Out-of-Character

Just a quick place for OOC. Not that we are clogging up chat (yet) with fan theories about Dark Phoenix, or Toy Story 4, or what really lies at the bottom of Lake Baikal, what have you.

but my wild and unsubstantiated theories!

Unsubstantiated is the single best one word description of the 21st century

I'm liking the character interactions so far. When you're ready, post that you're going to the murder site (or where to next) and I'll paint the scene.

The_Librarian. Just choose those specialties now.

I've been playing this fairly aloof, assuming that each of you is fairly competent with the rules. However, if you want more directions, let me know and I'll start a rules thread. This weekend, I want to post one on spell casting if nothing else, as it bears getting right. I might put up one with combat basics as well, not that I want to run a high octane combat game.

Ouch. I thought Dragomir was descending first, that's why I went next. Sorry, I should have specified that.

Oh, well. So, uh... Yeah. Help?

That was a brutal roll, sorry about that.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm fairly familiar with New World of Darkness 1e rules. That said, I've never played Mage: The Awakening, so some of the spell casting mechanics are new to me.

I ran a Changeling: The Lost campaign for two years with Mages as recurring NPCs, but I totally flaked on the rules today, haha. My brain is contaminated by the cWoD Vampire: The Masquerade game I'm running IRL.

Same. I made a mage but never got to play, so I am shaky on mage mechanics. but ive played a lot of old WoD and alot of changeling the lost

Awesome. Let's learn together while we tell each other a scary story.

Same for me. lots of WoD, first time mage.

1st mages unite!! oh wait....

I'm not sensing engagement on this initial encounter. While my intention was not to run a combat heavy campaign, I would like for us to be able to experience some threats. Did we want to pause and discuss the nature of the game before we go too far down a road you're not interested in?

Sadly i built a less combat centric character

You could try other things. Mage Sight, for example. Or try and assist your allies.

I’m ready to go... just waiting my turn. Don’t want to hog all the action.

I'm with Moloch, I'm ready to go, but don't want to steamroll the others. But I see the appeal of a game rule from one of my other games. In combat, you have 24 hours to add your input or be skipped.

So we have the setup to the conflict of the game. An unknown mage is doing BAD STUFF and you're all likely AGAINST THAT. This will involve investigation and likely confrontation, with the BBEG and it's minions. How that confrontation plays out will be up to you, but along the way, we may learn more about the broader mage world, too.

As part of the 'social contract' to the game, let me know if this works for you.

Before we get too far, we can change directions. For example, if you want more broader mage world interaction, we can bring that in. I arbitrarily made the assumption you would be most of not all of the mages in the city, but it is not too late to expand that community.