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2018 Ranked #17,711

The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon

An interactive horror gamebook where readers choose paths, roll dice, and explore Lovecraftian locations between dream and reality. Success means stopping a dark ritual, while failure can bring humanity and the investigator to ruin.

Adventure Book Paper-and-Pencil Role Playing

Players

1-2

Play time

60-180 min

Age

12+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

8.09

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

A Gamebook where you can face firsthand the horrors told by H. P.

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A Gamebook where you can face firsthand the horrors told by H. P. Lovecraft among the most famous classic stories of The Cthulhu Mythos: Dagon, The Festival and The Hound (you'll also find a Dreamlands' section, with some striking extracts from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath). The stories were adapted with the utmost fidelity to the original text, in order to allow you an interactive immersion in the style of the Master of the Supernatural, by using a narration with paths, where, armed with a die and a pencil, you will travel through the streets of Kingsport facing monstrous creatures, exploring nightmarish territories and crossing the border that divides dream from reality. Will you be able to prevent the Yule ritual from taking place, saving humanity from a gruesome fate, or will you just go crazy? —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
2
Play time
60–180 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
H. P. Lovecraft Valentino Sergi

Artists

2
Alberto Dal Lago Jacopo Schiavo

Publishers

1
Officina Meningi

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