minor boon question

Ok, I have no doubt this has been discussed to death, but I have to ask anyway as it came up in our group over the weekend, and I didn't have a good answer... Minor Boon text: Prevent a vampire controlled by another Methuselah from going into torpor. Put this card on the vampire; the vampire remains in the active region. In return, that vampire cannot bleed you until it rescues a vampire you control from torpor. This Minor Boon is then burned. After searching past articles on deja-news, I see that minor boon is player after combat, but how do you prevent the vamp from going to torpor? If you play the card, is the vamp automatically saved - ie does the act of playing the card keep the vamp from going to torpor? Do you pay the blood to heal the damage out of your pool? Does one of your vamps pay for the damage? Thanks, Mark

Mark Lamutt wrote: > Minor Boon text: > > Prevent a vampire controlled by another Methuselah > from going into torpor. Put this card on the vampire; > the vampire remains in the active region. In return, > that vampire cannot bleed you until it rescues a vampire > you control from torpor. This Minor Boon is then > burned. > > [...] how do you prevent the vamp from going to > torpor? If you play the card, is the vamp automatically saved - ie does > the act of playing the card keep the vamp from going to torpor? Do you > pay the blood to heal the damage out of your pool? Does one of your > vamps pay for the damage? The vamp is "saved" by the effect of the Minor Boon. No other cost need be paid to prevent him from going to torpor. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@wizards.com) VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and DCI (tournament) rules: http://www.wizards.com/VTES/VTES_Rules.html

LSJ wrote: > > Mark Lamutt wrote: > > Minor Boon text: > > > > Prevent a vampire controlled by another Methuselah > > from going into torpor. Put this card on the vampire; > > the vampire remains in the active region. In return, > > that vampire cannot bleed you until it rescues a vampire > > you control from torpor. This Minor Boon is then > > burned. > > The vamp is "saved" by the effect of the Minor Boon. No other cost > need be paid to prevent him from going to torpor. Hmm... if a vampire with zero blood gets hit with a strike that does 2 damage, he goes to torpor on the first point of damage, but then someone plays Minor Boon. Then doesn't the second point of damage send him to torpor also? What if the strike was 1 regular damage and 1 ag? -davey!