Players Guide Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Direct Inquiries to: Philippe Boulle, Marketing Director White Wolf Publishing 1554 Litton Drive Stone Mountain, GA 30083 prbo...@white-wolf.com 404-292-1819 x203 White Wolf Announces Player¹s Guide and Legacies of the Blood for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle® Atlanta, GA, March 9, 2005 ‹ White Wolf Publishing Inc. announces today that will release a Player¹s Guide for its popular Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (V:TES) collectable card game this summer, as well as a new expansion for that game entitled Legacies of the Blood this autumn. The V:TES Player¹s Guide , available in August provides the ultimate V:TES reference for new and experienced players alike. It offers a comprehensive survey of deck building, as well as an array of sample decks and deck archetypes. It also includes strategy articles by two of the world¹s top players and a visual encyclopedia of the entire Vampire: The Eternal Struggle card catalogue (over 2,000 card images). Available in November is Legacies of the Blood, the next expansion for V:TES. It focuses on vampires of smaller clans and bloodlines, and introduces those native to sub-Saharan Africa, who first appeared in the roleplaying book Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom . Fans can choose from eight-deck starter displays, one of four individual 90-card starter decks, individual 11-card booster packs, or 36-pack booster displays‹all of which provide new minions and new strategies to bring to bear in the Eternal Struggle. Starter decks are all balanced for beginning play and feature one of the Ebony Kingdom clans, making them perfect for new players. More experienced players can look forward to the support Legacies of the Blood provides for the smaller ³clans² introduced in 2001¹s popular Bloodlines set, including the Ahrimanes, Blood Brothers and Samedi. The V:TES Player¹s Guide and Legacies of the Blood will be available in book, game, and hobby retailers, as well as online at www.white-wolf.com in the latter half of 2005. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Player¹s Guide WW2699; ISBN 1-58846-648-5; MSRP $34.99; Releases August, 2005 Vampire: The Eternal Struggle: Legacies of the Blood Starter Display WW2691; ISBN 1-58846-641-8; MSRP $79.92; Releases November 1, 2005 Vampire: The Eternal Struggle: Legacies of the Blood Booster Display WW2692; ISBN 1-58846-642-6; MSRP $107.64; Releases November 1, 2005 Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is the premier collectible card game (CCG) of intrigue, strategy and horror. Designed by Richard Garfield (designer of Magic: The Gathering®) based on White Wolf¹s award-winning roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade®, the game puts players in the roles of vampiric ancients using their minions to move against each other. Vampiric society is divided into clans, each with their own special combination of preternatural powers. Political negotiations, combat and resource management are all key parts of the play experience. V:TES recently marked its tenth anniversary and was named the world¹s best multiplayer CCG by InQuest Gamer. Organized play occurs worldwide under the banner of White Wolf¹s Vampire Elder Kindred Network (VEKN). More information is available at <http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes>. Since its entry into the roleplaying game market in 1991, White Wolf Publishing, Inc. has grown, maintaining an average market share of 26%. With collective book sales in excess of 5.5 million copies during this time, White Wolf is one of two undisputed worldwide publishing leaders for pen-and-paper roleplaying games. White Wolf properties have been licensed for television series, comic books, action figures, console and computer video games, coin-operated arcade games, professional wrestlers, replica props and weapons, interactive media events, and a myriad of merchandise. More information on White Wolf is available at <http://www.white-wolf.com/>. White Wolf, Vampire, Vampire the Eternal Struggle and Vampire the Masquerade are registered trademarks of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. Legacies of the Blood, Vampire the Eternal Struggle Player¹s Guide, Bloodlines, Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom and Vampire Elder Kindred Network are trademarks of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. -- LSJ (vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep (remove spam trap to reply) Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:13:57 GMT, LSJ <vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> wrote: > Starter decks are all balanced for beginning play and feature one > of the Ebony Kingdom clans, making them perfect for new players. More > experienced players can look forward to the support Legacies of the Blood > provides for the smaller ³clans² introduced in 2001¹s popular Bloodlines� > set, including the Ahrimanes, Blood Brothers and Samedi. Is there going to be any information about the EK clans before hand? Just wondering are the new african vampires going to belong into new clans or will they belong to the same clans as their european brethren? -- Powerbase: Turku http://www.tenerdo.org/

JH wrote: > Is there going to be any information about the EK clans before hand? Just > wondering are the new african vampires going to belong into new clans or > will they belong to the same clans as their european brethren? A great deal of information on the EK clans can be found in Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom (WW 2441) [ quoted text not captured ]

> > I'm dying to know who wrote it. I'd imagine at least a few of the > > people involved would be known old-timers from this forum. Any > > spoilage? > > Look at Dave, trying to be modest. I'd bet anyone on this forum a dime > that there's a deck with at least 5 War Ghouls in it in that book. :) > You're on. -Gregory Stuart Pettigrew

> I'm dying to know who wrote it. I'd imagine at least a few of the > people involved would be known old-timers from this forum. Any > spoilage? Look at Dave, trying to be modest. I'd bet anyone on this forum a dime that there's a deck with at least 5 War Ghouls in it in that book. :) Ankur

JH wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:13:57 GMT, LSJ <vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> > wrote: >> Starter decks are all balanced for beginning play and feature one >> of the Ebony Kingdom clans, making them perfect for new players. More >> experienced players can look forward to the support Legacies of the Blood >> provides for the smaller łclans˛ introduced in 2001ąs popular Bloodlines? >> set, including the Ahrimanes, Blood Brothers and Samedi. > > Is there going to be any information about the EK clans before hand? Just > wondering are the new african vampires going to belong into new clans or > will they belong to the same clans as their european brethren? My question is: "will we finally get some Salubri Antitribu who DON'T TOTALLY SUCK?" ;). The Worst Clan In the Game (tm) is awaiting developments on this with breathless anticipation... More Bloodlines! Yay! My favorite VTES expansion is getting extra goodies! Much rejoicing. //Petri

Ankur Gupta wrote: > Look at Dave, trying to be modest. I'd bet anyone on this forum a dime > that there's a deck with at least 5 War Ghouls in it in that book. :) First of all, I didn't have anything to do with the book. Secondly, what in *GOD'S* name makes you associate me with War Ghoul decks? -- David Cherryholmes david.che...@gmail.com "OK. So be it. It's not my view, but whatever makes you happy, right? I'm all about making you happy, Dave. :-)" -- LSJ, V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc.

I'm dying to know who wrote it. I'd imagine at least a few of the people involved would be known old-timers from this forum. Any spoilage? -- [ quoted text not captured ]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:17:38 GMT, LSJ <vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> wrote: > JH wrote: >> Is there going to be any information about the EK clans before hand? >> Just >> wondering are the new african vampires going to belong into new clans or >> will they belong to the same clans as their european brethren? > > A great deal of information on the EK clans can be found > in Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom (WW 2441) I know. I got the book myself. I just would like to know are the legacies going to be separate clans in V:TES. I personally would like them to belong to their respective european clans as all of the legacies have a distinct super-saharan counterpart. [ quoted text not captured ]

Ankur Gupta wrote: > First of all, I was harassing you. The war ghouls thing had nothing to > do with you. Bad paragraphing. :) Ah, got it. I do remember an early game out at my place when I was playing Lambach and did put a War Ghoul on the table. Thought maybe it'd made some impression in your formative years or something. ;) [ quoted text not captured ]

In message <opsnfj60...@news.utu.fi>, JH <jhattaraNO@spamtenerdople ase.org> writes: >I know. I got the book myself. I just would like to know are the legacies >going to be separate clans in V:TES. I personally would like them to belong >to their respective european clans as all of the legacies have a distinct >super-saharan counterpart. I would imagine that in the (say) two months preceding release, titbits and teasers will be previewed on the website, as has happened with a number of other releases. I'd also imagine that it's quite possible that - right now - the exact integration of bloodlines into clans or having them as separate clans may or may not be settled. Playtesting may well still be going on, and it's quite possible that feedback from that will influence decisions one way or other other. -- James Coupe "Why do so many talented people turn out to be sexual PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D deviants? Why can't they just be normal like me and EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 look at internet pictures of men's cocks all day?" 13D7E668C3695D623D5D -- www.livejournal.com/users/scarletdemon/

>> Look at Dave, trying to be modest. I'd bet anyone on this forum a dime >> that there's a deck with at least 5 War Ghouls in it in that book. :) > > First of all, I didn't have anything to do with the book. Secondly, what in > *GOD'S* name makes you associate me with War Ghoul decks? First of all, I was harassing you. The war ghouls thing had nothing to do with you. Bad paragraphing. :) Ankur

David Cherryholmes wrote: > I'm dying to know who wrote it. I'd imagine at least a few of the > people involved would be known old-timers from this forum. Any spoilage? Out of a deep concern for your well-being and in an effort to stave off your death, I'll spoil a bit. There are several names that you'll recognize that participated in the creation of the Player's Guide. I'll let them come forward on their own if they care to (otherwise you'll just have to read their names in the credits). -Robert

Petri Wessman <nos...@orava.org> wrote: : JH wrote: :> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:13:57 GMT, LSJ <vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> :> wrote: :> Is there going to be any information about the EK clans before hand? Just :> wondering are the new african vampires going to belong into new clans or :> will they belong to the same clans as their european brethren? : My question is: "will we finally get some Salubri Antitribu who DON'T : TOTALLY SUCK?" ;). The Worst Clan In the Game (tm) is awaiting developments : on this with breathless anticipation... What, no Groundfighting !Salubris yet? :) Yup, I've been waiting for some support for them as well. And please don't make the possible new !Salubri Vamps Group 4. //T

Robert Goudie wrote: > There are several names that you'll recognize that participated in the > creation of the Player's Guide. I'll let them come forward on their > own if they care to (otherwise you'll just have to read their names in > the credits). > > -Robert I wrote one of the strategy articles that will be found in the new player's guide. I was asked to give my personal approach to deck building and tournament play. I believe my article did a good job of explaining my philosophies on those topics. I hope that it will be useful to players of all experience levels. Jay Kristoff V:EKN Prince of Columbus, Ohio USA

>> First of all, I was harassing you. The war ghouls thing had nothing to >> do with you. Bad paragraphing. :) > > Ah, got it. I do remember an early game out at my place when I was > playing Lambach and did put a War Ghoul on the table. Thought maybe > it'd made some impression in your formative years or something. ;) Well, in the sense that my poor poor Rudolfo went screaming into torpor, yes. :) I was talking about that "standard" deck in one of the card magazines a while back that had like, you know, 8 war ghouls or something. Cause you know, everyone's got 8 war ghouls just laying around. Ankur

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:59:22 +0200, Petri Wessman <nos...@orava.org> wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] If Valeran actually did anything, the vampires might not be so bad. !Salubri gained something important from KMW: lost the title of worst clan in the game to the Abominations. On a tangent, I didn't notice at first that the Abominations couldn't all be played together. *sigh* Cant do the x4 Allonzo, Lorrie, Pariah deck or even mix Lorrie and Pariah together at all, true shame. Oh well, more incentive to do x6 Allonzo/Lorrie, x6 Allonzo/Pariah, I suppose.

cur...@aol.commetal wrote: > If Valeran actually did anything, the vampires might not be so bad. It does do stuff. Melee weapon stuff. The problem has been, mainly, that melee weapons suck. But now there's two cards that can cancel grapple, and I think this significantly changes the efficacy of !Sal combat (with the efficacy of combat as a path to victory still left as an open question). Now, if you discount considering Valeran, and instead note the general poorness of the !Sal crypt, then it becomes a question of whether we see decent !Sal vampires. > !Salubri gained something important from KMW: lost the title of worst > clan in the game to the Abominations. Heh. I'm not sure that's entirely clear. It's hard, for me at least, to assess the overall impact of kick ass specials. And two of the three clearly have powerful cardless, in-built abilities. Pariah is pretty poor, but it's as easy to look at him as a lone outlier as it is to call him one third of the bloodline. [ quoted text not captured ]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:33:18 -0500, David Cherryholmes <david.che...@duke.edu> wrote: >cur...@aol.commetal wrote: > >> If Valeran actually did anything, the vampires might not be so bad. > >It does do stuff. Melee weapon stuff. The problem has been, mainly, >that melee weapons suck. But now there's two cards that can cancel >grapple, and I think this significantly changes the efficacy of !Sal >combat (with the efficacy of combat as a path to victory still left as >an open question). Now, if you discount considering Valeran, and >instead note the general poorness of the !Sal crypt, then it becomes a >question of whether we see decent !Sal vampires. Why would anyone discount considering Valeren (sorry I misspelled this above), though? Assume that Valeren was a real discipline in effectiveness; would the current crop of !Salubri be badly designed? There may be something wrong with having a clan with caps of 2, 3, 4, 4, and 7 in general as there's just not much you can do with that in terms of discipline concentration or votes and only so much you can do with powerful specials, but, in isolation, the !Salubri we have fit within standard design parameters, right? Suppose they had Spiritus or Mytherceria instead of Valeren, would there be something wrong with them? (I'm thinking that no one is going to buy into the idea that them having Dominate, Protean, or whatever instead of Valeren would be a fair point.) Sure, it's possible to work around the awfulness of Valeren in designing new !Salubri, but isn't it a bit strange to have a discipline in the game that essentially will get ignored? Alternatively, if the design caters specifically to Valeren - "Belinda can make melee weapon strikes at long range." or whatever, isn't that kind of boring since the vampire will tend to have only one use? I have no issue with new !Salubri that seem better, but fixing Valeren not only helps the new gals (whenever they get made), it fixes the old too making a larger percentage of the card pool usable.

cur...@aol.commetal wrote: > Why would anyone discount considering Valeren (sorry I misspelled this > above), though? Assume that Valeren was a real discipline in > effectiveness; would the current crop of !Salubri be badly designed? I didn't mean that I think you should discount it. I just meant that, even if you made Valeren good, you'd still have a problem with the vampires. The new set might fix both. > Sure, it's possible to work around the awfulness of Valeren in > designing new !Salubri, but isn't it a bit strange to have a > discipline in the game that essentially will get ignored? Oh man, that was funny! You know who I am.... does the word "Quietus" ring any bells? :) Of course, I'm just speaking historically. Quietus has a few new usable cards. [ quoted text not captured ]