Camarilla Edition
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Camarilla is the fourth base set of White Wolf, Inc.
's trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
released on August 19, 2002. The expansion's theme is the Camarilla sect. The expansion featured a significant change in the layout of the cards, especially the difference between pool and blood cost is more clear than before.
White Wolf, Inc.
White Wolf Publishing is an American gaming and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Magazine, and was initially led by Mark Rein·Hagen of the former and Steve and Stewart Wieck of the latter. Since White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with...
's trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, published as Jyhad in the first or "Limited" edition and often abbreviated as VTES, V:TES or V:tES, is a multiplayer collectible card game set in the World of Darkness. It is published by White Wolf, Inc....
released on August 19, 2002. The expansion's theme is the Camarilla sect. The expansion featured a significant change in the layout of the cards, especially the difference between pool and blood cost is more clear than before.
Contents
Part of the expansion are 6 different pre-constructed decks with 89 cards each as well as boosters with 11 cards each (5 common, 3 vampire, 2 uncommon, and 1 rare). There is a total of 385 cards in this expansion. There are 115 new cards, (100 vampire, 5 common, 5 uncommon and 5 rare cards). The pre-constructed decks are:- BrujahBrujahThe Brujah are a clan of vampires in White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness books and role-playing settings. Their name is derived from Bruja, the Spanish word for witch....
- MalkavianMalkavianThe Malkavians are a clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's books, role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade and, Vampire: The Dark Ages. In modern times, they are associated with the Camarilla. Their symbol is a broken mirror...
- NosferatuNosferatu (World of Darkness)The Nosferatu are a clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages books and role-playing games....
- ToreadorToreador (World of Darkness)The Toreador are a clan of vampires in White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages books and role-playing games. Their symbol is the thorned rose.The Toreador are some of the most beautiful and glamorous of the Kindred...
- TremereTremereThe Tremere are a clan of vampires in the Classic World of Darkness setting.The Tremere backstory is heavily based on Ars Magica, and the original House Tremere appeared as a Hermetic house in that game system. As the World of Darkness progressively diverged from Ars Magica's medieval Europe,...
- VentrueVentrueThe Ventrue are a clan of vampires, associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and books and role-playing games. Their symbol is a scepter....
Mechanics
- Grouping -- each vampire now has a group number. A player can only use vampires from 2 adjacent groups during a game, i.e. vampires from group 2 and 3. This should help preventing too powerful combinations of vampires as well as supporting more variety of vampires used in play.
- No Repeat Actions -- vampires may not take the same action twice during a game turn, except for hunting. Some general types of actions (like direct attacks) may be taken several times, as long as the minion uses different cards to do so.
- Blood Hunts -- after a vampire has been diablerized a Blood Hunt is now called automatically.
Notable Cards
- Baltimore Purge -- an action card sending one of each player's vampires to torpor during the next turn.
- Tension in the Ranks -- a master card making the player pool (life) each time one of his minions is burned or sent to torpor.
- Weighted Walking Stick -- a combat card resembling a melee weapon for a few turns.
Blood Shadowed Court
In April 2008 all of the 100 crypt cards that first appeared in the Camarilla Edition were reprinted in the Blood Shadowed Court collector's deck. The cards were printed with the newer layout and included new art for Marcus Vitel.Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines Video Game Mod
- VTMB: Camarilla Edition is an Expansion Overhaul that was released on Oct. 2nd 2009 that completely changes the game mechanics and how we approach the game of Bloodlines. Many new updates included a Disciplines Overhaul, new Histories, new Regeneration rules, and a Bloodtimer that reduces your characters blood over time forcing you to feed.