Masters of the Night: The Dark City
Masters of the Night: The Dark City Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Expansion Contents
Your copy of Masters of the Night is an exclusive, limited edition, including extra content not available in the normal version of the game:
- 5 additional District tiles:
- Three alternative tiles: Black Market, Chinatown, Graveyard
- One extra double-sided tile: Sewers / Slums
- One blank tile
- 18 additional Event cards (including 12 normal cards and 6 blank cards)
- 5 additional Relic cards
- The booklet Masters of the Night – Stories, with six short stories
- 3 double-sided art prints with illustrations from the game
If you backed the Premium edition (Vampire or Clan pledge) of the game, you will also get the following items with your rewards:
- One additional character, Count Dalv, including his Vampire sheet, miniature, and tokens
- 5 Deluxe Vampire trays
- 5 Metal Kill Count markers
- 7 Metal Dread Sigil tokens
- 22 Blood glass tokens
- 1 Metal Veil marker
- 1 Metal Leading Vampire token
- 12 Agent plastic figures
- 9 Minion plastic figures
Deluxe Vampire trays are used to fit the Vampire sheet when you play. All other components simply replace the equivalent cardboard components in the standard edition of the game.
District Tiles
Sewers: When agents appear in this district during an event card resolution, you do not have to decrease the Veil. Day combat never occurs in this district.
Chinatown: Once per round, spend 1 AP and 2 blood tokens to draw one Relic card.
Black Market: Spend 1 AP and discard 1 Relic you own to draw a new Relic card from the Relic deck.
Graveyard: Spend 1 AP and use 2 dice with the same value to recruit a minion here. Do not increase the Veil.
The fifth tile is blank.
Using District Tiles
We recommend the new District tiles are used to replace one or more districts from the standard edition, at your choice:
- Replace Museum with Chinatown.
- Replace City Hall with Graveyard.
- Replace Police District with Black Market.
If you want to play with Sewers or Slums, we recommend to replace either City Park or Nightclub.
Using Additional Cards
New Relic cards are simply added to the Relic card deck.
The new Event cards are used to replace cards related to districts not in play; or they are simply added to the Event card decks, when you shuffle them before the start of the game.
If you replaced the City Hall district with Graveyard, replace or add the following Event cards:
- I: No Authority except from God with Opened Graves.
- II: Systematic Raids with Rest in Peace.
- III: Add Wrath of the Lord.
If you replaced the Police Department district with Black Market, replace the following Event cards:
- I: Triple Homicide with Dirty Deal.
- II: Night of the Demons with Under Surveillance.
- III: Fatal Mistake with Lizard Tail.
Count Dalv
Count Dalv is an additional playable vampire, included with the Premium edition, with his own Vampire sheet. The sheet lists each kill count step with the printed action or ability and its action point (AP) value, or its cost in parentheses.
Action track (kill count step: action, cost):
- 0: Move, 1 AP
- 0: Expose agents, 1 AP
- 0: Fight agents, 1 AP
- 0: Recruit a minion, -1 Veil, 2 AP
- 0: Use Veil effect, 1-2 AP
- 1: Hunt, -1 blood, 1 AP
- 2: Relic 1
- 4: Wild Hunt, -1 Veil, 1 AP
- 5: Relic 2
- 6: Sword of Darkness, -X Veil (dark ability)
- 9: Sigillate, -1 minion, 1 AP
Dark abilities (printed in the lower panel of the sheet):
Gaseous Form (cost: -X blood): [GAP: The printed text is too small and blurred to read reliably. The legible fragments are: "After you complete an Expose Agents action, spend up to [unclear] blood per agent you exposed in this way. For each blood you spent, increase the Veil by 2." Verify against the physical sheet before relying on the exact wording of the cost.]
Sword of Darkness (cost: -X Veil): [GAP: The printed text is too small and blurred to read reliably. The legible fragments are: "In each district with another vampire, remove exposed agents up to the amount of [Veil] you spent. Those vampires increase their kill count as if they eliminated the agents removed in their district. If there is more than one vampire in the district, [only one] of them increases [kill count]." The final sentence is unclear. Verify against the physical sheet before relying on the exact wording.]
Relic Cards
New Relic cards are simply added to the Relic card deck. The five additional Relic cards are:
Arcane Key: Once per round, you may decrease the Veil by 1 to use the effect of your dread sigil in any district, even if the sigil has not already been placed.
Glyph of Protection: Once per round, if a minion is about to be removed, you can spend 1 blood and leave the minion in play. Any effect due to removing the minion still applies.
Heartblood Ruby: If you become drained, you immediately recover (without decreasing the Veil) and regain blood up to your maximum. Discard this Relic after using it.
Soil of the Motherland: When you resolve the Event card, if you add one or more agents into your district, do not decrease the Veil (even if there are other vampires and/or minions in the district).
Ring of Astral Projection: You can use the Night effect of any district as if you were in that district. After the effect is resolved, spend 1 blood.
Event Cards
The new Event cards are used to replace cards related to districts not in play; or they are simply added to the Event card decks, when you shuffle them before the start of the game (see Using Additional Cards above).
Of the 18 additional Event cards, only one face is legible in the available photographs. The other cards are not legible in any available photograph, so their text is not transcribed here.
Opened Graves (Event card): Add 1 agent into Graveyard.
[GAP: 17 additional Event cards are not legible in any available photograph. Their card names and text are missing from this transcription. Verify against the physical cards before relying on the Event card lists in the Using Additional Cards section.]
Count Dalv Token
A round metal Count Dalv token carries the following printed text: "After resolving the event card, immediately remove all agents from this district." The insert does not state which component or rule this token belongs to, so this entry is recorded as printed and is not assigned to a game rule.