rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Help me play this game!!!

9 messages from 9 participants · 16 July 1997 – 21 July 1997
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TRISHA413

A friend of mine bought me a master deck and a few boosters of a game called Vampire. He said that it's like Magic. The only thing is I've never played Magic. I read the instruction booklet but I don't understand how to play. It looks really interesting and I'd like to learn. If anyone can explain this game to me I would really appreciate it. If possible I'd like to set a time when we can talk one on one. Thanks for any help!

LSJ (VtES Rep)

TRISHA413 wrote: > > A friend of mine bought me a master deck and a few boosters of a game > called Vampire. He said that it's like Magic. The only thing is I've > never played Magic. It is not like magic, except that it shares the concept of tapping (marking as used) and requires you to bring your own (constructed) deck. > I read the instruction booklet but I don't understand > how to play. It looks really interesting and I'd like to learn. If > anyone can explain this game to me I would really appreciate it. If > possible I'd like to set a time when we can talk one on one. Thanks for > any help! Feel free to e-mail me for answers to specific questions. Additionally, everyyone should feel free to e-mail me to set up some chat time (either via UNIX 'talk' command or on Yahoo Chat or whatever) -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com) Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. (*) - Subject to review by Rules Team

Dave Green

LSJ (VtES Rep) (vte...@regency.wizards.com) wrote: : Feel free to e-mail me for answers to specific questions. : Additionally, everyyone should feel free to e-mail me to set : up some chat time (either via UNIX 'talk' command or on Yahoo Chat : or whatever) On a similar vein, I have seen programs for other CCG's (Middle Earth in particular) which allow players to design decks and play them over the internet. Has anyone made or considered making such a program for Vampire? I don't know the first thing about programming, but maybe I'll learn... -Dave Green

Michael Beer

TRISHA413 wrote: > > A friend of mine bought me a master deck and a few boosters of a game > called Vampire. He said that it's like Magic. In fact: It isn't like Magic. And I'm glad it isn't. The only thing is I've > never played Magic. I read the instruction booklet but I don't understand > how to play. It looks really interesting and I'd like to learn. If > anyone can explain this game to me I would really appreciate it. If > possible I'd like to set a time when we can talk one on one. Thanks for > any help! The best way to explain the rules is to actually play. Ask your friend to PLAY a game with you. You will find that this game IS interesting. The rules themselves are comprehensive. Basically your goal is to drain your opponent off his blood pool (This is the same as in Magic.) You can archive this in 2 ways: bleeding and voting. This can be blocked by your enemy's minions, and if they do there will be a fight. If you are able to dispatch your opponent's minions in combat it will be easy to "oust" him (drain his pool to 0) because he cannot defend himself any longer. If not you have to develop a tactic to harm him anyway. (this is all the same as in Magic) One big difference to magic is that Jyhad is a dedicated Multiplayer-game and Magic is mostly a 2 player duell. In Jyhad interaction with other players is very important and may lead you to victory despite the strength of your opponents. This interaction is one reason that I prefer playing Jyhad. -- Michael Beer, Dortmund, Germany, ICQ 1175389 http://www.noefs.ping.de/user/mike/index.html -------------------------------------------- Life is founded on Chaos. So if you find your living room became disordered: Don't panic! It's natural... :)

James A Ignatuk

Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad: 16-Jul-97 Re: Help me play this game!!! by VtES R...@regency.wizards > TRISHA413 wrote: > > > > A friend of mine bought me a master deck and a few boosters of a game > > called Vampire. He said that it's like Magic. The only thing is I've > > never played Magic. Your "Master" (really called Starter) deck should contain an instruction book. It is usually helpful in learning how to play the game. Take care, Jim

Robert Goudie

[ quoted text not captured ] There is an up-to-date program at www.sfa.umkc.edu/staff/freesea/vtes.htm I really liked this. It is rather simple but it does the job. Decks are stored as seperate filenames also which makes it easy to send decks to other people. -Robert ...................................................................... :The opinions expressed here are strictly my own delusional ramblings: :and do not reflect the opinions of The Walt Disney Company. : : : :Robert Goudie robert...@studio.disney.com: :LA V:tES Tournament Info www.cs.ucr.edu/~ezix/other/rg/vtourn_1.html: :....................................................................: : Don Tomas Special Edition * V:tES * Chivas Regal * r.a.i.f. * TNMS : :....................................................................:

Dustin Cote

You may want to buy a rule book. I remember when Jyhad first came out and i had to learn how to play only from myself. I couldn't understand the tiny rulebook. After reading one of the bigger books, it finally made sense, and the small rulebook then started to make sense. I don't know if it's the small words or what. It was my first card game, so maybe that was hindering me too. *shrug* dustin

David Pontes

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Dave Green wrote: > LSJ (VtES Rep) (vte...@regency.wizards.com) wrote: > > : Feel free to e-mail me for answers to specific questions. > > : Additionally, everyyone should feel free to e-mail me to set > : up some chat time (either via UNIX 'talk' command or on Yahoo Chat > : or whatever) > > On a similar vein, I have seen programs for other CCG's (Middle > Earth in particular) which allow players to design decks and > play them over the internet. Has anyone made or considered > making such a program for Vampire? I don't know the first > thing about programming, but maybe I'll learn... > Maybe you haven't heard of Jyhad On Line, run by George Fink. It's bascally a "card dealer" engine that stores text files with the card names and deals them via special email commands. It's been updated, and it's quite elaborate nowadays. But it's not real-time; I'm not sure if that's what you wanted. It's at: shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu:1234/gfink/jol/jol.html David Pontes 8[

James Coupe

In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.970721...@alfa.ist.utl.pt>, David Pontes <l41...@alfa.ist.utl.pt> writes [ quoted text not captured ] If you play JoL could you write a little bit on it and post it to the newsgroup - card restrictions, fun, time required (esp. how frequently turns have to be sent) and so on. I'd love to read it, and I bet a fair few others would. -- James Coupe (remove .nospam to reply) Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chants out between two worlds, `Fire walk with me`