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Kitan Tataru

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Oooh and Betrayal at House on the Hill!
 

Lokadien Vianharl

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I do own Betrayal, have not picked up the new expansion since I still have roughly 40 haunts I haven't seen yet.

Dead of Winter has been on my wish list for a while. It looks really good, and traitor mechanics can be really fun.

Another one I've been looking at is the 2nd edition of Mansions of Madness, but that one's a little pricey.
 

Asandra al'Terra

Marquise de Sparkle
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I love Resistance.

Tried playing Betrayal with some friends and the setup took a really long time, and it felt really complex / a bit slow. I think we need to have someone who's memorized the rules for the first game to make everything run smoother. :laugh:

And I'm definitely looking up Dead of Winter soon. :laugh:
 

Kitan Tataru

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Betrayal plays really smoothly if you know how to play :)
 

Lokadien Vianharl

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I found that there were only two aspects of Betrayal that I didn't enjoy. The first was having to introduce combat half way through the game. Secondly, it was practically inevitable that whoever was new would be the person selected as the Traitor. So then you're having to explain new mechanics to someone who can't provide all the information needed to help them.

And even though I haven't played Dead of Winter yet, from what I've seen the setup looks more complex than in Betrayal.
 

Cahalan Sothron

Meme and Money Queen
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Dead of Winter is definitely more complex, but I find it overall to be more fun. I don't know if that's because I love zombie/post-apocalyptic stuff best or what. I really like that all of the players have different win conditions, so it can make for competing priorities. First time I played it, the game got to a point where I realized I couldn't win. We were either all gonna die and I lost, or I could contribute to the "greater good" and help everyone else win. It was an interesting dilemma that I don't get from most games I play.
 

Kitan Tataru

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I've played Betrayal at least a dozen times and I've never found that the new person is the betrayer :cheeseeni:
 
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