86 readers of this blog have voted in this contest. Here are the results:
25 Votes (29%) Ashirra (The Path of Blood crew) 22 Votes (25%) Tzmisce/Inconnu (Agustín Puig) 15 Votes (17%) Toreador (Angel Castro) 8 Votes (9%) Final Fantasy VII (Aitor Jimenez) 8 Votes (9%) EWW (Bayou) 5 Votes (5%) Fallout 3 (Adrián Anta) 3 Votes (3%) True Brujah (Angel González)
I´ve done a humble video with the 1º and 2º positions of the contest and I´ve published it in youtube.
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Congratulations to "the Path of Blood Crew". During this summer, here in Valladolid, we´re going to make the rullings of the Storyline, Ashirra. I will mail you all our ideas.
Thanks to all the participants, and if you have enjoyed this contest, the next year I will make another one.
First of all, I start this being grateful for all who have joined this contest. I expect that it will serves to enrich the game and I hope you have spent a good experience doing it. Also, I want to apologize for my English. The schools are really bad here in Spain xD. At the right side of the blog you have a poll where you can vote your favorite set until 15th of June. My set doesn´t participate. If it wins (It´s impossible) the second one will gain the cardmaker award.
The first participant is Inyorel (Ángel Castro). He has done a toreador set of 30 library and 6 crypt cards. His deck for the "best deck" contest is:
Deck Name: "Toreador" Starter Deck (old lessons) Created By: Inyorel. Ángel Castro Description: "Toreador" Preconstructed Starter Deck from "Old lessons".
Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 12, Max 40)
2x Loan Rainer AUS 3, Toreador 2x Daniela Remus – pre cel AUS 5, Toreador 2x Marcus Petrelli - cel PRE AUS 5, Toreador 2x Mary Amell - dom PRE AUS 6, Toreador 2x Leyna - cel FOR PRE AUS 8, Toreador 2x Daphnée - tha for DOM CEL AUS PRE 10, Toreador
Library: (70 cards)
Master (8 cards): The omen of dark sky x1 Art Gallery Toreador x1 Three knowledge x3 Weight divine x1 Old enemy x1 The dark lady x1
Action Modificador (9 cards): The beautiful of art x3 Black rose x2 Seduction of the senses x4
Action 11 cards: Do not believe what they say x5 Arms of Spirits x3 Eeakness x3
Combat 12 Elegance of combat x 3 Macabre vision x3 Read minds x3 High jump x3
Political 7 Praxis Bremen x1 Praxis lyon x1 Prisoners of influence x1 The art of war x4
Reaction 10 Vision of the spirits x4 Tragic vision x3 Supernatural attraction x3
The second one is about the old Tzimisces. Based on "Dark secrets of the black hand", Galadack (Agustín Puig) has designed some cards about them and his origins. Look that they can´t play cards that require Vicissitude. Also, the set has some cards from the Inconnu sect and some powerful Spanish vampires. 55 Cards belongs to this set.
CRIPTA (12) 2x Alexei Pavel Cerveni. Aus, ani, DOM 5 bishop Caleb Aus, ani. 3 2x Conrad Karamazov ANI, AUS, DOM, FOR. 9 Black hand Seraph Giuliani Romanescu ani, aus, dom. 4 Mircea Raskolnikov ani, AUS, DOM. 6 2x Santiago Vidal AUS, ANI, DOM. 7 Archbishop of Valencia Zarek Dzardescu ani, aus. 4 Zorana Cunescu aus, for, ANI. 5 bishop Oppenheimer for, obe, DOM, AUS, ANI. 7 Inconnu
Master (11) 6 Blood doll 1 Brainwash 1 The Barrens 2 Wake the infection 1 Elder library
Reaction (31) 5 On the qui vive 3 Forced Awakening 2 Wake with evening´s freshness 8 Thelephatic misdirection 4 Deflection 3 Enhanced senses 3 Spirit´s touch 3 Precognition
Action (13) 6 Govern the unaligned 4 koldunic spirit 3 Invoke the soul parasite
Action Modifier (12) 4 Bonding 5 Seduction 3 The legacy of the seven wizards
Event (1) 1 The rebirth of Kupala
Combat (18) 2 Superior Mettle 2 Rolling with the punches 7 Carrions crowds 7 Aid from bats
The third participant is Etrius (Aitor Jimenez). He has done 166 cards... I´ll repeat one more time: 166 cards, about the world of "Final Fantasy VII". Thinking about you, he translates his rullings and I´ll put it here for you.
CARDMAKER CONTEST 2009
Name: Aitor Jiménez Zalabarria City: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) Description: Free Thematic set about Final Fantasy VII Thanks to: Claudio Soulie, maker of 4 of the clan templates I used (the fifth one is the Caitiff template). Google images and several webs about FF VII, I took most of the pictures from these. Square, for creating one of the best RPG ever.
Special Rules: + CLARIFICATIONS:
1) I haven’t played any sequel/prequel of the game, no Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, anything... So I hope you will understand it if there is any (probable) background mistake in any of the cards.
2) The Cardmaker doesn’t allow to use any non-official clan symbol, so please use these equivalences:
3) You may realize that the word ‘vampire’ is not used in the text of these cards. I tried to avoid it, because it didn’t seem very appropriate, but for ruling purposes, all crypt cards in this set are vampires. In case you have any question with the meaning of a card text, just use the logic and the rulebook, e.g. a minion with capacity, can only be a vampire; an effect that sends a minion to torpor, will only send vampires to torpor (allies going into torpor are burned, as the rulebook says)...
+ DESCRIPTIONS about clans, sects, traits:
* Shinra: Both a clan and a sect. Their skills are: DOM FOR PRE.
* Avalanche: Both a clan and a sect. CEL FOR POT.
* WEAPON: Both a clan and a sect. “WEAPON” counts as a circle for Sanguinus purposes. FOR POT SAN THA VIS.
* Sephiroth: A vampire with no sect, from a clan with no name. Most of the cards of this clan can be used only by Sephiroth, so I didn’t worry in looking for a proper name for the clan. This clan other vampires have the ‘Sephiroth Slave’ rule, it works just as the slave rule, but it depends on a minion (Sephiroth), not a clan. AUS PRE POT.
* Caitiff: Other minor characters.
* SOLDIER: Trait, just as Black Hand, e.g. They are by default Shinra members, but not always. VAL.
* Ancient: Trait. Doesn’t depend on a sect.
* Turk: Trait. Shinra dependence. Turks don’t use the same skills as Shinra. AUS CEL OBF.
* Monster: A kind of ally. A vampire burning a monster in combat gains 1 blood form the blood bank. This concept is different than the imbued concept of ‘monster’.
+ MATERIA: MAGIC, COMMANDS & SUMMONINGS
I based on how the imbued convictions work to create the materia rulings, so I made them very similar, with just a few differences. First of all, there are some characters who can use materia (either allies or vampires), and other who can’t:
* Who can use Materias: Avalanche members Shinra members SOLDIERs Ancients Any Caitiff from this set. Sephiroth y his slaves.
* Who can’t use Materias: The rest, including WEAPONs and monsters,
The minions that can use materia (and only them) follow these rules:
- When a minion enters play with, he or she may gain 1 non-unique materia card from your library, hand or ash heap.
- During your untap phase, you may play from your hand or ash heap 1 non-unique materia card on each of your minion.
- There is no limit to the amount of materia cards a minion can have or spend.
- In addition to their own effects (if any), materia cards may be spent (burned) to pay the costs which some cards require. I refer to that cost in some card texts as ‘materia cost’. An important ruling is that the materia cost to play cards marked as ‘Magic’ or any effect they have, you can only spend Green Materia; for cards marked as ‘Command’ you may only spend Yellow Materia; and finally, for cards marked as ‘Summoning’ you may only spend Red Materia.
- Only minions that can use materia, can play or use cards marked as ‘Magic’, ‘Command’ or ‘Summoning’, although some of them have no materia cost.
- A minion may get a power as a +1 stealth action, like imbued powers. The minion untaps if the action is successful. A minion may not have two copies of the same power. Some effects or powers are "always on". Others have a card type icon (action, combat, etc.) indicating when and how the effect can be used. To use one of those effects, you must tap the power card (and pay whatever cost the effect requires). Standard rules for using such effects apply (e.g., a reacting minion must be ready and untapped). "Always on" effects are still on while the power card is tapped. (Yep, I copy-pasted this from the NoR rules).
- A Methuselah may only play one ‘Summoning’ each turn.
- Although they use the same format (template, symbol) and similar rules to the imbued convictions, materia cards are not conviction cards.
+ POISON COUNTERS:
Some of the cards of this set can put or burn poison counters. A minion with one or more poison counters takes 1 unpreventable damage during his or her controller’s untap phase. A minion with poison counters may burn one of them as a +1 stealth undirected action that costs one blood or life. Logically, any minion who has any ability to put poison counters is immune to them, this only applies if that minion has an inherent ability to put poison counters, not if that minion needs to use any other card or effect to put poison counters.
Bayou has created a set based in p.72 of the Vampire the Masquerade book 'Children of the Night' and he has done an introduction in english:
xxxxx There is a dark place where the lords of the night confront their minions in battle, a bloody pit where demons enjoy the frenzy of the fight... the 'Extreme Wrestling Warfare', 'EWW', a dark independent promotion of extreme pro wrestling, a violent show with the best hardcore fighters in the world, hulking heavyweight monsters, aero suicidal luchadores and lustful divas fighting in extreme rings, all in Pay Per View!!
xxxxx
Crypt (16):
Mark Hix Brujah El Diablo Verde Nosferatu El Diablo Verde Adv Nosferatu Farouk Skorpio Mustafa Assamite Sucka T. Assamite Cobra Ray Follower of Set Jelly Follower of Set Alyssa Vice Ahrimane Fred Martins Brujah Antitribu Mr. Alan Welfner, General Manager Gangrel Antitribu Michelle Dark Lasombra Sileny Bacsovics , EWW CEO Lasombra Cerbero Malkavian Antitribu Hellxagon Nosferatu Antitribu Nyxxx Toreador Antitribu Nyxxx Adv Toreador Antitribu
Library (29):
EWW Gates of Hell Event EWW Grapplemania Event Extreme Rules: Buried Alive Extreme Rules: Twilight TLC Mask vs Mask Monomancy DDT Frankensteiner German Suplex Tombstone Flying Kick Super Kick Tag Mafia Kick Moonsault Shooting Star Press Hidden chair Surprise Attack M?scara EWW Champion Belt Manager Los Hijos del Diablo Huitzil Colibri Diamond Duncan Dunsirn Face Heel EWW Stadium Pentex Corp Training Camp New Vampiric Order Invasion Banned Move Wellness Policy
The "Path of Blood" crew: (Lech Jablonski - Cracow, Poland Tom Duncan Jyhad Blooded Sand Viking John Eno - Portsmouth, NH, USA) have designed a lot of new cards. All of them belong to the Ashirra´s sect. It has an alternative folder who contains unused versions of vampires.
The road to heaven is paved in blood in many cultures. This is no different for vampiric society. However, for Cainites the road can be self destructive. True Faith is a powerful thing and for many Cainites a painful reminder of their dark origins. But many of the modern age have forsaken religion. Then there are the Ashirra, Cainites who have embraced their Faith. They are paragons of the community, Priests, Imams, and Rabbi alike. Even every day citizens who are faithful and benevolent. No where is this more evident than in the Holy Lands of the middle east. The Ashirra have only now re emerged as a force in the Eternal Struggle as they combat the Sabbat who have taken inroads into the lands of the east. They do have allies in the Laibon, but much like them, they prefer to stick to their respective domains. Perhaps the clans of the Camarilla who have blood ties to many of the Ashirra. Brujah of Ancient Carthage, Toreador from Istanbul, even Nosferatu and Gangrel count themselves as members of this brotherhood. Can the Ashirra survive? We shall see.
/************************************************************************/ Nothing else. One of this participants will have his own storyline. Good hunt and Good luck.
NOTE: If you see any mistakes or if you have any sugestions, please contact me.
Thinking about it so much I´ve thought that as I like this game I will enjoy making this set. My set for the CardMaker contest 2009 will be about the videogame "Fallout 3" and it will be named, for the present, "Tenpenny Vs Megatone".
From now on, the cardmaker contest 2009 has begun. If you´re interested at joining this contest send me a mail ("manituan@gmail.com") with your name and city and I´ll appear you in our participant´s list. Greetings!
The period to inscribe yourself in the cardmaker competition 2009 has started.
This year we have the cardmaker tool that will increase the amount of people participating for sure, and so will the rivalry rise. I know there are a lot of artists out there.
This contest is also at the spanish forum "www.vtes.net"
Competition(s)
There will be two competitions, one for the best created set and another for best created deck, in which you will have to make a deck with the cards you have created.
To be a little clearer:
To be able to participate in the competition for the best created deck you have to, along with participate in “best set” one , make a deck of at least 12 crypt cards and of 60-90 library cards. Of course, you can repeat any number of times you want any card you have created on a previous cardmaker competition. With this, you will not only test your ability to create cards but also as deck makers!
In this competition, what will count, is not the originality of your set. What will count is if it is really playable and funny on the vtes game right now. (no se como poner lo del entorno)
Theme:
I had thought of a free theme, but, after seeing White Wolf’s BYO program I think it would be an incredible waste missing this opportunity.
BYO is a White Wolf’s proyect in which it takes up to 3 cards created in world level Storylines and makes them real, as promo cards. So, you can make them of any subject you want (Heroes, musical, historical, ... whatever) BUT if the theme of the winner is the world of darkness, he could see his invented cards turned into real promo ones some day. It’s up to you.
The number of cards of the set is also up to you. Not everybody has the same free time to spend doing this. It can be 10 cards, but it can also be 200 (you would be showing everyone how much free time you have)
Card Design:
You can use the cardmaker tool or do them with photoshop, you decide. As are the Vtes players the ones that are going to rate your set, there isn’t any kind of restriction about it. Each one will rate the cards in a differente way and will vote in consecuence.
Voting:
From the 15th of may until 30 days later, the sets will be exposed in the vtes spanish forum and in this blog. They will be all available for download also in both spaces, but you will only be able to vote in the blog.
The two competitions will be rated separately.
When could I send my set?
You can send them to me since the first of April until the 15th of May to mi mail (manituan@gmail.com) in .rar format. In the file must be all the cards in .jpg format and a text file with your name, city where you play Vtes and the description of what you have created (special rules included). Once I receive them, I will place the .rar file inmediately on the web with the description you have sent.
The ones who want to compete on the best created deck competition will have, of course, to send the deck list (Not in .docx please)
Prize:
It is supposed you are in for the renown you will get, but if that’s not the case we have a little surprise
As I’m quite poor, I hadn’t thought o giving any material prize (powerbase: montreal, freak drives, paritiys, ...). Instead, I will create a Storyline tournament in Valladolid (great wine, better women) with some of the cards created by the winner printed at full colour and using the special rules. The rules for the tournament will be decided here, in Valladolid, but I would keep in touch with the winner in every moment if he/she wanted to be part of it.
When will this tournament be is still unknown.
If the winner couldn’t come to Valladolid the cards would be sent to him/her by mail. But even with that, the tournament would be made.
Ben Swainbank, the Storyline organizer at global level, wrote me and he has told me he has liked the idea. He will follow the Storyline and it’s result with interest. He can’t promise a promo for the Storyline, as there are many who try to get that, but I will try to make it as attractive as possible. If any shop or organization would like to sponsor the event, please contact with me by mail (manituan@gmail.com).
As soon as I know anything about the prices I’ll post it.
Notes:
* I’m not joining the competition, but I’ll probably do a set too. * If you want people from all over the world to understand you write the cards in english (your choice, but if someone can’t understand what the cards of the set say he/she won’t vote it, that’s for sure) * If you have any doubt, contact me by mail. * Something that I’m probably forgetting, I will put it when I remember it. * You have in this blog the winner of the last year. * You can find the "CardMaker Tool" in www.vtes.net or in the right side of my blog.
Nothing else, I hope you join the event and find the experience satisfactory.
86 readers of this blog have voted in this contest. Here are the results:
