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Card Idea: Opportunistic Embrace

Legendre

11/22/2010 1:48:00 AM

This idea came up during a game last night when the Tremere Toolbox
and the Tremere-Setite Laibach deck were bitching about the Imbued
Deck that was pounding us into oblivion. It's a ghoul/mortal
counterpart to Abomination.

Opportunistic Embrace
Action, 3 Blood
Requires a non-sterile vampire.

Choose a ghoul or mortal ally and put this card on it. This action is
at +1 stealth if you control the ally. The ally with this card is a
vampire of the same clan as the acting vampire with a capacity equal
to the ally's starting life total, and retains all special abilities,
but may not possess Conviction cards. The acting vampire gets +1
stealth on (D) actions against the vampire with this card. If a non-
titled vampire takes this action, call a single bloodhunt referendum
to burn both the acting vampire and the targetted ally.
2 Answers

Ruben Feldman

11/22/2010 9:30:00 AM

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I like the idea but this card would suck. Compare it to Embrace, which
gives you an addtional vampire for cheaper, rather than just
transforming an ally. Also a lot of allies rely on burning life or
using life (shambling, succubus) and you would run into rules problems
with allies such as ossian and nephandus.
Also there is no mention of what happens to the life, as in is it
converted to blood etc.

salem

11/22/2010 11:28:00 AM

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Ruben Feldman wrote:

[salem: card text inserted]
Opportunistic Embrace
Action, 3 Blood
Requires a non-sterile vampire.

Choose a ghoul or mortal ally and put this card on it. This action is
at +1 stealth if you control the ally. The ally with this card is a
vampire of the same clan as the acting vampire with a capacity equal
to the ally's starting life total, and retains all special abilities,
but may not possess Conviction cards. The acting vampire gets +1
stealth on (D) actions against the vampire with this card. If a non-
titled vampire takes this action, call a single bloodhunt referendum
to burn both the acting vampire and the targetted ally.

> I like the idea but this card would suck. Compare it to Embrace, which
> gives you an addtional vampire for cheaper, rather than just
> transforming an ally. Also a lot of allies rely on burning life or
> using life (shambling, succubus) and you would run into rules problems
> with allies such as ossian and nephandus.
> Also there is no mention of what happens to the life, as in is it
> converted to blood etc.

Only works on mortals and ghouls, so no issues with fancy stuff (other than
gregory winter?).

no mention of life or blood - it has neither, i guess. but agreed it could
do better with being explicit about what happens.

and benefits over regular embrace: kill someone else's ally, and start with
capacity potentially greater than 1.

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salem
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