5 Board Game Characters That Need Backstories
4. Professor Longfellow - Betrayal At House On The Hill
Betrayal is a heavily thematic game. This time, the in game betrayal isn't do with manipulating a robber or monopolising wheat, it's a player dissenting to the forces of darkness and summoning a horde of zombie wolves to rend and destroy their former friends.
It's a game that takes horror movie tropes without taking itself too seriously. Imagine Bray Wyatt's house of horrors, but with some level of self awareness.
The crux of the game sees a group of kids enter an abandoned mansion in a classic teen horror scenario. Why then, has a 60 year old professor tagged along? Was he invited? If so, how does he know these children? I really hope he's a legal guardian of one of the children, but then you really have to question as to whether he's a suitable authority figure.
Taking a group of children to haunted old mansion isn't really an appropriate trip for a school holiday evening activity. But then I guess Betrayal at the Local Ice Rink and Leisure Center doesn't have the same ring to it.