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Guide to the Technocracy was and is still one of my favorite Mage supplement books. Before this book came out, there wasn't really a single book devoted to the idea of running a Technocratic campaign. There were bits and pieces in other supplements and the OG convention books, but this really took those ideas and put them all in one place that actually made running a Technocratic game way easier. It also opened up White Wolf to start making the full faction books like Guide to the Camarilla, Guide to the Sabbat, Guide to the Anarchs, Players Guide to the Garou, Players Guide to the Changing Breeds, and Guide to the Traditions all of which really opened up all of those groups in a much more clear way.

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I’ve discovered this channel more recently after being invited to play a mage game with some friends and I think that a lot of the in depth info you give on the lore and conceptual parts of mage definitely makes me even more interested. Mage is ironic in that large amounts of info make the game feel more understandable

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I disagree with your view on how the concept of a soul being inherently evil makes the story boring. I, for one, think it's an incredibly fascinating concept to be explored. It addresses the old hypothetical question of "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it?" - Do you believe that Hitler was and is destined to grow up and become one of history's greatest monsters, or is it possible to set him down a different path?

It’s not necessarily a belief in virtual reality, but rather the notion that this virtuality exists in some form. Whatever it may be, whether you believe in the Matrix or Sesame Street, the point is that there is a system model that needs to be broken and reformulated to create Reality 2.0. By common sense, this virtual reality is pop culture itself. Everything created by pop culture exists somewhere in reality. The Roswell toy figures actually happened; it’s all true. His imagination and pretend play are so powerful that they end up becoming real. An adherent of virtuality doesn’t need to follow the hacker archetype; they are an anarchist. And not in the sense of rejecting all hierarchy, but as someone who challenges the prevailing status quo. They clash with the system by opposing it head-on. Their rebelliousness stirs up controversy, not necessarily through physical confrontations, but by creating the same impact intellectually, challenging established information with new ideas.

Does anyone even play anymore, ive been interested in this game and honestly anything magic forever but nobody around me or online in australia has any interest ive been all over to all sorts of tabletop game shops and nobody knows what im talking about

My Dude, how hard is it to get Void Engineers' purpose is to push forward into the unknown, let there be a new expanse for them to push into while selling the Technocratic line. The ghost busters are definitely interesting, but the Technocracy can't push forward without a new frontier to entice the sleepers. I've heard both of my Baby Boomer parents explain their emotions on seeing the moon landing and it was a revelatory experience for both of them. The Union can't actually push anything forwards until Void Engineers capture their imagination. Even before the Avatar Storm the Void Engineers were low key greatest things drawing the hopeful into the Technocracy's continued domination.

Q1: How does my mage do magic? He must be in contact with an item that he considers to be lucky or related to chance. A rabbit's foot, Lucky Penny, Pair of Dice, 4 Leaf Clover, or Ace of Spades all work for this purpose. Q2: Why can my mage do magic? He is a charming fellow who is also an avid gambler who managed to awaken in a risky moment of gambling everything he has worked for in a game of poker. That was when he met his avatar, a Cheshire Cat made of poker chips. Q3: Your Mages' Theme: Gambling, Luck, Chance, Risk, and Trickery are all core components of his character. Q4: He wouldn't really need to. With Corespondance and a handy smoke pellet for misdirection, he will get where he needs to go. Main spheres are Entropy, Prime, and Corespondance in order to bend probability, amplify his magic, and get out of dodge if needed.

Anyone who's gone insane from studying Kabbalah knows exactly what that ending statement is all about 😅

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I’m thinking of doing a celestial chorus character that worships the tuatha de danan. I think it would be very cool to see how he would react to finding out the gods he worships were werewolves. I’m thinking of having three roads he could go down after discovering this. The first being outright denial about it. The second being him losing faith over the shocking discovery. But my favorite one is him worshipping the fiana as living gods, or at least demigods.

What happens to the nature of reality if the consensus weakens because the majority of humanity dies off since normal Humanity seems to be what keeps reality stable

5:55 Love the art. Source?

okay pal, "Keeping your players sensibilities in line". We are all adults, and will conduct ourselves how we see fit, also, WE ARE ADULTS. We are not made out of paper.

I wonder what your thoughts are on using stoicism/neo-stoicism as a background philosophy for a western Akashic character. Fighting styles can seem easily interchangeable for characters of diverse backgrounds, but I'm wondering which non-eastern philosophies/paradigms might reasonably fit into the Brotherhood.

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My Euthanatos mage of the 1990’s wasn’t goth. He was middle aged, short, fat, jolly, and wore brown suits. Brown is the color of both life such as rich soils and death such as dead leaves. As jewelry and for use as a focus he wore a triangular pin on his lapel promoting recycling and had a pocket watch.

I never actually understood what the spheres did until I started watching these videos

What do you think about deviant the renegades? It is very good at allowing you to make weird characters

My group just jumped from Vampire to Mage, with all but 1 one of the old characters still around (one of them turned into a human against their will). After reading the rules, my group decided that they all wanted to map the world with teleportation gates and stick a middle finger to the Void Engineers, so they, of course, all went all-in to Correspondence. Very informative short!

Ah yes. The real good guys of MtAs.

Where is the thumbnail art from?

In the 2nd Edition days the Malfeans rule all Nephadi. Since I don't care about editions after 2nd lets focus on that. The Wyrm and the Black Spiral Dancers makes them a true part of the WoD. PENTEX cabal of Nephandi the Red Circle, combined with BSDs where are Garou Nephandi in reality. With that fact they are the largest and most powerful group. The Internalist can hangout with the Baali and some other kindred making them 2nd more powerful. The rest are Niche backgrounds to help the ST in specific style of campaigns stores is all.

Your sound quality is distractingly poor. If you fix it - your vids would be awesome.

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To quote a certain virtual adept. “Woah.”

Really amazing video!, I personally like the contrast of the Nephandi where when they reach descention they become a creator God equal to Jehova a being they disdain for creating and violating the Void.

I wanna be a fae verbena and dream-speaker mage all in one.

Can you make a character that's verbena and dream-speaker? I wanna be a fae mage mixing celtic and native american mechanics.

I wanna play mage soooo bad but jm broke and no-one to play with

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Ah you answered my question i was wondering if you could use the same instrument to do different effect i thought that you always had to use different instruments for each effect thankyou

I love being able to play NPC like characters. Like ghouls/Revenents, kinfolk, Sorcerers, and anything else you can be.

Those folks rock! Great Video! Cheers!

I don’t care how big the room is I cast fireball dammit!

Boundaries change from individual to individual just stick to what your group likes. Its not rocket appliances. "Oooh its mean and bad dont do it" people crying over words and feelings havent seen true horror and honestly i would never wish it on them. If they cant handle words and feelings actual evil and horror would shatter them.

I don't get it! I just found out about this game. Is it a video game? or board game? I'm attracted to this game because a lot of what's in it is spiritually true😮

It’s awesome to see how far the VA’s have developed over the years. And great video!

I was introduced to WoD by hunter the parenting, But your videos made me want to give it a shot at playing

Just got started, I've found the channel really interesting

Dude, it seems there might be some problems with your mic.

Around 14:40 , I think the (honestly, misguided) reason for this being the capstone of Force for Archmages is because of the Hermetic Order's association with alchemy, and the concept of the Rebis (the ultimate spiritual goal in actual Alchemy, where one has spiritually gone through the stages of decay and purification and become reconstituted afterwards as a being of both body and spirit combined). The common representation of the idea of the Rebis is hermaphroditic, along with other accompanying symbols that of opposites at play in the same being. A lot of people tend to focus on, particularly, the gendered part because well... it's kind of attention grabbing if you don't have a full grasp of what you're seeing. That is kind of funny as hell though that they put that in there.

Why would bad guys be more interesting as not evil monsters, you can be a complex being and a monster..

You definitely deserve more subs. I'm a long-time subscriber.

Hey where can I find the rules for creating magic items? Is it somewhere in M20 corebook?

also not all infernalists are nephandi, in fact according to Book of madneess 2nd ed. the Infernalists hate the nephandi and view them as like murderers in prison view pedophiles. However the Nephandi are a sizable most organizaed and most powerful faction of the infernalists. And in the end the Nephandi the end goal of the Nephandi terrifies the infernalists who uliminately use infernalism for ultimate power wealth domination etc. not destruction of reality.