Description
Five Hundred Year Old Vampire (FYOV), by designer Jason Cox and artist Jabari Weathers, is a multi-player keepsake role-playing game that adapts the award-winning Thousand Year Old Vampire (TYOV) by Tim Hutchings into a new collaborative play experience suitable for both fans of TYOV and students in an educational setting.
Five Hundred Year Old Vampire will see the players’ Vampires gradually lose their humanity and struggle to adapt to a changing world. The Vampires will do things the players would not, both monstrous and awe-inspiring, and players will record these deeds through journaling and artmaking.
Here’s one for our vampire fans (as well as goth cliques, creative writing workshops, adventurous crafters, and storytellers of all stripes). Five Hundred Year Old Vampire (FYOV) is a card-based homage to solo staple Thousand Year Old Vampire (TYOV) by Tim Hutchings. Instead of one player, this game accommodates 3-5 players (and was created to be easily scalable for classroom use or convention play). Instead of one immersive journal, players produce both journal entries and physical objects, crafted keepsakes of the time their vampires walked upon this earth.
But wait, you think, if there’s more than one person playing, what if we run out of prompts? FYOV comes with 237 prompt cards! Vampires draw these cards when they convene at several points across their un-lives. Together, they share their their triumphs and failures, remember (or forget) their humanity, and collaborate on what happens next. In vampire-time, this process takes 500 years. In our world, this game runs 2-3 hours.
Bonus: journaling through time subtly encourages players to brush up on their geography and world history! Extra bonus: we love an excuse to “make artifacts”*
*glue stuff to other stuff
- For 3-5 players (adaptable to classroom or convention play), ages 14+
- 9.5″ x 9.5″ x 3″ box includes 5 decks of prompt cards (237 cards total), 16 Prime Vampire cards (designed by Tim Hutchings), custom dice (d4, d6, and d8), 6 pre-gen characters, notepad character/cohort sheets, instructions, and a custom tray for organizing your game
- Classroom use aligns with both the National Writing Common Core Standards and the National Visual Arts Standards
