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@Warma-Sheen Doh, okies. Thanks.

I haven't seen a decent Mage 2E game for years. What's the opening date looking like?

@chibichibi Fulcrum will have mage. I don't know about CoD games.

I still want to do 'The Magicians' with FS3, which would be like Mage (+imagination +gay +jewish -ascension war -pretention whores) or so.

@chibichibi I am none of them, but Sonja is good people, so I'm tagging the thread to keep an eye out for her, too!

@chibichibi Assuming WoD: enforce drawbacks. Paradox exists for a reason, afterall.

Assuming not-WoD... enforce drawbacks. Really, enforce drawbacks on everybody.

@il-volpe said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

This challenges my suspension-of-disbelief a lot more than a PC acting the clown, but unlike fishmalks and superfriends, it's not a WoD-player-virtue to hate it.

The last time I played a "fish-malk" he bluffed his way into securing the Seneschal's seat.

I do miss him.

I will take a dozen fish-malks over one grim-darque supremacist.

@greenflashlight That game already exists and has for, like, 20 years. It's awesome.

@sunny said in Idling all day on MU*s:

(private / public weighted votes is a BAD ACTUAL IDEA but a reasonable example of what I mean)

Why?

MUs without walk-in RP are failed MUs, or OTTs.

@coin said in Are there any high fantasy MU*s?:

@arkandel said in Are there any high fantasy MU*s?:

Not to advocate for this specific setting but The Traitor Son novels by Miles Cameron reversed the trope of man versus nature very well.

Typically the fires of industry threaten the natural balance, forests are chopped down and magic fades from the world. In these books nature is a badass not too fond of humans and their cities, so civilization is shrinking; gryphons attack settlements, exotic creatures are pushing desperate communities back behind their walls, and humankind may well be an endangered species.

This could make for an interesting setting to base a game (or campaign 🙂 ) on.

Question.

Did the humans perhaps expand aggressively into nature, threatening the natural balance, chopping down forests, and that's why nature's like, "lulz no"?

In the novels it was... more complicated than that. No, but also yes.

In a game or campaign that could be an interesting origin to explore though.

MN's code is buggy yet, but I understand that when it's been tested and cleaned up it'll be available.

You can find it on The Trove. Or oyu can just dm me for the book.

@secretfire

Here is the new link. Apparently, the link defaults to expire in 1 Day. This one NEVER expires.

https://discord.gg/YtazHr8g33

I want to emphasize the master/apprentice relationship like Dean Fogg has with all the students. I don't really want the students to be running around like crazy doing Marina-esque things right off the bat. They're going to struggle like early Quentin and Julia. Magic is hard. It comes from pain and all that.

I do like the difference with rotes and praxis though. I think that definitely applies with what happens post Brakebills South. It could also be some difference between hedge magicians and regular magicians.

Story Arc Updates! Episode 1

We have officially started the metaplot, and there are two major threads with different focuses. It's a great time to join either as a student or a faculty member as things will continue to be uncovered.

The Town That Death Forgot - Faculty

The Ashen Sword of Bone has been an artifact that is considered one of the few pieces of proof of archmastery and mages traversing the golden road to archmastery. As such, it is known as a sariras, one of the remnants left over by an archmage. It is considered a PLATONIC ideal, connected directly to the supernal, so the problem is: Why did it suddenly crack? The faculty are currently trying to find the chantry where this wonder was found somewhere in Egypt.

The Reckoning of the Misfortunate Ones - Students

Field trips! That's how it always starts. While out on a practical magecraft exercise to identify and purchase a few low powered wonders in New York City, the students stumbled onto something more. Two little girls with access to high level magics with a seeming ability to teleport and the other to stop time in an area completely! When time was stopped, the girls spoke about the Reckoning and how they needed to stop it by gathering enough power before teleporting off. All that the students on the trip know is where the girls go to (St. Anne's Prep School in Manhattan) and that apparently their powers have killed. Are these girls newly awakened? Are they one of the new watchtowers? Or is it something else entirely?

@chibichibi said in anomaly jobs and myrrdin bboard not working:

TIL that MUX imits how many traits you can set on an object before cutting things off. As such, all of the copy/paste code i've been putting in was NOT fully put in.

TYL that sending too much over telnet in one packet can cut off some of the information, so that only some of your data dump makes it to the game, and that Anomaly Jobs doesn't work if everything isn't installed.

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