[LSJ] Malkavian Prank Q

LSJ, This question came up tonight in our playgroup... I looked up the past history on this card... I couldnt find my question answered, so here I go. In a tournament, at any time, a player can ask their opponents the amount of pool they have left. Is it legal, after playing Malkavian Prank, to ask how much pool a Methuselah has, so one can do the math to figure out how much pool must be in the player's hand, since the counters in the player's hand are supposed to be drawn from their pool? If not, why not? Thanks. Robert Sachs V:EKN Prince of Naperville, IL

On 13 Apr 2004 08:03:12 GMT, lisleg...@aol.comnocrap (Rob Sachs) scrawled: [ quoted text not captured ] what's your favourite colour? anyway....the counters held are not from the player's pool. "Each other Methuselah holds between 1 and 4 <counters> <inclusive> in his or her hand. Guess the <number of counters> in each Methuselah's hand. If you guess correctly, you gain that much pool from his or her pool. If you guess incorrectly, that Methuselah gains that much pool from the blood bank." salem domain:canberra http://www.geocities.com/salem_christ.geo/vtes.htm (replace "hotmail" with "yahoo" to email)

salem wrote: > On 13 Apr 2004 08:03:12 GMT, lisleg...@aol.comnocrap (Rob Sachs) > scrawled: > > >>LSJ, >> >>This question came up tonight in our playgroup... I looked up the past history >>on this card... I couldnt find my question answered, so here I go. >> >>In a tournament, at any time, a player can ask their opponents the amount of >>pool they have left. Is it legal, after playing Malkavian Prank, to ask how >>much pool a Methuselah has, so one can do the math to figure out how much pool >>must be in the player's hand, since the counters in the player's hand are >>supposed to be drawn from their pool? If not, why not? > > > what's your favourite colour? > > anyway....the counters held are not from the player's pool. Correct. If players are getting slanted over this (and say, inquire about counting the blood in the blood bank prior to the selection), then just have each player write down a number from 1 to 4 on a piece of paper and hold it in his or her hand. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

> > On 13 Apr 2004 08:03:12 GMT, lisleg...@aol.comnocrap (Rob Sachs) > >>This question came up tonight in our playgroup... I looked up the past history > >>on this card... I couldnt find my question answered, so here I go. > >> > >>In a tournament, at any time, a player can ask their opponents the amount of > >>pool they have left. Is it legal, after playing Malkavian Prank, to ask how > >>much pool a Methuselah has, so one can do the math to figure out how much pool > >>must be in the player's hand, since the counters in the player's hand are > >>supposed to be drawn from their pool? If not, why not? > > > > > > what's your favourite colour? > > > > anyway....the counters held are not from the player's pool. I stopped taking the counters from my pool years ago, in part so people would not do like you listed above. Second, when I gained pool, I could not simply toss the counters together, I needed to count out new one in any case. So I just take what I need from the bank, and hopefully get to add them to my pool. Raille

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:407BBF3B...@white-wolf.com... > If players are getting slanted over this (and say, inquire about > counting the blood in the blood bank prior to the selection), then > just have each player write down a number from 1 to 4 on a piece > of paper and hold it in his or her hand. The blood bank is uncountable. :-) "Remember that the number of blood counters in the blood bank is limitless - the bank never runs out." (BH rulebook 2.2) Josh granted, the counters you are currently using for the blood bank might not be as limitless as you would like...

"Joshua Duffin" <duff...@bls.gov> wrote in message news:c5h57s$1j4er$1...@ID-121616.news.uni-berlin.de... > > "LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message > news:407BBF3B...@white-wolf.com... > > > If players are getting slanted over this (and say, inquire about > > counting the blood in the blood bank prior to the selection), then > > just have each player write down a number from 1 to 4 on a piece > > of paper and hold it in his or her hand. > > The blood bank is uncountable. :-) > > "Remember that the number of blood counters in the blood bank is > limitless - the bank never runs out." (BH rulebook 2.2) I just grab 8 counters out of the blood bank and hold the excess in my off hand -- Comments Welcome, Norman S. Brown, Jr XZealot Archon of the Swamp

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:45:52 -0500, "XZealot" <nbr...@rapidretailsolutions.com> scrawled: [ quoted text not captured ] we do that too....and insist that one hand only is held above the table (we generally grab a big handful of counters, then split off secretly the amount we want into one hand and hold it out....). we don't want people having two fists of counters, and when they are guessed, open whichever hand doesn't have that much.... [ quoted text not captured ]