The Gothic Game - A Brief History
The Gothic Game was invented in 1966 by Robert Wynne-Simmons and Nigel Andrews on a lazy weekend in Surrey, England, and was first played later that year in the basement of a convent in Assisi, Italy. Using the board design of a crumbling castle, with rooms and squared corridors, it looked back to games such as Cluedo, and forwards towards role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons.
It is a game of elimination, like Monopoly, but much faster, and set in a dangerous environment where fortunes can suddenly change and death lurks around each corner.
The game was played privately on hand-made boards for many years, until a professional board was designed in 1992 by Angela White, who also designed the logo for the London Dungeon, and the game was marketed in a limited edition.
A life-size adaptation was played in castles around England.
Later it provided inspiration for a story based on its characters, which became a musical (see “Music”). Sample songs below.
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