Create-A-Clan

I'll be running a Create-A-Clan tournament at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA, USA on September 1, 2006 at 12 noon. Each player will play a deck built with crypt cards he or she has designed according to the following rules.

If you wish to use these rules to run your own C-A-C tournament (or modify them to do so), feel free. No need to ask permission first. (Note that such tournaments are inherently non-sanctioned.)

Have fun with these, and I hope to see you at the con.
— L. Scott Johnson

THE RULES

Disclaimer

The rules below have no association with the actual vampire design method. This set of rules has been selected as a framework in which vampires could be created. There are many such frameworks. This particular one was chosen more or less arbitrarily from the myriad of ones that could be considered reasonable. It is not the framework used by the WW card designers (myself among them). No guarantee is made that any point cost specifications given below match or even approximate the "point costs" applied by the designers when designing cards for WW. The net.rep (that's me again) is free to silently ignore all messages which contain any attempts to tie the framework described below with the design of vampires printed by WW in regards to questions about the latter (or may choose to respond, of course). This framework is provided for fun, not for ammunition. :-)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ben Peal for the Create-A-Clan format idea and for laying the groundwork for these rules.

OVERVIEW

You make a crypt of up to 12 vampires (you may use fewer if you wish to double-up some of them in your deck). Each vampire is designed according to the rules below, basically getting 1 level of Discipline per capacity (a superior Discipline counts as two levels, as usual). Instead of additional levels of Disciplines, you may also give a vampire a special ability (like +1 intercept). When you're done, you build a library from your regular V:TES cards and a crypt from your custom crypt.

The basic rules are included below. Some sections have links to more advanced construction rules.

DETAILS

Clan and Crypt

The clan must have a name and default sect.

All vampires in crypt must be of that clan (except to include some bloodines, see below, and up to 1 Caitiff). The rules marked with "(Whole Set)" below apply to your set of vampires as a whole (including bloodlines and/or Caitiff).

At least 75% of the vampires of that clan must be of the default sect for that clan. (That's 9 of 12 if you don't have any duplicates, Caitiff, or bloodlines in your crypt. "At least" means that you must round fractions up to the next integer.)

All vampires must have unique names. Vampires with the same name will contest.

Keep the names clean. Vampires (and other cards) with offensive or vulgar names, as determined soley by the discretion of the judge, will be burned upon entering play just as if the vampire (or other card) would self-contest.

Building the Crypt:
You may only use the vampires you have created.
You must use all of the vampires you have created.
You may have no more than 2 copies of each vampire in your crypt (which can include 2 copies of each vampire in your bloodline and 2 copies of your Caitiff).

Point Allowance

Vampires get points to spend on disciplines, titles, attributes, and specials as follows, based on the capacity of the vampire:

Each vampire need not spend all of his or her points. Leftover points are simply lost.

Disciplines and Capacity

The clan must have three "in-clan" Disciplines. You choose the three "in-clan" disciplines for your clan.

The bloodlines Disciplines are not allowed. Abombwe is allowed, like any other non-bloodlines Discipline.

Disciplines cost 1 point per level.
Basic Discipline: 1 point
Superior Discipline: 2 points

A vampire with 5 different Disciplines gets an additional 0.5 points to spend. A vampire with 6 (or more) Disciplines gets an additonal 1 point. (that is, the fifth and sixth Disciplines cost a half point less each.)

A vampire with only one or two Disciplines must have only in-clan Disciplines.

A vampire with three Disciplines can have at most one out-of-clan Discipline.

A vampire with four or more Discipline must have all three in-clan Disciplines.

(That is, the first two Disciplines must be in-clan, and one of the next two Disciplines must be the final in-clan Discipline).

In all cases, each vampire must spend more points on in-clan Disciplines than on out-of-clan Disciplines.

No vampire may have a bloodlines discipline as an "out-of-clan" discipline

No more than two different vampires of the clan can have the same capacity. (Whole Set)

No two different vampires of 5-cap or less may share the same superior Discipline. (Whole Set)

No two different vampires may share the exact same discipline spread (For example, AUS POT QUI and cel AUS POT QUI are OK, but not two vamps with AUS POT QUI) (Whole Set)

Out-of-clan Disciplines may not be shared by more than two different vampires of the same clan.

No two different vampires of the same capacity and clan may share the same out-of-clan Discipline.

Titles

Primogen/Bishop: 0.5 points (min Cap: 6)
Prince/Archbishop: 1 point (min Cap: 8)
Magaji: 1 point (min Cap: 8)
Justicar/Cardinal: 1.5 points (min Cap: 10)
Priscus: 1 point (min Cap: 8)
Independent with 1 vote: 0.5 points. (min Cap: 5)
Independent with 2 votes: 1 point (min Cap: 7)
Independent with 3 votes: 1 point (min Cap: 9)

A vampire has to belong to the appropriate clan/sect in order to have a title.

You may have only one justicar or cardinal. (Whole Set)

A prince or archbishop title must be of a specific city. Allowable cities are:

• Atlanta
• Torino
• City hosting the South American Championships
• City hosting the Austrailian Championships

If you have more than one city title (Whole Set), the second, fourth, sixth, and so on may also use:

• any city chosen from the current list of Praxis Seizures and Crusade cards.

You can have only one city title of a particular city. (Whole Set)

Attributes

Attributes, like Advanced, Anarch, Black Hand, and Red List are available (for a price).

Special Abilities

Only one vampire can have a given special ability (not counting merged text). (Whole Set)

Each vampire can have any number of special abilities, but cannot spend more points in special abilities than in Disciplines (attributes and titles are not counted as special abilities).

Show me more specials

Still want more options? You could make your own special with the a la carte special ability rules.

LIBRARY CARDS

You may spoof a normal hunting ground library card (2 pool, unique location, usual text). Give it a new name (and a new picture) and make it require your clan instead.

Unique spoof cards with the same name will contest each other.

If you like, you can also spoof an additional card

THE OTHERS

You may have up to one Caitiff and up to four vampires from a bloodline you create.

Caitiff

Bloodline

SUBMISSION FORM

Use the following form to submit your clan (turn in the hard copy to me at the start of the tournament).

Create-A-Clan Form

LAYOUT TOOLS

Ben Peal recommends these tools for his C-A-C events, so I guess I will too:

Damnan's site at: http://www.almadrava.net/damnans/
With tools found here: http://www.almadrava.net/damnans/downloads.htm

PRIZES

We'll have prizes for the following categories:

• Overall Winner
  You know: the winner.
• Road Less Traveled
  Each Discipline is scored by how many main clans used that Discipline as an in-clan Discipline. Then each main clan is scored as the sum of its in-clan Discipline scores. The player whose clan has the lowest value wins.
• Best Layout
  The judge's decision as to which clan had the best artistic design (in background and art selection).
• Most Entertaining
  Each round, each player votes for one other deck at her table for the "most fun to play at a table with" award. The player whose deck gets the most votes wins.