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Oh man, I really want to make a Banisher who looks like Harrison Ford come chasing after your mentor! You have a real eye for these character portraits--I hope my own NPCs will measure up! I think the legacy is balanced and will work for your character concept. The fourth attainment, making...

Upon further consideration, I think the idea is workable. It's not a bad idea for a character, by any means; I was just concerned that he might not jibe with the rest of the group. But since Shayuri's character was Awakened through purposeful action, and Annalist's character is a member of the...

I really, really try to be the ST who says "yes," but this chronicle will deal in part with Consilium politics, and a character based on spreading supernal knowledge to Sleepers would be massively unpopular with this Consilium. From a group cohesion perspective, I don't think the idea will...

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Pull up a chair, we're glad to have you. :) That's a really cool, unconventional background. Kudos! I also appreciate the inclusion of a villain for me to grab up. We're getting a good mixture of NPCs in these backstories--girlfriends, mentors, bad-guys--so I'm really optimistic about...

The following represents just a little more information on the history of Cambridge Awakened society than the average mage would posess. You may determine for yourself how much of this your character knows. -------------------------- Cambridge, Massachussetts has a rich history of Awakened...

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Whew! That's a lot of replies since yesterday evening. I'll try to address a few things quickly and come back at things in depth in a couple of hours. Not a problem. I'll PM you later on with a proposed translation to the new rules. I feel bad that I omitted this, but in the new World of...

That house rule addresses the imbalance from choosing a legacy that doesn't grant you a new ruling arcanum, but I think it favors specialist mages over mages who want to spread out and dip their toes in a number of arcana. My own preference is for the Cabal to spread out and have a wide...

Legacies are pretty cool, but completely optional. Also called "soul-shaping," legacies are a process by which a mage shares a tiny portion of his soul (experience) with his mentor in exchange for a small increase in power. The student gains magical abilities, called attainments, which have no...

A mage with a legacy still treats the legacy's primary arcanum as ruling. This means that most mages can manage to get three ruling arcana without too much trouble, so I suppose it makes the average character advance a bit faster, especially at higher levels of the arcana. What kind of a...

Somehow I've avoided having players try to pull this, but I think it's just my generation. We all grew up on Final Fantasy and other early JRPGs, so we've had it up to here with that trope. "Oh, you're the silent, sullen loner type? Me too! We're all silent, sullen loners. It's just one big...

Awesome, Solarious! Glad to have you aboard. To clarify my stance on paths and watchtowers: I don't ban them or remove them, but I make them optional. I prefer having everyone's Awakening be different, and if swearing an oath to your Watchtower fits your character, then that's how it goes...

Ooh, I don't think I want to go giving him a derangement as a Flaw. Then he gets bonus experience for disrupting the tone of the game. Yeesh. I'm thinking that the problem doesn't really come from the kind of character he makes, though--multiple personalities could easily be done in a way...

You know, I hadn't thought of it in that context, which is strange, because Jekyll/Hyde was a minor villain in the current campaign. I feel humbled. :o Maybe there is some hope for this character, if I can get him to play along with the tone we're trying to achieve.

Let me restate the "tone" problem, then. In the current game, the rest of the group said they wanted "monster hunters in the dark and grimy streets of Victorian London." This was among a few other proposals, including a wackier, 4-color superheroes game. The other players are trying to hew to...

I run Mage: the Awakening, so yes, personality is covered under game rules for PCs. And I've let him play a character with MPD before--he's currently playing one in another game, in fact, and that's a major reason why I don't want this new character for my Mage game. The character in that game...

I'm going to demand that you, also, come to my Wednesday game. This character would be a perfect fit for my Victorian monster hunters game. My buddies have a running joke that this is what Gimli and Legolas are all about. "Dwarven women look much like Dwarven men! Sometimes I get confused!"

It's for an upcoming game of Mage: the Awakening (not the PbP I'm running on this board, if my players there are reading), so I initially suggested he spend merits on a Sleepwalker Retainer--a non-mage character who can witness spells without ruining them. It's more the latter thing, the sudden...

Good ideas, Annalist. I don't want to give it the Official ST Blessing, because that stuff's up to the players. What do you guys think? Have you decided which one of those three characters you're going to run with, Shayuri? I really liked the backstory you wrote up for Juno Reyes, but I'm...