Some haunts will require survivors to work together to combat and kill the traitor who, as the antagonist, will be granted special abilities. As the determining elements of the haunt are triggered independently from any event that preceded the haunt roll, it’s likely that the current game state will prevent an unfair advantage to one party over another. If you include the Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow’s Walk expansion, there are a total of one hundred possible scenarios. At this point, players are divided into traitor and survivors in a one vs. The same chart will also indicate (based on the scenario number) which player has now become the traitor.
When the haunt is triggered, players refer to a chart and select the scenario number where the triggering Omen and the room they’re in intersect. Until this point in time, Betrayal doesn’t have an objective to work toward. When the haunt begins, Betrayal at House on the Hill‘s flaws come knocking at the front door and asking if you have a moment to talk about the King in Yellow. If the haunt roll result is ever equal to the total number of Omens players have on the table, the haunt begins. They must roll six six-sided dice (with an even split of one, two and blank sides) against the total number of Omens in play. The player to their left and the game continues as our heroes explore the ever expanding house.Īfter an Omen card is drawn and resolved, players must do what is called a haunt roll. Once a player has moved a number of spaces equal to their speed or they were forced to draw and resolve a card, their turn comes to an end. However, it is possible that players stats get reduced just above death, positioning players for a quick death as soon as haunt starts. The nice thing is that players can’t be eliminated before the haunt starts. If any of the four stats are reduced low enough to the tracked reaches the skull at the bottom of the track, that player is then eliminated. These stats also represent the characters’ health.
Results can either increase or decrease any one of the four stats: Sanity, Knowledge, Strength, and Might. In this hypothetical scenario, she would roll three dice and check the result against the possible outcomes on the Event card. Heather is then required to do a Sanity skill test by rolling the number of dice equal to the current value of her Sanity stat. The argument escalates and one child begins to beat the other to death with the top declaring that it’s his turn and he doesn’t want to share anymore. At first the children are playing politely with a top, but quickly begin arguing with one another. The Event cards invites the ghosts of two children into the room. *I wrote this from memory and the Jonah’s Turn event does not actually require any type of skill test.įor example, Heather Granville enters the Locked Room and has to draw an Event card. Each one gives players a scenario where they must test their skills by rolling the number of die associated with a certain skill value on their character card. Event cards on the other hand, can be good or bad. Items grant players weapons or tools that can be used in combat or to move around the board in clever ways. Some of the map tiles have symbols on them indicating that players must draw a card from the top of either the Event, Item, or Omen decks and resolve the card drawn. In the first half of the game players explore the house uncovering one room at a time, placing new rooms onto the map as they’re discovered. There are two phases to a game of Betrayal. Together they set out to explore a mansion rumored to be haunted where they’re sure to uncover terrible things every time.
A scientist, girl with a teddy bear, thirteen year old boy, high school girl, middle aged woman, and an athlete in his twenties all walk into a haunted house because reasons. But no matter how flawed Betrayal at House on the Hill is, I can’t help but love it.īetrayal at House on the Hill is an uneven, unfair, unpredictable B-horror tier mess, but it’s still just so damn good.I’ve yet to play another game the embodies the absurdity of B-tier horror movies as well as Betrayal does. Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s Maybelline. Despite how many critically acclaimed games like Gloomhaven, Nemesis, Tainted Grail, Black Rose Wars, and Pandemic Legacy Season 1 end up on my shelf, nothing has come close to dethroning my favorite game. It would be an accurate statement to say that my collection grew fairly rapidly. That number also excludes all the games I’ve sold to keep my collection at a “healthy size”. In just a couple short years, my collection of board games went from one to seventy-two, excluding expansions.
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