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Bloodlines: Harbingers of Skulls

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 19/02/2024. Publicado en Novedades.

What is a Bloodline? A bloodline is a small “family” of Vampires, usually an off-shot of one of the main 13 Clans, with some common characteristics, history and/or outlook. Sometimes it is more complicated than that! HARBINGERS OF SKULLS When a Bloodline is not an off-shot? When they are the main tree of the “family”. The Harbingers are what’s left of the Capadocians, one of the original 13 Clans, which was “usurped” by one amongst them, Augustus Giovanni, who killed the clan Founder, all but hunted his progeny to extinction, taking his place as the head of the new clan Giovanni. As things usually...

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Bloodlines: Ahrimane

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 05/02/2024. Publicado en Novedades.

What is a Bloodline? A bloodline is a small “family” of Vampires, usually an off-shot of one of the main 13 Clans, with some common characteristics, history and/or outlook. Sometimes it is more complicated than that! AHRIMANE The Ahrimane Bloodline is usually considered an off-shot of the Gangrel antitribu. It is, and it isn’t… not exactly. Over kindred history there have been two branches of this bloodline. The original Ahrimanes were born (and, apparently, were extinct) during the Dark Ages, in Scandinavia. However, the branch related to VTES is the more modern branch, born again through...

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The Book of Nod – «for Dummies» edition

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 05/02/2024. Publicado en Novedades.

Working with all these cards to prep and upload an usable database for the VTES store has made me reminisce about the rich World of Darkness (WoD, from now on) milieu. You see, I never was into RPG games, but at the time, working at a game store had me fascinated about this series of huge games under the collective WoD umbrella, of which Vampire the Masquerade (VtM) was, by far, the most popular and best selling. The WoD is our world, only darker. Its history, is ours, but even bloodier, with all kinds of supernatural beings plotting and maneuvering at the very fringes of the collective vision...

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An alternate Gold Edition

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 11/05/2023. Publicado en Novedades.

Once upon a time, when Wizards of the Coast was publishing L5R, Shokansuru (not Daigotsu) was going to be the main bad in the original plotline for Gold Edition/The Four Winds Era. Howevever WotC dropped the game, plans changed and this storyline was dropped. Who was Shokansuru in this version of the story? Probably we won’t ever know… We had first meet this Shokasuru character sometime before, during the Fire and Shadow (in Hidden Emperor era). It seems like Feydn Rafiq (an assassin from the Ivory Kingdoms, in the Honor Bound set). The Rafiq were a corrupt House of...

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UNRELEASED TALES (I): The sad -and somewhat stupid- story of Hatsue and Yozo

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 06/03/2023. Publicado en Novedades.

It has been almost 20 years, so I apologize if some details are fuzzy, or I get some of them wrong. This went down during 2004, at Gen Con Barcelona. I think this was the last event to carry the Gen Con brand in Spain. Barcelona, along with Madrid, was one of the oldest hubs of OP activity for L5R, with a very active community, and an experienced team of TO’s. The official Spanish distributor at the time was Millennium and they got a storyline tournament for us to run. It was a huge thing for us! By now, I really don’t remember if this was a single day thing, or a 2 or more day event, with qualifiers...

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Homunculus Helper (handy bookmark for VTES searches)

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 13/01/2023. Publicado en Novedades.

While this is page is not a deck-builder site (of which there are some excellent ones, like VDB), when we put the files together, we took care to add some relevant information into each product (in this case, card) to make searches easy. How do searches work: For starters, you can easily look for a particular card entering its title in the search engine (upper right side, next to the magnifier icon) and pressing enter. For this to work, the search string must have at least three characters. For instance, a search for «.44» yields this. To avoid false positives you can further limit your search...

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Scorpion Clan Coup

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 20/12/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

Check our SCC stock here. THE END AND THE BEGINNING!! With Scorpion Clan Coup we arrive at the end of the Clan War era of the game, the original story arc; and also to the beginning, as it was a prequel set in the past. In this set we get the Scorpion Clan before it was forced to go into hiding after their coup against throne, and the Akodo family before it was disbanded because of the failure of their Lord to protect the Emperor. Also we get cards of younger (with the Inexperienced trait) versions of the heroes and villains, as well as information of the event that led to the fall of the Hantei...

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A Lost Hero from the Four Winds Era?

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 13/11/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

This big guy was an unused piece by Heather Bruton. The only name we had was Matsu Guy, and a production number: #25449515. Now it seems we can recover a forgotten hero from the Four Winds Era, and give him back his name, back from the claws of the Lying Darkness! The game is afoot. As mentioned, this character never got a Personality card, AFAIK, but he did show up in at least a couple other cards: Lion Warcats (AOF, follower) and Now Face Me (FOU, action). And the follower has a quote by a Matsu Kikuno, who was never mentioned again (in the card game, at least. Maybe he showed at some...

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The Spirit Wars

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 11/11/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

Check our stock of The Spirit Wars HERE. The Spirit Wars was a large set. 199 new cards, plus 35 starter reprints. Two cards had variants, a misprint in fact, when the fate and dynasty backs reversed: «Doji Meihu» and «Sanctified Temple«. Lots of things go dangerously wrong, in Rokugan AND the real world! A small video game publisher had a game with a very similar title, and threatened Wizards of the Coast with a lawsuit. This was just barely a nuisance lawsuit, destined to squeeze a little easy money out of the big company. As these things go, Wizards did the maths and decided to pay...

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Pulgarcito, Quinta Época (1946-1952)

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 13/09/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

Comprueba nuestro stock en: Pulgarcito, Quinta época (1946-1952) – ObakeMerchant Pulgarcito es, sin duda alguna, la madre del cordero en cuanto a la escuela Bruguera, tal como la conocemos hoy en día. En sus páginas se gestaron, de una manera u otra, el estilo y los personajes que recordamos aún hoy en día. unos pocos de los cuales, siguen todavía en publicación. ¿Por qué Quinta Época? La cabecera Pulgarcito había tenido cuatro encarnaciones previas, editadas por El Gato Negro allá en la noche de los tiempos. En 1946, ya como editorial Bruguera, esta cabecera se repescó y volvió a comenzar desde...

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L5R Emerald Edition

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 30/08/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

Check our Emerald Edition stock HERE. Emerald Edition is almost a reprint of Imperial Edition, the original core set (which would be repeated with Obsidian Edition, later on); however some changes were introduced. First of all, a few cards were added to the set: «Kitsu Motso» and «Shosuro Hametsu» (originally from Shadowlands) and «Naga Abomination» (a pre-Imperial promo card). The Ancestral Swords, which came fixed in every Imperial clan deck, were replaced with their corresponding Ancestral Armor. Some cards were also modified; «Hisa» became «Bayushi Hisa» and «The Terrible Standard of Fu...

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L5R Shadowlands

Escrito por Obake Máximo en 23/08/2022. Publicado en Novedades.

Check our stock of Shadowlands HERE. The first L5R expansion was published by FRPG in May, 1996. It further developed 2 factions (Scorpion Clan and Naga), and added new cards to the core set factions (Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Phoenix, and Unicorn Clans). Includes 153 unique cards. Two of them were updates to cards that had already appeared in Imperial Edition: “The Terrible Standard of Fu Leng”, which added a new ability, reflecting a macabre plot twist to the story, and “Bayushi Hisa”, which was technically not the same. same card as “Hisa”. Additionally, it was the first time the Experienced...

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