How to Play Vampire the Masquerade: Rivals Expandable Card Game (Rules School)

[@aarondovauo7598]

Very thorough, this was a nice reframing of the rulebook. We had a few 4-player sessions of this today as soon as we unpacked it and sleeved it up, and I think we did pretty well thanks to this teach. Cheers!

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

Glad it helped Aaron!

[@darthjoel6357]

Just got the game yesterday. Ty for explaining the rules. 😊

[@mrwh257]

The best review of this game!

[@drgloryhogg2476]

Awesome work!

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

Thanks Dr Gloryhogg! This was a tricky teach!

[@NorthOf60Gaming]

Great Job, just bought the game, doing my own videos, but this is super helpful.

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

Glad I could help!

[@tremerequeen7657]

Rule correction: ranged attacks CAN be blocked if the blocker had Guard printed on them which vampire Ty did have in your example.

[@xdeathkitttyx1243]

Two questions would be soo grateful if anyone can help me 1. The City deck, do the cards get discarded and new ones brought out (except ongoing)after every turn? 2. In an gameplay video with the devs they used a retainer to take aggravated damage instead of their vampire but didn't discard the retainer after so do we just keep them afterwards? as I discarded mine Loved your video! It cleared up all my other questions.

[@lastresort554]

Hi, sorry for such a late reply. You put your coloured marker on the city ongoing event that you drew, when it comes to your turn again you discard that card. And draw a new one. There should only be 2/3/4 cards in the city “unless there are humans in the city that no one has claimed.

[@Deslaure]

You should give a try to Vampire: the Eternal Struggle, the Richard Garfield game from 1994. It's a Masterpiece ! Rivals is a interesting game, but not quite good as Vtes.

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

Thanks for the Tip!

[@Deslaure]

@@TheGameBoyGeeks The 5th Edition is out and is perfect for new players! ;) About Rivals: I purchased and played it once and I had some questions. But your video covered them all, thanks a lots!

[@czarniutka852]

VteS is amazing - for more players then 3 ... for 2 players is literally "unplayable"

[@8triagrammer]

​@czarniutka852 no, two players is viable, we did it all the time, it just ends are being combat heavy

[@8triagrammer]

Huge vtes fan here, the game had its own issues, most notably that games would take at least 3 hours or more. There's also the card bloat, and the rock paper scissors issues making bad matchups.

[@ethancooper1056]

This is maybe a dumb question, but how do you gain more prestige? Is it just card effects or am I missing something?

[@sealtyk]

Could you swap out the color coded tokens for dice and play up to 6 people? With an expansion and other factions of course

[@foyoGames]

Anybody like this more than Vampire the Eternal Struggle?

[@Deslaure]

VTES rules ;)

[@Deslaure]

Rival is interesting, but IMO, it's not as deep as Vtes.

[@foyoGames]

@@Deslaure interesting, I only got VTES to the table 1x (due to cardgamers' aversion to trying a game other than the 1 or 2 ccgs that they know how to play & boardgamers' aversion to trying card games....smh.

[@Deslaure]

@@foyoGames For the avert boardgamers, Rivals can be a solution. It's really funny as Rivals is a mix of Netrunner, A game of throne CCG, Star wars CCG and Vtes.

[@foyoGames]

@@Deslaure wow, that sounds fun, maybe I'll spring it on em 1 day.

[@ktk3487]

How would you build a deck? Can you mix cards or you are forced to make a deck using the same faction?

[@Vorago12]

There is a video of Vampire Wednesdays that the players start with the agenda face down until scored. Is that a variant or the official way to play?

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

It must be a variant as the publisher approved the video.

[@chrischung8411]

It is for Constructed play.

[@MichaelTE]

I might have missed something but once a vampire has moved to the street is there any way to move it back into the haven, or is it stuck where it is for the rest of the game?

[@jsnel9185]

They move back to the haven at the end of every turn unless prevented by some card or action.

[@steps3344]

Actually cards with guard CAN block against ranges attacks.

[@KimchiYeo]

*silly malkavian dance*

[@lastresort554]

Breedable

[@boardgameschill3495]

Fantastic video!

[@TheGameBoyGeeks]

Thanks!