Fury of Dracula 3rd Edition Review

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Fury of Dracula 2nd Edition was one of the games that made me an Ameritrasher. I love it unconditionally, but there were always issues I had to explain to people before playing. I think the biggest one was that it was very swingy. There were a lot of moments where it would look like one side could get away, but with cards like Newspaper Reports and Evasion, and then with Resolve powers, it always seemed like the game was finding a way to artificially balance itself. And I agree, Dracula was naturally pretty weak. It was still so much fun, but it was not perfect.

I just got my copy of 3rd edition, and I'm really optimistic about it. It looks like this game might have found it's perfect form.

With all this talk of rules being changed for the better here I decided to check on my least favorite rule from 2nd Edition. In 2nd Edition the Hunters may show each other their cards at any time. So when my group played this game each time a Hunter drew a card I had to wait for every hunter to quietly read it so they all knew what everyone else had in their hands. Was annoying and too hive-mind-y for my tastes, but its in the rules. 3rd Edition changed this rule so Hunters can still share cards at any time, but now they also have to show that card to Dracula as well. Unless they're doing a trade action. So at least that one rules tweak is definitely an improvement, imo.

Great review---I may have to pick this up sometime.