The British Museum, London and Pier 13, Port of Baltimore

Questions that came up in the discord. 1) When having "The British Museum, London" in play and a vampire equipping "Pier 13, Port of Baltimore" successfully can the vampire unlock? 2) Does "The British Museum, London" check the card type (icons on the upper left corner) and traits in the text of the card regardless of if the text changes what the card is in play? 3) Is the cost discount applicable to loceuipments? The British Museum, London Cardtype: Master Cost: 2 pool Unique location. +1 hand size. Minions you control can unlock after resolution of a successful action to equip with a non-electronic, non-vehicle, non-weapon equipment card from your hand; a minion can unlock only once this way each turn. Those equipment cards cost minions you control -1 blood or pool to equip. Pier 13, Port of Baltimore Cardtype: Equipment Cost: 2 blood This equipment card represents a location and does not count as equipment while in play. Unique. During your influence phase, this minion may equip with a non-location, non-unique equipment card from your hand (requirements and cost apply as normal). This is not an action and cannot be blocked.

It’s not an action so No.

> cordovader wrote: > It’s not an action so No. > I think you are wrong, a vampire can take an "equip action" to equip with Pier 13 i.e. it is an action....to be clear the question is not about the ability that Pier 13 provides once equipped.

I think you can unlock, because British museum uses the word "card". Therefore it checks what kind of action card was used for this action(or checks it during the action if you please), and pier 13 counts as an equipment card, and is not of the restricted types. What pier 13 is in play is irrelevant, as far as I can see. 1. See above 2. In my opinion it checks the traits of the card, not the entity that is in play. (Note that Magic the gathering makes a very practical distinction between cards that are played, and cards that are in play (permanents). VTES should probably do something similar to help in these kind of cases.) 3. Yes, because the card applies to locequipments in my opinion. Smoking craters tell no tales. —Tex talks Battletech

Then the answer is yes.

Is a loquipment a weapon, electronic, or a vehicle? Because it's an equipment. So the museum sees it as a qualifying equipment. But I have a problem with it thematically. The British Museum doesn't contain ANY historical displays of archaic weapons? No swords, axes, bows? We all know there are 0 unique melee weapons that break the game, because grapple. We all know ivory bow is the only unique weapon that you see on the regular. So why couldn't the museum let you get a sword of nuln, femur of toomlar, joulmons axe, or even waxen poetica? Baffling. You mean to tell.me that Heart of Cheating, Bowl of convergence, or more Baffling a Kevlar vest or IR goggles can get loaned to someone from there, but not Banshee Ironwail? My thematic sensibilities are violated. Just sayin.

> ReverendRevolver wrote: > Is a loquipment a weapon, electronic, or a vehicle? > > Because it's an equipment. > > So the museum sees it as a qualifying equipment. > > But I have a problem with it thematically. > > The British Museum doesn't contain ANY historical displays of archaic weapons? > No swords, axes, bows? > > We all know there are 0 unique melee weapons that break the game, because grapple. We all know ivory bow is the only unique weapon that you see on the regular. So why couldn't the museum let you get a sword of nuln, femur of toomlar, joulmons axe, or even waxen poetica? Baffling. You mean to tell.me that Heart of Cheating, Bowl of convergence, or more Baffling a Kevlar vest or IR goggles can get loaned to someone from there, but not Banshee Ironwail? > > My thematic sensibilities are violated. > > Just sayin. > Also Enkidu going to the Museum to get himself a mansion is quite funny. Or Ingrid Russo going to the museum to get some tapes of Goratrix having bestial sex with Omaya.

> inm8 wrote: > Questions that came up in the discord. > > 1) When having "The British Museum, London" in play and a vampire equipping "Pier 13, Port of Baltimore" successfully can the vampire unlock? > Yes. > inm8 wrote: > 2) Does "The British Museum, London" check the card type (icons on the upper left corner) and traits in the text of the card regardless of if the text changes what the card is in play? > It checks the card type played from your hand, not the type of the card once it's in play. ("<type> card from your hand") > inm8 wrote: > 3) Is the cost discount applicable to loceuipments? > Yes. Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director