Swords Against Madness

Episode 28: Friend

Swords Against Madness

Show Notes

The party may have destroyed the Dread Silkworm, a half-giant-caterpillar-half-god monster… but there are still more creatures devouring the juju garden, and a mission to fulfill.

This episode opens with rounds 8-14 of a brutal gruelling battle! The Dread Silkworm may have fallen, but it is far from the only threat that the party was facing!

This is an AI-free episode of Swords Against Madness.

Cast

This episode includes performances by:

Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore

Music in this Episode

From the Free Music Alliance:

King Edward by Mister Smith (CC-BY) from the Free Music Archive

Used with special permission:

Combat Cookie Tin by Jon Cohen

From Pixabay:

Aggressive Metal (Sinister) by Brightest Avenue

Cybertech (Tense News Background) by Tune Tank

“Stylish Blues Rock (Wild West)” by Brightest Avenue

“Outlaw’s Reckoning” by Moodmode

Magical Ritual Shaman Amazonian Indian by Denis-Pavlov Music

Night Detective (no beats) by Amaksi

Interstellar Dark by Lumine Wave

Undeadwood: Weird West RPG

Sometimes folks head out West, and just fall off the edge of the world.

They end up here. Wonkatonkwa County.

They just show up, confused, frightened, missing a year off their life with no idea where it went. A place full of walking dead, prehistoric monsters, black magic.

t takes a special kind of grit to make your way here. You gotta be crazy, or nearly so just to make sense of what you are seeing. And if you weren’t crazy before, circumstance will be happy to oblige you.

Best thing to do is get yourself a gun, and sober up the preacher so that he can give it a proper blessing, then find yourself something to hold on To. A bible. A bottle. It don’t really matter which…

After all, You ain’t in Texas anymore.

Undeadwood: Weird West is a dark weird west game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It embraces some of the stranger, more offbeat elements of American Folklore. Along with the devils, ghosts, cursed treasure, and mad scientists, you can expect to see hodags, jackalopes, and thunderbirds. My goal is to play a game that has all the action and grit of a pulp Western story from Lariat or Triple-X, but fused with the humorously macabre of The Addams Family or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Played using 2d6. And featuring work from some of the greatest artists to ever grace the pages of pulp western magazines.

Now available on DriveThruRPG

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