Thursday, September 06, 2018

The Lovecraftian Thing a Day (2018) No.249: Folklore - The Affliction


Folklore: The Affliction was a Kickstarter I backed about 10 months ago, and which was finally delivered today. Whilst this is a tabletop adventure boardgame with its roots (unsurprisingly) in the traditional horrors of European folklore, I was nicely surprised to read, on the first page of the rulebook, the fact that the game allows players to ‘Harness the power of artifacts long forgotten and find rituals from the pages of the Necronomicon’. Yes please!

Lovecraft, it seems, is rarely far away when it comes to tabletop gaming. The kckstarter comes chock full of miniatures, including the following one of ‘the Book of Dark Dimensions’ - presumably the aforementioned Necronomicon itself:




Nice.

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