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I am fairly new at GMing shadowrun, and am running a game for some people who are entirely new to the game. I was asking one of the players, who is playing an uncouth, antisocial stealth expert who hates things that he doesn't understand, like metas and the awakened... which makes for an interesting character, as the himself is a magician. When I asked him what magical tradition he followed, he said that he basically worshipped himself, which made me think of Satanism. (Which is different from devil worship, for those who don't know what I'm talking about.) So that made me start to think about the rules for it, and I'm having trouble deciding. First, which of the spirits would they be able to summon. I'm thinking fire, as flame imagery is of course, very often associated with satanism. Beasts also, as kindness to animals is an important part of satanism, and the goat is one of their main symbols. I'm not sure which would be excluded... perhaps water, as the more or less opposite of fire, or man, because Satanists have little respect for people on the whole. (Baaaaaah...) Opinions?

As for drain resistance, I'm leaning towards intuition, as they seem to have a "do what works for you" mentality for magic.

Here's a glimpse of Satanism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism

Anyone have experience with running this tradition, or who are members of this tradition irl? (The player had never heard of it, which I'm sure is the only reason he wasn't one... he has identified himself as one since.) Or anyone just want to throw in your 2 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) ?
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- Neondante   Satanic Tradition   Mar 10 2008, 12:14 AM
- - Particle_Beam   The Shadowrun 4 supplemental book "Street Mag...   Mar 10 2008, 12:20 AM
- - Neondante   Cool, but I'm not sure if I want to shell out ...   Mar 10 2008, 12:44 AM
|- - Larsine   QUOTE (Neondante @ Mar 10 2008, 01:44 AM)...   Mar 11 2008, 07:25 PM
- - Malicant   Street Magic is a fine book, although there are so...   Mar 10 2008, 12:50 AM
- - Angier   Black Magic is sort of a satanistic influenced tra...   Mar 10 2008, 12:58 AM
- - Neondante   I was thinking more along the lines of Anton Levay...   Mar 10 2008, 02:22 AM
- - mfb   i've been led to understand that some schools ...   Mar 10 2008, 03:17 AM
- - Neondante   I've heard the same said about Judas, actually...   Mar 10 2008, 03:21 AM
|- - b1ffov3rfl0w   QUOTE (Neondante @ Mar 9 2008, 11:21 PM) ...   Mar 10 2008, 04:08 AM
- - Method   I just happened to reread the description for the ...   Mar 10 2008, 04:42 AM
- - Negalith   Why a Shaman at all? Why not just a mage? No dogma...   Mar 10 2008, 07:49 AM
- - Negalith   PS…. He said that he basically was an anti socia...   Mar 10 2008, 07:53 AM
- - knasser   The Black Magician tradition is most probably what...   Mar 10 2008, 08:10 AM
|- - WeaverMount   QUOTE (knasser @ Mar 10 2008, 03:10 AM) t...   Mar 10 2008, 04:27 PM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 10 2008, 11:27 A...   Mar 10 2008, 06:41 PM
|- - knasser   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 10 2008, 04:27 P...   Mar 10 2008, 08:19 PM
- - WeaverMount   What I think the OP is after is "How do I rol...   Mar 10 2008, 08:51 AM
|- - Rasumichin   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 10 2008, 09:51 A...   Mar 10 2008, 08:51 PM
- - Malicant   Yeah, I think Levay has still a long way to go, un...   Mar 10 2008, 09:22 AM
- - Angier   I'd say black magic is definitely Lavey's ...   Mar 10 2008, 12:17 PM
- - WeaverMount   Black Magic is really really close, but the anti-C...   Mar 10 2008, 03:13 PM
- - Drogos   If it matters, my first thought was toxic as well ...   Mar 10 2008, 04:04 PM
- - WeaverMount   1) Yes most everything Christians "know...   Mar 10 2008, 09:23 PM
|- - knasser   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 10 2008, 09:23 P...   Mar 10 2008, 09:51 PM
- - Neondante   I'm shooting more for the "ideal" of...   Mar 11 2008, 09:04 AM
- - Fortune   There just something about a person named Neondant...   Mar 11 2008, 09:08 AM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (Fortune @ Mar 11 2008, 04:08 AM) T...   Mar 11 2008, 09:18 AM
- - Drogos   I said toxic because Satanism, as I understand it,...   Mar 11 2008, 11:09 AM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (Drogos @ Mar 11 2008, 06:09 AM) I ...   Mar 11 2008, 11:36 AM
|- - Drogos   QUOTE (Neondante @ Mar 11 2008, 06:36 AM)...   Mar 11 2008, 11:58 AM
|- - Rasumichin   QUOTE (Neondante @ Mar 11 2008, 12:36 PM)...   Mar 11 2008, 12:33 PM
- - Neondante   This thread is getting interesting. Getting quite...   Mar 11 2008, 01:57 PM
- - Drogos   Well, my advice is read street magic then see how ...   Mar 11 2008, 02:10 PM
- - Rasumichin   Adversary might be fitting, but depending on the c...   Mar 11 2008, 02:14 PM
- - mfb   re: toxicity and hedonism, specifically wrt the se...   Mar 11 2008, 02:25 PM
|- - Rasumichin   QUOTE (mfb @ Mar 11 2008, 03:25 PM) re: t...   Mar 11 2008, 05:07 PM
- - Fortune   If emotion is what you are going for, a Willpower/...   Mar 11 2008, 02:28 PM
- - WeaverMount   QUOTE So they wouldn't be doing obscene acts w...   Mar 11 2008, 04:46 PM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 11 2008, 12:46 P...   Mar 11 2008, 05:00 PM
|- - WeaverMount   @Neondante Whole point of this this system's i...   Mar 11 2008, 05:40 PM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 11 2008, 01:40 P...   Mar 11 2008, 06:06 PM
- - WeaverMount   First off I love it that DS can force me into usin...   Mar 11 2008, 06:41 PM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 11 2008, 02:41 P...   Mar 11 2008, 07:01 PM
- - Riley37   "Do what thou wilt" has even been interp...   Mar 11 2008, 07:00 PM
- - WeaverMount   >And second, you're currently defending nec...   Mar 11 2008, 07:43 PM
- - Neondante   @Riley :applause: Bravo, well said. Though I did...   Mar 11 2008, 08:15 PM
- - WeaverMount   yeah... I let me proof myself a little better this...   Mar 11 2008, 09:24 PM
|- - Neondante   QUOTE (WeaverMount @ Mar 11 2008, 04:24 P...   Mar 12 2008, 06:32 PM
|- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (Neondante @ Mar 12 2008, 01:32 PM)...   Mar 12 2008, 07:02 PM
- - mfb   QUOTE (Neondante)Okay, morality doesn't come j...   Mar 12 2008, 06:51 PM
- - mfb   considering that condoms have been made from sheep...   Mar 12 2008, 07:27 PM
|- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (mfb @ Mar 12 2008, 02:27 PM) consi...   Mar 12 2008, 07:31 PM
- - mfb   heh, i think i only thought of it because a simila...   Mar 12 2008, 07:50 PM
- - Riley37   I try to live by a principle of minimizing harm to...   Mar 12 2008, 11:50 PM
- - Apathy   I thought that one of the basic tenets that people...   Mar 13 2008, 06:42 PM


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