If anyone has played this game based on the White Wolf world of darkness license which is now out of print, originally produced by Wizards, it seems like it would be a great fit for a living card game for it's multi-player appeal.

Here is the boardgamegeek entry for those unfamiliar with the original game:

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VTES was an ok game to start with, but mechanically it bogged down after WW released a few expansionsdied under it's own weight.

 World of Darkness isn't really a big draw these days.

Would love to see this return as a LCG, great background, depth and scope.

WoD is pretty much dead.

There were over 60 different people playing Vampire at Origins Game Fair in June.

Thursday's Last Chance Qualifier had 55 players.

Friday's North America Championship Day 1 had 47 players while 17 different people participated in the Shadow Twin #1 event happening at the same time.

Saturday's North America Championship Day 2 had 25 players (all those that qualified after Day 1) and the Shadow Twin #2 event happening at the same time saw 24 more players.

Sunday's First Chance Qualifier had 43 players.

Pretty good for a game no longer being supported.

I have read posts that tournaments in Europe have drawn over 100 players.

I'd love to see Vampire become a LCG. With no new material I don't know how long it will continue to hold my interest.

Later,
~Rehlow

A dream would be a vampire: dark ages variant with the basic vtes rules as an lcg. our playgroup would by anything available

I pray for this constantly. I had a strong love affair with WoD back in the day, though, for a variety of reasons I didn't jump on VTES until...... late July 2010  . I essentially got into the Game of Thrones LCG in order to soothe the sting.

Despite my desperate wishes, and with the caveat that I'm only really a dabbler in the whole CCG/LCG scene (the two previous games mentioned being my only real forays), I think that dude above has a point: the game seemed to suffer from hella bloat in it's latter days. Stuffing those into expansion packs at £10 a pop might be tricky.

Also... (oof, I'm on thin ice here) the art quality of VTES and other CCGs tend to be a LOT better than what I've seen of LCG cards so far (i.e CoC and AGoT). Are there any implications?

Nevertheless, I'd cry with joy if I ever see that VTES became an LCG. I really really really love that game.

I never played V:TES, but I like the concept, especially the game's emphasis on the social element. My wallet would absolutely back "Vampire: The Rebirth," or whatever they decided to call it.

Would it use the WoD, or NWoD for the setting?

I imagine it could only work as old World of Darkness if it wanted to maintain any form of backwards compatibility...

The prpblem with Vampire may be that there was not any card limit to individual card. So 30 same card to the deck was just fine. But it is not impossible. I can live with 3 card limit just fine. The strong point is that there are not any other vampire themed games around. The Call of Cthulhu comes near.

Vampire is/was strong multiplayer game. But the problem maybe the theme. I like Vampire but many friends of mine newer were interested in vampyre themed game… Vampire does have strong followers, but it was newer very wide group. Hard to say how well it would managa in lcg format. There is potential though!

 I used to like the vampire ccg but everyone in my meta used to love playing the rage ccg game instead.

If Ffg did decide to make a world of darkness lcg I'd hope they put their own spin on it and not copy the original games too closely, maybe vampires vs. werewolves vs. hunters.

 I wouldn't count on this ever happening, not unless White Wolf gets dumped by the Eve Online guys and bought up by FFG.  White Wolf doesn't play well with others, which is why the Wizards CCG partnership didn't last.

 VtES was one of my favorite CCGs (and I played a lot). I'd love to see this game made into an LCG. The LCG format is much better than the CCG, and this was a fantastic multiplayer game.

I'd be interested if they rebooted Vampire.  I imagine that like Netrunner it would be updated and some of the mechanics changed, also I expect they would want to include rules for 2p.  But if they did all that, I'm in.

Mylo said:

The new star wars games has some fantastic artwork and I think the warhammer art is pretty damn good in parts also.