"As a vampire of capacity X" [LSJ]

What exactly does playing discipline cards "as a vampire of capacity X" mean in an ally's text? Does this just apply to cards that make explicit reference to capacity/older/younger? Specifically, can discipline cards give allies more life than a vampire of that capacity would have blood? (That is, can Akhenaten Summon the Soul to have a total of five life?) I recall that there is no limit on how much life an ally can have, so, technically, when playing a card as a vampire, they have no blood (as there is no text indicating life should be considered blood except when being spent to pay costs), and thus can gain up to their simulated capacity in blood, which gets turned into life (by card text). That's a literal reading, but probably not designer intent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail: santiago [at] umug [dot] org || Web: http://santiago.umug.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ceci n'est pas un 'sig block'."

Santiago wrote: > > What exactly does playing discipline cards "as a vampire of > capacity X" mean in an ally's text? Some cards that require disciplines assume that the card is played by a vampire and some of those go on to make reference to the vampire's capacity or to his capacity relative to some other vampire's capacity. The text is there to tell you how to handle those cards (otherwise the ally would have to be treated as having no capacity - neither older nor younger nor the same age as any vampire). > Does this just apply to cards that > make explicit reference to capacity/older/younger? Specifically, can Yes. > discipline cards give allies more life than a vampire of that capacity > would have blood? (That is, can Akhenaten Summon the Soul to have a Yes. > total of five life?) I recall that there is no limit on how much life Yes. > an ally can have, so, technically, when playing a card as a vampire, > they have no blood (as there is no text indicating life should be > considered blood except when being spent to pay costs), and thus can > gain up to their simulated capacity in blood, which gets turned into > life (by card text). That's a literal reading, but probably not > designer intent. That appears to be designer intent. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and tournament rules: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/