Upgrading Hideouts to Lairs

By azazel1, in Fury of Dracula

Just checking, but for Dracula to upgrade a Hideout to a Lair, does it need to still have an encounter card on it? Also, does it need to be undiscovered? (As a hunter could find a trail, but if Dracula chooses not to ambush, and the hunter chooses not to search, the encounter remains unrevealed.)

I still don't really get what lairs are for. I don't see why Dracula wouldn't want remove a trace of where he/she has been and score points.

To get more encounters on the board, to discard non-vampire encounter cards (many rats on a lair!), bascially why not do it when the encounter doesn't have a good maturation effect?

If you get back to a lair you can place a third encounter on it. After 6 moves make it into a lair again, a fourth encounter is added. This can become pretty dangerous for any hunter.