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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7902214" data-attributes="member: 5100">I think this is why, in part, my group ended up gravitating toward Mage and, to a lesser extent, Changeling. In Mage, you're still more or less human and, even though you have some lofty ambitions, you still have normal human drives. Some Friday nights, you just want to go to the pub, play pool, and knock back a couple beers. Even many of the "lofty goals" still have mundane reflections. The Celestial Chorus member can summon food into existence, but still wants to reform the system so the homeless have someplace to go and shelter. The Akashic can beat any thug (or entire gang) into submission, but runs a dojo to train mundanes to defend themselves because she can't be everywhere. The Euthanatos has a slightly different take on the crime problem. The Verbena can, potentially, see where they're all fighting different aspects of the same problem. That problem doesn't even have to be supernatural, though there might be some spirits involved. The point is that it can't be solved by magic alone, even if subtle magic is a constant aid. If you want to occasionally pull out the stops, though, you can always put the group in a place where magic matters -- even sending them to the deepest recesses of some desert/jungle or even an ethereal realm.You can do the same thing, to an extent, with Changeling, though that always seems to be a "just when I thought I was out" scenario. Werewolf is very situational. But Vampire so often boils down to running a soup kitchen (or whatever) out of boredom/ennui or just so that you don't become a monster, which is something of it's own, clinical, catch 22. For Mage, the mortals really are the point, in a lot of cases.</blockquote>

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