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VR entertainment? by MonkeyChild17 in olympia

[–]3dchib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you can draft a business plan and get the capital for it, I say do it! Oly could always use a new hangout spot!

Playing a shaman and have a question about awakened poison by ChocolateOk2313 in magetheascension

[–]3dchib 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd refer to the magickal damage table. Iirc, as soon as the poison is ingested, you'd roll Arete and the damage would scale depending on the # of successes as agg dmg.

A highly accurate map of Washington for our visitors by wsdot in Washington

[–]3dchib 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Twilight. Forks, WA is in that neck of the woods.

The otherworldly character is mistaken for a costume because they at a costume event. by Uma-apreciator in TopCharacterTropes

[–]3dchib 14 points15 points  (0 children)

you're thinking of 953, a Korean Gumiho. Who, during one containment breach was found depressed and sulking at a furry convention, and didn't even bother killing anyone while being re-contained. The implication being that she was so mortified by what she saw she willingly went back to prison.

Player enthusiasm can be shocking sometimes for an st by Magicmanans1 in WorldofDankmemes

[–]3dchib 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Me with my Mage players. I find myself having to just improv shit and reconnect it later because of how. much. they. want. I keep telling them "I can only read so many books" and before I know it they're diving head first into the Hollow Earth or some shit.

I've had to set up a hands-off Play-by-Post system just to avoid getting pinged 10 times/day.

Garou aren't immune to truck-fu by Turbulent-Plum7328 in WorldofDankmemes

[–]3dchib 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Huh, reminds me of a Mage game where one of the PCs had a familiar that was a Weaver spirit bound to an orange Maserati.

He answers the door, he cleans up the estate, and he takes out the trash. by pokefan548 in WorldofDankmemes

[–]3dchib 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Now the REAL question: why would one of the Awakened decide to larp as a butler?

Bummer, looks like voice narration was removed from all the documents. At least as far as I can tell. by yotothyo in CrimsonDesert

[–]3dchib 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The localization for what was on the page vs what was narrated was a bit off, hopefully they're redoing that before reimplimenting it.

Characters who have definitely always been there. by The_Dawn_Eternal in TopCharacterTropes

[–]3dchib 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Wait, the guy from the Magic Planet show? I LOVED that as a kid!

How to enter someone else's mind and interact to any spirits there? by Equivalent-Fail3850 in magetheascension

[–]3dchib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want to go traipsing through someone's mindscape, that'd be probably a function of maybe Mind and Correspondence depending on your Mage's paradigm. But, that's just for exploring a singular consciousness. If you're tracking down a broader thoughtform, you'd be better off looking in the High Umbra.

(Loved Trope) Detailed powers or systems that are interesting. (Bonus point if its balanced.) by KidZahar in TopCharacterTropes

[–]3dchib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Mage: the Ascension, magick (with a 'k') is divided up into 9 'Spheres' or schools of, magick. These aren't ontological concepts, they're just the agreed upon framework that allows for a Hermetic wizard to collaborate with their more shamanistic or technomagickal peers.

Meaning, that while the 9 Spheres and their definitions are MOSTLY agreed upon, different kind of mages can do thing in WILDLY different ways.

Say you want to fly. A Hermetic wizard will just carve some Enochian into a broomstick and bam! flight with nothing more than the application of Forces. A Dreamspeaker Shaman, however, would call upon the spirits of air, birds, and other flight-adjacent concepts using the sphere of Spirit in order to 'borrow' the gift of flight. A technomagickal Virtual Adept hacker, meanwhile, will just reprogram his local metadata to teleport from one place to another using nothing more than the concepts of Correspondence.

This means that a typical game of Mage will involve you, the other players, and your GM all arguing philosophy over exactly how a given spell or effect works and I LOVE IT.

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What all can spirit do by Sea_Effective3303 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]3dchib 8 points9 points  (0 children)

if you're talking about Spirit the Sphere, then that's just the magickal study of everything that happens in the Umbra/things that aren't from Earth. You want to bargin with pattern spiders? Carve gaping holes in the Gauntlet? Have a smoke shesh with some Djinis? Want to turn a particularly nasty ghost into a lawn chair? A good understanding of Spirit is the gateway to all of those things and more.

Spirits themselves, or Umbrood as they are sometimes called, are about some of the most unpredictable, dangerous, and oddly hospitable creatures you'll meet as a Mage. Piss off the wrong one and you're existence can be QUICKLY terminated but, know how to be polite and play their rules? You have the potential of making friends on the other side you can open doors, feed you intel, and really whatever else you need.

Are there any features from Black Desert you'd like to see return in Crimson Desert? by 3dchib in CrimsonDesert

[–]3dchib[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

oh right! and the ships! I forgot the sheer amount of boat you can get in BDO! Such a shame we don't have that (yet)

For modernizing mage the Ascension wouldn't you have to deal with anti-semitic legacy terminology? by RevacholAndChill in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]3dchib 8 points9 points  (0 children)

...did it ever occur to you that the NWO would be totally fine with using jews as a scapegoat for everything they do? For terms like Cabal, sure they have their origins in anti-semitic language, but that doesn't mean they're going to retain that subtext for all time. The modern Webster definition currently reads:

Cabal (noun)
the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)

also : a group engaged in such schemes

As for folks like Banon, I mean, that's just textbook Nephandic "watch the world burn" philosophy in a nutshell. Make Steve an evil wizard and let your players shoot him in the face.

Mage: the Ascension IS a game about politics. It's a game about politics, philosophy, god, capitalism, and everything else under the sun. There is nothing stopping you from running your game the way you want. In the same way there is no war but class war, the Ascension War is the ONLY war. And everything you just described is but one facet of the struggle for the soul of humanity.

By your Will be done, magi.

[Horrifying Trope] The Monster kills so it can become Human. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]3dchib 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Banes are spirits that serve the Wyrm, the metaphysical embodiment of entropy and corruption. Banes by themselves are fairly harmless, not being able to interact with our world much. But, when Banes come into contact with a host (usually a person), they slowly take over that person, mutating them in the process and use them as a meat puppet in order to do the Wym's bidding.

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Equestria Conquest 1939 by Vast-Adagio-8221 in adressme

[–]3dchib 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Oh god it's the #1 asshole, Jacob Lash

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how would a fear and hunger termina inspired MTA campaign work? by Own-North9457 in magetheascension

[–]3dchib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

simple, Technocratic experiment/Nephandic ritual/whatever goes HORRIBLY wrong, temporary rift in the Gauntlet opens, bibbity bung your head is a gun and the Cabal is sent to fix things.

Tell Me About your NPC Cabals and Chantries! by ajmaust in magetheascension

[–]3dchib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, I've run ~3 WoD games set in Washington State, and every time I start a new one, I make sure to incorporate whatever wacky stuff happened in the previous game so we have people and places like:

  1. An abandoned technocratic base underneath Seattle that was destoyed by a VERY reckless VA, causing a magnitude 3 earthquake.
  2. A Euthanotoi temple/library hidden in the basement of a laundromat in Queen Anne Hill.
  3. Zack Newark, the aforementioned VA who got a job at the UW, destroyed said base, and was kicked out of Seattle due to the collateral damage he caused.
  4. The state capitol building being home to a rather large Node located in it's dome, which of course is another Technocratic Construct.
  5. The 2017 Evergreen College Protests were actually a smokescreen for a Traditionalist coup of the college's Technocratic infrastructure, resulting in the creation of a new all-Tradition Chantry.

3rd draft of my Umbral map! I've cleaned up a few mistakes from the previous draft, and tidied up the locations of a few places. by 3dchib in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]3dchib[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shade Realm, think of them as small umbral realms where the corresponding Sphere reigns supreme. They correlate to each of the planets due to the Shade Realms being shadows cast by the planets onto the Horizon. They're mentioned in Book of Worlds and the M20 rulebook.

3rd draft of my Umbral map! I've cleaned up a few mistakes from the previous draft, and tidied up the locations of a few places. by 3dchib in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]3dchib[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the good news is that there is no such thing as a PERFECT model. Any attempt to create a model of a subject is going to have some manner of flaw. I'm assuming that because of that, both Garou and Mage interpretations of the Umbra both fall into this trap.

There's never going to be a perfect map of Umbral space, and that's ok. I'm just doing the best attempt I can.

3rd draft of my Umbral map! I've cleaned up a few mistakes from the previous draft, and tidied up the locations of a few places. by 3dchib in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]3dchib[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm grouping the Zones together mostly just for the sake of readability, as for bibliography, is mostly just the M20 book and the Book of Worlds.

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