The VEKN invites all attendees of WOD Berlin to participate in two VTES Storyline events: The Ascension of Caine, and The End of the Line. The Ascension of Caine is a homage to a story from the 1st edition RPG and will be played all day over Friday. The End of the Line complements the LARP of the same name and can be played in a short pickup format throughout the weekend. Each game has special rules and requires special deck construction. If you would like to play but do not have a ready deck then please speak to a representative of the VEKN on the day, who may be able to help.
 
If you are not able to attend the World of Darkness Berlin weekend, then we would encourage you to play the same events at home with your local playgroup, either over the same weekend in May, or on another date soon after.
 
ASCENSION OF CAINE: spring/summer 2017 VEKN storyline
 
Some Kindred interested in the origins of vampires tell stories of Caine, the figure from the Bible’s Old Testament who murdered his brother in jealousy. These stories tell that God cursed Caine, forcing him to walk the night and feed of the blood of others forevermore. Caine begat vampire progeny, which in turn spawned the clans and bloodlines known by Kindred today.
 
Many Kindred of the Camarilla dismiss these tales as simply fantasy, with no basis in reality. Certainly there are no vampires alive today who can claim to have met Caine, or who can offer a shred of proof behind the myth.
Some Kindred however—particularly those of the Sabbat—believe the legend is real. They look to cryptic ancients texts such as the Book of Nod as proof that Caine once walked the earth.

A select few believe that Caine’s return would signal the advent of the end times, or Gehenna. They lie in wait, preparing their forces, waiting for the signs.
 
CARD PREVIEWS
Nefertiti Advanced Amulet of the Ancients Visage of Caine

 

 
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END OF THE LINE: summer 2017 VEKN storyline
 
Nobody is sure when the nightclub called the Line first appeared, or who owns it. The Line is a place where questions are best not asked. The Line is a place that welcomes all nationalities, all cultures, all creatures.
At the Line everyone are equals. Primogen rub shoulders with anarchs. Camarilla share the dancefloor with Sabbat. Grudges and affiliations are left at the door. It has always been this way, and the Management will tolerate nothing less.
The Line is a place to simply be. And everyone wants to be at the Line.
 
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Official release: May 11, 2017

Legal for Tournament Play: May 11, 2017

 

Welcome to the fifth and final week of previews of the Anthology set! The previous week previews are still available by scrolling down.

PREVIEWS

 

The Line Alabástrom Styles Margs

 

Welcome to the fourth week of previews of the Anthology set! The previous week previews are still available by scrolling down.

PREVIEWS

 

Vivienne Géroux Anne-Marie Bourgeois, Inconnu Recruiter Joseph Fischer

 

Welcome to the third week of previews of the Anthology set! The previous week previews are still available by scrolling down.

PREVIEWS

 

Enkil Cog Apolonia Czarnecki Aisha az-Zahra

 

Clarification

 

All cards that are played after the resolution of an action (either successful or unsuccessful) have had their text clarified. The timing is now explicitely given, whereas previously it was left in a grey zone ("at the end of the action" that could happen before the action continues, or "when something happens" that occurs sometimes before or after the event). The text of Enkil Cog was typically describing the same timing window with two different terms ("when" and "after resolution"), due to older wordings that had been accumulated through the years without any massive cleanup. The rule team is aiming to remove as much unneccessary text as possible, and clarify the card texts with new, consistent wordings.

 

See you next week for more previews!

 

Welcome to the second week of previews of the Anthology set! The previous week previews are still available by scrolling down.

PREVIEWS

 

Field Training Weirich Waldburg André the Manipulator

 

New wording

 

Attached

By default, a minion card in play is controlled by the controller of the minion it is on (sec. 1.6.3. Minion cards). This leads to two reading perspective for cards that are put on other minions:
  1. first, when the action is announced and during its course, "this minion" refers to the acting minion
  2. then, after the action has been resolved, "this minion" refers to the minion the card is on.
In order not to rely too heavily on the subtleties of the differences between "this acting minion", "that minion" that are confusing for new and old players alike, and to avoid cumbersome formulations such as "the minion with this card", a new keyword "attached" has been added.
 

Attached: if a card is put on another, both are considered attached to each other.

This keyword is similar to the existing "bearer" (for equipment) or "employer" (for retainers) keywords.

The reprint of Field Training uses this new wording: "Unlock this vampire, choose a Discipline they have at superior and put this card on another ready non-titled vampire you control. The attached vampire is considered anarch (and Independent), and gets +1 level of the chosen Discipline. If the attached vampire changes sect, burn this card. A vampire can have only one Field Training."

"Unlock this vampire" refers to the acting vampire, and "The attached vampire" refers to the vampire the Field Training is put on.

As a last reminder, don't forget that Field Training can be put on a vampire who already has the chosen Discipline at superior (contrary to Discipline cards that usually have a restriction)!

See you next week for more previews!

 

Welcome to the first week of previews of the Anthology set! We'll take the opportunity each week to present you new cards as well as a few changes.

The set contains 48 crypt cards (including 10 new cards) and 52 library cards (including 2 new cards).

 

PREVIEWS
Eyes of Argus Hamid Mansour Laura Goldman

 

RULES UPDATE

First of all, in order to revive the game on a sound basis, White Wolf had to change two major features of VTES:

1/ Cards backs changes

The back of the cards will no longer have the Deckmaster logo. We have already experienced this kind of change, first when the Jyhad logo was changed to V:TES, then when the card backs were printed upside-down in Third Edition.

The tournament rule 4.1 Cards Allowed has been changed accordingly (changes in red).
If cards with distinct backs are used in the same deck (e.g., Jyhad and Vampire: The Eternal Struggle cards, or upside-down 3rd Edition cards and right-side up cards, or mis-cut cards, or cards without the deckmaster logo) are used, in order to prevent a significant advantage, all cards from the different sets, printings, etc. must be of sufficiently mixed card type, unless they are all sleeved with opaque sleeves (recommended).

 

2/ Replacement of the tap/untap keywords by lock/unlock

The tap/untap keywords could no longer be used and had to be changed. It was a tough and very inconvenient decision, but a necessary one. All the Inner Circle board worked on propositions to replace those keywords, and the final decision was validated by White Wolf.
We had more than 20 options, but in the end we decided that their replacement had to meet the following criteria:
  • the words had to be regular verbs with a simple past form (like "tapped") and a continuous form (like "tapping")
  • the words had to be usable transitively (as in "tap this vampire") and intransitively (as in "this vampire taps")
  • the words had to be usable on minions and non-minions cards
  • the root word (replacing tap) should ideally be one-syllable long
  • the opposite word (replacing untap) should ideally be constructed with the un- prefix.
Many interesting proposal finally didn't make the cut (exhaust/refresh, twist/untwist, set/unset, bind/unbind), and a consensus was found with lock/unlock.

The rulebook as well as all card references has been updated this way.

New wording


Wake

Many reaction cards allow vampires to "play reaction cards and attempt to block even though locked until the current action is concluded."
These cards have a special place in the game as they are the only cards that can be played in the "as a card is played" window without that explicit wording (in order to play reaction cards that can be played legitimately in that window). These cards have always been referred to as "wake" cards by players. By adding the "wake" keyword, the effect will be easier to reference and to learn for new players (in order to mark the difference with a real "unlock" effect for instance). As a reminder, the description of the "wake" effect is left between parenthesis on cards such as Eyes of Argus.

Singular "they"

The card texts have often been cluttered with "he or she", "his or her", or "him or her" forms. As well as being inelegant, this reference to gender has nothing to do with game mechanics and doesn't fit the gender-fluid background of the World of Darkness.
Therefore it was decided to enforce the usage of the singular "they". Extra care will be taken during migration of the card texts to avoid any confusion between a plural "they" (that is almost never used in the current card texts) and a singular "they".
Singular "they" is very common in informal English; if you're not familiar with it, you can read some articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

The reprint of Eyes of Argus uses this wording: "Only usable by a locked vampire. This vampire wakes (they can play reaction cards and attempt to block even though locked until the current action is concluded)."

"They" is referring to "This vampire" without any ambiguity.

CHECKLIST
Crypt Clan
2x Anarch Convert Caitiff
1x Gold Pan Dan Brujah antitribu
1x Dark Selina Brujah antitribu
1x Alex Camille Gangrel antitribu
1x Synner-G Gangrel antitribu
1x Mimir Gangre antitribu
1x Badr, Shadow of Granada Lasombra 
1x Pearl Malkavian antitribu 
1x Skulk Nosferatu antitribu 
1x Gerald FitzGerald Tremere antitribu 
1x Ludmijla Rakoczy Tzimisce 
1x Karif al Numair Assamite 
2x New Blood Blood Brother 
1x Masika ADV Toreador 
1x Omer Assamite 
1x Flavia, Avenging Angel Assamite 
1x Cao Nguyen Follower of Set 
1x Shahara al-Rashwa Follower of Set 
1x Sarrasine ADV Follower of Set 
1x Dhita Choudhair Ravnos 
1x Dr. Lawrence Mayhew Ravnos 
1x Domenic Giovanni Giovanni
1x Salvatore Giovanni Giovanni 
1x Inyanga Gangrel 
1x Matasuntha Gangrel 
1x Brunhilde ADV Gangrel 
4x Valkyrie Gangrel 
1x Appolonius ADV Brujah 
1x Salvador Garcia Brujah 
1x The Medic Nosferatu 
1x Desiree Narayan, Anarch Historian Ravnos
1x Monica Chang Tremere 
1x Louis Fortier ADV Ventrue 
1x Alabástrom Gargoyle 
   
Library Type
1x Enkil Cog Action Modifier
3x Ashur Tablets Master
1x The Unmasking Event
1x Monastery of Shadows Master
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) Ally
1x Liquidation Master
1x Heart of Nizchetus Equipment
1x Unleash Hell's Fury Action
1x New Carthage Master
4x Eyes of Argus Reaction
4x Deep Song Action
3x Target Vitals Combat
3x Shroud of Absence Action Modifier
3x Summon History Action
4x Zephyr Action Modifier
4x Instantaneous Transformation Actino Modifier
4x Spiritual Guidance Combat
4x Legacy Action
4x Field Training Action
2x Under Siege Action
   
LARP cards  
   
Crypt Clan
Aisha az-Zahra Toreador
Alabástrom Gargoyle
André the Manipulator Gangrel
Anne-Marie Bourgeois, Inconnu Recruiter Toreador
Apolonia Czarnecki Malkavian
Hamid Mansour Ventrue
Joseph Fischer Gangrel antitribu
Laura Goldman Brujah
Styles Margs Gangrel antitribu
Weirich Waldburg Ventrue
   

Library

Type
Line, The Master
Vivienne Géroux Ally
   

A full checklist is also available here: https://www.worldofdarkness.berlin/vtes

Berlin 1900

Greetings fellow Methuselahs
Spring is in the air, but who cares in a World of Darkness, right? Who needs flowers and love when you have V:TES cards, preys and predators? Sunlight is for mortals! 


IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY SET
The V:EKN is happy to announce that all the cards from the Anthology set will be legal for play on their release date (May 11, 2017). We expect players to be enthusiastic about swapping their PDF cards with genuine cards as soon as they get them or tweaking their decks with the new cards, and restricting this to reprints only made little sense.

The tournament rule 2.1 is therefore amended as follows: “All new cards and game rules go immediately into effect for V:EKN tournaments.” until further notice.

To make things fair, we'll be disclosing the new cards as well as wording changes each Monday, starting on April 3rd, for 5 weeks: http://www.vekn.net/vampire-elder-kindred-network/370-anthology

Tickets for the European Championships and the whole World of Darkness Berlin event are available at www.worldofdarkness.berlin


TWO STORYLINE TOURNAMENTS COMING UP
Some words from Mike Nudd, V:EKN Storyline Coordinator:

In May fans of the World of Darkness all around the world will be gathering in Berlin at the event World of Darkness Berlin organised by the newly invigorated White Wolf. Not only is it important for the Vampire: The Eternal Struggle game to be represented at the event, but it is also important to show that the card game can still play a part in the greater, ongoing narrative of the World of the Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade. I was glad to be asked to come up with some Storyline game ideas for the Berlin event.

For the main Storyline tournament to be held on Friday 12th I have chosen to pay homage to a story that was originally included in the Berlin by Night sourcebook for the 1st edition Vampire RPG. While the sourcebook was controversial (for a few reasons I won’t dwell on here) it did serve to introduce several key characters to the Vampire narrative and metaplot. In the Ascension of Caine Storyline, the Kindred of Berlin are confronted with a powerful being claiming to be Caine, who threatens to disband both the Camarilla and the Sabbat, to enforce a new rule of law with the world as its domain. Many influential vampires, including the Tremere Justicar Karl Schrekt, were drawn to the city to investigate this mysterious being and its claims. Ultimately this “Caine” was found to be ruse – a compelling illusion borne of the combined powers of a Bane Mummy and two Methuselahs: the Ravnos Ankla Hotep and the Setite Nefertiti.

To complement the End of the Line LARP being enacted at World of Darkness Berlin, and to facilitate more casual ‘drop in’ play by convention attendees, we will also be promoting a second, shorter, End of the Line Storyline single game format that can be played throughout the weekend.

The full rules and additional cards for both game formats will be published shortly. If you are attending World of Darkness Berlin then please make sure you prepare for these Storylines accordingly. If you are willing, please also bring at least one spare deck suitable for play which could be loaned to another convention attendee who might want to play on the day.

Note that even if you cannot attend World of Darkness Berlin, we would like to invite you to play the same Storylines with your own play groups during the same weekend of 12th-14th May (or soon after).

Regards,
Mike


DESIGN TEAM NEWS
From Ben Peal, Design Team Leader:
We're still reviewing the playtest report for Round One of the next V:EKN created set, and we've had some personal scheduling issues with setting up a meeting to prepare Round Two.  We've also just received the pdf file for Lore of the Bloodlines, a new book from Onyx Path Publishing that has a lot of new material for the bloodlines clans. We'll very likely be adding new cards to the set based on the material in the book.  Our apologies for the delay in getting Round Two out the door, but we'll get that done soon.

We've received permission White Wolf to do previews of the new cards in the Anthology set! You'll start seeing those in the next few days. Stay tuned! (See “Important news about Anthology” above)


CONTRIBUTE TO THE TOURNAMENT WINNING DECK ARCHIVE
From Vincent Ripoll, Ratings Coordinator:
The Tournament Winning Deck Archive (TWDA) is a chronological archive of decks that have won tournaments that were sanctioned by the Vampire: Elder Kindred Network and had 10 or more players. National and Continental Championship are included as well, irrelatively to their attendance. To be included in this list, a tournament report had to be made on the official V:EKN Player's Forum: http://www.vekn.net/index.php/forum/9-event-reports-and-twd

If you want to participate to the update of the archive, you'll need to create pull requests for this repository: github.com/GiottoVerducci/TWD (The instructions are in the README.md file.)

If you wish to learn the basics about pull requests, you can watch this 7-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbRzhQju4c


ARCHON 1.5F IS AVAILABLE
From Vincent Ripoll, Ratings Coordinator: 
There was a flaw in the validation of the new seatings, and some manual mistakes when reporting the results. As a consequence, some of the seatings used in Archon 1.5e were sub-optimal and have been fixed in the version 1.5f. From now on, we strongly recommand not to use the version 1.5e but version 1.5f :
Excel: www.vekn.net/images/stories/downloads/thearchon1.5f.xlsx 
LibreOffice: www.vekn.net/images/stories/downloads/thearchon1.5f.ods


CALENDAR
Upcoming events:
Apr 1 – Campina Grande, Brazil: Standard constructed
Apr 1 – Reus, Catalunya, Spain: Standard constructed
Apr 1 – Toluca de Lerdo, Mexico: Standard constructed
Apr 8 – Seattle, USA: Continental Qualifier
Apr 8 – Amadora, Portugal: Standard constructed
Apr 9 – Manaus, Brazil: Standard constructed
Apr 9 – Parma, Italy: Standard constructed
Apr 14 – Helsinki, Finland: Unsanctioned tournament (multi-deck)
Apr 15 – Lille, France: Standard constructed
Apr 21 – Manaus, Brazil: Standard constructed
Apr 22 – Stockholm, Sweden: Standard constructed
Apr 30 – Macapá, Brazil: Continental Qualifier

For more information on upcoming events see the V:EKN Event Calendar.


CONTACT V:EKN
You can contact the V:EKN Inner Circle members using contact forms at V:EKN.net. Also follow the official V:TES Facebook page Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and the official V:EKN Twitter account @VEKN_VTES

Happy ousting!

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