Join The Scooby Gang In Betrayal At Mystery Mansion
February 25, 2020 by brennon
Avalon Hill are going to be bringing a new mash-up to the tabletop. We've faced mysteries in Baldur's Gate and now the Scooby Gang are heading into the shadows in Betrayal At Mystery Mansion!
This new game is based on Betrayal At House On The Hill, a well-loved part of many people's collections. You will take on the role of one of the members of the Scooby Gang; Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Fred or Scooby-Doo as you hunt for clues, encounter strange occurrences and maybe even face off against some monsters.
Just like in the regular game, once you find enough clues the haunt begins and one player switches sides to become the monster. Will you be able to stop them and their plans or will you get chased away!
There are twenty-five new haunts included which are based on episodes of the TV and some of the movies. This all sounds a lot of fun and it certainly matches up that we'd find the Scooby Gang ending up as part of this game world.
I think this looks like the perfect way to enjoy this series. My group always imagined we were the Scooby Gang anyway so this certainly makes a lot of sense!
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Scooby doo… where are you?
time for a Scooby snack
I love me some Scooby Doo!
I’ll be picking this up for sure.
I couldn’t see one of the regular gang turning traitor until I remembered Scrappy Doo. He’d always be the traitor in my games.
Nah, there’d be a plot twist where the ‘traitor’ turns out to be an imposter and the gang pulls off a mask to reveal, say Fred’s, been replaced by Old Man McGuiness or whoever.
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Be a good one to upgrade with the figures from Hasslefree is it ?
First thing I thought of when I seen this. Hasslefree have something for every occasion.!
And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those damn kids …
Looks to be a fun game never played the house on the hill.
I think warzan will want to vet this one personally.
This makes no sense to me. In Scooby Doo, the monsters are a guy in a rubber mask and no one gets hurt. In Betrayal its all real and people die bloody. I also think this is going to appeal to a younger audience (Which is great), but I know enough adults that don’t want to be the one reading the new rules in the traitors tome, and when they do those rules create questions they have no one to ask. For kids this surely has to be worse?
Doesn’t make sense, unless they did a heavy rules or scenario rewrite.
What would work is to make it a coop game, where you’d first gather clues and devices to trap the bad guy. Instead of a player becoming the traitor, the ghost appears and starts chasing the kids.
Standees instead of prepainted miniatures? Well, that’s one way to pay for the IP or cut costs…