Unfortunatelly, Black Chantry Productions cannot be present at the big Spiel 2022 game fair in Essen this weekend. BUT if you swing by the booth of our distributor Blackfire, they will have a Vampire: The Eternal Struggle promo card (Kuyen to be exact) in their demo bag. It´s in hall 2, booth number D102. They will be demoing Flesh and Blood, One Piece and other games. Limited numbers available, so don´t sleep on it!
Also, if you are at Essen and love VTES, don´t miss the annual Saturday tournament in nearby Bochum “We Only Come Out At Night”!
Boxes full of the Fall of London set for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is at our UK haven now, so hopefully also at distributors and stores all around the world soon. The official release date for the set is October 14 2022, which means the cards in the set will be legal for tournament play on November 13, 2022.
Also, don´t miss to gather your friends to play a special Fall of London storyline event! It´s a VTES game with some special rules to give an experience in line with the London theme and extra excitement caused by the Second Inquisition hunters coming after your vampires!
Yes! There is an official storyline for The Fall of London, so you can play a special event when the new set arrives. Check out rules and special cards at the Storyline download page!
So far this year, we’ve made the English language versions of the Fifth Edition decks available on Drivethrucards, as well as legacy reprints of Pander, Salubri, and Tzimisce. April saw the release of the New Blood introductory decks for Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Tremere, and Ventrue. We’re presently waiting for the artwork to be complete for the Fall of London storyline set. Mike Nudd is the lead designer for it, and he also is a co-author of the Fall of London book for Vampire: The Masquerade. We’re expecting a summer release for that set.
We have a change in plans for what’s coming after Fall of London. We had originally planned to release a follow-up set for the Camarilla, filling out the Group 6 crypts and adding new library cards for them. However, with the heavy Camarilla themes of the New Blood decks and Fall of London, we felt we’d be oversaturating you with Camarilla-related cards. We’re presently planning for these cards – including the new Justicars! – to be in your hands in first quarter of 2023.
Coming after Fall of London, planned for the fourth of 2022, is another wave of pre-constructed decks. This time they’ll be Ravnos, Salubri, and Tzimisce, updated accordingly for the Vampire: The Masquerade V5 canon. We’re presently vetting the templating and mechanics of the cards and we’ll have them sent off for playtesting in June. We’ll have more information for you about those as we get closer to their release.
Heading into 2023, there’s the aforementioned Camarilla follow-up set, and following that we’ll have pre-constructed decks for the Lasombra and Hecata. We’ll also be wanting to release follow-up sets for all of the clans, as we’re definitely not done creating crypt and library cards for them. I’m frequently asked when we’ll be making new cards for the Sabbat. We’re very early in the concept and planning stages for the Sabbat, so they’re further down the production timeline, but we’re definitely excited for them.
I wish you all great summer nights and I look forward to seeing you at tournaments this year!
– Ben Peal, Product Director Black Chantry Productions
• European Championship in Helsinki, Finland – July 29-31 (Info)
There are also National Championships in Spain (June 4 in Zaragoza), France (June 5 in Metz), Denmark (June 11 in Store Andst) and Belgium (July 11 in Brussels), as well as many other local tournaments. Keep an eye on the VEKN Event Calendar for tournaments near you.
Big thanks to all the organisers, the main sponsor Ultra Pro and all local sponsors – you rock!
