Playing Cauldron

With the warband completed, it was time to play Cauldron. I packed up my war band in an old toolbox, collected my dice and found my notebook before heading off to play games this week. Dellon offered to host Mike and myself. He set up the board full of terrain and atmospheric lighting and music. Since Dellon is the creator of Cauldron,  I didn’t have to read the rule book before playing. I had read it in the past, but not recently enough to remember all the rules. I of course, forgot the beasts cannot take weapons, and I really wanted to use my new kit bash. Dellon recommended I run my Beast as a troll and I ended up running a war band of three trolls named Bip, Bop, and Beep. We also used a supplement for Cauldron to randomly roll a benefit for our war bands. My war band received a bottle of Elderwood fire water. This increase the speed of one of my trolls doubling each time it drinks per game, but once the troll speed reaches 30 inches it dies. You get the benefit of a powerful ability, but it limits the playtime of a character. 

This night we happened to get two games of Cauldron. The first game was a standard brawl all of the war bands fighting each other for treasure. It didn’t take long for all of us converge on the center of the board with  Mike’s chaos dwarves verse Dellon’s chaos hoard verse my Trolls.

 

Dellon’s warband

Mike’s Warband 

After the first game, I felt re-familiarized with the rule set. With our war bands gaining experience, we decided for the second match to play a scenario The Fungodracus Game.  This scenario prioritized the players working cooperatively to fight a single foe, the fungus dragon, in order to take treasure from the horde. Quickly, our war bands spread themselves across the board to not make themselves a single target for the dragon. My trolls hurled their big rock at the dragon, but Dellon‘s two headed giant was the one who made the kill. With the dragon dead, our war bands squared off to see who could collect the most treasure. One of my trolls Beep spent the whole game hiding in some moss and attempting to throw rocks. The troll Bip who drank the elder wood fire, zipped across the board snagging up treasure. In the end all the war bands had successfully collected treasure and left to see another day. 

 I had a great time playing Cauldron with my friends and look forward to playing again. If you are going to adepticon or under the dice fest next year challenge me to a game of cauldron.