Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter June 2024
Contents:
- The 30th anniversary of Vampire: The Eternal Struggle continues
- Bill Troxel is 2024 North American champion!
- Player interview: Bill Troxel, North American champion 2024
- Pre-registration for EC 2024 is open!
- Vinícius Costalonga is the 2024 champion of Brazil!
- Paul Direktor is the 2024 champion of Austria!
- Special report: André Luiz wins Rio Rookie League 3!
- Ruling of the Month: Eagle´s Sight timing
- Great VTES content
- Do you want to host EC 2025?
- Black Chantry summary: June 2024
- Recent news in the World of Darkness
- Calendar
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"My strategy? Luck is my strategy, of course."
Either I have always misplayed (and misjudged!) the card, or the ruling on Eagle’s Sight is (at a minimum) written in a very ambiguous way.
> newsletter wrote:
> Not a ruling in itself, but a reminder about something players and judges very often get into problems with: You are NOT allowed to play Eagle´s Sight (or similar effects) to block a bleed action AFTER a bleed has been redirected (with Deflection or similar effect). This is because playing Deflection implies that the defending player declines to block.
>
As far as I understand, while it is true that Deflection is played after block attempts, and so I may not be able to try to block the bleed against the original Methuselah, Deflection also reopens the block attempts, so I am able to play Eagle’s Sight to block the bleed attempt against the new Methuselah (respecting the impulse order). Right?
If so, the sentence “You are NOT allowed to play Eagle´s Sight (or similar effects) to block a bleed action AFTER a bleed has been redirected” is very very misleading… and if not, I don’t know how anything works anymore
Emiliano "Sans Terre" - Wandering Player - Prince of Brussels
> emime wrote:
> Either I have always misplayed (and misjudged!) the card, or the ruling on Eagle’s Sight is (at a minimum) written in a very ambiguous way.
>
> > newsletter wrote:
> > Not a ruling in itself, but a reminder about something players and judges very often get into problems with: You are NOT allowed to play Eagle´s Sight (or similar effects) to block a bleed action AFTER a bleed has been redirected (with Deflection or similar effect). This is because playing Deflection implies that the defending player declines to block.
> >
> As far as I understand, while it is true that Deflection is played after block attempts, and so I may not be able to try to block the bleed against the original Methuselah, Deflection also reopens the block attempts, so I am able to play Eagle’s Sight to block the bleed attempt against the new Methuselah (respecting the impulse order). Right?
>
> If so, the sentence “You are NOT allowed to play Eagle´s Sight (or similar effects) to block a bleed action AFTER a bleed has been redirected” is very very misleading… and if not, I don’t know how anything works anymore
>
Yes, sorry, the article will be reworked to remove any ambiguity.
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director