Even though the main beats of the story will remain the same on each play through, the monsters, location of clues and even the mansion itself will vary each time you play the scenario. The nice thing is, Mansions of Madness is very re-playable. Whether it's accidentally setting the mansion on fire, losing your grip on reality due the crazy shit going on around you, or simply getting your head kicked in by a Deep One, Mansions of Madness piles on the pressure. Even the first scenario took me three attempts to complete and after five attempts between us, neither myself nor Andy have managed to escape Innsmouth. Rules wise it's a vast improvement over the first edition, with the only ambiguous rule being that regarding range and line of sight, other than that the gameplay runs rather smooth. Mansions of Madness does not pull its punches. It changes a complete ball-ache of a competitive game into a painless cooperative and narrative experience.ĭid I say painless? I lied. The game is completely controlled by an app (and it should be highlighted that it is impossible to play Mansions of Madness without the app) so there is no need for a GM or keeper player, set up is near instantaneous (with the mansion slowly revealing as you explore) and the story elements are all controlled and tracked by the app. I can happily say that with one swift arc of a tentacled appendage, all of the problems with the first edition of Mansions of Madness are swept off the table. I'm still not sure if it was my mistake or an error in the rulebook but one game fell completely apart when we realised the key to a locked door was placed on the wrong side of said door. Worst of all it, was very easy to make a mistake during setup. The rulebook was more difficult to decipher than the Necronomicon and it took so long to set up it would have been quicker to summon an actual dimensional shambler. The problem was it was as shonky as a shoggoth with a gammy leg. It also introduced some new ideas each mansion was heavily story based and relied on the players solving simple clues, as well as a Crystal Maze like puzzles, before the GM player could complete whatever dark ritual he had in mind. It followed a lot of the classic dungeon crawler mechanics exploration, combat, miniatures and a GM playing the bad guy.
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The first edition of Mansions of Madness was always a bit of a cult classic (pun intended), a blend of Fantasy Flight Games' Descent dungeon crawler and Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG (the title Mansions of Madness is taken straight from a compendium of scenarios for the pen and paper roleplaying game).