Time of Judgement. {Attrition League Redux}


Inspired by Salem's attrition league, and adding the title from of
course the major events in the WoD, seems to dovetail together well.

Rules are standard V:EKN limited format, with the following crucial
differences.  Timed games are recommended.

1.  Crypts must be 12 vampires, every session.  There can be no more
than 1 copy of any vampire in the crypts.

2.  The Purging.  Immediately upon being ousted, or at the end of each
game for survivors, each player loses up to 2 of their vampires.  The
player (and only that player) may elect to forfeit 1VP instead of losing
a vampire.  1VP per vampire.  The wrinkle is that they must decide
*Before* they roll.  Every player shuffles their crypts, places them
face down, and then rolls a d12, with same-rolls re-rolled.   Whatever
is rolled, that vampire is placed on the Final Death list.   After the
Purging, VP's are retotalled, and Game Wins, VP, and TP are recorded for
that game.  Vampires DO NOT arrive on the Final Death list by being
burned or removed from play.  They only arrive there due to the Purging.

3. Vampires in play stay in play until they leave play through normal
means (oustings, combat, etc.).  As soon as a Purged vampire is not
controlled or contested on any table, it goes onto the Final Death List.

4.  {directly cribbed from salem} No vampires in your crypt may be on
the Final Death list (see below).  Base or Advanced is not recorded on
the Final Death list, so for example if Marcus Vitel is on the list, you
may not include either base or advanced Marcus in your crypt.  No
vampire on the Final Death list may enter play. If a vampire on the list
should enter play, it is removed from the game instead.  No pool is
returned to the player's pool.

5.  Any Library card that is unique that is burned from play is also
entered onto the Final Death list if it is in a Methuselah's ash heap
when they are ousted and no other Methuselah in the league currently
controls a copy of it at any table.  Unique library cards that are
removed from the game are also entered onto the Final Death list when
the owning Methuselah is ousted, unless another Methuselah controls or
is contesting a copy of it.

6.  Any library card that is on the Final Death list may not enter
play.  If it is brought into play non-voluntarily (eg: Vast Wealthing a
unique equipment card) it is burned instead of entering play, with no
cost paid.

7.  The Final Death list is immediate, and applies across all tables.

8.  League ends when either a) A player gets a certain number of Game
Wins (12 seems reasonable) or b) There are no longer enough non-purged
vampires left for a 4-player table.  GW's, VP's and TP's are scored as
normal, and the winner is the winner.

Alternate rules that could be used for stores hosting leagues, to
encourage purchases in the shops:

a1) Make it a sealed league, say a starter and 3 boosters.  Have each
session be a 1-3 booster buy-in.
a2) Final Death list doesn't start until week 2.
a3) Purging is only 1 vamp instead of 2, but costs 1.5 vp to save.
a4) Allowance to be made for multiple copies of vamps in crypt, and for
those who have not enough live vampires.  Perhaps give the opportunity
for more packs to be bought?
a5) New players can buy in and can buy as much product as the other
players have been given the opportunity.  They also can buy as little as
the minimum if they like (1 starter & 3 boosters).

Pick this apart.  By losing vampires through the Purging, instead of
from play, it doesn't lean too far in the direction of combat decks.  It
does add an unsavory element of randomness, but to some extent that can
be controlled.

best -

chris

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chris shorb
<www.vtesinla.org> (A V:TES site)
prince of torrance, california
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