rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Torpor reactions?

4 messages from 3 participants · 25 March 1997 – 26 March 1997
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Celeval

I've been checking the rulebook and such, but haven't found anything... Can a torporized, untapped minion play reaction cards? (for instance, Dread Gaze/Elder Kindred Network/WWEF that doesn't specify 'ready minion'?) It makes sense for them not to, but I don't know if there is a ruling... Kevin -- Kevin Donnelly----------------------------------------------------- Protector of Damsels in Distress, Lover of Ladies Fair, Tech Student "Never tell me the odds!" -- Han Solo gt2...@prism.gatech.edu cel...@felix.cc.gatech.edu

L. Scott Johnson

Celeval wrote: > I've been checking the rulebook and such, but haven't found anything... It isn't in there. > Can a torporized, untapped minion play reaction cards? > (for instance, Dread Gaze/Elder Kindred Network/WWEF that doesn't specify > 'ready minion'?) No (errata to the rules). Also, torpored vampires cannot play action modifiers unless they are taking an action. (No superior Cloak the Gathering or Mask of a Thousand Faces from torpor). -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com) Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. (*) - Subject to review by Rules Team

xcdc...@aol.com

In article <5h79e6$c...@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>, cel...@cc.gatech.edu (Celeval) writes: > >I've been checking the rulebook and such, but haven't found anything... > >Can a torporized, untapped minion play reaction cards? >(for instance, Dread Gaze/Elder Kindred Network/WWEF that doesn't specify >'ready minion'?) > >It makes sense for them not to, but I don't know if there is a ruling... > > Nope. The rule book doesn't explicitly state that a torporized minion can't play reactions, but it does state that only READY untapped vampires can play reaction cards. Torpored vamps are not ready so can't play reactions. Having said that, the next card someone mentions will be the exception to the rule (and if there isn't one, they'll make one). chance Chance "If you think you can, you're right. If you think you can't, you're right!" -- Henry Ford

L. Scott Johnson

xcdc...@aol.com wrote: > In article <5h79e6$c...@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>, cel...@cc.gatech.edu (Celeval) writes: > >Can a torporized, untapped minion play reaction cards? > > Nope. The rule book doesn't explicitly state that a torporized minion can't play reactions, but it does state that only READY untapped vampires can play reaction cards. Torpored vamps are not ready so can't play reactions. Neither the "corrected" Jyhad rulebook nor the VtES rulebook have the word "Ready" in any of the sections describing which minions may play reaction cards. It *is* true, however, that you must be ready to play a reaction card. This is errata to the rules. > Having said that, the next card someone mentions will be the exception to the rule (and if there isn't one, they'll make one). It would take explicit card text to do this (similar to the text on Gangrel Conspiracy and Absolution of the Diabolist which allows those cards to be played on one's own turn). [ quoted text not captured ]