Cloak the Gathering (LSJ/whomever)

Could someone explain to me the way(s) to use 'Cloak the Gathering', including the errata. Thank you. -- Kevin J. Mergen, kjme...@home.com, Prince of Madison, WI "Know your enemy, and know yourself; in one-thousand battles you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" "Contentment... Complacency... Catastrophe!" -- Joseph Chevalier

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Kevin M. wrote: > Could someone explain to me the way(s) to use 'Cloak the Gathering', > including the errata. You can play Cloak the Gathering at inferior to gain +1 stealth. At superior, any other vampire with superior Obfuscate who you control who is not in torpor may play it to grant another acting vampire you control stealth. For example, I am using Roland Bishop to bleed you. Roland needs +1 stealth when you attempt to block, so he plays Cloak the Gathering at inferior. I have a copy of Gilbert Duane untapped and ready. He plays Cloak the Gathering to give me an additional stealth when you play +1 intercept. I have a copy of Mariel tapped and ready. She plays Cloak the Gathering to give me an additional stealth when you play another +1 intercept. This is because action modifiers are played during an action, normally. When you declare an action, you tap so, by default, all action modifiers are played by tapped vampires. Cloak the Gathering does not change this (as Hidden Lurker does, see errata) so it can be played by a tapped vampire. I have a copy of Lucian in torpor. He cannot play it at superior, since he is in torpor, whether tapped or untapped. He could play it at inferior for himself, were he leaving torpor though. ("Action modifiers cannot be played by a vampire in torpor unless that vampire is the acting minion. [RTR 19970306]") Each vampire, during the action, can only play it once (one action modifier per minion per action), but their tapped/untapped status is irrelevant. -- James Coupe | PGP Key 0x5D623D5D "And all the while I'm thinking things that I can never share with him. I'm a bundle of confusion, yet it has a strange appeal. Did it all begin with him and the way he makes me feel?"

[ quoted text not captured ] So am I able to play this card on *someone else's turn* to give *their* vampire +1 stealth? Or is it, unless card text specifies otherwise, that you simply cannot play action modifiers on someone else's turn?

"Kevin M." wrote: [...52 lines snipped...] > So am I able to play [Cloak (sup)] on *someone else's turn* to give *their* > vampire +1 stealth? Or is it, unless card text specifies otherwise, that > you simply cannot play action modifiers on someone else's turn? Action Modifiers/Reactions * Action Modifiers that can be played by minions other than the acting minion (Hidden Lurker, Mask of a Thousand Faces, superior Cloak the Gathering) can only be played by the controller of the acting minion. [LSJ 25-APR-1999] -- 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/