It is almost Halloween, 2016. Dusk is setting over New York City. In the dripping city streets, vampires stalk prey, engage in political brinkmanship, and push human pawns into position from the shadows. Only a few enlightened and secretive human groups have discovered that vampires exist, and that they can be hunted or brokered with to achieve great power. Alliances and counter-alliances have been stacked so high they can't help but fall. Tonight, blood will be shed, and by dawn, only one faction will reign victorious…
Blood Feud is a large-scale mega board game in which several teams representing vampires and human monster hunters vie for supremacy of New York City within Vampire: the Masquerade's World of Darkness setting.
A traditional "megagame" is a type of large-scale simulation which can contain elements of roleplaying games, board games, live action roleplaying, and wargames. Megagames are often giant event-like experiences, typically only offered at conventions, and usually take 1-2 entire days to play.
Blood Feud is a new type of experience that combines the massive scale, social play, and excitement of a megagame with the cleaner ruleset of a modern board game. The game is played in about 3 hours. For this event, we will be hosting 24 players, making up 6 teams of 4. The event will be hosted by two storytellers, who will explain all the rules, run the game, and adjudicate pacts and disagreements between players.
Team members will make formal alliances and unofficial deals, vote on laws in a secret city council, vie and trade for resources, issue orders to frontline faction troops in the city, and position those troops in a realtime game of cat and mouse.
No previous knowledge is required to participate in this event. All materials will be provided. Players should expect to be active and on their feet for a little over two hours, moving throughout different rooms in the club.
Before the event, the Storytellers will be contacting ticket holders to organize team formation. We will be giving small but meaningful in-game bonuses for teams who make attempts to dress thematically for this event, with more information to follow.
