Andy Stout
United States
La Jolla
CA
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We played The Fury of Dracula last night for the first time (we've played the remake a bunch of times before), and the chief thing that bugged me was the gaminess of the hunters watching the encounter chit draws. I.e., if they could see that I drew one, it meant I couldn't be at sea (and if they knew I was at sea, this meant I had landed), whereas if they saw me not draw one, then they suspected (not necessarily correctly, but usually) that I had either gone to sea or returned to a space I'd already been to.
How do you veterans deal with this? Are encounter chit draws supposed to be hidden? How is that even possible to keep hidden? Most everything else is much less game-y in this version than the old version, so this really stood out.
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Mark McEvoy
Canada
Ottawa-ish
Ontario
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They know if you're at sea. The sea cards are a different colour, they don't have an encounter chit on them, and you can't play a power card at sea.
If the most recent card in your trail is a sea card, you're at sea.
I suspect you're playing something wrong. You know they can see the trail of facedown cards, right?
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Wade Nelson
United States
Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
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I keep all my Dracula encounter chits in a cup behind the screen. At random times during the game I'll draw a handful of them out of the cup and place them face-down behind my screen, making sure I don't know what they are. If I accidentally see one then I put it back in the cup and mix them up a bit.
I typically have, in addition to my face-up encounter chits, about four or five face-down ones. When I'm supposed to draw an encounter chit, I just flip over a face-down one.
It's silent, and it keeps all my stuff hidden. The investigators don't know when I'm drawing a new chit.
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Was George Orwell an Optimist?
United States
Corvallis
Oregon
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When you're at sea, just put your hand in the draw cup and rattle the chits, then move your hand behind the screen, just as if you had drawn one and were placing it.
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Wade Nelson
United States
Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
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thatmarkguy wrote: They know if you're at sea. The sea cards are a different colour, they don't have an encounter chit on them, and you can't play a power card at sea.
If the most recent card in your trail is a sea card, you're at sea.
I suspect you're playing something wrong. You know they can see the trail of facedown cards, right?
There's no card trail in the original edition of the game.
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Was George Orwell an Optimist?
United States
Corvallis
Oregon
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thatmarkguy wrote: They know if you're at sea. The sea cards are a different colour, they don't have an encounter chit on them, and you can't play a power card at sea.
If the most recent card in your trail is a sea card, you're at sea.
I suspect you're playing something wrong. You know they can see the trail of facedown cards, right?
You're talking about the re-make, Mark. No card trail in the real Fury of Dracula. 
[edit] Dang, you ninja'd me twice in a row, Wade. I must be getting old.
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Mark McEvoy
Canada
Ottawa-ish
Ontario
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Dammit. Sorry. There really ought to be a better distinguishing feature between the games than the word "The".
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Was George Orwell an Optimist?
United States
Corvallis
Oregon
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thatmarkguy wrote: Dammit. Sorry. There really ought to be a better distinguishing feature between the games than the word "The".
That's more than we get with a lot of games:
War of the Ring
War of the Ring
War of the Ring
The trouble is that they all have the same title, so assigning different titles to all but one entry isn't fair. I think if they put the year published after the title in the forum entries, like you see in the 'Insert Geek Link' dropdown box, it would help.
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