Merry Christmas!

 

To all kindred, ghouls, mages, werewolves, wraiths, zombies, changelings, and mortals(and whatever else there is out there),

A very Merry Christmas! May the blood run strong in 2010, as the eternal struggle continues around the world.

 

Heirs To The Blood: Matter of Facts

 

For Those Interested ...

From Wiki:-

Striga, commonly known as witchweed, is a genus of 28 species of parasitic plants that occur naturally in parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia.

From Occultopedia:-

Maleficia, is a word carried over into medieval literature from the Latin for 'evil doings' and applied to misfortunes and calamities of all kinds for which no immediate causal explanation might be given.

 

New Disciplines in Heirs to the Blood

 

The image on the preview page is a little small, so here's the text to the 4 cards for the two new 'disciplines':

Striga [str]
Master: trifle.
Put this card on an infernal vampire.
This vampire may play cards that require Striga [str] (not a Discipline).
With two of these cards, he or she may play cards that require superior Striga [STR]. Burn this card if this vampire is not infernal.
Draft: Make a vampire you control infernal, and play this card as above.

Fractura
Combat
Requires: Striga, Celerity
Cost: X blood
[cel] X is 0. Strike: dodge.
[str] This vampire gets X additional strikes each round. Those additional strikes can only be Hand strikes. [str] is not a Discipline.
[STR] as [str] above, and this vampire gets +1 strength for the remainder of this combat.

Maleficia [mal]
Master: trifle.
Put this card on an infernal vampire.
This vampire may play cards that require Maleficia [mal] (not a Discipline).
With two of these cards, he or she may play cards that require superior Maleficia [MAL]. Burn this card if this vampire is not infernal.
Draft: Make a vampire you control infernal, and play this card as above.

Greater Curse
Action
Requires: Maleficia, Daimoinon
Cost: 1 blood
+1 stealth action.
[dai] (D) Bleed and gain 1 pool.
[mal] (D) Put this card on an ally or younger vampire. Bleed actions and combat cards costs this minion an additional blood or life. A minion can only have one Greater Curse. [mal] is not a Discipline.
[MAL] As [mal] above, but the vampire need not be younger.

 

Heirs to the Blood

 

Ladies aaaaaand Gentlemen! Now showing:

Heirs to the Blood previews and cardlist!

White Wolf has released an official spoiler and card list page on their V:tES site. From the looks of it, all the bloodlines seem to have been given even weight in terms of vampires. Previous announcements about shared Bloodline/Parent Clan starters have not been implemented, looking at the checklist. Alos note the new disciplines(?) Striga and Melificia.

From the White Wolf site:

Each booster pack contains 11 cards randomly selected from a set of 168 all-new cards consisting of 54 rares, 58 vampires, and 56 commons.

The set also features 4 non-random preconstructed decks: Gargoyle, Kiasyd, Salubri antitribu and Samedi, which contain even more cards and are designed to get beginning players started right away. All the new cards in the preconstructed decks are also found in the boosters, and naturally each preconstructed deck contains reprints of vampires and library cards from earlier sets.

 

Sibyl's Tongue

 

On the Network this week:

"How does a Gangrel manage to manipulate a Malkavian?"

"Simple! 'I kill you!!'"

 

Ruling: Tattoo Signal and Burn Options

 

Seems like you can burn Tattoo Signal with the burn option if all the Seraphs your control are non-ready.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/browse_thread/thread/241766321d6e74df#

 

Eden's Legacy Storyline Results

 

Congratulations to all finalist and especially to Gee Hwan for winning the event.

Five Methuselahs competed for the right to put their clan in the forefront of the race for Eden's secrets, but in the end, the Guruhi, the Ishtarri, the Giovanni and the Anarchs all fell to Lasombra's manipulation of the shadows.

Thanks to all who helped make the event a success, and Paradigm Infinitum for providing a great place to game at.

For more details, check out the Singing VTES blog.