The Lasombra <TheLa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> mess...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > When a Peace Treaty political action passes, each methuselah gets
> > the option of repaying the cost of the weapons to retain them.
> >
> > What if the weapon was gained via Bauble? Is the cost to retain
> > zero, because there was no inital cost?
>
> The cost to retain the weapon is based on the amount printed
> on the card. It doesn't matter if you stole the weapon,
> Baubled the weapon, or traded for the weapon with Succubus Club,
> you have to pay the cost printed on the card to keep it.
Right. Cards don't remeber how they got in play in general - they
don't remember if their costs were reduced or paid from non-standard
sources (Ravnos Cache, for instance).
> The only exception is weapons on Black Cat.
> The cost to keep those weapons is one less per Black Cat's card text.
Right. An equipment on Black Cat has a cost one less (pool) than
printed (even if Black Cat simply stole the equipment with Fast
Hands from someone who had paid the full amount to equip).
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LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) VTES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc.
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