V:EKN Clan Gangrel Antitribu Newsletter, February 1999 VEKN GANGREL ANTITRIBU NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2 Feb 99 St Valentine's Day Massacre Issue In this issue ..... GROVELLING EDITORIAL VALENTINE'S NIGHT AT LEGBITER HALL [FICTION] V:tM THIRD EDITION GANGREL ANTITRIBU ALLIES DECK GROVELLING EDITORIAL First off, let me apologise for the lateness of this newsletter. I have had flu and a MOUNTAIN of marking to do, plus this month we have TWO tournaments - Isle of Wight last Saturday, Second Byte this [21st]. I came third out of 9 on the IoW which was probably better than I deserved. James Coupe [5th] beat me in an absolutely BRILLIANT manner in the second round, but then got sandwiched between two combat decks [Will Lee [the eventual winner] and me]. I built my deck for Saturday this morning and guess what? It ISN'T a Gangrel anti deck ...... but there IS one later in this newsletter. VALENTINE'S NIGHT AT LEGBITER HALL As night falls Lady Legbiter stretches sensuously in her coffin and pushes back the lid. O lovely! A dozen black roses and a great big packing case COVERED in sparkly gold paper. It is rocking and muffled screams are coming from it, the reason for which becomes plain when she opens it - half a dozen nice plump kine, tightly bound and gagged and COVERED in black chocolate!!! Yum, yum. The Prince of Wessex may be a sadist and a lunatic, but NO-ONE has ever accused him of not being a romantic. On the other hand, quite a lot of people, including virtually all the brides of Legbiter past and present, have accused him of being a two-timing slimeball with the morals of a partially house-trained stoat. And thus it is that in the shady crypts of the various Gangrel antitribu dollies cards and presents are being unwrapped, each inscribed anonymously with REMARKABLY similar writing. "To Dearest Caitlin, the Ultimate Art School Girl of Doom, from A Secret Admirer"; "Sweet Sadie, methinks the lady doth not pro-test too much"; "Lovely Monique, your time will come. I hear there is a special card for you in the newest expansion: Hell Freezes Over. Action, cost 5 blood, requires gangrel antitribu vampire of capacity 5. Not usable by a titled vampire. For the rest of the game, this vampire has any two of its disciplines raised to superior and +1 hand damage. This vampire can and must attack any Gangrel antitribu Bishop controlled by another Methuselah as a +1 stealth direct action."; "Hey Sam, is Billy boring you? Why don't you come over for a little blood-bonding with an older fiend?"; "You make my Soul Blaise"; "To Genevieve, my 10". V:tM THIRD EDITION I bought the third edition of the role-playing game a month or so back and actually read it from cover to cover - certainly the best-written role-playing book i have ever read, even better than Feng Shui. It contains all sorts of nice ideas that suggest Jyhad variants, among which i'll mention that the Assamites CAN now commit diablerie, the gangrel have left the Camarilla, and the Malkavians now have dementation again, like in the Dark Ages. I'm going to try to organise some special games reflecting aspects of this, and if anyone apart from me and Michael Beer is interested in playing a local game of this sort on- line, please email me. GANGREL ANTITRIBU ALLIES DECK I've been meaning for a long time to create a Gangrel antitribu deck, and this at last is it. It is based on bringing out small minions and then doing lots of different things ... in the hope that one of them is going to work well enough to win you the game. The key ideas are: Embrace gives you little vamps with presence. You use these to call votes to pay for your allies and damage your enemies. Black Spiral Buddies use Bum's Rushes and Intercept from the permanents to put enemy vamps in torpor and to keep them there. Fame can make this hurt. Crypt [12 vampires] 3 x Sadie 2 pro 3 x Leon 3 ani for 3 x Shane Grimald 4 ani pot dom 3 x Caitlin 5 aus dom ANI PRO Bishop Masters [18] 2 x KRCG News Radio 2 x London Evening Star 4 x Rotshreck 6 x Presence 2 x Memories of Mortality 2 x Fame Equipment [7] 3 x Sports Bike 2 x Leather Jacket 2 x Laptop Computer Allies [7] 5 x Black Spiral Buddy 2 x Shadow Court Satyr Actions [13] 4 x The Embrace 7 x Bum's Rush 2 x Legal Manipulations Votes [13] 4 x Consanguineous Boon Praxis Solomon Autarkis Persecution Crusade Miami Crusade Mexico City 5 x KRC Action Modifers [19] 3 x Awe 4 x Bewitching Oration 4 x Earth Control 4 x Rapid Change 4 x Bribes Combat [13] 6 x Presence 5 x Aid from Bats 2 x Bone Spur This isn't playtested BTW, so it may be complete crap. Alright, that's it until march when i'll try to be on time. Seeya!