Vampire Tag: Rules



Something cool to do when you are bored at nite.

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"Official" Rules in Rochester...

Essentially, you find a WOODEN jungle gym. When the game starts, there is one Vampire selected randomly. The rest of the players are Mortals.


Vampires touch Mortals in the upper body to signify an Embrace (Mortal turning into a Vampire).
There are Stakes. Vampires cannot touch stakes.
Mortals touch Vampires in the same manor as an Embrace with the Stakes to turn them into Mortals.


If a Vampire Embraces another Vampire, the two Players go into Torpor. which means that they stand still for 10 seconds.


Being a Wraith means that the Player may not interact with other Players physically and gets off of the jungle gym. The Player may then pick up Stakes, may alert other Players as to the whereabouts of other Players... or may just proceed to be a jackass.

If a Mortal is Staked, the Mortal turns into a Wraith. Falling off of the jungle gym turns a Player into a Wraith.


An optional rule is that there can exist in a game a Cross. A Mortal holds up the Cross to a Vampire and the Vampire has to run in the opposite direction for 10 seconds.


In addition to all of these rules, you can give the vampires super powers.

Bat: you can step off of the jungle gym and "fly" in a straight line to another place on the jungle gym.
Freeze: you make eye contact with a Mortal. They stand still till you break eye contact or embrace them.
Snatch: touch a Mortal anywhere and Embrace them.


Rules can get more or less lenient at players discretion (it is a fucking game).
IE: neck & heart only for turning a player to the appropriate faction, a 5 second rule for off the jungle gym instead of instant Wraith status... etc.

Vamp Tag is best played at a park with no lights with a jungle gym that has lots of space.

The coolest way to initiate the first game of Vamp Tag is to just tell everyone 'be x place for vamptag' and just let them guess. The people who show will be the people who would have made it fun anyway. Then the word gets out and everyone wants to play.

(and oh god. so many strategies.)