Every episode of Cult of the Old your hosts Iain McAllister, Nate Owens, and Matt Thrower focus on a title from the history of tabletop games. They’ll look at the impact of the game at the time, their own critical impressions, the games ongoing influence on the modern hobby, and whether or not they would still recommend it!
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Every episode of Cult of the Old your hosts Iain McAllister, Nate Owens, and Matt Thrower focus on a title from the history of tabletop games. They’ll look at the impact of the game at the time, their own critical impressions, the games ongoing influence on the modern hobby, and whether or not they would still recommend it!
Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!
Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape.
What are we looking at this cast?
People love board games for all sorts of reasons. The satisfaction of a well executed strategy. Building the perfect engine. Riding the curve of chance to push your luck just enough. We enjoy the finely honed mixing of mechanism, theme, and setting to produce the perfect game. Our next game this season is none of those. It just wants to watch the world burn.
Having had 9 different editions over the course of its existence this game sees players donning their robes, picking up a staff, and pouring over their spell books. Not for intense wizardry research. Oh no. Just to make sure that your fellow wizards see the wrong end of a fireball and get fried by your lightning bolt. Welcome to Wiz War.
Wiz War was designed by Tom Jolly and has had various artists over the course of its editions.
Show Links
Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mention during the course of the cast. We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.
Games Mentioned
Dungeons & Dragons
Cosmic Encounter - Episode Link
Nuclear War
Mille Bornes
Dungeon Quest
Merchant of Venus
Fireball Island
Dark Tower
Slay The Spire
Inscryption
Tresham Civilization
1830
Mage Wars
Summoner Wars
Munchkin
Bang!
Arcane Blaster Casters
King of Tokyo - Episode Link
Other Mentions
Interview with Tom Jolly
https://web.archive.org/web/20191031005246/http://controlledareagaming.com/2016/09/09/interview-with-tom-jolly-designer-of-wiz-war/
Reflections on the publishing of Wiz War
https://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/a-brief-history-of-wiz-war/
Dragon Magazine
Cheapass Games
Fantasy Flight Games
Restoration Games
The Duelist
Team Links
Websites you can find the cast on
There Will Be Games
Iain
The Giant Brain
Bluesky
Matt
Bluesky
Nate
Bluesky
Threads
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Cult of the Old
Every episode of Cult of the Old your hosts Iain McAllister, Nate Owens, and Matt Thrower focus on a title from the history of tabletop games. They’ll look at the impact of the game at the time, their own critical impressions, the games ongoing influence on the modern hobby, and whether or not they would still recommend it!
