| Insanity and Dread within Asylum Walls | |
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 Cover by Eric Vogt | |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
| Publication | 1995; 30 years ago (1995) |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 1-56882-042-9 |
Taint of Madness is a 1995 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.
Contents
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.
Reception
Dean Evans reviewed Taint of Madness for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. 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."
References
- ^ Evans, Dean (January 1996). "Games Reviews". Arcane (2). Future Publishing: 70.