Grotesque requirements

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LSJ wrote:

The Grotesque enters play. You fail to choose a location. The Grotesque removes itself from the game.

But I agree: it could be more explicit.

Thanks for pointing out the interaction with the new rule. For now, you cannot "play" the Grotesque if you cannot fulfill the choice (that is a location not already chosen by another Grotesque). It is similar to The Rack when you control no ready vampire.

If an effect forces you to put the Grotesque into play, then LSJ's ruling applies (Undue Influence at [qui] for instance)

BUT this is true only until the Grotesque is reprinted in HttB bundles (really soon), since his new text will be:

Camarilla: As this Grotesque enters play, choose a location you control not chosen for a Grotesque. Remove this Grotesque from the game if you no longer control the location. Flight [FLIGHT]. Tremere slave. Non-unique.

Which makes it in line with War Ghoul or Bima. Upon reprint, you will be able to play the Grotesque (as you could when it was released) and it will burn if you don't control a suitable location (and a clarification such as Bima's could have been a clever thing to do).