TOM: Q: DS: Anathema

If the target of a successful Anathema vote is in combat, and chooses a strike which costs him his last blood, is he burned immediately upon paying for the strike, or is he only burned when the combat is over (or immediately after the strike resolves)? -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Backing into a fan, the firefly http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | was delighted to no end! Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu (L. Scott Johnson) writes: >If the target of a successful Anathema vote is in combat, and >chooses a strike which costs him his last blood, is he burned >immediately upon paying for the strike, or is he only burned >when the combat is over (or immediately after the strike >resolves)? More thoughts: If the target is at zero blood before combat (and has his hunt blocked, for example), does Anathema apply (since the target isn't reduced to zero "due to combat")? If the target spends his last blood *before* combat (either by burning blood to block Donal or a Cam. Exemplary, or by spending X blood for X maneuvers via the Ruins of Villars Abbey), and is therfore not reduced to zero during combat (but rather, remains at zero and is possibly sent to torpor or burned), does the opposing minion get Anathema credit for the reduction? [ quoted text not captured ]

>sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu (L. Scott Johnson) writes: >>If the target of a successful Anathema vote is in combat, and >>chooses a strike which costs him his last blood, is he burned >>immediately upon paying for the strike, or is he only burned >>when the combat is over (or immediately after the strike >>resolves)? As that's part of my Brujah Potence-Presence deck, it has come up. The way we've played it is just as written. Yes, this occasionally means that the Anathema struggles along emptily, and reduces himself (it was Lazarus, that Tremere bastard) to avoid the 9-pool jackpot to his prey (me), but that was fine by me. I just let him hunt (instead of bleed me) for a turn, and beat him up with a Bum's Rush after he was done. However, if the Anathema pays for a strike, then he gets to make the strike. In the above case, that meant that I'd have to hit Lazarus for 4 points of damage during the second round when he tried to Drain Essence with his last two blood. No problem when I have Growing Fury. (That's not what transpired, but that's the way we agreed to play it.) >More thoughts: >If the target is at zero blood before combat (and has his hunt >blocked, for example), does Anathema apply (since the target >isn't reduced to zero "due to combat")? No. Bummer, eh? Yet another good reason to put Anathema on one of your predator's vampires, so that nobody else gets a chance to beat him after the hunt. >If the target spends his last blood *before* combat (either by >burning blood to block Donal or a Cam. Exemplary, or by spending >X blood for X maneuvers via the Ruins of Villars Abbey), and is >therfore not reduced to zero during combat (but rather, remains at >zero and is possibly sent to torpor or burned), does the opposing >minion get Anathema credit for the reduction? Nope. This is also a good reason to go off and rescue the poor sot from Torpor. Mark Amidon, Nosferatu-in-training, Rolling in Lazarus's pool