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Bedlam Hall

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The family is strange. The house is cursed. The weather is dreadful. Welcome to Bedlam Hall.

Powered by the Apocalypse, players take the terrible role of servants for the Blackwood family who are quite… different. The family’s troubles run the gamut between inconvenient relationships to terror-driven fits that can turn bloody and violent. Not quite the best employers to work for, in any sense of the word. Coupled with the house’s own peculiarities and an overwhelming need to maintain one’s own skeletons in the closet, every member of staff has their hands full to say the least.

Can you manage to survive the strange happenings and the family’s unnatural behavior while still keeping the house under control and your references in order? Play to find out (But we wouldn't count on it.)

This game includes:

  • A depressing character creation system that will only define how miserable this experience is going to be.

  • An introductory adventure - "A Simply Dreadful Birthday Party", because what demonstrates true unnatural horror than a children's birthday gathering.

  • Unsettling descriptions of the House, along with unflattering portrayals of the Blackwood family.

  • Guidance on how to cruelly torment your players as the Master of the House, realizing you shan't be invited to game night ever again.

  • A menacing portrait of the Terrible Whatsit. Never mind, never mind. You don't need to know.

Inspired by: Downton AbbeyThe Addams Family, and A Series of Unfortunate Events

For 3-5 doomed players, gameplay generally lasts 2-4 hours or until everyone dies. Horribly.


"The session was miserable. We loved it!" - Stephen Dewey, creator of Ten Candles


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Jacek B December 10, 2021 8:43 am UTC
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What's the best way to contact you directly regarding publishing other language versions?
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Guillermo G February 27, 2021 10:43 pm UTC
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a couple of doubts from s(pain).

-If my poor wretches (my players) spend prestige to find out clues to other people's secrets, are those clues given about a random player?

-To heal trauma you can invest prestige, but that it is a specific move of the housekeeper, and allowing it to others would be unfair, so what do I do? Do I let them die?

by the way, the game is a masterpiece (of passive aggressive evil)
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Martyna P November 28, 2020 10:26 pm UTC
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Awesome game!

I am about to run it for the first time and I've got a question regarding Prestige and Advancement. If I understand correctly, if a player spends Prestige to acquire a move or an attribute, they start the next game with 0 Prestige and are thus... highly motivated to perform?
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David K December 02, 2020 1:58 am UTC
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That of course assumes the player is choosing to spend the Prestige at the bare mininum, with no buffer. Which is of course acceptable, after all your fellow players would never do anything to make that difficult for the player in the next game session. We're all friends here. Why would we harbor a grudge about that time when they selected the piece of chocolate we secretly wanted from the entire box. No, that's fine. We love chocolate-covered raisins and toothpaste flavored filling. Enjoy. We've forgotten all about that. No, no. You enjoy that last piece. We certainly won't try to complicate the next game session by telling the Master you've been eating from his chocolate box, licking the ones you didn't want and then putting them back. We won't accidentally say that at all when you're out of the room.

Ta,
Your friends at Monkeyfun
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Jacek B September 17, 2020 10:23 am UTC
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Are Trauma levels the same thing as Trauma points?
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David K October 03, 2020 5:43 pm UTC
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Yes, they both scar the soul equally.
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Jacek B August 17, 2020 10:07 am UTC
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Would it be possible to get in hard cover?
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David K October 03, 2020 5:44 pm UTC
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Interesting thought. We have considered doing this, mostly because 2020 has proven to be horrible on so many fronts, this couldn't possibly make it any worse.
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Jacek B October 05, 2020 9:00 am UTC
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It's really hard to read if it is Bedlam Hall talking through you or if you are speaking honesly as there is currently fine line on what you said :D Anyway - I already purchased the softcover and we are recording the game for our show. So far - so good. Everyone's miserable.
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Deavon C December 04, 2023 4:49 pm UTC
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My group is really in love with this game. I would also love a hardcover if you decide to go that route.
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Scott C July 22, 2020 6:32 pm UTC
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I bought this game a while ago and am now thinking of running it (finally!). Is this something that can be run as a campaign for, say, 10 sessions or so, or is this is a pretty much guaranteed one-shot?
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David K July 22, 2020 9:15 pm UTC
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It would wholly depend on how much you want to continue speaking with your gaming group.
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Mattia D September 16, 2019 1:21 pm UTC
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Great game!
We're playing right now and all the players are enthusiastic.
I have only one question and, I don't how to contact the designer soo...for "innuendo" move, you have to roll+secret but, "Secret" is not an attribute. Wich bonus do you have to use as "secret"? number of secrets?
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David K September 21, 2019 7:17 pm UTC
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Our dearest Mattia -

We are so sorry your players have been enthusiastic about this terrible experience, peer pressure is a dreadful motivator to get involved in activities as a group. This is how unfortunate tattoos are selected, not to mention burying the remains of family members that were accidentally run over with a wheat thresher two or three times. (And we assure you, that was indeed an accident no matter what people may say).

In any event, yes the number of Secrets counts as the additional modifier for Innuendo. A person may have multiple Secrets, which should, of course, be used as often as possible in your favor. If they truly deserve it of course. And they probably do.

Ta,
Your friends at Monkeyfun

ps. Thank you for allowing us to borrow your wheat thresher. It may need a good wash.
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Peter C September 17, 2018 8:22 am UTC
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Fantastic stuff! I had to immediately buy it as soon as I heard your interview on +1 Forward. It's exactly the game I'm interested in (having previously almost completely written an amateur "How to Host a Murder" along these lines). I'll be using some of the tile art from Mansions of Madness boardgame for rooms in Bedlam Hall, just to help visualise. Maybe some of my victorian age miniatures as well.. Anyhow, very keen to run it now.
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David K September 17, 2018 4:27 pm UTC
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Many have said the Internet will usher in the doom of all humanity, we're pleased to know we've done our little part. Thank you for the kind words, Peter.
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Leslie W August 21, 2018 4:29 pm UTC
A wicked good time. One of my favorite Indy titles.
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David K September 17, 2018 4:26 pm UTC
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Emphasis on the "wicked".
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Janne P May 18, 2018 7:55 pm UTC
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Two questions:

1) I'm unable to add bookmarks to this PDF in iBooks. I imagine its some kind of security setting at your end as I'm able to do this with most other DriveThruRPG PDFs. Could you update the PDF to allow bookmarking?

2) Is a non-watermarked copy of the playbooks available from somewhere as I'd rather not distribute the copy I got from DTRPG that contains watermarks to players?
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David K May 29, 2018 2:18 pm UTC
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Hello Janne -
We are looking into this, and will let you know. Regarding the playbooks, feel free to email us at mail@monkeyfunstudios.com.
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Declan F February 23, 2018 10:12 pm UTC
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Its a great game, but suffers from the lack of an MC sheet with basic things like the MotH Agendas, Moves, the NAmes list, a rooms list etc. Any chance you could add one?
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David K March 05, 2018 12:31 am UTC
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We would be happy to, will keep you posted.
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David K March 17, 2018 10:17 pm UTC
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Our dear Declan, your wish has been granted with A Collection of Horrible Accoutrements, which includes a reference sheet for the Master of the House as well as character sheets for general use. We hope this makes your gaming experience less painful... the game is painful enough.

Ta,
Your friends at Monkeyfun
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John D October 17, 2017 6:40 pm UTC
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This is a wonderful game, and I'm very pleased to have purchased it. Could we please have a bookmarked version of the PDF, though?

It would also be nice if the resolution were higher on the Playbooks, which are decidedly fuzzy compared to the rules document.

Thank you.
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David K October 18, 2017 2:19 am UTC
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Our dearest John,
We will work on accommodating these requests. The Playbooks were originally created in a much larger size but were compressed in order to provide enough space to include the secret message scrawled on their back more efficiently. We will re-upload and find another method of communication for the what the voices request we impart. Will keep you posted.

~Your friends at Monkeyfun
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John D October 19, 2017 2:50 pm UTC
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This made what had until then been a not-very-good day. Thank you. :)
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David K October 27, 2017 5:50 pm UTC
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Dearest John,
We have uploaded the new playbooks which should be more crisp, like our newly ironed shirt.
Of course, we can't speak about the blood on the collar...we've been sworn to secrecy.

~Your friends at Monkeyfun
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John D October 28, 2017 5:08 pm UTC
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Dear Gentlemen,

The resolution on the new playbooks is as sharp as the carving knife with which we were obliged to dismember poor St. John MacAlaisdar after the unfortunate banquet that I am sure you cannot help but recall, despite our unspoken but heartfelt vow never to mention the dreadful affair ever again. Forgive my breach of protocol in so doing, but accept my fulsome and entirely deserved gratitude.

I remain, sirs and madams, your most obedient servant,
Mr John Deal
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Bryce W October 13, 2017 1:56 pm UTC
Great theme for a game. Planning on using it for one shots and convention games.
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