rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Flavour texts

5 messages from 5 participants · 14 March 1996 – 21 March 1996
original thread on Google Groups

Dollface

Time for another pointless discussion. What do you reckon is the best flavour text on Jyhad/Vtes cards. My current favourite is on the V:tes version of well aimed car. "We will discuss your breach of the Masquerade later" :Tusk, Talebearer of clan Nosferatu (At least I think thats how it goes) Also, does anybody know why they changed so many of the Jyhad flavour texts for Vtes, often for the worse IMO ???? Cheers Alun

Chad Lubrecht

[ quoted text not captured ] I noticed that every Jyhad card that had a song quote on it was changed. The first one I noticed was Majesty (with the Nine Inch Nails quote.) I don't know why they did this. Chad Lubrecht lubr...@udel.edu (I think the Jyhad Majesty gets my vote as best flavor text)

PDB6

I am fairly certain that all the quotes that were changed on the VTES versions of Jyhad cards were done so because of possible copyright violation issues that WOTC chose to ignore in the original set. These were mostly quotes from songs (Head like a Hole by NIN, Sensual World by Kate Bush) or popular sources (Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, The original WAC text from Firesign Theatre) that were presumably used without permission. I always liked the Twin Peaks quote on Owl Companion and the text on the original WAC: "The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococco's pocket..." Peter D Bakija PD...@aol.com "I'm going to kill you anyway, Kryceck, so you might as well tell me the truth!" -Mulder

L. Scott Johnson

Chad Lubrecht <lubr...@udel.edu> writes: >I noticed that every Jyhad card that had a song quote on it was changed. > The first one I noticed was Majesty (with the Nine Inch Nails quote.) I >don't know why they did this. Because they hadn't gotten permission from any of the copyright holders (Trent in this case) to use their works. Same reason they switched images on Camille (but not the same reason they changed her name - that was just a foul up.) -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Friends help you move. http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | Real friends help you move bodies. Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

Marc Erl

Dollface wrote: > > Time for another pointless discussion. > What do you reckon is the best flavour text on > Jyhad/Vtes cards. My current favourite is on the V:tes > version of well aimed car. > > "We will discuss your breach of the Masquerade > later" > :Tusk, Talebearer of clan Nosferatu Hey, a good issue...:) My personal favourite is on the new version of Flame Thrower: "Not a very subtle weapon to say the least" Tusk the Talebearer. I just loooove british understatement..:)