Card idea: Plague wind

A bleed variant:

Plague Wind
[Action / Combat]
Requires (HoS)
Cost 2 (blood)
[Combat][nec] Strike: Ranged. Burn opposing ally or send younger vampire to torpor.
[Action][NEC] Bleed with +1 bleed. If the action is successful, target methuselah's non-wraith allies and younger vampires burn 1 blood or life.

and another variant: remove Harbringer clan requirement and add aus/AUS discipline requirement. Something like: [aus+NEC] strike and [AUS+NEC] action; and maybe add third inferior use at [nec]: before range is determined, strikes inflict +1 damage this round.

Ohlmann wrote:

Plague wind is not black death, but another, more difficult to get power.
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In the RPG, its use is to make a hell of the life of the vampire, that will kill its own herd, ghoul, and other human that come near him. Or use it on a somewhat resilient human and send him to your ennemy.

That kind of effect is more a bleeding effect in VtES, because you can easily use it to disrupt the plans of someone, or simply destroy his human asset, but not really in combat.

That gives me the idea of something like:

The idea being to give the vampire and controller a pain to deal with, and possibly 3 pool damage and 3 blood lost from a single action, and possible torporisation.

The power level doesn't feel quite right. Stacking up lots could get abusable (one per Methuselah? increasing cost?), though Harbingers don't get a cost-reduction path, at least. I deliberately went for 0 stealth (long-ish, difficult ritual), but that could change too, I guess.

I like James' version the best. Enough with the unnecessary combat cards that do not adress the problems that the Harbingers have.

I would alter the basic version to " bleed at +1 bleed, burning a blood or life from one of the controller's minions if the bleed succeeds."
This could even go up to two blood/life and keep being balanced, seeing how it is a 2-blood cost 0-stealth action, methinks.

Also, I wouldn't worry about the superior version's power level. It seems just about right. The 0-Stealth and the cost pretty much ensure it doesn't get out of hand.


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