Cultists of Cthulhu

I've landed in Melbourne
over 9 years ago – Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 04:26:54 PM

I'm on a boat! Well, okay, right now I'm in the library near where the boat is docked, since the boat doesn't have wifi.

I'm going to meet up with Joshua soon and we'll go over our plans for the art for Cultists and maybe even get in a game or two. I'll post some pictures once we do.

We're also over $48,000 and we haven't even hit the 48 hour mark yet! I am super excited to see if we make it to $50,000. I really hope we do, I want that last stretch goal as much as anyone!

I'm about to get on a plane to Australia
over 9 years ago – Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:32:03 PM

I'll be out of touch until Tuesday afternoon, local time. I'm eager to get to Melbourne, where I'll finally be able to talk to Joshua in person about the game and all the art. I look forward to seeing what you get up to without me around!

We made it to the second stretch goal!
over 9 years ago – Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:12:15 PM

Thanks to Anthony Langford, the 363rd member to join our Cult, we made it to the $45,000 stretch goal, meaning we've got single player mode! Every copy of the game will be fully playable with 1-6 players.

Up next, at $50,000 we will get to add a fifth scenario to every copy of the core game. Any backer who wants to will be able to propose a scenario idea, and then every backer will get to vote on them. Then we will collaboratively design and playtest that scenario, and finally, including your scenario in the base game of Cultists of Cthulhu (not an add-on or expansion!). And anyone who participates can put "Scenario Designer at Sixpence Games" on their resume, of course.

Pictures from NecronomiCon
over 9 years ago – Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:05:51 AM

Tales from NecronomiCon: bloody hands, Cthulhu Wars, stretch goals, and more!
over 9 years ago – Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:21:03 AM

Oh man, so much happened in the last few days. On Thursday afternoon I rode a bus through a village called Mystic and into Providence, Rhode Island, home town of H.P. Lovecraft, for a very special NecronomiCon celebrating the 125th anniversary of his birth. The weekend was fittingly dramatic. My phone is having trouble at the moment so I can't show you pictures yet, so I'm going to send out more than one of these emails, with pictures and more information, so keep an eye out!

We hit the $40,000 stretch goal, making it so that Two Player Mode is  included in every copy of Cultists of Cthulhu. What's more, we also made the Hotness on BoardGameGeek! I'll have to think of something special to celebrate having gotten both of those. You guys are amazing, thank you.

I got to see an amazing variety of scholars and academics and gamers and readers and fans and some amazing cosplayers, ranging from period clothes to Cthulhu, byakhee, and more than one shoggoth. All sorts of people united in their love of Weird Horror. It was really something beautiful, in a horrifying way.

At one point I looked down and there was blood smeared across both of my hands. I had no memory of it getting there. This is not a joke, this really happened.

I played a French mobster in a Live Action Role Playing game where I drank real absinthe and was killed by a Hound of Tindalos.

I played Cultists of Cthulhu with some of you who'd already backed the campaign, and with some who backed it after having played it, both of which are great.

And perhaps most exciting of all, I got to meet a titan of both the Cthulhu and tabletop gaming worlds, Sandy Petersen, the designer of Cthulhu Wars and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, and got to play Cthulhu Wars with him! Cthulhu Wars is a fantastic area control board game where each player plays as one of the Great Old Ones and their army of minion monsters and cultists. I was Shub-Niggurath and along with two other players lost handily to Cthulhu, but had a blast doing it. It's got a really great engine running in it that really entices you to be aggressive and just destroy the world and chase each other around, slaughtering one another in the wreckage of what was once Earth. It was tons of fun.

Plus, in addition to being a great game, it comes with an amazing set of miniatures. There are a ton of them, they're enormous, and they're surprisingly sturdy: one of my opponents accidentally knocked my Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath off the table and it landed upside down tentacle first and was fine. I got some cool photos of us playing this and I'll post them soon.

Cthulhu Wars did great on kickstarter the first time, and it's coming back soon with an expansion called Onslaught Two. You'll be able to get the original there as well. I highly recommend checking it out, it's a very cool game that is sure to do well.