Ancient Blood: New Expansion and Limited Stock

A new expansion for Ancient Blood: The Order of Vampire Hunters, offered at cost.

It includes the printed Rulebook 2.1, 3 brand new stories, and new cards that add variety and fresh challenges

to the game.

Designed around different objectives, different situations, and different gameplay challenges, this expansion brings a varied and tense experience where each story feels distinct and every journey into the dark carries new risks.

SPANISH

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VILLAGE SCENARIO

DEN SCENARIO

ENCOUNTER SCENARIO

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Ancient Blood the Order of Vampire Hunters is a fully cooperative story-driven game. The Players control one or more Vampire Hunters to track down and slay different vampire clans through a series of stories. 

In each story, the Hunters travel through different locations to reach their final objective. During their journey, the Hunter will face situations that require a choice. These choices will lead the Hunters in different directions with different threats to face.

The Hunters will find many different villages on their way. In a village they can find clues, eat and rest, buy or sell Items, cure turned Hunters, and build powerful weapons. 

Some of the locations have events that must be resolved by making a series of choices resulting in different outcomes which can be beneficial or detrimental. 

 

Each Hunter has his own deck of Special Ability cards, depending on its class. Hunters start the game with 2 of them and they can learn new abilities and get more cards during the game.

To access their powers, Players must combine 2 or more Special Ability cards according to the interlocking symbols.  The Hunters must inject 1 Vial of vampire blood per each special ability he intends to use in a specific action. To inject a Vial of vampire blood, the Player places a Vial token on the ability, then he performs the action. When the action is over, flip the token on his empty side, and place it on the injected Vial location on the Hunter Dashboard.

Be careful, too much vampire blood in your veins may turn you into a Vampire!

 

Throughout the story, the Hunters will find various parchment cards. They are ancient manuscripts that illustrate how to build powerful weapons. After the Hunters have collected all necessary materials, they will still need the help of a Blacksmith to create the weapons!

 

Combat is a two-step process where the active character makes an attack and the target defends itself. Both steps involve dice rolls that are added to base bonuses. 

Fast Vampires can be easily killed with fast weapons but Hunters need weapons that deal higher damage to kill tough Vampires. Players need to build their strategy based on the Vampires they are facing and be ready to change it if a different enemy appears. 

In the direst situations Players need to coordinate their moves to use the Combined Attack cards that allow their Hunters to cooperate during the combat to inflict the maximum amount of damage.

Players roll the colored dice as indicated on the weapon and add the symbols rolled to the symbols on the attacker board. Rolling attack dice result in Speed or Hit. For the attack to succeed at all, it must meet the Minimum Attack Speed Required (MASR) on the defender card. If this condition is not satisfied, the Attack fails and the Action is lost. Fast vampires have higher MASR, so Players will need a hunter with a fast weapon.

Tough Vampires are slower, so the MASR is lower, but they have tough armor, so Players will need a Hunter with a weapon dealing higher damage. If the attack meets the MASR value, then the defender rolls his dice and may roll either shields or dodges. The result is added to the symbols on the defender's card.

Speed symbols cancel dodges symbols. Shields and remaining dodges cancel hits. Any remaining hits score wounds.

 

When Hunters reach the Elder location, they will face the Vampire Clan they have been hunting in the story: the Elder and his 2 vicious adepts. The Elder works differently from the other enemies. On the Elder sheet there are 4 slots for 4 different cards. These 4 cards are his abilities and his life level. Every time the Elder attacks or defends, he uses all the available special abilities. On each card there is an icon which defines the health points of the card. The Total Health points of the Elder are given by the sum of the health points of the 4 cards. To defeat the Elder, the Hunters must destroy each single card. When a card reaches zero heal point is flipped and the ability of that card is no longer available. When all the 4 cards are flipped, the Elder is defeated.

 

 Are you ready for the HUNT?