Children of the Revolution

Eighteen new vampires; eighteen new card ideas. Mostly top-down design, since I'm more of a lore guy than a mechanics guy, but I've tried to make them exciting and playable.

Name: Apacia, Queen of Tombs
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbingers of Skulls
Level: Basic
Group: 6
Capacity: 9
Discipline: ani obf AUS CEL NEC FOR POT
Sabbat. Bishop. Once each combat, Apacia may burn 1 blood to get one press, only usable to continue combat.

Name: Esperanza Lucifer, The Devil's Darling
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Lasombra
Level: Basic
Group: 6
Capacity: 10
Discipline: DOM OBT pot for
Sabbat. +2 bleed. During your influence phase, you may remove a copy of EL,TDD in your uncontrolled region from the game to burn all cards on her.

Name: Colm Olliver
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Brujah
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 4
Discipline: POT cel tha ser
Independent. Anarch. Red List. Colm Olliver may enter combat with the Prince of London as a D action.

Name: Jaromir Cerny
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Tzimisce
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 7
Discipline: AUS DOM ani obf
Independent. +1 intercept.

Name: Andrew Seneca
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Ventrue
Level: Basic
Group: 5
Capacity: 7
Discipline: DOM FOR PRE aus
Camarilla. +1 bleed against a methuselah who controls an Anarch.

Name: Roderigo al-Dakhil
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Nagaraja
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 9
Discipline: AUS DOM NEC for tha obf
Sabbat. Black Hand. Scarce. Your minions gain +1 stealth on actions requiring Black Hand vampires. You may search your hand, deck, or library for a copy of Guarded Rubrics and equip it at no cost. Shuffle your library afterward.

Name: Marc de Brabant
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Gangrel
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 7
Discipline: ANI FOR PRO obf
Camarilla. Primogen.

Name: Nasch the Circassian
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Ventrue
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 8
Discipline: PRE FOR dom pot
Independent. Anarch. 2 votes. Your minions gain +1 stealth on actions to enter combat and +1 strength in those combats. Nasch may not block Followers of Set.

Name: Maryann Fletcher, The Hangman's Bride
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Nosferatu
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 6
Discipline: ANI OBF aus pot
Camarilla. Any vampire attempting to block MFTHB burns 1 blood. Maryann may not hold a title or gain votes.

Name: Laurette Morel
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Toreador
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 7
Discipline: AUS CEL PRE nec
Camarilla. Mortal allies Laurette recruits cost one less pool. If you control Francois Villon, Laurette becomes a Primogen.

Name: Dastur Anosh
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Assamite
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 11
Discipline: AUS CEL DOM OBF PRE QUI for
Sabbat. Black Hand Seraph. You may search your hand, deck, or library for a copy of Weeping Stone and equip it at no cost. Shuffle your library afterward.

Name: Edgardo "The Robber" Robbia
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Brujah
Level: Basic
Group:
Capacity: 7
Discipline: PRE aus cel pot dom
Independent. Edgardo can spend a blood to play cards requiring a sect as if he were a member of that sect. Titled vampires have -1 intercept against Edgardo.

Name: Meixiu
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Malkavian
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 5
Discipline: DEM AUS obf nec
Camarilla. Necromancy cards cost Meixiu an additional blood.

Name: Lady Margaret Willoughby
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Tremere antitribu
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 4
Discipline: aus dom
Sabbat. LMW may search your library for an action card requiring Thaumaturgy as a +2 stealth action. Shuffle your library afterward.

Name: Svein Fortinbras
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Followers of Set
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 3
Discipline: pre ser
Independent. +1 stealth on actions to burn a location.

Name: The Nabatean
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Lasombra
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 4
Discipline: OBT POT aus for pro
Independent. At the start of your influence phase, the Methuselah who controls the oldest Lasombra may gain control of The Nabatean. If she does not, The Nabatean goes to torpor.

Name: Lizette Cordoba
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Toreador
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 5
Discipline: aus cel for pre
Camarilla. Lizette gains +1 bleed against Methuselahs who control Camarilla vampires.

Name: Lados
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Malkavian
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 8
Discipline: AUS DEM DOM
Independent. +1 stealth.

To keep thing short and useful, I only tried to show formatting error and not canon problem or power level problem.

Jadasc wrote:

Name: Jaromir Cerny
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Tzimisce
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 7
Discipline: AUS DOM ani obf
Independent. +1 intercept.

No vissicitude ? If he is supposed to be an Old Tzimisce, I think it should be left apart. Adding new bloodline seem bad, and Old Tzimisce flinging warghoul seem counter intuitive.

Jadasc wrote:

Name: Roderigo al-Dakhil
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Nagaraja
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 9
Discipline: AUS DOM NEC for tha obf
Sabbat. Black Hand. Scarce. Your minions gain +1 stealth on actions requiring Black Hand vampires. You may search your hand, deck, or library for a copy of Guarded Rubrics and equip it at no cost. Shuffle your library afterward.

Formatting error : I don't know whether the intent is an action he can perform or an effect when he enter play or something else, but it does not work as written.

Jadasc wrote:

Name: Nasch the Circassian
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Ventrue
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 8
Discipline: PRE FOR dom pot
Independent. Anarch. 2 votes. Your minions gain +1 stealth on actions to enter combat and +1 strength in those combats. Nasch may not block Followers of Set.

Likely to be extremely overpowered. And baseline anarch, which should be avoided at all cost.

Jadasc wrote:

Name: Dastur Anosh
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Assamite
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 11
Discipline: AUS CEL DOM OBF PRE QUI for
Sabbat. Black Hand Seraph. You may search your hand, deck, or library for a copy of Weeping Stone and equip it at no cost. Shuffle your library afterward.

Same remark as for the above mentionned black hand : bad formatting on the "ability" (action ?). Extremely underwhelming otherwise.

Jadasc wrote:

Name: The Nabatean
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Lasombra
Level: Basic
Group: ?
Capacity: 4
Discipline: OBT POT aus for pro
Independent. At the start of your influence phase, the Methuselah who controls the oldest Lasombra may gain control of The Nabatean. If she does not, The Nabatean goes to torpor.

Likely too powerful for the smallish drawback. What happen in case of tie ?

1. Yup; he's Old Clan. That's why the Independent affiliation, rather than Sabbat.
2. Gotcha. Perhaps the plus-bleed and Gehenna-event-cancelling could be made inherent to him, rather than simply fetching the equipment card.
3. Okay. The intent is that, due to his attempt at diablerie on the Setite antediluvian, he tends to breed revolution and riot wherever he stays. He's a natural chaos magnet.
4. Agreed. He's just a big, boring powerful vampire. Completeness' sake, though.
5. If there's a tie, there's no oldest Lasombra (like Gurchon Hall), and the torpor condition applies.

Jadasc wrote:

1. Yup; he's Old Clan. That's why the Independent affiliation, rather than Sabbat.

If he is Old Tzimisce, a new Bloodline must be created for him, because a lot of Tzimisce card implie Vissicitude, and a good mastery of it. At least three are both playable and problematic : War Ghoul, Asanbonsam Ghoul, Living Manse. (it can be argued that the Revenant and Haven Affinity are fitting, but still ...)

I am against creating an additional bloodline since a lot of concept are already half done ; in addition, the very existence of Old Tzimisce in World of Darkness is relatively dubious. It come from the Dirty secret of the black hand, along with Nagaraja and True Manus Nigrum, after all.

Jadasc wrote:

2. Gotcha. Perhaps the plus-bleed and Gehenna-event-cancelling could be made inherent to him, rather than simply fetching the equipment card.

An action to retrieve the Rubrick, like Dan Murdock, is fine.

Jadasc wrote:

3. Okay. The intent is that, due to his attempt at diablerie on the Setite antediluvian, he tends to breed revolution and riot wherever he stays. He's a natural chaos magnet.

First, Anarch is not chaos, extremely far from it, as may say to you real-world anarchists.

Then, there is still a couple of troubles :
* Anarch trait is balanced over the fact you must use card or action to became anarch. Additional vampires with printed Anarch trait can wreak havoc on that, so it must be avoided as much as possible.
* if he is a chaos magnet, everyone at the table is going to benefit from that. Here, he feel like a commando instructor.
* powerlevel wise, having your embrace with 2 strength rushing people left and right is pretty scary, even more so if you give them (or if you do that with weenie)

Jadasc wrote:

4. Agreed. He's just a big, boring powerful vampire. Completeness' sake, though.

I believe completeness should take a seat back to playability. Beside, he could be a boring, powerful, and playable 11 cap : he only need +2 bleed and some other bling (+1 strength, +1 stealth, 4 votes, something like that)

Sabbat do lack versatile 11-cap, so if you don't have idea, the Inner Circle template can be a good start.

Jadasc wrote:

5. If there's a tie, there's no oldest Lasombra (like Gurchon Hall), and the torpor condition applies.

I would then add an "or in case of tie" to make thing clearer.

1. It's possible that a new bloodline could be created to accommodate him, but I don't know that it's necessary. Many of the Dirty Secrets-originated elements have been rehabilitated through V20 and other, newer works. I think it'd be fine. (You'll note that the Nagaraja and the true Hand are in play, too.)

2. Cool.

3. The Anarch elements and the "chaos magnet" elements are separate; he's considered something of an idol in the Anarch movement as well as his unique problem.

And, in case it's not clear, thank you for the feedback. It's appreciated.

Jadasc wrote:

(You'll note that the Nagaraja and the true Hand are in play, too.)

If by that you say that the True Black Hand is in VtES, then I believe it's false.

Like for the !Tremere which weren't really exterminated, VtES have decided that they were only one Black Hand, which is really linked to the Sabbat and all. The existing pool card show it : each and every black hand are sabbat, Sabbat is a prerequesite to enter them, and their card expand the "sabbat elite group" thematic a lot more than the "conspirationnists with a lot of strange mystical ally" of the True Manus Nigrum

It is not more or less canon to only have the Black hand than to have the True Black Hand anyway. Like the Children of Osiris or the creation of Baali by Saulot, it's between rumor and truth, and the truth is "left to MJ" (which mean, storyline director in our case I suppose)

Nagaraja are kind of an error of VtES for me, for a number of reason (lack of characterization at the time they were introduced, too much clan on , even though the actual card have a very defining flavor, and supposedly so extremely obscure it don't have to be shown). Because one error have been done does not mean other should be done.