Cluedo and rooms. Changes to the rules of game play were made, some to accommodate the new features. The suspects have new given names and backgrounds, as well as differing abilities that may be used during the game. The revolver is now a pistol, the lead pipe and spanner/wrench have been removed, and a baseball bat, axe, dumbbell, trophy, and poison have been added. The nine rooms have changed to (in clockwise order): Hall, Guest House, Dining Room, Kitchen, Patio, Spa, Theatre, Living Room, and Observatory. There is also a second deck of cards—the Intrigue cards. In this deck, there are
The Cellar (novel) Cellar" has been controversial for its extreme content, especially in regards to its depiction of sexual and sadistic violence. It has also been dismissed by some critics as poorly written. In his non-fiction book about the horror genre, "Danse Macabre", Stephen King shows dislike of the novel: "There are haunted-house stories beyond numbering, most of them not very good ("The Cellar", by Richard Laymon, is one example of the less successful breed)." (However, King would go on to praise Laymon's writing, a pullquote attributed to King frequently appearing on his novels: "If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat.") Nonetheless,