Flavour texts

[Dollface]

Time for another pointless discussion.
What do you reckon is the best flavour text on
Jyhad/Vtes cards. My current favourite is on the V:tes
version of well aimed car.

"We will discuss your breach of the Masquerade
later"
:Tusk, Talebearer of clan Nosferatu

(At least I think thats how it goes)

Also, does anybody know why they changed so many of the
Jyhad flavour texts for Vtes, often for the worse IMO ????

Cheers
Alun

[Chad Lubrecht]

I noticed that every Jyhad card that had a song quote on it was changed.
The first one I noticed was Majesty (with the Nine Inch Nails quote.) I
don't know why they did this.

Chad Lubrecht
lubr...@udel.edu

(I think the Jyhad Majesty gets my vote as best flavor text)

[PDB6]

I am fairly certain that all the quotes that were changed on the VTES
versions of Jyhad cards were done so because of possible copyright
violation issues that WOTC chose to ignore in the original set. These
were mostly quotes from songs (Head like a Hole by NIN, Sensual World by
Kate Bush) or popular sources (Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, The original
WAC text from Firesign Theatre) that were presumably used without
permission.

I always liked the Twin Peaks quote on Owl Companion and the text on the
original WAC: "The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in
Mr. Rococco's pocket..."

Peter D Bakija
PD...@aol.com

"I'm going to kill you anyway, Kryceck, so you might as well tell me the
truth!"
-Mulder

[L. Scott Johnson]

Chad Lubrecht <lubr...@udel.edu> writes:
>I noticed that every Jyhad card that had a song quote on it was changed.
> The first one I noticed was Majesty (with the Nine Inch Nails quote.) I
>don't know why they did this.

Because they hadn't gotten permission from any of the copyright holders
(Trent in this case) to use their works.

Same reason they switched images on Camille (but not the same reason they
changed her name - that was just a foul up.)
--
L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Friends help you move.
http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | Real friends help you move bodies.
Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

[Marc Erl]

Dollface wrote:
>
> Time for another pointless discussion.
> What do you reckon is the best flavour text on
> Jyhad/Vtes cards. My current favourite is on the V:tes
> version of well aimed car.
>
> "We will discuss your breach of the Masquerade
> later"
> :Tusk, Talebearer of clan Nosferatu

Hey, a good issue...:)
My personal favourite is on the new version of Flame Thrower:
"Not a very subtle weapon to say the least" Tusk the Talebearer.
I just loooove british understatement..:)