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The new edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill is in stock!

You know the old adage about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Well, this could well be the motto for Wizards of the Coast's Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, where one of the players ends up turning against the rest. The first few times we played this game, our friend Tom always ended up randomly becoming the person to betray the party. It started getting silly, with aspersions being cast towards Tom almost from the start of each subsequent game. The fact that he then always ended up actually being the traitor just increased our enjoyment of this fun game. We're looking forward to this new edition, which cleans up some rules and adds some new options, including a "hidden traitor" mechanic that will make playing with Tom even more fun!

The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back—this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play—you and your friends explore "that creepy old place on the hill" until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others! Hours of fun for all your friends and family.

Designed for 3–6 players aged 12 and up, Betrayal at House on the Hill features multiple scenarios, a different layout with every game, and enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan. There are a whole ton of cool components to this board game, including 6 prepainted plastic Character miniatures and corresponding Character cards; 80 cards (Event, Omen, and Item decks); a rulebook; a Traitor's Tome booklet; a Secrets of Survival booklet; game dice; 45 Room tiles; and over 100 game tokens.

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This game is awesome. Should I update?
Silver Crusade
Beercifer wrote:
This game is awesome. Should I update?

If you have the original, you may not need to. Simply download the updated rulebooks. I have the original version as well, which at one point was worth about $90 on eBay. Glad others are able to buy this game again.

Silver Crusade

YES

I remember playing through the fleshwalkers scenario. Game was tight.
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The best fun is when you roleplay up your character's reason for being there and go with that. Most fun I ever had was in a game we "lost" where I was playing the Hispanic girl as a tough girl from the bario. She kept finding magic treasures and avoided all the dream monsters which ended up escaping the mansion to go destroy the town.

My line? "So? I went to this cool old house and found all this magic stuff and I don't have to deal with the bario. Let the gang bangers take care of the monsters."
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How is this edition different from the original?
Chris Mortika wrote:
How is this edition different from the original?

+1

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Maybe now we can get some expansions!

Also, if anyone is interested, Mike Selinker has a cool story about this games origins here.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer
Chris Mortika wrote:
How is this edition different from the original?

I haven't seen the finished product yet, but Wizards announced the following changes:


  • revised rules (and other text)
  • 8 new haunts, some of which use a new "hidden traitor" mechanic
  • 5 new items
  • redesigned tokens
  • new art

..and there *may* be new event cards, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer
Slipstream wrote:
Beercifer wrote:
This game is awesome. Should I update?
If you have the original, you may not need to. Simply download the updated rulebooks. I have the original version as well, which at one point was worth about $90 on eBay. Glad others are able to buy this game again.

If you have the original, you should definitely download the updated rulebook and FAQ, as they solve a *bunch* of issues with the game. But that just gets you to a corrected first edition state—as far as I know, they don't have a download that gets you the new 2nd edition rulebook.

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