Q1: How (and when) did you begin your career as a VTES-player? Who introduced you to the game? Where did you play originally? I started playing in 1995, as soon as the cards first came to my country. I used to play Vampire, the masquerade with a playgroup of 5 people then. Since I started playing VTES, I never played rpg anymore. A friend of mine called Pedro Lago introduced me to the game. He does not play anymore, however.	Q2: Which of the Sets and Expansions to VTES is your favorite, and why is it your top choice? Bloodlines, for sure. Because it introduced many new features and deck possibilities to the game without prejudice for the game balance at all. I think it was the more well planned expansion the game ever had.
Q3: What is your favorite deck to play, and why? I like the Salubri, mixed with weenie auspex/fortitude. Lots of bleed bounce, combat defense and that pesky spirit marionete/heidelburg combo. And... Shame on me, I like the Anson minion tap/golconda/anarch revolt too.	Q4: If you could add something to the game, what would it be? I think that many cards could be fixed. I remember when they fixed concealed weapon, I owned many of then and it was like receiving a gift. Well, ok, errata lists are a bad thing, but useless cards are worse than that. People payed for them and expect to have a chance of using it.
Q5: What do you do to help promote the game / why are you in this list of people? The prince of Rio de Janeiro has used many creative ideas to increase the local interest to the game. I made some efforts to help in this goal, such as broadcasting live video from tournaments that took place at my home. In fact, we were the first to do that, as long as I know. Another major effort is to support local players, since we are not native english speakers (probably you can notice that from my answers), it's very important to have some people in the playgroup that speak at least a little english so we can play the game.	Q6: What is your favorite deck style for casual play / tournament play? Tournament play makes the choice much harder, because here in Rio you must build a deck that handles big bleed well. It takes too much slots in the deck to do that and dominate/auspex are mandatory choices. So that's why I like salubri so much. In casual play the scenario is obviously different, and then I try to build famous decks like the turbo baron, nasty combo decks like protean/potence immortal/wolf claws/decapitate, and crazy decks like "the gay Cailean" where Cailean clan impersonates to Daughters of Cacophony to make use of concert tour for pool gain.
Q7: Is there a difference between your casual play and tournament play? Yes ! Oh yes ! There is a big difference. Card design makes it clear, I think. Some cards like that weird malkavian masters (game, prank) are obviously designed for casual play, in my opinion. Any other use for them would include a bad intended play. Big bleed decks are rare in casual play too. Who would pack a malk'94 deck to have fun with friends, for god's sake ? So, there are cards intended only to be used in tournaments, like archon investigation.

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