Taint of Madness
{{Short description|Tabletop horror role-playing game supplement}}
{{Italic title}}
{{Infobox RPG
|title=Taint of Madness
|subtitle=Insanity and Dread within Asylum Walls
|publisher=Chaosium
|date={{Start date and age|1995|br=yes}}
|image=Taint of Madness, role-playing supplement.jpg
|caption=Cover by Eric Vogt
|system=Basic Role-Playing
|genre=Horror
|designer={{Unbulleted list|Michael Tice|Shannon Appel|Eric Rowe}}
|web=
|isbn=1-56882-042-9
}}
Taint of Madness is a 1995 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.
Contents
Taint of Madness is a supplement focusing on sanity, which explores asylums and sanatoriums in detail, lists all known forms of insanity and provides their treatments, and details three asylums – Bethlem Royal Hospital for the 1890s, Arkham for the 1920s, and Bellevue Hospital for the 1990s.
Reception
Dean Evans reviewed Taint of Madness for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall.{{cite journal|last= Evans |first= Dean |date=January 1996|title=Games Reviews|journal=Arcane|publisher=Future Publishing|issue=2|pages=70}} Evans comments that "Taint of Madness is an interesting, thought-provoking book and, like most of the Cthulhu add-ons, is crammed with information. But since most referees prefer to side-step the idle months between scenarios, it's not exactly an essential read."