Announcement: The Middle Kingdom

So, yes, just a bit of April foolery. I did receive an IM from Ginés saying he fell for it, which has totally made my day.

Props to Mike Nudd for writing the article!

We'll have a proper Designer's Diary entry in 2-3 weeks with an update on the progress of the Independent set.

kombainas wrote:

We need new imbued cards

We should vote on this really...

Why not?

One of the criticism I've heard against Inbued is that when you're playing against them it is the same old thing and cards every time. Why not add just an odd feq (even one would be nice!) Imbued card every now and then, or even better, every expansion.

This way they'd slowly build slightly larger pool of cards giving players more varied options.


But perhaps we should start a discussion/poll about this in the appropriate sub-forum and not hijack this thread?

Imbued harm the game far more than Pentex Subversion.

Brum wrote:

Imbued harm the game far more than Pentex Subversion.

it's not their existence that bothers me so much as the way there are all these similar but different rules bolted on to an already cluttered system.

self wrote:

Brum wrote:

Imbued harm the game far more than Pentex Subversion.

it's not their existence that bothers me so much as the way there are all these similar but different rules bolted on to an already cluttered system.

Very true. If they got more cards that,helped current imbued 0%, maybe itd be neat. More imbued like beatrice, usimg creeds that are sdistant, like waywayward, hermit, etc.
Powers that are good for adding to vamp decks, not killing every non allies deck at the table.

Also, we already have stupid rules for them. Why not stick with canon, and an imbued taking more damage than they have life burns if hot with a gun strike? Bullets ended hunters in what ive read.

Lönkka wrote:

Why not?

One of the criticism I've heard against Inbued is that when you're playing against them it is the same old thing and cards every time. Why not add just an odd feq (even one would be nice!) Imbued card every now and then, or even better, every expansion.

This way they'd slowly build slightly larger pool of cards giving players more varied options.


But perhaps we should start a discussion/poll about this in the appropriate sub-forum and not hijack this thread?

Lonkka,
My problem with Imbued is that the break the 'limited depleting resources' structure of VTES. You start with 30 pool, you give some of it to vampires and spend your time trying to make sure you get the most from your pool/blood/vampires for the rest of the game. Imbued don't do that. Imbued refresh their Conviction every turn.

To get a feel for what that would be like for vampires, just give every vampire 1 blood during the untap before you worry about HGs/Owain/Rack/Palatial Estate/etc. Then play a game of VTES without Imbued.