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 began playing with the original Jyhad set the week it came out. I was already an avid Vampire tabletop player, and a Magic The Gathering player. I was in college at the time, and several of us bought cards and began playing, usually in college study lounges.	Q2: Which of the Sets and Expansions to VTES is your favorite, and why is it your top choice? Probably Ancient Hearts. It has the largest selection of interesting, off-beat vampires and library cards. A number of Ancient Hearts vampires with out of clan disciplines enable all kinds of interesting decks, and cards like Clan Impersonation are vital for many strange decks with unexpected results. It expanded the game in ways that did not generally strengthen existing archetypes excessively, while allowing many new decks types to be created.
Q3: What is your favorite deck to play, and why? Some variation of the Anneke/Obediance/Vote deck. I enjoy playing the table, intervening in events in ways that allow me to alter the flow of the entire game. This is the deck that is easiest to play in that fashion, and still do well. Close behind it would be some kind of Malkavian Antitribu deck involving Lunatic Eruption/Mind of a Child/Kindred Spirits, for the same reason.	Q4: If you could add something to the game, what would it be? New cards exploring existing facets of the game in new ways, such as new cards playable only from torpor, or that are played and remain on the vampires like Repulsion. Especially if they empowered currently weak clans. I prefer to have the game expanded in new ways that allow new strategies, rather than strengthening existing ones.
Q5: What do you do to help promote the game / why are you in this list of people? My contribution is entirely on the local level. I create all our tournament posters, help organize and run our tournaments, visit local shops and encourage new players, attempt to bring back old players, and spend my own money buying old collections and boxes of inexpensive Jyhad and Dark Sovereigns cards so I can give the bulk of them away to new players. I maintain competitive decks built with standard strategies and clans to give to players just starting the game, allowing several of our players to participate with almost no financial contribution.	Q6: What is your favorite deck style for casual play / tournament play? Casual: something insane no one has ever tried before, usually for good reason. Tournament: a focused political/combat or bleed/combat deck, usually involving Dominate or Presence.
Q7: Is there a difference between your casual play and tournament play? Enormously.

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