On the assumption that Dracula will mature that vampire - and even if not he can definitely evade us for long enough for the Despair Track to take effect - I’d like to start with a few thank yous, and give my thoughts on the game later today.
Firstly, thank you @COMaestro for running this game. I’m sure it can’t be easy keeping track of everyone’s moves and inventory when a lot of that is done through private messages, but it seemed to run very smoothly. You were always there with advice and clarification when I wasn’t sure what cards did, and I’m looking forward to discussing the changes from 1st edition later on too.
Secondly, thank you and congratulations to the Count: @RossM. A most fiendish chase and excellently played, plus some great moments of humour too. How I managed to type your title correctly without dropping the “o” throughout the game was a miracle. I can’t wait to see your moves and read your thoughts on them and your strategy and choices at those key stages of the game. I’m also hoping to even the score in our current Star Trek PBF game here, although with a third of that game left to go anything can still happen - especially if you keep on blowing up the Federation ships.
Thirdly, a thank you and commiserations to my fellow hunters @Whistle_Pig, @MichaelCule and @RogerBW. Sadly our hunt wasn’t successful but we gave it a great shot and might have ended up closer had a few key decisions or encounters gone our way, including one or two specific choices I made that would have changed the game much earlier. I’d also like to apologise as at times I felt like I was quarterbacking you all in our hunt too much, and tried to back off that too; I hope that didn’t affect your enjoyment of the game. More on all of that in the longer roundup discussion.
Finally though, a collectively thank you to all of you for being part of this game. It was my first PBF game and I thoroughly loved the experience so am looking forward to playing more. In fact, after thoughts and a brief discussion with Roger, I am hoping to run my own PBF game here in the next week or so, playing through a similar although fully cooperative hunt for a supernatural villain in a small 1800s village in A Touch Of Evil. I was intending to run it for 4 people, but if all 5 of you are keen to play I can accommodate you all. I posted a review of my thoughts of the game here and you can find playthroughs and reviews on YouTube or by following the link in my review to the BGG website, but it plays a lot like Arkham/Eldritch Horror or other Flying Frog titles Fortune and Glory and Invasion From Outer Space (slightly more complex than Last Night On Earth) if you are familiar with those games. Please let me know publicly or privately if you wish to take part.
Thanks again - more to follow later on!