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"Betrayal at House on the Hill"
 
   So a group of us picked this up last week and played it for this first time this weekend. This was a blast! We hijacked a couple tables at the pizza place and were there for four hours getting a couple games in.

Then we went back home, discovered a Steam workshop module for Tabletop Simulator that implements it, and got another game in.

Anyone round these parts play it?

--sofaspud
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Gryphonadmin Aug-13-18 1
     RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Kendra Kirai Aug-26-18 10
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Peter Eng Aug-13-18 2
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill zwol Aug-13-18 3
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill DaPatman89 Aug-13-18 4
     RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Droken Aug-13-18 5
         RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Croaker Aug-19-18 6
         RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Sofaspud Aug-19-18 7
             RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Matrix Dragon Aug-19-18 8
                 RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Sofaspud Aug-20-18 9
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Sofaspud Aug-28-18 11
     RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Peter Eng Aug-28-18 12
         RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Sofaspud Aug-29-18 14
             RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Peter Eng Aug-29-18 15
                 RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Sofaspud Aug-30-18 16
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill Trscroggs Aug-29-18 13
  RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill BobSchroeck Sep-29-18 17

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Gryphonadmin
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1. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >Anyone round these parts play it?

No, but I've seen a couple of rounds on Yogscast Games Night and/or Tabletop Weekly. It looks pretty fun! (There's also a D&D-branded version called something like Betrayal in Waterdeep, IIRC.)

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Kendra Kirai
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10. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   Betrayal at Baldur's Gate actually, I just saw it the other day in store. Tough there could well be more.


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Peter Eng
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2. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >
>Anyone round these parts play it?
>

Not often enough, because rounding up players isn't something I'm good at. Though given a choice, I prefer a straightforward co-op, like Ghost Stories or Pandemic, to betrayal games like this or Shadows Over Camelot.

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zwol
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3. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   I've played it a few times, and I've enjoyed it, but I haven't played it enough to have strong opinions about it, if you see what I mean? I don't own a copy, and it feels like the sort of game where you really want four or five players, which doesn't happen very often for me.


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DaPatman89
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4. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   Betrayal is one of my favourite board games. I used to play it all the time in university - it was a popular choice at the Sci-Fi Society's weekly board game sessions. Sadly, I no longer get the chance to play it - I never obtained my own copy, and even if I had, I have no-one here to play it with.

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5. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   I concur with DaPatman. This is one of my absolute favorites, especially once I got the expansion, which adds a -ton- of extra haunts (a full 50 additional!). This is a crowd favorite with my regular group of board game friends, and I've introduced it around even to those of my friends who don't normally care for board games to pretty good reception overall.

Like a lot of board games, it can get a -little- bit repetitive, especially in the normal "exploration" portion of the game, where you're going to end up getting the same encounters across the various games you play. But the wildly variant "end-game" options make it well worth multiple play-throughs even still.

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6. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   It's also all too possible to lose the game very early on. Last time I played we triggered the Haunt on turn -1- -- drew an Omen card, rolled the dice, and got no luck at all. Things promptly became untenable.

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Sofaspud
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7. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   We ran a game last night that was just hilarity all around. We've found that a little light RP -- getting into character, so to speak -- really makes for gut-busting hijinks.

Little girls with shotguns, werewolves roaming the halls, DAMMIT LET ME OUT OF THE BASEMENT, and the corn-fed Iowa farm boy slogging patiently through the halls while the chihuahua and the teenage lycanthrope try to gnaw through his coveralls.

"NO MEANS NO, MA'AM! Momma warned me about loose women like you!"

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8. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   The latest round had a magical varient of Hamlet go wrong when the Traitor spent a good portion of the Haunt staring at a music box going 'Pop Goes The Weasel'.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter


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Sofaspud
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9. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >The latest round had a magical varient of Hamlet go wrong when the
>Traitor spent a good portion of the Haunt staring at a music box going
>'Pop Goes The Weasel'.
>
>Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

That musical snare was so much more effective than it had any right to be. It let us waltz up and stick the Spear of Destiny where the sun don't shine.

Alas, poor Hamlet.

--sofaspud
--better than getting et by the haunt we let loose in the chapel, I suppose


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Sofaspud
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11. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   So, considering the responses here (and how much fun I at least have been having), I'd like to toss out the idea of a totally-not-officially-affiliated Eyrie Game Night.

Which is to say, I'm volunteering to host a Tabletop Simulator game session or three of Betrayal. Because it's fun as hell, dammit. :D

Is there any interest? TTS is available via Steam and (I'm told, haven't tested) works on Linux as well as Windows and MacOS. It's currently $20 and frankly is the best Steam purchase I've made in the past year.

It has built-in Steam VOIP functionality (which I personally detest, but), and I can set up a Discord server (already have, uh, three, what's another?), and if yammerin' ain't your thing, it has a pretty robust built-in text-only chat client.

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Peter Eng
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12. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >
>Which is to say, I'm volunteering to host a Tabletop Simulator game
>session or three of Betrayal. Because it's fun as hell, dammit. :D
>
>Is there any interest?
>

Yeah, I'll take a round of that.

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Sofaspud
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14. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   That's one! We only need a couple more to get our Betrayal on.

As a side note, I should point out that I have the Widow's Walk expansion as well and it adds 50 more scenarios and more rooms and errata cleanups and so on.

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Peter Eng
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15. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >That's one! We only need a couple more to get our Betrayal on.
>

Oh, dear. I just took a look at the Steam Workshop, and there are a lot of Betrayal modules, even after throwing out things like the Scooby-Doo variations. You may have to specify, just for compatibility's sake.

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Sofaspud
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16. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   >Oh, dear. I just took a look at the Steam Workshop, and there are a
>lot of Betrayal modules, even after throwing out things like the
>Scooby-Doo variations. You may have to specify, just for
>compatibility's sake.

Nah, no worries. TTS is really nice in this regard: only the host has to have a module to start out, everyone else will automatically acquire it when they connect to that person.

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13. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   I've been playing it since first edition, when the underground lake had a misprint that made it exclusive to the TOP floor. (My group invented the "it falls into the basement" long before the errata was offical.)

We have, over the years, played through every scenario, then played several fan scenarios. Sadly by the time the offical expansion came out most of the people who owned the main game had moved away.


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17. "RE: Betrayal at House on the Hill"
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-29-18 AT 10:11 PM (EDT)
 
>Anyone round these parts play it?

It's long past the time when it was relevant, but yeah, I have a copy of the first edition -- and I've played it exactly once since I got it. Mainly because we could never get anyone to try it after the first game, which went bad in some spectacular way that I cannot recall any more.

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