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I'm seeing a lot of love for Traveler here. One of these days I'm going to have to set up my Traveler dream game: round-robin GMs and a crew of explorers. Each GM runs one "episode", where the group goes down to a planet, meets a new alien species, solves the problem, and moves on to the next...

I demand that you come and play these awesome characters at my table. I'll expect you at 7:00 on Wednesday.

I had a player pitch a new character concept to me last night--unfortunately, it's pretty much the same as his last character concept. The guy always wants to play a character with multiple personalities. I just can't stomach another character with multiple personalities; it doesn't fit with...

I'm sure that 90% of us started out on some flavor of D&D. For me, it will always be my "first love" in tabletop gaming. Here's the question: what is your "second love?" When you first started branching out from the system you started gaming in, what's the first system that really clicked for...

The Right of Nemesis basically means that if a Mage comes into your territory looking for one of their enemies, you won't interfere. This can easily conflict with other Rights, though. If a fellow Mage comes asking for protection under Hospitality, but another Mage has declared him a Nemesis...

Let's talk about the Cabal a bit. The Cabal needs a few things: a name, a base of operations, and a statement of intent on the five Great Rights. Let's start with the headquarters. The game will take place in the greater Boston metropolitan area, so any of the neighborhoods or adjoining towns...

Sure, that's no problem. Glad to have you!

Absolutely. I only asked for PMs because some people like to keep their character sheets secret. Far be it for me to keep you guys from collaborating! If you have any character creation questions, this thread would be a good place to ask, since I can advise everyone at once.

Absolutely! In fact, I was about to encourage you guys to do that very thing. I'm going to try to be hands-off about Cabal creation, beyond advising you guys mechanically, because I love being surprised and inspired by what players create. If you want to send me more writing, I'd love to...

Great news! I'm glad you've decided to play, BlueLotus. And I'm going to take it as a direct complement that your first post on ENWorld was in my thread, Annalist. :) I guess now is as good a time as any to give you all this next bit. In my real life, on the table games, I give each player...

Awakening has a much more detailed system, but I don't think the learning curve is all that steep for someone who has played Ascension. To me, it's much more important that a player know how to get into the style of the game, which in my games is very similar. As far as the setting, you've...

Legacy of the Stone Assembly Mage the Awakening Legacy of the Stone Assembly http://www.enworld.org/forum/talking-talk/244139-mage-awakening-legacy-stone-assembly-recruiting.html Recruitment ends when we get 4-6 interesting characters

Legacy of the Stone Assembly A Mage: The Awakening Chronicle For three hundred years, Boston's Stone Assembly kept order among the mages of New England. By the end of World War I, the mighty fathers of the Stone Assembly began falling, one by one. In 1917, Tobias Dalton, a master of...

I don't know about that. As a completely un-macho man, I take considerable offense at Arnold-Schwarzenegger-extreme masculinity, and more offense at media that portrays men who fall somewhere beneath John Wayne for machismo as unworthy of their dangly bits. A woman writing a man that way makes...

Exactly. On top of that, banning gender-swapping requires me, the GM, to rewrite the story so that women and men can all do the same stuff! As a history nerd, I reserve the right to run a game set in a sexist, racist, classist society--not to penalize people of a particular gender, race, or...

For my style of play, that would be downright unbearable. I'm a big believer in the Bechtel Rule: A story must have at least A) two women who B) talk to each other about C) something other than a man. She was talking about movies, but it's something I'm cognizant of in my games.

As mentioned up-thread, my players cross genders with their characters and do so with pretty decent verisimilitude. That doesn't mean it's easy, though, and I think Jeff's comment on the rarity of finding gamers capable of roleplaying in that way deserves a fair shake. Gender is a very deeply...

I run a game set in Victorian London, so gender roles are particularly important to my game. I have 3 men playing men, 1 woman playing a woman, 1 woman playing a woman cross-dressing as her dead brother (one of the finer character concepts I've seen in a while, although this short description...

Yeah, people were saying that was the reason Bill Bridges stopped doing errata and writing new stuff for the Mage line, but no details so far. If the guy that made Mage is making the underlying rules for an MMO, though, I'll play it! :D

Rewarding people with numerical bonuses for roleplaying seems counter-productive to me. The problem is that the players are focused on number-crunching and tactics to the exclusion of the storytelling aspects you enjoy. Rewarding them with tactical, number-crunching rewards doesn't shift that...