The skies over the Verrotwood
have turned a sickly grey. The hopes of men have withered as fast as the crops.
Desperate for salvation the people have begun to turn to the long forgotten and
unspeakable things that rest in slumber somewhere deep in the forest.
Pagan cults clash in the name
of their gods. They do awful things to gain their favor, in the hope that they
can awaken their gods.
Verrotwood is a grimdark
fantasy miniatures agnostic skirmish game. The game's core rules are designed
to be simple to pick up and play. It uses a ten sided dice pool system that
helps to speed up play by removing the need for math at the table.
A simple but versatile cult
customization system allows you to pick from a large list of unique rituals to
cast upon your enemies. As you play through the competitive campaigns, your
cult will gain power and grow stronger with an easy to follow leveling system.
In-between games your cult will explore all of the horrifying things that the
Verrotwood have to offer in a random event system.
Good blog of ideas here:
https://gardensofhecate.com/blog/miniature/verrotwood-part-one
See this interview with the
author evidently it all started with a well and a wailing girl… https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/what-is-verrotwood-interview-designer-michael-crutchett/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHIas_1XZlk&t=132s
What I like about the rules is that there are no good guys. The feel and aesthetic is very pleasing and reminds one of a Black metal band in a forest.
There is thus a fair amount of musical inspiration one could listen to whilst playing and painting suitable miniatures. Listen to for instance Behemoth covering the Cure with the song A Forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYZdaYobCSU
Indeed, a cult based on the band Immortal could be awesome... demon war paint and spikey clubs - what more do you want...
Similarly going with a metal theme one could use Zombicide Iron Maiden Eddies as the basis of a cult. With Fear of the Dark being the summoned miniature.
The rules and author also encourage kitbashing and scratch-building miniatures for the game which can add a whole new level of excitement, especially given the low miniature count - a cult being four miniatures and then potentially a few options for what they might summon. I also like the idea of each cult having a totem and one can be creative here as well. A must of course is loads of trees - time to get digging up roots see my trees here:
https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/04/golgothas-model-trees.html
I do think a cult made up of Wendigo would be
ideal. A number of suitable miniatures are available including 3d prints.
Basil H. Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives a description of a wendigo:
The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of
emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones
pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its
eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt
skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered
and bloody ... Unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, the Wendigo
gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and
corruption.
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