Didn't expect to see Mage on the channel so soon, but that only makes me more happy about it. I always considered Mage the Ascension one of the coolest games in the World of Darkness given the many possibilities available to the player. Indeed, magic here is limited only by Paradox and the personal imagination of the magicians themselves. For beginners, the system may seem quite complicated, but I have always appreciated the creative freedom it gives. You are given basics in the form of Spheres and certain limitations of your current power, and on the basis of this you can essentially do whatever your heart desires. This is really pure art with the help of which truly amazing things can be done. Or incredibly terrible if used incorrectly. Or maybe correctly... this will determine for whom they will become such. To conclude, this was a great breakdown of the basics. Thanks again for a great job! 👍 Looking forward to more videos on this topic. About various Traditions, for example.
Ah, Mage. Can't go wrong with it. Running a travelog styled campaign right now for a Wu Lung smuggler, an Orphan conspirator and a Templa Knight inquisitor... crazy good fun.
You came like a thunder from a clear sky! Just last few weeks looking for some enlightenment into this system. Hope it continues! Thank You and wishing you successful new year!!
My favourite role playing game! My gaming group has a campaign in Renaissance Italy, during early years of Order of Reason (precursor of Technocracy). Players are members of that order and playing their part in Italian Wars and of course wizards are meddling in it too.
One of the best systems in the world of darkness. Paradox = Favorite tool to bludgeon players to death with. And as a player Nath the tapestry is most mailable with mage. Lots of freedom there.
This is the game that stood out most amongst the WoD catalogue from what I've looked at. I hope to play it someday, but finding a group is going to be a nightmare.
Mage is my favorite system of them all but I can never seem to find a group for it. I think people get overwhelmed by it but I love the possibilities it gives.
also besides 9 major Spheres in Mage magick, there are many variants, like the technocrats have Data, primal utility and dimensional science which in their terms, data = prime + correspondence , dimensonal science =spirit, primal utility = prime. Also the Nephandi use corrupted versions of hte nine spheres and there are minoir spheres .
@@TheMapleTable It needs imagination and flexible mind. There are not set spells, only some examples what you can do with your power. Basicle rules are simple enough, but players can do sooo much with them.
Very groovy to see Mage in a video. Very much one of the ‘lesser’ games. By that I mean one of those that never got enough love. I always felt mage was part of the what I felt were the big 3, Vamp, Wolf and of course Mage. Demon, wraith, mummy and the fae ones being like a filler for other supernatural things in the WoD. Nice one Nathaniel 😊🤘🏻🇬🇧
Thanks! Glad to hear that you enjoy it. I also viewed the games in the same way you do. Big three vamp, werewolf and mage and the rest were projects of love.
@@TheMapleTable so using spheres when I run or play is set up your mages paradigm/belief system/core idea iof why his magic works: then you have your core rotes (set powers) If things get spicy its an overly thinky blag system of applying your spheres - through your paradigm - using whatever tools you have to hand.
I read the book several times since i started to GM 35 years or so ago (several systems). But everytime i started to prep a game i faced the same wall. I got intimidated by the player's options, especially when it comes to information finding. Would live to have a video or two on how to prep and run a scenario. Cheers!
Mage: The Ascension is not only the coolest splat in the World of Darkness, it's actually the coolest game in the universe. I will not be accepting any dissenting opinions at this time.
Ive been playing mage since mage 1st ed. first came out in the early 90s and before that I have been playing Ars Magica, dark ages mage. when the Order of hermes was like the technocracy in Europe.
I personally like playing the technocracy. while the technocracy is top dog they dont control everything. and have difficulties with authorities other supernaturals etc. and technocrats are not all kill everything that does not conform, the technocrats ally with supernautral creatures and trads to fight a bigger enemy, like Nephandi, Marauders, wyrm, sabbat. etc. heck in one game my party of Technocratic mages have to ally with a Sabbat inquisiton nomadic pack to fight a Black Spiral dancer hive.
Even back when the game was released, a lot of players had problems getting why the faction which made "magic" (technology) available to the mundanes, plus invented cool things like democracy and toilet paper, were the bad guys.
@@raistlin3462 it was the 90s , post cold war. angst. Mage the main book was made with the ascension war in the point of the view of hte Trads who have a lot of bone to pick vs. the Technocracy but its not only technology that we havef flushable toilets, working police , and fire dept service health care etc. etc. as opposed to the dark ages where you life expectancy was like 30+ years old and have to deal with marauding bandits, plague etc. also the Technocracy suppressed the other superantural to the point they were not dangerous hazards your average man would face on a near daily basis. Technocratic progroms made the other supernaturals forced to go underground or get destroyed. a later sourcebook in the 90s focusing on the technocracy made the technocracy a lot more playable.
I always thought that the Technocracy were not truly trying to rid the world of magic, more understand all things and make them explainable to the masses through technology (a medium the sleepers can understand), that way all can ascend together. Who needs reality deviants messing with the program and confusing the sleepers, don't they realise that they are only being a hinderance to the rest of the populous.
I thought paradox was caused by the difference between a mages abilities and what the human consciousness as a species had accepted as reality not the natural laws of reality itself?
Being more powerful makes it easier to gain paradox but its more tied to a mages magic and how they cast magic. If general public thinks something cant happen paradox claps back. Like casting a fireball in time square.
I enjoyed the video and love Mage. I was wondering if there's a method to your scripts outline? It seemed daunted. All good points well made, but it was kind of like the essay of someone passionate about the subject who skipped their thesis "belief=magi" and went straight to their points.
I find with lots of lore channels and even other TTRPG channels they talk forever and dont get to the good bits quickly. I try and let you know upfront whats coming and then go into it. This particular script was also an experiment, one which I will need to try a few more times to make sure its working or not.
@@TheMapleTable That's what I sensed, it had a "directness" that I've seen work well in a lot of channels lately, but it's hard to say if I'd recommend a lean approach for a "survey of gameline" since (I'm guessing) these need to peak interest for future projects. Granted, my perspective could be skewed by college. I tend to search for forms of thesis, anthesis, and synthesis in all persuasive writing and that may not be practical in UA-cam algorithms. Either way, I didn't want to sound too critical, I just get curious about writing structures, and as a gamer / writer, I've thought a lot about writing video essays. Good upload : )
Do not worry, this game is one of the hardest to get in. When we started about five years ago, we had to play "tutorial" to get rules right. Then we got it "right" gaming was so rewarding.
The technocrats police the umbra with teh void engineers that is why you dont see wraiths spririts bygones running around destroying the world, they have automated kill sats armed with missles and particle beam weapons along with starships and Space marines fighting a war in space or the umbra throughout the solar system vs. Nephandi aliens, spirits etc. in the sea you have also the void engineeres and the Progenitors policing the depths. Also the Void engineers police the transdimensional, the space between spaces also they police the shadowlands so wraiths dont infiltrate into the Earth, and a small department of void engineers explore alternate histories, alternate dimesnions like the Chrononauts. also Iteration X and Void engineers police the digital web. the enlightened internet that is seperate from the dark web and reguliar web but connects with it. in many ways the techno magicks of the Technocracy surpasses that of the Traditions and Disparates.
Always thought the Void engineers are under appreciated there, if it wasn't for them all sorts of nasties may have got to the material plane. Syndicate overloads, GIVE THEM MORE FUNDING!
@@xavierllayton I love the void engineers, who ios the strongest military force in the technocracy. they are the ones who are called upon with their space marines , starshiops kill sats etc. when the shit goes down or some omega level threat comes out like the Ravnos antedelluvian. The void engineers also are the main explorers of the technocracy and protectors of mankind from the horrors of the umbra. and yah the Syndicate also another very intereting convention, the syndicate usually gives them funding since if they dont, the Void engineers have the big guns, give or else. NWO are the void engineers bggest rival in the technocracy and do not like NWO trying to play leader and commander to void engineer operations.
@@johnwalsh4857 Agreed, they really have a parental like rivalry going, trying to tell the children (other factions) how things should work and getting the kids to choose 😂
It plays simmular role, but not realy. I'd say hunger is vampires paradox. You cant cast everything because of natural processes will tear you apart. Well, not really natural, but still. Mages and vamps both have their conspirology. Masquzrade is a part of it. But in the end, anyone is in danger of being noticed by something more powerful. Mages just don't have a word for it.
and besides sphere magick there are also non sphere magicks like Pillar magick which is a hold over from the dark ages and before that , Pillar magic is ancient magicks which are less flexible more specialised to a certain field of magicks, but supposedly more powerful than sphere magic, it is also supposedly prone to paradox and does vulgar magicks a lot. and there is also Linear magicks or hedge magic which are used by sorcerers which is a lot less flexible than Sphere and pillar magicks. but does not attract paradox. and Sorcerers are unawakened mages. Sorcers cover a whole gamut from Order of hermes style sorcereres, to shamans to techno sorcers to psychics and even inquisition vatican holy men .
also paradox depends on sleeper witnesses, if no witnesses or the witnesses are other mages or supernatural creatures no paradox, however the more withnesses the hire the paradox, unless the magick use in coincidental and conforms with the belief systems of the sleepers. Like for example, a akashic brother is fgihting a NWO agent in the middle of time square, it will look like a normal brawl with the akashic using impressive martial arts even acrobatic moves, while the NWO agent, is also using acrobatic moves and even impressive movie like martial arts with hard wired cybertech and even biotech reflexes and the combat skills are also hard wired into his brain implant cybvernetics(chippng skills). However to the sleepers this looks like a impressive movie type flight, paradox will only happen, when let's say the akashic brother uses his magicks to suddently jump 50 feet in the air or his fists start to glow and put huge holes in the concrete or the NWO agent hand suddenly turns into a particle beam weapon or his skin turns into a iron man like armor. Paradox is deadly hoiw it repairs reality. so paradox might destroy both mages, erase them from existence and the sleeper withnesses just gets the event erased from their memories and they go about their business. Interestingly other supernaturals do not attract paradox. so their antics are covered up by the technocracy and the offending parfties get hunted down by Technocratic and governmental kill teams.
"also paradox depends on sleeper witnesses, if no witnesses or the witnesses are other mages or supernatural creatures no paradox" Not entirely true. There is a thing called vulgar without witnesses. Magick can very much cause Paradox if no Sleeper is seeing it, although, it causes a lot less.
@@xavierllayton yes paradox is what limits the mages powers so that it does not get out of hand. Heck even the Marauders generate paradox on themselves but not really affected by it. (love the marauders).
In my games, back historyof the WOD mages played very important parts as the guardians of humanity, in fact mages are humans themselves, and unleashed power of what hte human mind and spirit can do. Like the Garou like to say that they helf themselves back during the Impergium and ended it. but in reality, Mages , humans and vampires defeated the garou and ended the iimpergium and how about the origins of the vampires, my take is that vampires were actually a mage experiment to fight the garou during the impergium.
Mage and World of Darkness in general needs to include more cosmic horror in their games. Where reality and magic are connected to beings that are beyond human comprehension and morals. Sure there's the wyrm, but there need to be more quests your played character uncovers terrible truths that will make the world of darkness even darker and more cosmic horror monstrosities that make even the most godlike of beings in the world of darkness tremble in fear. At least Chronicles of Darkness is willing to explore more cosmic horror with the games like Demon the descent.
I'm a big mage fan, so I don't get why you used words like "Modality" rather than the in-rules terms like "instruments" or "practice". Makes it a bit hard to recommend as an introduction if I now need to re-clarify with players what you mean. Also the big focus on the Technocracy then minimal on traditions is an odd choice given the game generally assumes you play Tradition mages (with Technocracy a later addition with separate books).
@@BrooklynFirstTeam didn’t the Syndicate take over after the SPD vanished? Cuz I thought it said somewhere that Pentex still pays quarterly dividends to the Syndicate
The 2nd Camera looks terrible, the angle is just not very flattering, it doesn't really flow into the rest of the montage and there is no reason for it. It's only distracting nothing else
Mage the Ascension was my first WoD game and it's also my favorite. Although there are some troubles with it, I feel like it strengths shine through.
passion shines through on all WoD games.
I love Mage. It's an absolutely crazy game.
Didn't expect to see Mage on the channel so soon, but that only makes me more happy about it. I always considered Mage the Ascension one of the coolest games in the World of Darkness given the many possibilities available to the player. Indeed, magic here is limited only by Paradox and the personal imagination of the magicians themselves.
For beginners, the system may seem quite complicated, but I have always appreciated the creative freedom it gives. You are given basics in the form of Spheres and certain limitations of your current power, and on the basis of this you can essentially do whatever your heart desires. This is really pure art with the help of which truly amazing things can be done. Or incredibly terrible if used incorrectly. Or maybe correctly... this will determine for whom they will become such.
To conclude, this was a great breakdown of the basics. Thanks again for a great job! 👍
Looking forward to more videos on this topic. About various Traditions, for example.
Looking forward to it as well
OMG ITS HAPPENING!!!!!111!!!! Sooo good to see modern explanation of mage. I cant wait for full series!
"HONEY IM HOOOME"
Ah, Mage. Can't go wrong with it. Running a travelog styled campaign right now for a Wu Lung smuggler, an Orphan conspirator and a Templa Knight inquisitor... crazy good fun.
You came like a thunder from a clear sky! Just last few weeks looking for some enlightenment into this system. Hope it continues! Thank You and wishing you successful new year!!
Glad it helped
My favourite role playing game!
My gaming group has a campaign in Renaissance Italy, during early years of Order of Reason (precursor of Technocracy). Players are members of that order and playing their part in Italian Wars and of course wizards are meddling in it too.
Sounds like fun
One of the best systems in the world of darkness. Paradox = Favorite tool to bludgeon players to death with. And as a player Nath the tapestry is most mailable with mage. Lots of freedom there.
It seems one of the most flexible systems of magic I have seen
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." ---Jim Ryun
MtAs videos? Yes!❤️
Keep going with these please!
Yea were starting on that now
More on MAGE PLEASE?! I enjoyed watching the werewolf the apocalypse videos. It helped me when playing with my group and I'm loving it ❤
This is the game that stood out most amongst the WoD catalogue from what I've looked at. I hope to play it someday, but finding a group is going to be a nightmare.
many people get very intimidated by it
My favorite WoD and the best magic system for creativity.
Thank you for making this.
Paradox = The equivalency in the exchange for power?
Mage is my favorite system of them all but I can never seem to find a group for it. I think people get overwhelmed by it but I love the possibilities it gives.
it can be as complicated or easy as you make it. you can always check my discord server to see if someone has a game going you can join.
also besides 9 major Spheres in Mage magick, there are many variants, like the technocrats have Data, primal utility and dimensional science which in their terms, data = prime + correspondence , dimensonal science =spirit, primal utility = prime. Also the Nephandi use corrupted versions of hte nine spheres and there are minoir spheres .
Mage. The best WoD game, and the hardest learning curve.
I have heard it is easy to get into and hard from different people. I think it would depend on how out of the box your GM and players can think?
@@TheMapleTable It needs imagination and flexible mind. There are not set spells, only some examples what you can do with your power.
Basicle rules are simple enough, but players can do sooo much with them.
I excel at things like this
About time you included MTA
World of darkness videos are always welcome
More on the way
Very groovy to see Mage in a video. Very much one of the ‘lesser’ games. By that I mean one of those that never got enough love. I always felt mage was part of the what I felt were the big 3, Vamp, Wolf and of course Mage. Demon, wraith, mummy and the fae ones being like a filler for other supernatural things in the WoD. Nice one Nathaniel 😊🤘🏻🇬🇧
Thanks! Glad to hear that you enjoy it. I also viewed the games in the same way you do. Big three vamp, werewolf and mage and the rest were projects of love.
One of my favourite WoD games!
its always intrigued me
@@TheMapleTable so using spheres when I run or play is set up your mages paradigm/belief system/core idea iof why his magic works:
then you have your core rotes (set powers)
If things get spicy its an overly thinky blag system of applying your spheres - through your paradigm - using whatever tools you have to hand.
I read the book several times since i started to GM 35 years or so ago (several systems). But everytime i started to prep a game i faced the same wall. I got intimidated by the player's options, especially when it comes to information finding. Would live to have a video or two on how to prep and run a scenario. Cheers!
Mage: The Ascension is not only the coolest splat in the World of Darkness, it's actually the coolest game in the universe. I will not be accepting any dissenting opinions at this time.
I was wondering when you do mage the Ascension thanks for the video. Would you cover Mummy the resurrection?
Eventually
@@TheMapleTable thank for responding it means a lot
@@TheMapleTable I just found your channel and I was wondering do you have a top ten strongest characters video
@@wolfsbanealphas617 at this moment I don't
@@TheMapleTable ok no problem quick question if mages are so badass why does Gehenna still happen
Ive been playing mage since mage 1st ed. first came out in the early 90s and before that I have been playing Ars Magica, dark ages mage. when the Order of hermes was like the technocracy in Europe.
I personally like playing the technocracy. while the technocracy is top dog they dont control everything. and have difficulties with authorities other supernaturals etc. and technocrats are not all kill everything that does not conform, the technocrats ally with supernautral creatures and trads to fight a bigger enemy, like Nephandi, Marauders, wyrm, sabbat. etc. heck in one game my party of Technocratic mages have to ally with a Sabbat inquisiton nomadic pack to fight a Black Spiral dancer hive.
Even back when the game was released, a lot of players had problems getting why the faction which made "magic" (technology) available to the mundanes, plus invented cool things like democracy and toilet paper, were the bad guys.
@@raistlin3462 it was the 90s , post cold war. angst. Mage the main book was made with the ascension war in the point of the view of hte Trads who have a lot of bone to pick vs. the Technocracy but its not only technology that we havef flushable toilets, working police , and fire dept service health care etc. etc. as opposed to the dark ages where you life expectancy was like 30+ years old and have to deal with marauding bandits, plague etc. also the Technocracy suppressed the other superantural to the point they were not dangerous hazards your average man would face on a near daily basis. Technocratic progroms made the other supernaturals forced to go underground or get destroyed. a later sourcebook in the 90s focusing on the technocracy made the technocracy a lot more playable.
Ars Magica RPG is the forefathers of the WOD, heck Mark Rhein hagen, designed ARs magica before he did vampire RPG.
A fairly simple and understandable explanation of vulgar and coincidental magic.
Im a simple man
I wonder how hard it would be to have a mage game that has the plot of Harry Potter but much much darker
I could envision a way to do this very easily actually.
@@TheMapleTable same but Dumbledore is the actual villain Voldemort is a pawn
I always thought that the Technocracy were not truly trying to rid the world of magic, more understand all things and make them explainable to the masses through technology (a medium the sleepers can understand), that way all can ascend together.
Who needs reality deviants messing with the program and confusing the sleepers, don't they realise that they are only being a hinderance to the rest of the populous.
To me, technocracy is the embodiment of "you can't protect a free bird", even the most heroic on their team wants control.
At 7:20 seems to be a Dresden Files "inspired" picture, that might a bit off to WoD ;)
Can you make video about dracula or maybe kasidy or power of other discipline?
I thought paradox was caused by the difference between a mages abilities and what the human consciousness as a species had accepted as reality not the natural laws of reality itself?
Being more powerful makes it easier to gain paradox but its more tied to a mages magic and how they cast magic. If general public thinks something cant happen paradox claps back.
Like casting a fireball in time square.
I enjoyed the video and love Mage.
I was wondering if there's a method to your scripts outline? It seemed daunted. All good points well made, but it was kind of like the essay of someone passionate about the subject who skipped their thesis "belief=magi" and went straight to their points.
I find with lots of lore channels and even other TTRPG channels they talk forever and dont get to the good bits quickly. I try and let you know upfront whats coming and then go into it.
This particular script was also an experiment, one which I will need to try a few more times to make sure its working or not.
@@TheMapleTable That's what I sensed, it had a "directness" that I've seen work well in a lot of channels lately, but it's hard to say if I'd recommend a lean approach for a "survey of gameline" since (I'm guessing) these need to peak interest for future projects. Granted, my perspective could be skewed by college. I tend to search for forms of thesis, anthesis, and synthesis in all persuasive writing and that may not be practical in UA-cam algorithms.
Either way, I didn't want to sound too critical, I just get curious about writing structures, and as a gamer / writer, I've thought a lot about writing video essays.
Good upload : )
Please go into the rules eventually, I would love to play this but I have no idea how to start
first video on the game and its doing well so look forward to more from me on this.
Do not worry, this game is one of the hardest to get in. When we started about five years ago, we had to play "tutorial" to get rules right.
Then we got it "right" gaming was so rewarding.
The technocrats police the umbra with teh void engineers that is why you dont see wraiths spririts bygones running around destroying the world, they have automated kill sats armed with missles and particle beam weapons along with starships and Space marines fighting a war in space or the umbra throughout the solar system vs. Nephandi aliens, spirits etc. in the sea you have also the void engineeres and the Progenitors policing the depths. Also the Void engineers police the transdimensional, the space between spaces also they police the shadowlands so wraiths dont infiltrate into the Earth, and a small department of void engineers explore alternate histories, alternate dimesnions like the Chrononauts. also Iteration X and Void engineers police the digital web. the enlightened internet that is seperate from the dark web and reguliar web but connects with it. in many ways the techno magicks of the Technocracy surpasses that of the Traditions and Disparates.
Always thought the Void engineers are under appreciated there, if it wasn't for them all sorts of nasties may have got to the material plane.
Syndicate overloads, GIVE THEM MORE FUNDING!
@@xavierllayton I love the void engineers, who ios the strongest military force in the technocracy. they are the ones who are called upon with their space marines , starshiops kill sats etc. when the shit goes down or some omega level threat comes out like the Ravnos antedelluvian. The void engineers also are the main explorers of the technocracy and protectors of mankind from the horrors of the umbra. and yah the Syndicate also another very intereting convention, the syndicate usually gives them funding since if they dont, the Void engineers have the big guns, give or else. NWO are the void engineers bggest rival in the technocracy and do not like NWO trying to play leader and commander to void engineer operations.
@@johnwalsh4857 Agreed, they really have a parental like rivalry going, trying to tell the children (other factions) how things should work and getting the kids to choose 😂
So if they have all that how does Gehenna still happen
@@wolfsbanealphas617 black swans beyond their control. corruption from within the technocrats and trads.
So Paradox is the Mage's version of "Masquerade"?
It plays simmular role, but not realy. I'd say hunger is vampires paradox. You cant cast everything because of natural processes will tear you apart. Well, not really natural, but still.
Mages and vamps both have their conspirology. Masquzrade is a part of it. But in the end, anyone is in danger of being noticed by something more powerful. Mages just don't have a word for it.
So publicly establish yourself as a Cris Angel type and people will believe your magic is simply some outstanding prestidigitation.
That is one way of doing things
Our GM never wanted to run Mage because of "how complicated" the magic system was. We were garou forever, F (yes, he also hated the Umbra).
I live for the umbra, love it. sorry your GM hates it
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Awesome video!🤘
Keep up the awesome work!🤘😎🤘
MAGICK!!!!!!!!
and besides sphere magick there are also non sphere magicks like Pillar magick which is a hold over from the dark ages and before that , Pillar magic is ancient magicks which are less flexible more specialised to a certain field of magicks, but supposedly more powerful than sphere magic, it is also supposedly prone to paradox and does vulgar magicks a lot. and there is also Linear magicks or hedge magic which are used by sorcerers which is a lot less flexible than Sphere and pillar magicks. but does not attract paradox. and Sorcerers are unawakened mages. Sorcers cover a whole gamut from Order of hermes style sorcereres, to shamans to techno sorcers to psychics and even inquisition vatican holy men .
also paradox depends on sleeper witnesses, if no witnesses or the witnesses are other mages or supernatural creatures no paradox, however the more withnesses the hire the paradox, unless the magick use in coincidental and conforms with the belief systems of the sleepers. Like for example, a akashic brother is fgihting a NWO agent in the middle of time square, it will look like a normal brawl with the akashic using impressive martial arts even acrobatic moves, while the NWO agent, is also using acrobatic moves and even impressive movie like martial arts with hard wired cybertech and even biotech reflexes and the combat skills are also hard wired into his brain implant cybvernetics(chippng skills). However to the sleepers this looks like a impressive movie type flight, paradox will only happen, when let's say the akashic brother uses his magicks to suddently jump 50 feet in the air or his fists start to glow and put huge holes in the concrete or the NWO agent hand suddenly turns into a particle beam weapon or his skin turns into a iron man like armor. Paradox is deadly hoiw it repairs reality. so paradox might destroy both mages, erase them from existence and the sleeper withnesses just gets the event erased from their memories and they go about their business. Interestingly other supernaturals do not attract paradox. so their antics are covered up by the technocracy and the offending parfties get hunted down by Technocratic and governmental kill teams.
"also paradox depends on sleeper witnesses, if no witnesses or the witnesses are other mages or supernatural creatures no paradox"
Not entirely true. There is a thing called vulgar without witnesses. Magick can very much cause Paradox if no Sleeper is seeing it, although, it causes a lot less.
@@ZelphTheWebmancer yes vulgar magicks too. but no sleeper witnesses helps a lot.
@@johnwalsh4857 tames it a little, but I suppose every little counts with Paradox and the Backlash it can give.
Ouch!😅
@@xavierllayton yes paradox is what limits the mages powers so that it does not get out of hand. Heck even the Marauders generate paradox on themselves but not really affected by it. (love the marauders).
@@johnwalsh4857 Same, their self generated denial of adhering to the masses weak concept of reality is awesome 🤣
In my games, back historyof the WOD mages played very important parts as the guardians of humanity, in fact mages are humans themselves, and unleashed power of what hte human mind and spirit can do. Like the Garou like to say that they helf themselves back during the Impergium and ended it. but in reality, Mages , humans and vampires defeated the garou and ended the iimpergium and how about the origins of the vampires, my take is that vampires were actually a mage experiment to fight the garou during the impergium.
Well placed your fain in me was
The sound and video are off
try refreshing? seems fine on my end and I havent seen any other comments saying this?
@@TheMapleTable its you (no offence), its the case with multiple videos.
@@dreamcatcherben8214 which ones?
it might be unwise to say this out loud but, fuck it, mage is actually a documentary. if you hadn't already realized that, you're welcome.
Mage and World of Darkness in general needs to include more cosmic horror in their games. Where reality and magic are connected to beings that are beyond human comprehension and morals. Sure there's the wyrm, but there need to be more quests your played character uncovers terrible truths that will make the world of darkness even darker and more cosmic horror monstrosities that make even the most godlike of beings in the world of darkness tremble in fear. At least Chronicles of Darkness is willing to explore more cosmic horror with the games like Demon the descent.
Mage is the wod game i never played bu really want to but i hav eno idea how to run lol
Its daunting to think about but I feel like that's the point
I'm a big mage fan, so I don't get why you used words like "Modality" rather than the in-rules terms like "instruments" or "practice". Makes it a bit hard to recommend as an introduction if I now need to re-clarify with players what you mean. Also the big focus on the Technocracy then minimal on traditions is an odd choice given the game generally assumes you play Tradition mages (with Technocracy a later addition with separate books).
Dang, the music was distracting from what you were teaching
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happy new year :D
Fun fact: The Syndicate is the owner of Pentex!
I did not know this
@@TheMapleTable That’s the reason I love WoD, the interconnections between games
@@MrLuisfrossi its the biggest reason I like it too
The Syndicate does NOT own Pentex, they merely work with them; specifically the Special Projects Division.
@@BrooklynFirstTeam didn’t the Syndicate take over after the SPD vanished? Cuz I thought it said somewhere that Pentex still pays quarterly dividends to the Syndicate
砸了哦
The 2nd Camera looks terrible, the angle is just not very flattering, it doesn't really flow into the rest of the montage and there is no reason for it. It's only distracting nothing else
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_Mage The Ascension_ sounds dangerously too close to _Magic The Gathering_ . That's pretty risky IMO 🤣
Lol have you been drinking the WotC lawyer Kool-Aid
@@TheMapleTable nah, you couldn't be more wrong. I'm just a cautious pragmatist. Never put your eggs in a basket that looks like someone else's.
True, I was making jokes too :p