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Good evening, Children of the night.

I've talked about books and movies and TV shows, even graphic novels, that I think that you might have some interest in.

One of the things I'm quite sure that I've never mentioned before is board games.

Recently, an in-law sent my wife a copy of Mansions of Madness. The

base game, more on that later, is set in a mansion in HP Lovecraft's world. The investigators

move through a mansion, looking for clues and confronting the dark creatures that prowl the

grounds. At the heart of the game is an app available for your phone or a

computer that handles much of the storytelling, skill checks, and some randomization. The first time I played it,

I was expecting a rip-off of betrayal at House on the Hill, which is another board game that I think

I'd give a so-so review on. But it is not.

It is its own thing.

Children of the Night, just before you rush out to buy mansions of madness on my recommendation,

I'll give you two words of warning.

The first is that it is not checkers.

It is complicated in the first play-through that happened at my table.

We lost horribly because the person who took up the task to read the rules

literally hobbled our characters by skimming over the part that says how many spaces you can move.

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