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== Tabletop Games ==
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** The Asylum for the Mentally Disturbed on the island of Dominia, run by Daclaud Heinfroth (aka Dr. Dominiani), the Darklord. He claims to be an "alienist", a psychologist specializing in the study of madness, and claims that the only way one can find a cure for insanity is through experimentation and observation. What this means is, in order for him to learn, he has to purposely make victims insane in order to study them, which tends to happen to anyone unlucky enough to wind up in Dominia. He and his staff, by the way, are vampires, specifically cerebral vampires, a rare variant who feed on a victim's cerebrospinal fluid rather than blood.
** Dr. Illhousen, narrator of in-character material from the ''Nightmare Lands'' boxed set, tries hard to subvert this trope by introducing some actual theraputic care {{spoiler|and defenses against the nightmare-inducing entities that plague its patients}} to a Bedlam House.
* As in Lovecraft's original source material, some pretty dodgy stuff is liable to go on in ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'''s insane asylums.
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