Cult of the Old - Lords of Waterdeep

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. 

 

Dungeons and Dragons has always been the dominant game in the tabletop RPG space. From its early days to the all encompassing 5th edition, there have always been attempts to leverage that name in other ways. T-shirts, mugs, TV shows, and of course board games. Lords of Waterdeep from designers Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson is a game that took many by surprise when it came out. Putting the worker placement mechanism into the world of DnD as you take on the role of one of the Lords of the city, it remains on shelves to this day and we delve into the reasons why. 

 

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

 

Agricola

Caylus

Kingsburg

Pillars of the Earth

Alien Frontiers

Dungeons and Dragons

4th Edition

Old School Essentials

Castle Ravenloft

Wrath of Ashardalon

Conquest of Nerath

Nexus Ops

Argent Consortium

Lords of Vegas

Ra

Risk Legacy

Assault of the GIants

Tyrants of the Underdark

Dune: Imperium

Everdell

Anachrony

Other Mentions

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Folded Space Inserts

 

Team Links

 

Websites you can find the cast on

There Will Be Games

The Cult of the Old

 

Iain

The Giant Brain

Twitter

 

Matt

Twitter

 

Nate

Twitter

 

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