• Five (5) decks of prompt cards (237 cards in total), representing the various ages of your Vampires’ existence.
• Slotted and recessed tray to help keep prompt cards organized for ease of use and for space to add in crafting and art supplies for creating your keepsake artifacts.
• Set of gorgeous dice for advancing your Vampires through the ages (d4, d6, and d8).
• Detailed rulebook containing all the rules you’ll need for multiplayer Cohort play.
• A tearaway pad containing six (6) sets of premade characters (5 characters plus a prime vampire per set), each representing a different area of the world, plus blank character sheets. 

Five Hundred Year Old Vampire is played by responding to prompts on a series of five decks of cards. The decks represent an “age” of the vampire: rebirth, neophyte, elder, ancient, and conclusion. Each card has four sections:

• Basic prompt which provides the context for the rest of the card;
• Effects: how the card impacts the vampire and the rest of its cohort;
• Questions: Ideas the player may consider when writing of their experience in their character’s voice and crafting an artifact to represent their vampire’s experience; and
• Years Added: The number and type of die the player rolls to help calculate the number of years their card choice adds to the overall movement of time for the cohort as a whole.

There are many different outcomes for Effects though most relate to adding or removing skills, resources, or connections from their character.

You can back this campaign for the following rewards:

• Backing at this level gives you an optimized Print & Play PDF containing everything you need to print your own version of the game. You will also receive any applicable digital stretch goals reached during the campaign.

• Back at this reward tier to get a physical copy of the Core Edition of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, plus a copy of the Print & Play PDF. You will also receive any applicable digital and physical stretch goals reached during the campaign.

• In addition to a copy of the Core Edition, the Print & Play PDF, and all applicable stretch goals, you’ll receive at this reward tier a PDF of the Five Hundred Year Old Vampire Curriculum Guide, by designer Jason Cox. The Curriculum Guide will contain suggestions, lesson plans, optional rules, and other resources for using Five Hundred Year Old Vampire in your high school or college classroom. You will also receive any applicable digital and physical stretch goals reached during the campaign.

• When one copy isn’t enough! Back at this reward tier and receive two (2) copies of the Core Edition, plus the Print & Play PDF and all applicable stretch goals.

• For when you want it all! Back at this reward tier and receive everything offered in the previous tiers: two (2) copies of the Core Edition, the Print & Play PDF, the Five Hundred Year Old Vampire Curriculum Guide, and all applicable stretch goals.

• This is the perfect reward tier if you are looking to use Five Hundred Year Old Vampire with a whole class! Back at this tier to receive six (6) copies of the Core Edition, as well as the Print & Play PDF, the Five Hundred Year Old Vampire Curriculum Guide, and all applicable stretch goals.

FUNDED -- $14,000 - Funding Goal! -- We made it, thank you all!!!

UNLOCKED -- $16,000 - We'll include a small deck of Prime Vampire cards (7 cards in total) designed by Tim Hutchings, the creator of Thousand Year Old Vampire. These cards will be compatible with both TYOV and FYOV!

UNLOCKED -- $18,500 - We'll include specially commissioned portrait art on each of the pregen character sheets included in the game. The amazing artists for this will be Samuel Araya, Priscilla Kim, Goñi Montes, Allen Panakal, and the game's primary artist, Jabari Weathers. This stretch goal will be for the first set of six (6) art pieces.

UNLOCKED - $21,500 - We'll offer a deluxe 6x9in keepsake journal as an add-on after the campaign. It will be designed by Bold Pocket Press. Check out the sample pages below.

UNLOCKED - $23,500 - For this stretch goal, world renowned musician Mark Cox has designed a soundscape for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire that we'll give to all backers. The soundscape includes multiple tracks that players can choose from to help reflect the mood of the game they want to play from horror to campy and in between. Listen to a sample below!

https://youtu.be/JaB9m2eA9XU

Dr. Cox has also provided us with a statement explaining his approach to the soundscape: 

As a longtime enthusiast of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre, when I was asked to create the soundscapes for the game Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, there was only one answer from me – “YES.” As I became familiar with the history, rules, and general layout of the game, I started forming ideas. Having played a ton of video games in my life, starting with Pong back in 1972, I took my knowledge as a gamer and applied it as I mapped out each soundscape. My first priority was creating music that had an appealing sound, but nothing that would distract too much from the game. I also wanted to include sounds from around where I live, so I recorded the sounds of my tires as my family and I drove across the Mackinaw bridge, used different percussion equipment that I have access to at my work, and asked my wife, a professional keyboardist, to improvise sounds on the organ and piano. After I finished recording her, I asked her permission to distort and/or contort these performances to fit what I had conceived.
 
Next came the hard part. I felt like I had to consider what it would be like to lose my memories, my humanity --- how would the music relate that to the players? As you listen, you should hear some familiar melodies along with new ones, superimposed over an eerie, but not too scary, background. But as the vampire loses their memories, things begin to go awry. Different keys are stacked upon each other, melodies don’t quite line up, rhythms and melodies start to fall apart, then come back together as the vampire tries to hold on to these last memories. 
 
To keep the audio files from being too large, I created basically a 10-20 minute loop. Once the music starts, the “loop” button on the device should be on so that the music runs continuously. Yes, there is silence in between some of sections, which I found to be very common in modern-day games (which I play regularly – when work and family are not taking up my time). And feel free to end one soundscape and start another one in the middle of the game. Anything is “fair-play.”

Jason Cox, PhD is an assistant professor of Art Education and head of the Art Education program at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. He creates and writes about games as Arts-Based Research that explore the tensions between individuals, ideals, and communities.

Jabari Weathers cannot confirm or deny their suspected status as an exiled goblin regent seeking refuge beyond the veil. They presently reside in Baltimore, Maryland, making fantasy and sci-fi illustrations and spinning worlds and fictions for roleplaying games and other interactive projects out of words to keep up their glamor. Other things that they enjoy are strange films, stranger music, singing in public places, and the thoroughly uncanny. You can follow them on Twitter and Instagram and contact them at [email protected].

Andrew D. Devenney, is a lifelong gamer who was hooked from the start by the Moldvay Basic D&D set. Married with spawn that looks eerily just like him at their ages, he currently resides in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Learning Through Games and Simulations at Central Michigan University, as well as a Series Editor for Central Michigan University Press's pedagogical game series "Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning."

Because he doesn’t have enough to do, Andrew also publishes indie role-playing games through Superhero Necromancer Press and co-writes/produces historical documentaries through Stratigraphic Productions. He wears many hats. So. Many. Hats.

Eloy Lasanta is the head of Third Eye Games, creators of RPGs like Part-Time Gods 2E, Sins of the Father, and the Pip System, and has contributed to other tabletop games like The Firefly RPG, ORUN, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Into the Motherlands. He's even branched out into video games, becoming Narrative Designer for the upcoming game Subterrain: Mines of Titan, from Pixellore, Inc. Never pigeon-holed, never type-casted, Eloy has undoubtedly left his mark on the tabletop industry.

Five Hundred Year Old Vampire is being published as part of the Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning Series of Central Michigan University Press, an academic press committed to innovative, research-based, peer-reviewed, engaging pedagogical games. If you would like to know more about the goals behind the Scholarship and Lore Series, please check out the Press's Vision and Mission Statement or please reach out to:

• Dr. Tracy S. Davis, Co-Director, Center for Learning through Games and Simulations at Central Michigan University – [email protected].
• Dr. Jonathan Truitt, Co-Director, Center for Learning through Games and Simulations at Central Michigan University – [email protected].
• Dr. Andrew D. Devenney, Associate Director, Center for Learning through Games and Simulations at Central Michigan University – [email protected].