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Vampire: Elder Kindred NetworkTM is the Official V:TES Players' Organization dedicated to the continued health of V:TES. The V:EKN endeavors to help V:TES grow in popularity through the embracing of new players as well as through the support of the existing fans.
The V:EKN is the organization responsible for sanctioning and regulating official V:TES tournaments, recording V:TES players' ratings (and rankings), and sponsoring the creation of monthly Clan Newsletters.
V:EKN Princes are volunteers who promote V:TES at the local level by, for example, coordinating tournaments and demos.
Membership
All players who register with V:EKN shall be assigned a unique V:EKN membership number. Only registered players with an active standing shall be able to hold Volunteer Officer Positions. A player must play in at least one officially sanctioned event within the past 18 months to be considered active. Lapsed players shall be again considered active for the next 18 months after participating an officially sanctioned event.
Organization and Officers of V:EKN
Inner Circle
National Coordinators
Princes
V:EKN ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Week of Nightmares is underway in Columbus, Ohio, and the North American Championship is happening this weekend at Origins. Mike Nudd and I will be in town for Origins, and as we did last year, we'll have a meeting with the playtesters in attendance to go over playtest of the next set after Danse Macabre. We got a lot of great feedback doing this last year, and we look forward to doing it again! I've also spoken with the organizers of the European Championships in Stockholm, and we'd like to do a preview/question & answer panel with the Design Team.
As for the next set, I figured I'd update you on its progress. It is an as-yet-unnamed Independent-clan themed set, slated to be 36 cards in size. The clans will be the classic Independent clans: Assamites, Followers of Set, Giovanni, and Ravnos. We have more than 70 cards designed already and more are being designed. We'll be paring the set down to 44 cards or so for playtest. Depending on how cards fare in playtest, cuts will be made and each clan will end up with 5-6 vampires and 3-4 library cards.
The main limiting factor on the size of the set is artwork. We are thrilled to report that the great majority of artists from Danse Macabre will be returning for the next set. We're also looking for more artists, so if you'd like to contribute or if you know an artist who would like to help, please send contact info and portfolios to Gines Quinonero at
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Given that it's an Independent-themed set, some of you may be wondering whether we'll be including Gangrel. At the present time we're not. Again, we're limited by how much artwork we can get, so we're going to focus on the "classic four" for now. However, if print-on-demand goes online and if we can get the resources we need from OneBookshelf.com, we'll consider expanding the scope of the set to include Gangrel. Under those circumstances, we'd also be likely to increase the amount of crypt and library cards each clan would get.
The first wave of art descriptions to be sent to the Art Director is due at the end of the month, and we'll be starting playtest then, as well. As Johannes mentioned in the forums, the print-on-demand project continues to progress with no major roadblocks. However, without final validation from all parties involved, there are no announcements to be made at the present time.
That's the news for now! See you at Origins
- Ben Peal, V:EKN Design Team Lead |
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The new rating integration with Archon upload functionality has just been released (open beta, at the moment).
Any user who has registered an event should be able to upload its results with the Archon.
Any National Coordinator should be able to approve the events in his respective country.
For more information about how to submit the results of your events and how to have them approved, please read this guideline (downloadable from the Downloads section on vekn.net):
www.vekn.net/images/stories/downloads/ve...rating-guideline.pdf
Emiliano d'Onofrio
Administrator of vekn.net |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 19:17 |
As always, changes contained herein do not go into effect for sanctioned tournaments for 30 days. (So these become active on May 22nd, 2013.)
Rulebook
- Impulse
The notion of "impulse" has been added to the Rulebook. The "impulse" represents the next opportunity to play a card or use an effect. It respects the Sequencing Rule. Only the player with the impulse can play a card or use an effect.
- Additional Strikes
A minion may only gain additional strikes after the initial strike resolution, or after the resolution of one of his or her additional strikes. A minion with unresolved additional strikes cannot gain additional strikes. A minion is limited to gaining additional strikes only from one source each round. A minion cannot pass on using an additional strike.
Cardlist
- Some typos were corrected (Lilith’s Blessing reading "Duscipline").
- Names of artists were harmonised ("Larry Snelly" becoming "Lawrence Snelly")
- Incomplete cardtext was completed (The Summoning was missing some characters).
- No change in other text.
Banned Cards
- Lilith’s Blessing
Lilith's Blessing has been added to the banned list. An alternative effect to bring its mechanics back to the tournament game is being investigated, and the card will be reintroduced once a solution has been found and tested thouroughly.
Complete Rules Reference
Some clean-up (that was necessary) - removal of outdated references, alignment with the Rulebook.A complete list will be available soon.
General Rulings
I have started including all the valid rulings I encounter (either here on vekn.net or in the Newsgroup) to the Card Rulings page. My objective here is to have that page become more of a database than a simple page. The long-term goal is to have it integrated in tools such as the SecretLibrary or VampiDroid. This will require some changes in the tables, to properly cross-reference cards, rules, and rulings. A "complete" (as far as the word applies to on-going processes) will be available soon.
Pascal Bertrand
Rules Director |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:29 |
Dear fellow Methuselahs,
It has been awfully quiet around the V:EKN so here comes a much awaited and needed update. And there is good news, the project of bringing V:TES back into print through a print-on-demand program with Onebookshelf, Inc. is advancing well. There are and have been a couple of difficulties to tackle: the printing process and quality, as well as dealing with two licensing parties (CCP and WotC).
CCP has agreed in principle to the license. Wizards first required us to demonstrate that the card quality can be achieved. We have now passed this milestone. We now continue to work with Wizards business team to agree in principle to license terms. If Wizards agree, then we will proceed to work through the legal departments at both CCP and Wizards, which can take some time. We are making progress, but it is a slow process.
A lot of the ideas gathered from the marketing teams survey and personal conversations have been gathered from the player base and they have been the foundation of the customer commercial side of the program. As soon as the deal is coming together and financials are more clear we will start leaking details, such as pricing and ordering options to you. I might also add that our rules team is working on many detailed card text updates so all of the POD cards will have the latest text versions on them, many of them incorporating clarifications and errata given by LSJ or Pascal. It seems currently that not all of the 3500 something cards will be available from the get-go, especially since all of the cards will have the same (latest) layout. So it will be a gradual process of adding cards, new to old, as the old cards get re-layouted (a very time consuming and tedious task).
In the meantime we have put the PDF release of Danse Macabre on ice and will wait for the POD program to release the set, which seems to be the preferred option with the majority of players. Nevertheless there will be some previews of cards over the next months and of course you are free to play them yourself at your own discretion, unless playing in a sanctioned tournament of course.
In other news the preparation of the European Championship is going on very well and a venue has been found, more details to come from the organisation team.
Qualifier shirts have been produced in cooperation between the marketing team and vtes.de and can be ordered in qualifier packs.
North American Championship has found its permanent home in Origins so of course this will be the same fantastic and worthwhile experience as in previous years. Kevin Mergen is working on a plan to provide people with the 2013 qualifier shirts on preorder, check out the poll on Facebook
The team working on the new rating integration with Archon upload functionality has now fixed a date for public release, which will be Sunday May 5th. This will not only include the website functionality, but also a (required) new version of The Archon and some detailed use guidelines.
Last but not least there is a new rules update coming, Pascal is currently finalizing it and it should be up by the weekend.
So, again, apologies for the long silence, I promise more frequent updates.
Johannes Walch
V:EKN Chairman |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 14:33 |
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The date of the European Championship 2013 is set (4th, 5th and 6th of October).
The web registration will be avaible as soon as possible. You can book your flights though. In the mean time join us on www.facebook.com/EuropeanChampionship2013 . |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 February 2013 07:54 |
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