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1981 Ranked #10,885

Vampyre

This horror race game has vampire hunters locate and destroy three hidden coffins before pursuing the vampire himself. The castle phase adds a guarded final hunt, turning the successful search into a more dangerous confrontation.

Thematic Games Exploration Horror Area-Impulse Hexagon Grid

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

6.28

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

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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Part of TSR's minigame series. From the rulebook...

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Part of TSR's minigame series. From the rulebook... "The Vampyre game is faithful to Stoker's original novel. It may be played by up to 6 people, each playing the role of one of Stoker's characters. Many of the game elements are also derived from the book. In Stoker's novel, Dracula did indeed hide coffins in various secret locations so that he would always have a place to hide during the day, should his principle (sic?) lair be discovered. Dracula did have vampire brides and could command wolves, rats, bears and other supernatural beings. Effective against these un-dead creatures were The Host, holy water, crucifixes and silver bullets; not to mention the hammer and stake - tools required for dispatching vampires. The Vampyre basic game takes place on the map of Transylvania. The game is a race between the vampire hunters to see who will be the first to find and destroy three of Count Dracula's hidden coffins. The extended game is played on the reverse side of the map, Dracula's Castle, after the players have finished the basic game. Here, the players have already destroyed Dracula's hidden coffins. Now they must track down and destroy the Count himself in his heavily guarded lair."

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–6
Play time
45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.5/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Philip A. Shreffler

Artists

1
Erol Otus

Publishers

1
Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)

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