Lose your marbles game7/4/2023 The central part of Tower of Madness is the titular tower. They gave us a copy of Tower of Madness to see if we could save the world…or if we would succumb to madness. Smirk & Dagger Games takes this idea to a new height by repurposing a game many people played as kids and using the natural dread that game caused to mirror the fear felt by the investigators setting foot in a creepy town full of fish men. Lovecraft’s works are mostly in the public domain, so there’s name recognition without the need to worry about licensing issues. Perhaps it is the cool early 20th-century setting chock full of tommy guns, flapper dresses, and pulpy undertones. Perhaps it is the strange cosmic horror unattached to real-life mythology. Cthulhu board games have gripped the tabletop public’s imagination like few other themes.
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