And now the new DS Card PDF's start

It will take a lot of dedicated time for the effects of the rules update to filter through the system, but there is no time like the present to get things started. We will deal with everything, but time is a limiter, so be patient.

We will be releasing a new series of Health Anchors at Pentacon. You can download the PDF with the cards and some background information on the DS Content page. Just follow this link to the page.

The new guidelines make these reasonable. In the past we had to deal with trying to set Card Points for cards under two systems. One progressive from the Guild and one static from the DS rules. The Progressive system means we do not have to do much juggling with the CP, the system makes them more costly to add later.

These can also be handy for players who want to convert their older characters. The Guild had contrived a special set of rules involving Masokian Meditation to gain HP. Now, for about 21 CP you can get the Health 2 and 3 and drop four Boons. That will bring characters closer to the new Boon recommendations and keep your HP too.

Characters with high CP are going to want to use the Grandfather Clause to add most, or all, of these to their characters. This is an opportunity to spread out the characters cards and take a look at your Independent selection. With the new Ten Things limit some strategies will change. As long as you are taking out card points to trade in for Health, you can use the opportunity to drop some Aces you will not need as many of.

I am afraid that Masokian Meditation will become an outmoded card in all of this. In 1996 four HP were more valuable than today. Outmoded cards will all still be valid, just not as useful as they were.

Tomorrow I will cover the Elethay Witchcraft set that you see on the page. That one will be at Pentacon as well.

For those of you who can not get the cards now, our new policy of accepting proxies will come in to play.

Good Night and Good Gaming.

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