslaught 3 Kickstarter Available Here
the chaps over at Gamerati asked if we would like to talk about Cthulhu Wars again and we answered with a resounding yes!
Cthulhu Wars is a game of asymmetric factions battling over a destroyed world. Join us as we go through the previous releases for the game and then go on to the items appearing in Onslaught 3! Hope you enjoy our thoughts on the game.
I strongly suggest backing this game if you can afford to!
A Talky Episode – Kickstarter Roundup
Posted in First 100, Kickstarter, Podcasts with tags Kickstarter on 4 July 2015 by MawdrigenCult 72
We go through Kickstarter project we have backed and loved, and a few that have frustrated us beyond belief (I’m looking at you Chaosium). We round up all of the video game and roleplaying projects we have backed. Also discussed is the habit of programming companies kickstarting the IP free versions of their own previous games (Torment and Numenera for example).
Shadows of Esteren
OVA
Revelations of Mars
Plotbuilder cards
Conflict Cards
PS Route 666 did lure me in the end… mostly due to watching Mad Max.
We then move on to Music and Characters, specifically working out each characters theme song and how this enhances the games.
Finally we go through Games for Non-Gamers, and how to introduce non-gamers to a wondrous hobby.
Please let us know what you think either here, at thecultofteaanddice@gmail.com, or @Cultteaanddice if you want to give us any Feedback, please also feel free to leave us reviews on Itunes
This Podcast is Explicit, and contains Mine-Turtle, ‘Knocking you up’, Agenda, the Gay Agenda, the Feminist Agenda, Kickstarter, Mawdrigen failing to open a box, and us reminiscing about past games. Also the Evil Koala voice…
Special Episode – Planet Mercenary
Posted in Actual Play, Kickstarter, Podcasts with tags Howard Tayler, Kickstarter, Schlock Mercenary, special Episode on 14 May 2015 by MawdrigenIn this special Episode we are playing the Beta Rules of Planet Mercenary, the new RPG based on the Schlock Mercenary Universe by Howard Tayler. This game is being Kickstarted Right now and can be found HERE!
I’ve been reading Schlock for a very long time and the chance to play in the universe was too good to pass up!
So follow the adventures of the Soulianis mercenary company, on their ship Rahm, with their AI… Derek, as they are hired by a xenphobic and possibly psychotic koala bear to save skunk people from government mind control.
Yes you did read that right!
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Ps go check out the fandible.com play throughs for more schlocky goodness!
This Podcast is mostly clean, but does include moderate cursing. It also contains many Mighty Boosh quotes (it is an outrage), tea, and for some reason a race of Pepe le Peu style sentient skunks.
KICKSTARTER Special Episode 4 – The Cult Play Fragged Empire
Posted in Actual Play, Kickstarter, Podcasts with tags Actual Play, Fragged Empire, Kickstarter, Special Edition on 30 July 2014 by MawdrigenThe Cult get their hands on the Fragged Empire Alpha rules and take them for a spin, a spin in which a combat team is sent into Whisperecho base to retrieve some data from a group of long dead Corporate scientists, who were trying to build a weapon to help their masters the Archons win the Xion War.
The war was lost, but the base went silent long before the end. What happened there, and will the Player Character survive it?
This Podcast is Explicit, contains adult themes, swearing, corporate malfeasance, and a gun that is probably a war crime on several planets.