James Coupe#
Okay, these are all a bit related (kind of, if you don't think too hard)
so I thought I'd put them all in one post.
The Master: Discipline cards say," Put this card on a vampire" eg
Card Title: Quietus
Pool: n/a
Clan: n/a
Card Type: Master
Card Text: Master: Discipline
Put this card on a vampire. This vampire has Quietus.
[qui] If the vampire already had Quietus, he or she
now has superior Quietus. Capacity increases by
1: the vampire is one generation older. Cannot be
played on a vampire with superior Quietus.
Artist: William O'Connor
Rarity: Common 2
Having typed these in to my card database I know that all the others are
the same but for their own disciplines.
Define "Put this card on a vampire." It never specifies controlled,
uncontrolled, mine or someone else's. Our group has always played that
you can put them on uncontrolled vampires. If they're your's you nkow
whether they have Quietus at superior or not, so you play it fine. If
it's someone else's, we play it that you just keep going till you get to
one (the idea being that if I, as a Methuselah, am teaching your
vampires skills then it's going to be harder for you to control them).
I have never seen an errata on this and it's something that came up in
the group when someone came back from university (he was, however, aware
of the ruling we've played since before V:TES came out and was happy to
work with it).
Now the third point second. On the discipline cards the words "the
vampire is one generation older" are there. It does say in the rules
that a vampire's age is related to his capacity but in the Sabbat most,
if not all, reminder text was got rid of (eg Telepathic Counter) and
these weren't. However, what happens when I lose a capacity, as in
Violet Tremain
Card Title: Violet Tremain
Capacity: 6
Disciplines: vic dom tha pre
Clan: Tzimisce
Card Text: Sabbat Bishop: If Violet successfully inflicts at least
2 hand damage to an opposing vampire during
combat, reduce that vampire's capacity by 1 at the end
of combat. A vampire's capacity cannot be reduced
below 0 in this way.
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Vampire
She doesn't say I get younger, but I would assume I do. Also, Wrath of
the Inner Circle.
Card Title: Wrath of the Inner Circle
Card Type: Political Action
Card Text: Called by any Inner Circle member at +1 stealth.
Political Card-Worth 1 Vote
Choose a ready Justicar. If the vote is successful,
put this card on that Justicar. The Justicar forfeits
his
or her title, and his or her capacity decreases by 1.
(A vampire's capacity cannot go below 1.)
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Uncommon
Also, why will Violet take me down to 0 (meaning I can do nothing but
hunt every turn and have the blood drain off), but Wrath of the Inner
Circle will leave me at 1 capacity.
Now, onto Burn Blood effects. I know that, for instance, if I am told
to burn a blood and can't (with, say, Blood to Water) that I just ignore
it. What happens with things like Society of Leopold?
Card Title: Society of Leopold
Pool: n/a
Clan/Discip.: n/a
Card Type: Master
Card Text: Unique Master
Put this card on a vampire. During his or her
controller's untap phase, the vampire with this card
either burns 1 blood or is burned (the controller's
choice). A vampire with this card can put it on any
other vampire as a +1 stealth (D) action.
Artist: L. A. Williams
Rarity: Rare
If I have no blood can I just choose to burn a blood which, since I
can't do it, I ignore and don't go into torpor because it wasn't damage?
We weren't completely sure, though we thought that in this case it did
mean that you *had* to burn a blood or be burned. If it is this, it
might be wise to reword this and similar cards so that the vampire with
the card on has to pay 1 blood or move 1 blood from themselves to the
blood bank or be burned, or something that didn't get mixed in with the
Burn Blood effects.
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