The story of Wayward Studios starts, like so many great tales, in the mid-1980’s in a rural American basement in Racine, Wisconsin. This small-town nirvana was where a group of high school students sharing a love of swords, sorcery, horribly unhealthy snacks and fantastical creatures–and most of all, storytelling–gathered every weekend after their jobs flipping burgers and serving frozen custard to fight the legions of darkness, save worlds unimagined and find the mythical Table H treasure horde. They wrote and played epics tragic and ridiculous, haunting and hysterical.

Near forty years later, and the core of that group – Mark Manchester, Randy Miller, Andy Patch and Eric Anderson – are still at it. They’ve saved worlds, slain mythical beasts and acquired more (imaginary) treasure than any of them could count, but they still love telling stories. And what they’ve realized is that the world around them seems to as well. With the explosion of the tabletop gaming industry and the rise of third-party publishers, especially that of the Goodman Games, Dungeon Crawl Classics line of publications, they found themselves asking, “Everyone else is doing it, so why can’t we?”

We have been going strong for a couple of years now and have published adventures and supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics and Weird Frontiers, with several successful crowdfunding campaigns under our belt.  From the start we talked about creating our own game, our own “-CC”.  It was Randy who came up with the name and concept we are presenting now, Horror Cinema Classics.  

Of course, our history was not all fantasy gaming, we have played plenty of Call of Cthulhu, Dead Lands, Dark Conspiracy, World of Darkness and other horror themed games across the years.  That and we grew up in the 80’s, so it made the most sense to “write what you know”, which is why the game focuses on that era and those classic movies.  

There is still a lot of work to be done, but we are up to the task, and we hope you will come along for the ride! 

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