Mansions of Madness

So he's had his name on a lot of different games that you may have heard of, including XCOM, Talisman, Star Wars Imperial Assault.

Relic, Mansions of Madness, did a game with another company called A Lawyer Up, going back to Fantasy Flight, did Forbidden Stars, and a game that we're going to be talking about tonight that's based on that game coming out is going to be Old Ones Origins.

Sam, for the third time, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me again, Marty and Tony.

It's like, well, there's the nearest token, let's go and flip that over.

I mean, the closest thing we can really do the closest analogy is, we mentioned Mansions of Madness, is that in Mansions, you can choose where you want to go and which token you want to poke.

And it kind of made a difference because there's a ticking clock in the background.

There's a bit more tension.

It kind of mattered because you couldn't click on everything in Mansions.

Otherwise, you just get run over by beasties.

As in this, it didn't feel the same level of tension.

That's the problem with it.

really okay oh yeah you did yeah i do remember that

marvel united the boys were here for yep I didn't do Mansions of Madness.

Well, yeah, I think it was Pandemic.

Yeah.

And I actually would jump into this.

I would also say that Mansions of Madness... which gives my favorite, I think, mechanism in the game, which is focuses, which is generally you can collect stuff on your turns and then use it to re-roll dice.

This game, Eldritch Horror, is all about rolling dice, so this game, Mansions of Madness generally says, okay, you can actually set up and re-roll those dice.

Mansions or Mountains? Mansions of Madness is a different game.

But also Cthulhu.

also it works uh most yeah mentions madness is a board game itself uh no this is not it but anyways um so for lg horror definitely gets better with expansions that's why i have all of them so agreed agreed okay and the last one uh i'm not sure if you have played it but it's witty culture I have

Yeah, me too

... um, Eldritch Horror, Mansions of Madness, Cthulhu Death May Die.

They're all dope.

Yeah.

Nah, listen, man.

I'm with you, Steve.

Uh, Eldritch Horror, Arkham Horror, Mansions of Madness, and yeah, throw in Cthulhu Death May Die in there as a part of...

It's not really, but now it is, because they're all part of Fantasy Flight, so they're all part of the same thing now.

Yeah, no, you just, you pluck them from the air to guess this one.

And that is Mansions of, Mansions of Madness.

Right.

Yeah.

I like, I like it.

Yep.

It's like Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro, Mansions of Madness.

[both laughing] I love it.

It's just a setting.

So for those of you who don't seem to like the Mansions of Madness, Arkham style of madness and health, you don't have any of that.

It's just, you know, gods, elder gods smashing things together like Tonka Trucks.

It's

This is typical to your, we've mentioned the Call of Cthulhu games, like your Arkham Horror, bad shit happens stage of the game.

Because invariably these things are bad, enemies get reinforcements, enemies heal up, or events happen.

And there's also events on the board that allow you to interact with them in their Mansions of Madness style.

So you might have to go up and you check a cave, or you check a ladder in a tree, that kind of thing.

Some guy will raise his hand and say he doesn't.

But this is Mansions of Madness, the second edition of this.

The first edition does not exist, in my opinion.

That's how strong this new one was.

I see, I see, I see, I see.

My number five is a crossover with Tom, which he had embarrassingly too low.

This is Mansions of Madness, second edition.

Hey, I am embarrassed for you, Tom.