Ordeal -- all night jam session, squeezing out the last bit of blood, sweat and pain in his axe.
Geas -- must sing and/or air guitar when casting spells.
-Siege
Full Version: Adepts and Ordeals
Geas: Must be excellent to each other.
| QUOTE (John Campbell) |
| Geas: Must be excellent to each other. |
Pool on how many times the mage can say "dude" before getting geeked in a hail of small arms fire.
-Siege
Or "Woah!"
Centering of playing guitar or singing is always popular as well. Geas of "Must have practiced guitar for at least 3 hours in the last 24" or something like that. *shrugs*
The Abstruse One
Centering of playing guitar or singing is always popular as well. Geas of "Must have practiced guitar for at least 3 hours in the last 24" or something like that. *shrugs*
The Abstruse One
Succeed on a English "Dude" check TN 4 in the last 24 hours.
Here are the ideas I like so far:
- Geas - must sing and/or play guitar when casting spells
- Centering of playing guitar or singing is always popular as well
- Geas of "Must have practiced guitar for at least 3 hours in the last 24"
- Sheet music would make great spell formulae and an excellent thesis (And gives me a great idea for a run!
) - Playing at clubs would make an excellent Night Job Flaw (Like a Day Job, but at night!)
Oh...this guy's going to be a ROCKER/Mage...I thought he was just going to be a Mage that played guitar...in THAT case, you shoot him in the head repeatedly. I HATE rockers. HATE HATE HATE. Hated them in 1st Ed. and the best decision FASA made in 2nd Ed was getting rid of them. You want to run the shadows, it's best not to have your face plastered on flyers on telephone poles all over the city.
The Abstruse One
The Abstruse One
But once you get good enough, the rules in Shadowbeat mean you no longer have to go on runs!
~J
~J
I don't have Shadowbeat!
I'll sell you mine - for eighty quid... 
| QUOTE (Abstruse) |
| Oh...this guy's going to be a ROCKER/Mage...I thought he was just going to be a Mage that played guitar...in THAT case, you shoot him in the head repeatedly. I HATE rockers. HATE HATE HATE. Hated them in 1st Ed. and the best decision FASA made in 2nd Ed was getting rid of them. You want to run the shadows, it's best not to have your face plastered on flyers on telephone poles all over the city. |
I'll just get him to take the Dark Secret flaw.
| QUOTE |
| I'll sell you mine - for eighty quid... |
YEAH RIGHT!
| QUOTE (simonw2000 @ Mar 8 2004, 11:09 AM) | ||
YEAH RIGHT! |
| QUOTE (Drain Brain) | ||
Fixed: Hermetic and Shamanic. There's no problems here if your players have enough imagination. |
Hah. There's no problems here if your GM doesn't have enough imagination. This would be totally unacceptable in my game. It takes the magic out of magic.
Really Deev? I'm surprised by this view.
Magician's do have to be able to communicate their ideas, both amongst themselves and to the average mundane. In order to do this a standardized vocabulary has to be created. I see no reason why the concepts of Ordeals and Initiation should not borrow from already established words that mean precisely that.
How do the awakened communicate these concepts in your game?
Magician's do have to be able to communicate their ideas, both amongst themselves and to the average mundane. In order to do this a standardized vocabulary has to be created. I see no reason why the concepts of Ordeals and Initiation should not borrow from already established words that mean precisely that.
How do the awakened communicate these concepts in your game?
| QUOTE (Fortune) |
| How do the awakened communicate these concepts in your game? |
Based on his comments, they must sound astoundingly like a pair of stoned, drunk, and illiterate teenagers attempting to describe what a cloud looks like.
"It was like woah and knda not at all square."
Seriously, you can't have a college of magical theory (like in MIT&T) if there aren't any common terms for phenomena. If your complaint is that the terms used IC should be completely different than the terms used OOC, then what should be the IC term for an Ares Predator? Because obviously that name is OOC and using that name IC is metagaming.
| QUOTE (Abstruse) |
| I don't even think a Shaman would call it Psychometry. He/She'd probably call it "Cat's Eye on the Past" or something like that. |
Makes sense.
| QUOTE (DV8) |
| Hah. There's no problems here if your GM doesn't have enough imagination. This would be totally unacceptable in my game. It takes the magic out of magic. |
Fair enough, chief - I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. It's all about how you view the genre, I guess. Not exactly a house rule but a house interpretation.
And I AM the GM
- fat too often. Always, in fact. Boohoo.
| QUOTE |
| Ask ten of the Awakened how they view magic, and you'll get thirteen answers. |
How true.
| QUOTE (Drain Brain) |
| And I AM the GM - fat too often. Always, in fact. Boohoo. |
Amusing... I did of course mean FAR too often. Although I am too fat, too often, too!
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