(LSJ) Ananasi Vampirephile question.

Ok first of I know that the anansi can not use taste of vitea, arons feeding razor, inbase disco etc..On the other hand the rpg background from the oWoD has always been held quite high in the game. That is one of the reasons i love the game so much. So here is my actual question: Why can't an ananasi use such cards ? They drink blood the same way vampires do. The vampirephile even hunts the same way vampires do. Well kind of, a +1 stealth action to add one blood/life counter to the minion. I'm not saying that every detail from the rpg needs to be transported to the ccg. I'm just very curious if this was ever discuss during desing. What arguments stood for and against letting the ananasi profit from such cards. My guess is, that it was because of too complex wording needed and lack of space on the card. Just to make sure no one missunderstands my intention with this question, I'm not criticising the descision I just would like to know how it was formed. Thanks in advance and greetings from hamburg, germany

seba <regie...@gmx.de> wrote: >Ok first of I know that the anansi can not use taste of vitea, arons >feeding razor, inbase disco etc..On the other hand the rpg background >from the oWoD has always been held quite high in the game. That is one >of the reasons i love the game so much. So here is my actual question: > >Why can't an ananasi use such cards ? Card text. >What arguments stood for and against letting the ananasi >profit from such cards. > >My guess is, that it was because of too complex wording needed and >lack of space on the card. Largely, it's this. There are other factors, though. - Most library allies aren't intended to be the prime motivators of a deck. (One or two, such as War Ghouls, come close!) If they can do everything your vampires can, it's harder. - If you give a card (any card) lots more abilities that are actually useful, you have to give it an increased cost - either in terms of absolute pool, or difficulty to maintain (e.g. Robert Carter), or giving it burn clauses, or similar. A simpler, cheaper card may actually be more useful to more people. It's often easier for the opponents facing the card, too - they don't have to learn 20 exceptions for the Vampirephile, and then a slightly different set of exceptions for the Aquatic Werebear in Blood Dimmed Tides, and so on. - If you give a card lots more abilities that are just fluff (i.e 99% of people playing the card won't ever use them), it starts taking up a lot of space. - Picking and choosing which abilities you take will always lead to disappointments somewhere. Most vampires, for example, have many more disciplines in the RPG - that one level of Obtenebration they learned from a Lasombra antitribu pirate, those few levels of Auspex that aren't translated into V:TES, or whatever. -- James Coupe PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D YOU ARE IN ERROR. EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 NO-ONE IS SCREAMING. 13D7E668C3695D623D5D THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

On May 23, 3:41 am, seba <regiege...@gmx.de> wrote: > Ok first of I know that the anansi can not use taste of vitea, arons > feeding razor, inbase disco etc..On the other hand the rpg background > from the oWoD has always been held quite high in the game. That is one > of the reasons i love the game so much. So here is my actual question: > > Why can't an ananasi use such cards ? They drink blood the same way > vampires do. The vampirephile even hunts the same way vampires do. > Well kind of, a +1 stealth action to add one blood/life counter to the > minion. > > I'm not saying that every detail from the rpg needs to be transported > to the ccg. I'm just very curious if this was ever discuss during > desing. What arguments stood for and against letting the ananasi > profit from such cards. > > My guess is, that it was because of too complex wording needed and > lack of space on the card. Exactly. Abactor, in particular, would be problematic. Similarly, since it isn't a true hunt (in the card game), it isn't affected by (Well, and perhaps backstory for Aaron's Feeding Razor: depending on what the particular enchantment is with that artifact). [ quoted text not captured ]