tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post3869940245803837729..comments2024-03-22T01:20:21.749-07:00Comments on Board Game Reviews by Josh: Betrayal at House on the Hill ReviewJoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011225292134198772noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post-86513219250671764752011-05-18T11:59:26.952-07:002011-05-18T11:59:26.952-07:00I got lucky - my local Hastings had it on super cl...I got lucky - my local Hastings had it on super clearance. But, honestly, I've also found it two more times for about $10 at another clearance deal (and gave one to a friend)... just had great luck with this one!Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011225292134198772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post-34794151342645104532011-05-18T10:07:51.133-07:002011-05-18T10:07:51.133-07:00Love this game! How on earth did you find it for $...Love this game! How on earth did you find it for $3 Josh?<br /><br />---------------------------------------<br />A.J. Porfirio<br />Owner and Chief Game Designer, Van Ryder Games<br />www.vanrydergames.comA.J. Porfiriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390502134278304593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post-20678842914954130662011-02-21T22:53:23.059-08:002011-02-21T22:53:23.059-08:00There are, indeed, a lot of little tokens in this ...There are, indeed, a lot of little tokens in this game. Still, it's a lot of fun, with a ton of replayability. My wife and I get together semi-regularly with some other married couples to play games, and we often end up playing Betrayal because it's so much fun. We have yet to get the same scenario twice.<br /><br />I'll admit, though, that some of the scenarios are really unbalanced. The last time we played, the traitor had shrunk everyone to the size of a mouse, and had sent a pair of cats to capture and then eat us. The cats were both ridiculously powerful--we couldn't physically damage them, and their mental stats were as good as or better than everyone else's. (Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me--why would a cat be smarter than, say, a twelve-year old girl?) We had to find a toy airplane, pick up at least half the surviving heroes, and escape out the window. <br /><br />The cats could move very quickly, though, and the toy airplane could be knocked out of the air. Once it was on the ground, was hard to get it back in the air, because the cats could drag anyone who got the engine started out of the plane. We eventually all got munched. Those cats were just ridiculously over-powered.Kurthl33thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07827585809859389175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post-53318865451098290972010-11-30T13:31:09.803-08:002010-11-30T13:31:09.803-08:00Awesome to know, thanks Tyler! Something that mad...Awesome to know, thanks Tyler! Something that made my set have even more tokens is that my copy came with only half the tokens, but two copies of them (instead of having all of them). When I emailed Avalon Hill they gave me another full set, so I wound up with 3 copies of several of them.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011225292134198772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829360209113689355.post-36006297677776431242010-11-29T16:02:18.612-08:002010-11-29T16:02:18.612-08:00First, since there are so many scenarios, each wit...<i>First, since there are so many scenarios, each with different counters (for a total of approximately 8,000,000 counters give or take 7.5+ million), the amount of time spent looking for the correct counters can be somewhat frustrating.</i><br /><br />This is something the second edition of the game rectified. Cherished tokens like Rocketship and Dog were replaced by a much smaller pool of generic tokens: one set for items, several different sorts of general purpose monsters and the "master monsters" too, like Crimson Jack and Frankenstein's Monster.Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12816071659319450675noreply@blogger.com