Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter November 2017

So vlad tepes will be able to play anarch cards with his special..neat =)

I do not think anyone I've ever played with has played recruiting Allies correctly, that is putting them to Uncontrolled Region after a successful recruitment...

Calling (essentially) part of that region with a different name doesn't really change anything. Other than add a teeny tiny new clunkiness to the game (also perhaps by removing similarily small bit of old clunkiness).

My take on this:

Boris The Blade wrote: EDIT: there is a grand total of 6 cards for independents, So I guess rewriting them would not be such a big effort. Besides, it opens some design space, as not all of those cards feel right for anarchs.

Banner of Neutrality: Independent only (and change "camarilla or sabbat" to "non-independent")

Community Justice: Independent only

Exclusion Principle: Independent only

Free States Rant: Anarch only

Reckless Agitation: Independent/Anarch, I would even suggest to add sabbat here to answer the question "why should we play sabbat politics".

Rise of the Nephtali: remove independent clause. With Anthelious banned it's kind of unplayable as is, as well as against the lore (Jan Pieterzoon and Vikos was members of it?).

Have discussed proposed changes with russian players.

1) Totally supported.
2) Also supported, but we got like 50/50 split on idea to make "more creative" errata to independent cards.
3) 50/50 between "for" and "do not care" options.
4) here we got confusion, because some players was even unaware that allies should be played into uncontrolled region. After discussion consensus, I think, is that something should be done, but proposed solution is not the best one.

I do not like the rule change proposal #1.

With the rules as they are now, you need to carefully consider how to bloat with a deck that generates lots of counters in the uncontrolled region (Thing, Little Mountain Cemetery, Unwholesome Bond and the likes). If moving a vampire to the ready region ceases to be mandatory those decks simply do not have to be careful any more.