Vampire Games Day – Vampire Themed Roleplaying Games

Mythic Echoes present ‘Vampire Games Day’; a celebration of vampire-themed roleplaying games that engages with the gaming community. 

Dracula had an indelible influence on gaming, with the story reimagining how a monster can be presented. These influences have percolated into a multitude of table top roleplaying games, where vampires are presented as either antagonists, protagonists or as player characters.

The inaugural Vampire Games Day will be held at The Wardwick at the Museum and Art Gallery, where players book one of several vampire-themed roleplaying games that they can play on the day. There will also be a raffle at the end of the day, together with prizes for the best-dressed player and best-presented table.

Games Available –

Make Blood Boil

System: Vampire the Masquerade (5th edition)

GM: Chris Handley (he/him)

The coterie must tackle a shocking breach of the Masquerade and contend with the shadowy forces of the ‘Second Inquisition.’ In a race against time to uncover the truth and prevent the breach from spiralling out of control, the cadre must take charge or risk being the scapegoats for the entire Camarilla.

Eat the Reich

System: Eat the Reich

GM: Faith Elisabeth Lilley (she/her)

The year is 1943. You are a unit of crack vampire commandos coffin-dropped into occupied Paris. You have one mission: Drink all of Hitler’s blood. It’s an over-the-top, fast-paced, action-packed game about killing nazis.

(UN)dead Space

System: Dungeon & Dragons 5E homebrew

GM: Harper Kenwright (he/him)

It’s a normal day on the job as a space-tech specialist for Lucent Corporation in the grand year of 3142. You are on the way to answer a routine alert beacon from the Hera-19 star mining colony under the competent eye of captain Sebastian Aldridge. However, as you come close to the station orbiting the Jovian planet Tyria 61W, there is no answer from the response team to your request to land. The station is quiet, too quiet…

Bereft in Deadly Bloom

System: Vaesen

GM: Darran Sims (he/him)

As members of a secret society, you have been tasked to investigate the current lack of communication with the astronomer Hugo Gyldén, who is at his celestial observatory deep in the arctic circle. Time is of the essence, as the last communication from Gyldén, accompanied by Purple Saxifrage flowers, mentioned a Lord Ruthven. Information in files stored in your occult library speculates that Ruthven is a 100-year-old vampyre!

 
The Curious Case of the Wilhelms

System: StokerVerse

GM: Mark Rapson (he/him)

The Duke of Buckingham, missing – no, captured – for six months, has sent a letter to his former fiancée. He is in Copenhagen and the message is simple. “Help!”

Blackout Bay

System: Dungeons & Dragons 5E

GM: Katie Walford (she/her)

A lighthouse appears to have been corrupted by evil forces. Instead of light, the structure projects magical darkness that casts an eerie thick fog in the area. What’s more, with the lighthouse no longer beaming light out to sea, ships have crashed and the wrecks have been swept onto shore. But no sign of the crews. You have been hired to visit the lighthouse, investigate and eradicate the cause.

Strahd Must Die… Tonight!

System: Dungeons & Dragons 5E

GM: Jordan Carmichael (he/him)

You find yourselves in a dark and foreboding land. Before you stands a towering keep, which looms out of the thick fog. It is quiet, and there is something evil about this place… For you are in Barovia! Domain of Strahd von Zarovich, the great and powerful vampire wizard, one with the land itself! And you are here, at the entrance to castle Ravenloft, his home and seat of his power.

You do not know how you arrived here or if you will survive, all you know is that you cannot leave and that Strahd von Zarovich, the vampire, the ruler of Barovia, the god of this domain, must be killed. Tonight!

This will be an abridged version of the famous “Curse of Strahd” campaign, designed to be run in a single 6-hour session. Players should come prepared with a level 6 character built to the 2014 D&D 5E Rules. (Pre-made characters are available).

Secrets of Spireholm

System: Shiver

GM: Charlie Menzies (he/him)

In the walled city of Spireholm, a bastion from monsters and the darkness in the wilderness of Karanthia, a crisis has a vice like grip on one of its districts. Bodies are disappearing from the graveyard, locals have been found dead and drained of all blood, and disappearances have become commonplace. What bloodsucking horror is haunting the streets, and what is it up to? Take on the roles of local coppers and members of the Concerned Citizens of Spireholm (CCS), to solve the mystery and bring the peace to the city.

PLEASE NOTE: Games contain adult content if you need more information please contact us on info@derbymuseums.org.

Suitable for adults.

Presented as part of Dracula Returns To Derby, an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Derby in partnership with Derby Museums, Derby Theatre, Bournemouth University and Sheffield Hallam University. A series of public workshops and events that connect the city with the world’s most famous vampire.

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