Field Training question

#lectureonenglishgrammar

A question regarding "Field Training" that was asked last gaming night:
Can Field Training be used by an anarch vampire without any superior disciplines just to make the target vampire anarch?

Field wrote:

1 Blood.
+1 stealth action. Requires an anarch.
Put this card on another ready, non-titled vampire you control, choose a Discipline the acting vampire has at superior and untap the acting vampire. The vampire with this card is considered anarch (and Independent), and gets +1 level of the chosen Discipline. If this vampire changes sect, burn this card. A vampire can have only one Field Training.

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Hakuron wrote:

#lectureonenglishgrammar

A question regarding "Field Training" that was asked last gaming night:
Can Field Training be used by an anarch vampire without any superior disciplines just to make the target vampire anarch?

Field wrote:

1 Blood.
+1 stealth action. Requires an anarch.
Put this card on another ready, non-titled vampire you control, choose a Discipline the acting vampire has at superior and untap the acting vampire. The vampire with this card is considered anarch (and Independent), and gets +1 level of the chosen Discipline. If this vampire changes sect, burn this card. A vampire can have only one Field Training.

No. The text requiring the superior discipline is in the same sentence as the rest of the requirements, thus is not avoidable. I can go find the LSJ set precedent, but am too damn busy right now, sorry

This came up tonight on a game on Lackey. There is an older thread here . Also unanswered.

Blooded wrote:

Hakuron wrote:

#lectureonenglishgrammar

A question regarding "Field Training" that was asked last gaming night:
Can Field Training be used by an anarch vampire without any superior disciplines just to make the target vampire anarch?

No. The text requiring the superior discipline is in the same sentence as the rest of the requirements, thus is not avoidable.

I believe this statement is incorrect. The requirements for the card is only Anarch, per the requirements line. If the acting vampire has no superior disciplines, you choose a superior discipline from the empty set, which results in choosing no discipline.

I would like to get Ankha's response, since this has been a question for some time.

kschaefer wrote:

I believe this statement is incorrect. The requirements for the card is only Anarch, per the requirements line. If the acting vampire has no superior disciplines, you choose a superior discipline from the empty set, which results in choosing no discipline.

The card says "choose a discipline the acting vampire has at superior". You cannot choose from 'an empty set'. In VTES, you need to be able to satisfy all conditions in order to even play cards. Therefore, you cannot play field training with a vampire who has only inferior disciplines.