Parity Shift

sba...@cso.geg.mot.com (Steven Bauer) writes: >I have a parity shift question. >Is the maximum amount of blood gained by a parity shift limited by the difference >between your the target meth pool and your pool or is it only limited by >the number of meth in the game. >Example, > If there are 4 meth in the game and I called a parity shift on my prey who >was 14 blood and I have 12 blood can I take 4 blood or only 2? >Plese give a source or reason for your response. Limited to the number of Methuselhs in the game, with no regard to the actual difference in pool (so long as the target starts with more pool than the acting Methuselah). From: aa...@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas R Wylie) Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad Subject: Re: Parity Shift (Re: Gangrel politics) Date: 5 Apr 1995 08:36:49 GMT Message-ID: <3ltkr1$6...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> When the Parity Shift vote starts, you choose a player who has more blood than you. If the vote passes, you take X of their blood away, where X is the number of players in the game. This X is limited by how much blood they have, not the difference between their blood total and yours. So if it's an eight player game, they have 13 blood, and you have 7 blood, you are divvying up eight blood, not six. Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for aa...@cats.ucsc.edu Wizards of the Coast, Inc. -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | These opinions are mine and http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | are subject to card text. Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

In article <1995Dec12....@schbbs.mot.com>, sba...@cso.geg.mot.com says... > >I have a parity shift question. > >Is the maximum amount of blood gained by a parity shift limited by the difference >between your the target meth pool and your pool or is it only limited by >the number of meth in the game. > >Example, > > If there are 4 meth in the game and I called a parity shift on my prey who >was 14 blood and I have 12 blood can I take 4 blood or only 2? > >Plese give a source or reason for your response. > >--Steve > > You should be able to take 4 blood. I don't have a specific source, but the card mentions nothing about restrictions on the amount taken. It says "Divide up to # of that blood ..." and "# is the number of Methuselahs currently in the game." Nothing about 'unless # is greater than the difference between pools.' The qualifier at the beginning is just so you can't drive down anyone who's already lower than you. -Dave Gausebeck

In article <4aj2lj$a...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, gaus...@uiuc.edu (David Gausebeck) writes: >In article <1995Dec12....@schbbs.mot.com>, sba...@cso.geg.mot.com >says... >>I have a parity shift question. >> >>Is the maximum amount of blood gained by a parity shift >>limited by the difference >>between your the target meth pool and your pool or is it only limited by >>the number of meth in the game. >> >>Example, >> >>If there are 4 meth in the game and I called a parity shift on my prey >>who was 14 blood and I have 12 blood can I take 4 blood or only 2? >You should be able to take 4 blood. I don't have a specific source, but the >card mentions nothing about restrictions on the amount taken. It says >"Divide up to # of that blood .. >." and "# is the number of Methuselahs currently in >the game." Nothing about 'unless # is greater than the difference between >pools.' The qualifier at the beginning is just so you can't drive down anyone who's >already lower than you. No, "that blood" can easily refer to the difference in pool, not the the other Meth's entire pool. I've played it both ways, and the card works much better when it's limited to the difference. Unlimited, the vote is just too good. Besides that, the name "Parity Shift" is only appropriate in the version limited to the difference - 4 vs. 6 become 6 vs. 4. The parity has shifted. If 4 vs. 6 can become 10 vs. 0, more than the parity has shifted.