| Insanity and Dread within Asylum Walls | |
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 Cover by Eric Vogt | |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
| Publication | 1995 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 1-56882-042-9 |
Taint of Madness is a 1995 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.
Taint of Madness is a supplement focusing on sanity, which explores asylums and sanatoriums in detail, lists all known forms of insanity and provides their treatments, and details three asylums – Bethlem Royal Hospital for the 1890s, Arkham for the 1920s, and Bellevue Hospital for the 1990s. [1]
Dean Evans reviewed Taint of Madness for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. [1] Evans comments that "Taint of Madness is an interesting, thought-provoking book and, like most of the Cthulhu add-ons, is crammed with information. But since most referees prefer to side-step the idle months between scenarios, it's not exactly an essential read." [1]
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is in its seventh edition, with licensed foreign language editions available as well. Its game system is based on Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing (BRP) with additions for the horror genre. These include special rules for sanity and luck.
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Call of Cthulhu is a role-playing survival horror video game developed by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The game features a semi-open world environment and incorporates themes of Lovecraftian and psychological horror into a story which includes elements of investigation and stealth. It is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu", while also being an adaptation of the 1981 role-playing game of the same title.
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