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Taint of Madness

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Taint of Madness
Insanity and Dread within Asylum Walls
Cover by Eric Vogt
Designers
  • Michael Tice
  • Shannon Appel
  • Eric Rowe
PublishersChaosium
Publication1995;
29 years ago
 (1995)
GenresHorror
SystemsBasic Role-Playing
ISBN1-56882-042-9

Taint of Madness is a 1995 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.

Contents

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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]

Reception

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Evans, Dean (January 1996). "Games Reviews". Arcane (2). Future Publishing: 70.