Old Gods of Appalachia podcast invites you to try its new Lovecraftian role-playing game

polygon.com:

Old Gods of Appalachia, a horror anthology podcast, launched in 2019 as a passion project for two Wise, Virginia natives. Cam Collins and Steve Shell wanted to pay homage to their ancestral home while adding a cosmic horror twist. Less than three years later and the show has exploded in popularity, garnering multiple awards. It’s currently ranked number two in Apple podcast’s fiction and in the top five of the science fiction section. Now, they want to bring the horror from the holler straight to the tabletop.

Collins and Shell launched a Kickstarter for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game on April 12, then promptly obliterated their funding goal in less than a day. The game promises to take you on an adventure that’ll stretch the limits of your imagination and sanity, all while giving fans an opportunity to dive deeper into the weird, evocative world of the show.

“Our fans have been asking for a TTRPG based in our world for the past two years — essentially since the end of season one,” Cam Collins, co-founder and producer for Old Gods, told Polygon in an email. “It was a frequent enough request that we thought, ‘Why not?’” She added that players can expect a gaming experience that “will draw them into the creepy and beautiful world we strive to create in Old Gods of Appalachia.”

“The place we grew up in is complicated. It’s a strange amalgamation of cultures that over centuries of land theft, settlement, and appropriation has become seen as this monolith of poor, white, uneducated America,” Steve Shell, co-founder and host of the podcast, told Polygon. “We know it’s a lot more than that. It can be that in places and at times, but we also know that it’s a really rich world of folklore and that our version of