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Swagger Dagger posted:Cannibal Banisher cults: The Good Guys At least they aren't tearing apart the universe to conjure sandwiches.
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# ? Apr 3, 2014 18:23 |
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In some of the preview material back in 2004 I could have sworn there was a Banisher group straight out of Boondock Saints (which I thought was a lot cooler in 2004 than I do today), I forget if they stuck around or not.
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# ? Apr 3, 2014 18:38 |
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pospysyl posted:At least they aren't tearing apart the universe to conjure sandwiches. Aren't they, though? Don't Banishers still, you know, cast magic?
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# ? Apr 3, 2014 19:25 |
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Swagger Dagger posted:Cannibal Banisher cults: The Good Guys c'mon guys, the Timori legacy are No True Banishers.
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# ? Apr 3, 2014 19:38 |
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Exrandu posted:If you've read the Banishers book and don't think they're the "good guys", I don't know what book you read. One thing I like about Mage is that even though the villains are, of course, depicted as just the Worst People, it's not hard to see things from the villains' perspective. Magic is dangerous.
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# ? Apr 3, 2014 22:56 |
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Nicolae Carpathia posted:One thing I like about Mage is that even though the villains are, of course, depicted as just the Worst People, it's not hard to see things from the villains' perspective. Magic is dangerous. While I can sort of see things from the perspective of the Banishers, I've never really been able to get behind the Seers. They can talk a good game about keeping magic out of the hands of the unworthy, but at the end of the day they're not just controlling access to magic, but also spreading war, poverty, paranoia, hatred, and all that wonderful poo poo that would be purely Nephandic in Ascension.
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 01:40 |
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Pussy Cartel posted:While I can sort of see things from the perspective of the Banishers, I've never really been able to get behind the Seers. They can talk a good game about keeping magic out of the hands of the unworthy, but at the end of the day they're not just controlling access to magic, but also spreading war, poverty, paranoia, hatred, and all that wonderful poo poo that would be purely Nephandic in Ascension. If you can't picture the Seers as sympathetic villains, you probably can't picture the powerful people irl who do terrible things for money and influence as sympathetic villains - oh. Carry on, then
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 01:45 |
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My Life with the Mage Kill Kult: the Banisher Chronicle
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 04:44 |
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I enjoy describing Mage: The Awakening to people as, "The game where you play traitors to Earth who are sympathetic to invaders from another dimension. They attempt to bridge the terrible void between our world and another and turn our dimension into that one."
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 09:20 |
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Mages believe that they need to remove "the Lie" so that humanity can embrace reality. This is like removing your skin so that you can "really feel" what the world is like.
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 13:52 |
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Exrandu posted:I enjoy describing Mage: The Awakening to people as, "The game where you play traitors to Earth who are sympathetic to invaders from another dimension. They attempt to bridge the terrible void between our world and another and turn our dimension into that one." But no you see earth is already being invaded by monsters from anoother dimension whenever we overindulge. The good invaders will let us hey, where are you going? Stop and listen!
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 20:03 |
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A Storytelling Game of Insane People Ranting on the Subway.
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 21:02 |
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Cabbit posted:A Storytelling Game of Insane People Ranting on the Subway. A Game Where the Man is Literally Just Keeping Us Down Dude!
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 21:24 |
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Zikan posted:A Game Where the Man is Literally Just Keeping Us Down Dude! A game where This Would All Be Fixed If I Was Running Things: the Silver Ladder story
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 21:29 |
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The Silver Ladder does NOT want to be in charge, just to make sure that whoever's in charge takes care to run all their ideas by the Silver Ladder.
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# ? Apr 4, 2014 21:47 |
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Ferrinus posted:The Silver Ladder does NOT want to be in charge, just to make sure that whoever's in charge takes care to run all their ideas by the Silver Ladder. Jafar, the splatbook
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 00:09 |
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Now, in the wake of that regrettable incident, Ladder training manuals emphatically instruct trainees to just immediately become an all-powerful sorcerer and save the other two wishes for a rainy day.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 00:13 |
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Silver Ladder Law #34: I may be a Life Master, but I will not use this power to turn into a giant snake. It never helps.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 00:27 |
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Uhhhh, point of order. Turning into a giant snake did help. As a titanic cobra, Jafar handily (figuratively speaking) seized and immobilized Aladdin. In fact, it was Jafar's decision to stop being a giant snake that did him in.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 00:36 |
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Specifically, it was Jafar's acceptance of contingencies or limits on omnipotence that did him in. An ideologically pure Thearch would never accept the shackles that attend geniedom, not for any amount of phenomenal cosmic power.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 00:40 |
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"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies." PHILIP K. DICK, Valis "Yeah, but we'd be a good empire!" EVERY SILVER LADDER EVER, When confronted with the above
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 03:31 |
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I just built the Cold Steel guy as a wizard, for a game of internet celebrity wizards. Trip reports may follow.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 06:54 |
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A_Raving_Loon posted:I just built the Cold Steel guy as a wizard, for a game of internet celebrity wizards. Trip reports may follow. Wait you mean the little fat, dad-looking guy who wears a suit while chopping pigs in half?
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 07:05 |
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Error 404 posted:Wait you mean the little fat, dad-looking guy who wears a suit while chopping pigs in half? As a wizard.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 07:12 |
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A_Raving_Loon posted:As a wizard. Haha holy poo poo. I'm looking forward to hearing how this goes. Also please tell me you have someone playing a Mastigos version of the Oxyclean guy .
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 07:14 |
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Demon: The Fallen continued… My favorite oWoD piece of fiction: ”Earthbound, p.41” posted:
From zero to cosmic horror in less than a page.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 07:27 |
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Ferrinus posted:Uhhhh, point of order. Turning into a giant snake did help. As a titanic cobra, Jafar handily (figuratively speaking) seized and immobilized Aladdin. In fact, it was Jafar's decision to stop being a giant snake that did him in. Case closed.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 12:13 |
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Attorney at Funk posted:Specifically, it was Jafar's acceptance of contingencies or limits on omnipotence that did him in. An ideologically pure Thearch would never accept the shackles that attend geniedom, not for any amount of phenomenal cosmic power. Itty bitty living space is a curse of the Fallen World, a cruel trick of the Exarchs.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 12:33 |
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I went over this with Liesmith a while ago, but the ascendant Silver Ladder does not look like the ascendant Ministries. If you somehow help the Pentacle to win the ascension war, you are not replacing one master with another. The universe might be blasted out of existence, but it won't just get new logos on its banners.Doodmons posted:
Huh, afflictions, those things you overcome by wishing really hard. If only, if only, there was a form of magic- perhaps the best, greatest, truest form of magic - that worked that way...
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 14:19 |
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Error 404 posted:Haha holy poo poo. I'm looking forward to hearing how this goes. Sadly such was not to be. The rest of the team is a BBQ Pit Boy, A Social Justice Warrior, An eSports Athelete, and an Angry Reviewer.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 15:26 |
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Ferrinus posted:I went over this with Liesmith a while ago, but the ascendant Silver Ladder does not look like the ascendant Ministries. If you somehow help the Pentacle to win the ascension war, you are not replacing one master with another. The universe might be blasted out of existence, but it won't just get new logos on its banners. Alas, to overcome a level 2 Affliction requires that you spend 2 Willpower at once. In WoD you can only spend 1 Willpower a turn... ain't nothin' you can do about it.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 15:35 |
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A_Raving_Loon posted:I just built the Cold Steel guy as a wizard, for a game of internet celebrity wizards. The very first time I ran Unknown Armies, I mandated that any character starting with a gun had to be a registered Republican, and any character with a sword had to be him.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 15:50 |
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Doodmons posted:Alas, to overcome a level 2 Affliction requires that you spend 2 Willpower at once. In WoD you can only spend 1 Willpower a turn... ain't nothin' you can do about it. You have to spend Willpower... or draw on divine, cosmic powers. Well, guess what.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 16:57 |
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Doodmons posted:
What is this from? Another player in the Vampire game I'm in is playing a Gorgon. I just know she's going to turn into a giant snake, and I know it won't help.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 17:57 |
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Gilok posted:What is this from? Have her get attacked by a giant rat.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 17:59 |
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Gilok posted:What is this from? It's from Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, specifically the Glass-Maker's Dragon campaign. ("Turning into a giant snake never helps" is exceptionally poignant there because Chuubo's most impressive power, other than having a marvelous engine that grants his every wish, is the ability to turn into a giant snake. That guy has a lot of powers for such an ordinary boy.)
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 18:03 |
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crime fighting hog posted:Have her get attacked by a giant rat.
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# ? Apr 5, 2014 18:10 |
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Ok, so I'm usually phoneposting more than computer posting these days, and so doing poo poo with lots of links or bbcode or formatting is a massive pain in the rear end, which is why it's taken me literally months to remember to edit Ferrinus' mage rewrite into the homebrew section of the OP. Which I have done just now. Cheers bro, that poo poo's tight. also, this is a call for any other cool homebrew poo poo anyone's been working on that they'd like to see put in the OP.
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# ? Apr 6, 2014 01:09 |
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This is obviously an incredibly broad and subjective question, but: music appropriate for Mage. Suggestions? An idea for a plot came to me like a bolt from the blue, and I'm amassing as much material I can that might somehow prove tangentially useful or related.
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# ? Apr 6, 2014 04:02 |
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Cabbit posted:This is obviously an incredibly broad and subjective question, but: music appropriate for Mage. Suggestions? An idea for a plot came to me like a bolt from the blue, and I'm amassing as much material I can that might somehow prove tangentially useful or related. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
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