The earlier fundraising campaign for Kult na pomocam.to ended with an incredibly good result. Therefore, another campaign related to this publishing line is planned, which is scheduled to start in October.
Cult RPG players need no introduction. It’s a rich horror story. A story of great manipulation, an illusion that nourishes our eyes, and a fear that breaks our hearts. This modern-day horror takes ns where other games can’t (or won’t).
The Polish edition of the game was released in 2021. Now it’s time for the next additions from Helmgast’s latest kickstarter collection: Beyond Darkness and Insanity , and Labyrinths and Hidden Places .
Beyond Darkness and Insanity – a manual for the game master
Beyond Darkness and Insanity is a game master’s guide to Cult: Divinity Lost . This appendix outlines the general responsibilities of the facilitator and offers the tools to make your sessions successful and the narrative terrifying. In addition, it contains inspiration to help you create engaging stories, intriguing characters and adapt the realities of the game to your own needs.
The book is divided into three parts: The Story, Mood and Reflections . The whole was written by Jason Fryer, an experienced author who in 1996 created the Purgatory supplement to the 2nd edition of Kult . His first material for Lost Divinity was the script Monstrous Exhibition . Other authors included Jacqueline Bryk, Alex Obernigg, and Petter Nallo.
Book One: The Story covers the various levels and aspects of storytelling, nurturing the narrative both inside and outside of the game, and how to keep your eyes on plan, rules, fiction, and Moves throughout the process. Plus, it includes extended techniques for using the plot map, downtime, and horror contract, including ways to create engaging events, fun characters, and action locations.
Book Two: Mood provides information on the different themes and realities typical of horror movies, including ideas on how to use them to make the narrative even better. The chapters in this section delve into various aspects of body horror, extreme horror, existential anxiety, trauma, and the sublime.
Book Three: Reflections describes the different realities in which you can set a story based on the K ultu mythology , which allows you to create varied and tailored stories. The tools presented here will help the game master prepare scenarios and campaigns that fit into genres such as action horror, Asian horror, magical realism, survival horror and weirdness.
Mazes and hidden places – a collection of maps
This publication is a set of 100 unique locations. It is a handy tool for a game master when preparing a scenario or in a situation where during a session there will be a need to spontaneously reach for the map. The collection includes, among others, apartments, hospitals, penthouses, gas stations, subway systems, motels, streets, as well as strange labyrinths and places outside the Elysium.
Descriptions are included with each map to provide inspiration and help build the mood. For example, a motel can come in three versions: dodgy, tidy, or abandoned. They are there to help the game master set the tone for the scene.
The maps also include a 64-page booklet with additional information, a list of locations, items that may be in the rooms, as well as clean maps of apartments and other common places, which are easy to fill in so that the game master or player can present, for example, the house of one from the character.
Mazes and Hidden Places have been honored with ENnies in the categories “Best Cartography” and “Best RPG Product”.
The fundraiser on the crowdfunding portal pomocam.to will start on October 11, 2022. You can save the reminder today at www.wspieram.to/inferno .
The project is the responsibility of the same team that carried out the previous fundraising campaigns and was responsible for the publication of Kult: Divinity Lost in Poland.
At the start of the collection, two new textbooks from the Kult line will be available : Beyond Darkness and Obłęd and Labyrinths and Hidden Places, plus many exclusive materials for Polish supporters and a whole lot of surprises.
