Five Hundred Year Old Vampire

How might you live if time was a lie?

Five Hundred Year Old Vampire is designed with classrooms and larger convention play in mind. Classroom use aligns with both the National Writing Common Core Standards and the National Visual Arts Standards and is detailed in the FYOV Curriculum Guide.

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.

What is a Keepsake Game?

The term “keepsake game” was coined by game designer Shing Yin Khor to describe some of their games, such as A Mending, and those they co-created with Jeeyon Shim, like Field Guide to Memory. In a keepsake game, players create memorable artifacts, or keepsakes, that they wish to hold on to beyond the end of the game. In Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, keepsakes take the form of artifacts players create and share with each other throughout the game, and which are collected and celebrated together at the conclusion of the game. In the game, players are encouraged to see the artifacts not as “great works of art” so much as unique tokens of an experience.

Player Count and Adaptability

Each cohort of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire is designed for 3-5 players. However, the game has also been designed with classrooms or larger convention play in mind and works well with short campaign and multi-cohort play. The game will scale to fit most class sizes, with six cohorts being as easy to facilitate as one. The game is modifiable for many classrooms but is especially strong in visual arts and creative writing spaces.

The Components

• 5 Vampire Age decks (237 cards total)
• Prime Vampire deck (15 cards) designed by Tim Hutchings
• A set of dice (d4, d6, d8) 
• Game Manual 
• 6 sets of pregenerated characters with blank character sheets on a tearaway pad 

Number of Players : 3-5 Players

Recommended Age :14 and Up

Average Play time :Varies. 1 Session: 2-4 Hours ; 10 Sessions: 1 Hour or 60 Minutes