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15+ years
RPG
Trails: 2
Hunt for Dracula
Based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel (public domain). Players take up the roles of Van Helsing's allies, tracking the Count from Whitby's fog-bound streets to the ruins of Castle Dracula — collecting relics, battling the undead, and racing to destroy him before sundown claims another victim.
What is in this deck
- 11 Collectable
- 5 Enemy
- 3 Checkpoint
- 2 Ally
- 1 Question
- 1 Trap
- 1 Dice Roll
- 1 Merchant
- 1 Event
A taste of the art
3 cards from this deck, drawn at random.
The cards
- Whitby Harbor A storm-wrecked schooner runs aground with no living crew — only a great black hound bounding ashore into the fog. The hunt begins here.
- Jonathan's Kukri Knife The blade Jonathan Harker carried out of Castle Dracula. Well-balanced, well-worn, and still faintly stained.
- Sharpened Stake Hawthorn wood, whittled to a killing point. Useless against the living. Essential against the Count.
- Garlic Wreath Strung by an old Bistritz woman who pressed it into your hands and would not say why.
- Silver Crucifix Blessed silver, cool against the skin even in the height of fear. It does not stop the Count — but it stops him from stopping you.
- Mina Harker Sharp, unshaken, and closer to the Count's mind than anyone dares admit. She joins the hunt on her own terms.
- Quincey Morris A Texan with a Bowie knife and no patience for superstition he can't put a bullet through.
- Van Helsing's Calling Card A calling card left behind at the asylum, engraved with a Dutch name and an Amsterdam address, both crossed out in ink.
- Dr. Seward's Asylum Behind these walls, a madman named Renfield eats flies and swears his Master is coming. The staff here will patch your wounds — for now.
- Szgany Peddler A Roma trader with a cart of relics no honest shop would stock, and prices that assume you're desperate. You are.
- Holy Water A small vial, cork sealed in wax. Save it for when the Brides find you.
- Renfield He lunges the moment you're armed enough to survive it — flies buzzing around him, mumbling about his Master's promises.
- Hypnotic Gaze Red eyes catch yours in the dark and hold them. You lose a moment — and your coin purse — before you break free.
- Brides of Dracula Three pale figures rise from the castle's inner chamber, beautiful and starving. Only your wards keep them at arm's length.
- Van Helsing's Journal Torn pages, phonograph transcripts, half in Dutch. Everything the professor learned about how the Count can be ended — and where he's fled.
- Count Dracula Beneath the ruins of his own castle, in the box of native earth he never should have left, the Count makes his last stand as the sun drops toward the hills.
- Bloofer Lady The newspapers call her 'the Bloofer Lady' — a spectral woman who lures the children of Hampstead Heath after dark. Van Helsing knows her real name, and what must be done to give her final rest.
- Carfax Abbey The Count's English lair — fifty boxes of native earth stacked in a ruined chapel, the air thick with the smell of turned soil. A place to catch your breath before the trail turns colder.
- Bersicker the Wolf Escaped from the Zoological Gardens the same night the Count came ashore, and answering to a master no keeper ever gave him. He blocks the path, hackles raised.
- Dr. Seward's Phonograph Cylinders Wax cylinders recorded late at night, the doctor's voice worn thin with exhaustion. Somewhere in these recordings is a detail everyone else missed.
- Gypsy Fortune The Szgany peddler shuffles a worn deck of cards and grins. 'For a coin, I tell what waits ahead.' Wager what you can afford to lose.
- The Blood Transfusion Something happens here. The score stays where it is.
- Wolfsbane Sprig A handful of pale yellow flowers, dried and bundled. The old stories say it turns wolves from your path — and after tonight, you believe the old stories.
- Van Helsing's Spare Crucifix A second crucifix, blessed the same night as the first. Van Helsing had more made than he ever said why — until now.
- Vial of Transylvanian Soil A fistful of dark, cold earth from the Count's native soil — the same kind that filled the boxes aboard the Demeter. Scholars would pay well to study it. So, it seems, would rival hunters.
- The Note on the Asylum Door A quiz. Answer right and the card pays.