Buffy CCG Extended Type A – Tabula Rasa

You start with a typical constructed deck that can include all printed and virtual cards released by Score Entertainment and mix in some random rule and condition changes. Every round, a random oversized card will be assigned to each game. The card will be turned over by the two players prior to game set-up. It will contain a rule change or condition that will be in effect for the remainder of the game. Each round the cards will be shuffled and randomly reassigned to tables. For Gen Con, the following ten Tabula Rasa cards will be used.

Actions, the Weirding – Action cards are playable in the following steps:

On card Playable In
Conflict Movement
Movement Resource
Resource Conflict

Curfew – Characters without the Human trait cannot move during night turns, but may move twice during day turns.

Does Too – The phrase “Does not count as a move” is replaced by the phrase “Does count as a move.”

Elimidate – During the setup phase, Players may search their Resource Deck and place into play three characters of the opposite sex of their Main Character. During each End Step, if possible, a player must discard one her supporting characters of the opposite sex of her Main Character. Replace “opposite sex” with “same sex” for Willow, Tara or Kennedy.

Get Ready, Go – For the remainder of the game, complete the Resource Step prior to the Movement Step.

Is That Space Taken – When placing locations, you may place your location on any space not containing a location card. These are then considered your locations.

Locations, the Weirding – Location designations change as follows:

On Card New Designation
School Subterranean
Subterranean Outdoor
Outdoor Indoor
Indoor Town
Town School

Lost in the Dark – During the Prologue Step of a night turn, instead of placing your Challenge, each player must place their opponent’s Challenge if it can legally be put into play.

Rules of Engagement – Action cards that change the resolving talent of a fight change it to the talent represented by the lower right talent icon on the card instead.

Salary Cap – No player may have more than seven cards in his hand at one time.

There they are. It’s possible we may make a couple of changes over the next month as we continue to playtest these cards. In particular, we want to make sure the “Weirding” cards aren’t too confusing. We think they’ll be fun, but don’t intend to slow down game play. These cards will be considered final once the May Newsletter is published, or by the time Gen Con preregistration starts on May 16^th (another plug).

The images for these Tabula Rasa cards will be generally available by mid-May. Besides the current groups playtesting these cards, the Gen Con versions will debut at a special to be announced tournament in May. And for those that make Gen Con, two of the prizes added to this tournament will be a complete set of these cards. Each print contains two copies of the card (one facing each player), each 3 ½” x 5” in size. They’re printed on photo paper and laminated. The design was done by Metrodj, so you know they’re beautiful.

Saturday, August 20, 2005 – 9:00AM

Classic Buffy CCG Sealed Deck

On a first come, first serve basis players will get to select whether they want to play with a Hero Deck or Villain Deck. Once you make that selection, you’ll get a bag which will contain the following for specific to your alignment.

1 – Pergamum Prophecy Starter
1 – Class of 99 Starter
1 – “The Wish” Theme Deck
2 – Pergamum Prophecy Booster Packs
2 – Angel’s Curse Booster Packs
2 – Class of 99 Booster Packs
2 – Promo cards
4 – Set of plastic AC Essences

You will get approximately 30 minutes to build your deck. Play will start promptly on time. We will be trying to move through the rounds on a timely manner in order to complete four rounds within the four hour scheduled timeframe. Since registered players get all of the above cards for the entry fee of a mere $3.00, I expect this tournament to possibly sell out early. We are limited to 16 participants. So again, I encourage you to preregister.

Saturday, August 20, 2005 – 9:00AM

Buffy CCG Extended Type B “Dream Card” Tournament

This tournament has long been anticipated by some fans of the game. For the first time ever at Gen Con, fan created cards as listed below will be legal for play. You are not required to use these cards in your deck (they are optional). However, many players have long been hoping to expand their decks to include characters, challenges, locations and other cards from later seasons of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The following cards, all available at Buffyccg.com for download, will be playable in this tournament. If your deck contains any virtual cards, your entire deck must be sleeved and the virtual cards backed by printed Buffyccg cards.

Gen Con “legal” cards can be found in the Dream Card section of the buffyccg.com website and consist of all cards in following categories.

Once More With Feeling set
Weeks 1 through 12
Special Recognition cards
Halloween ’04 Fear Itself
Weeks 22 through 31

Note: These cards represent fan-based art created on the premise – “What if Score Entertainment had produced expansion sets for all seasons of the show?” While these cards have been reviewed and playtested by many experienced players, they are in no way to be construed as “legal” cards in the sense that all reproductions must be for personal use and enjoyment. Any player caught using these reproductions for any commercial reason will be restricted from participating in this tournament and possibly all future sanctioned tournaments.

Last note for Gen Con, I can’t say often enough how gratifying it is to get the support of other companies producing Buffy products for our efforts. It’s easy for me to say to go out and buy their products, because I was doing so even before they agreed to support us. So one more time, please check out these companies products. They don’t have to support us. They just happen to appreciate a group of fans trying to keep a game alive.

Score Entertainment
Inkworks
Eden Studios
Diamond Select Toys
Cinequest.com

Next month we preview the final two tournaments, The Grand Patrol and Showtime. Then it’s on to preregistration. We’ll be combining June and July into one newsletter and we’ll cover which prizes we plan to use for which tournaments. The August newsletter will be published shortly after Gen Con and contain all of the results of what I know will be an awesome event.

The next Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 5) wil be released in May, 2005.

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