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Stealing Blood?

2 messages from 2 participants · 27 October 1998
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James A Ignatuk

The V:TES rulebook seems to contradict itself concerning the effects of stealing blood: (page 30) "A vampire can use stolen blood to absorb damage and does not go to torpor." (page 50) "...her third blood point can't be used to heal damage since it was just stolen." So can you steal blood as a strike and use it to heal damage during strike resolution??? Please let me know! Thanks, Jim

LSJ

[ quoted text not captured ] Yes. Note that if you steal more blood than your capacity allows, the excess drains off (to the blood bank) immediately, before you get a chance to use it to heal damage. Check the revised rulebook (linked in .sig): 6.4.5. Strike Effects --------------------- Steal Blood. This effect moves blood counters (or life counters) from the target to the striking minion. This does not count as damage, so the effect cannot be prevented with damage prevention effects. This effect occurs before the "heal damage" step of damage resolution, so the stolen blood can be used to heal damage even if the damage is inflicted simultaneously. If the stolen blood causes the striking vampire to have more blood than his capacity, the excess drains off immediately (as usual). Example: Sarah Cobbler enters combat with a Mage ally. Sarah has a capacity of four and has three blood. The Mage has two life. After determining range, Sarah steals three blood as her strike. The Mage strikes for 2R damage. Two life counters are moved to Sarah from the Mage, and Sarah sustains two damage. Sarah has five blood but her capacity is only four, so one blood is moved to the blood bank. The Mage has no life counters remaining, so he is burned. Sarah has two damage to deal with and doesn't prevent any, so she burns two blood to heal the damage, leaving her with two blood. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@wizards.com) VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and DCI (tournament) rules: http://www.wizards.com/VTES/VTES_Rules.html