2.0 Mage: the Awakening™ Rules

LAST UPDATED:
8-01-08

OVERVIEW
 

RESTRICTIONS
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CREATING A M:tA CHARACTER
 

BOOKS IN USE

MAGE THEMED MEDIA

LINKS TO MAGE RELATED WEB SITES

 

 Mage: the Awakening

Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean? 
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? 

-- Back To The Future I (1985)

OVERVIEW:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage:_The_Awakening 

Mage Society in DC:

(Under construction) There is a Cabal and a Consillium in place.

"We need more input. We gotta fill this thing up with data. We gotta make her as real as possible, Wyatt. I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize. " 

 

- Garry Wallace in "Weird Science" by John Hughes (1985)

RESTRICTIONS:

Restrictions are things that are legal by the book but for game balance or other reasons, the STs want more strict control over how much it is in play in this game. The below are not allowed. Forbidden means not ever; restricted means we have in the past or we may in the future but not now.

RESTRICTED BACKGROUNDS:

• Mages with Law Enforcement, Federal Agent or Military Employment (or anything related that might want an IC Background Check).

RESTRICTED MERITS:

• Sleepwalker (ST Discretion only)

"Anyone who falls flat on their face is at least moving in the right direction -- forward."

- Professor Ned Brainard in "Son of Flubber" by Disney (1963)

MAKING A M:tA CHARACTER:

Using the Template that you can download HERE:

THE BELOW IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND STILL CONTAINS SOME PARTIAL 1.0 DATA. WE'RE WORKING ON IT. Thanks.

1. Name: Put the name of your character. Make sure it is not on the Blocked Names List.

2. Player: Put your name (and preferably also your email address).

3. Chronicle: Put "Washington DC By Night." (or DC By Night or 11th Hour)

4. Concept: This is open-ended, but you can see examples on pg. 34 of WW55002.

Concepts are usually a 1-3 word root-level label for who your character is at the core as a person (not in a supernatural sense), usually succinctly matching their personality and their function.

Examples might be: Ambitious Journalist, Angry Young Man, Drifter, Intellectual, Lost Waif, Party Animal, Politician, Misguided Prophet, Radical Politician, Socialite. These are stereotypes, and needn't be literal; details would be covered in your background.  

Example Concepts (1.0 version but still helpful):

http://www.virtualsolarsystem.com/venus/ladynightspirit/Concept.htm

8. Mage Stuff

9. Mage stuff

10. ATTRIBUTES

**NB: For Attributes, Skills and Merits, there is no longer a 3 pt. max cap for stats in the "initial stage" (since there is no freebies stage in 2.0).

However, if you buy 5 dots of anything in Attributes, Skills or Merits at Creation, the 5th Dot costs 2 points, not 1. (See left side pg. 34, WW55002 for more details.)

Attributes are broken down into Mental, Physical and Social, but also across the other way, into Power, Finesse and Resistance. (See pg. 47, WW55002 for details.)

Starting dots for Attributes are 5/4/3.

11. SKILLS (Mental/Physical/Social): You will have 11/7/4 starting dots (+3 Specialties).

(See pg. 53, WW55002 for more info.) Mental skills you don't have dots in will cost -3 to your dice pool for a roll using that stat. Physical & Social are -1 for unskilled.

• Mental Skills: Academics, Computer, Crafts, Investigation, Medicine, Occult, Politics & Science.

• Physical Skills: Athletics, Brawl, Drive, Firearms, Larceny, Stealth, Survival & Weaponry.

• Social Skills: Animal Ken, Empathy, Expression, Intimidation, Persuasion, Socialize, Streetwise & Subterfuge.

12. MERITS (7 starting points) -- See pg. 34 (list) and pg. 108 (explanations) in WW55002

13. FLAWS

In WOD 2.0, flaws do not actually cost points, and are included more for optional character balance.

You DO get extra experience (*as the ST subjectively deems earned) for playing your flaws well in RP.

Professor Hathaway: So tell me, Mitch, are you gonna miss your friends? 
Mitch: Well, no, I think I intimidate other kids. 
Professor Hathaway: Good boy. 

-- Real Genius, 1985

SUGGESTED SOURCEBOOKS:

- Dr. Harry Wolper in "Creator" (1985)

WHO APPROVES YOUR SHEET / WHO IS MAGE ST?:

• Eriond, Caleb_Brown or JonOOC

You can email sheets to any ST in the channel. You are responsible to check with the ST to see if they has received your character. The above-named ST is just designated as more well-versed in the genre but you can and may be guided by any ST on staff.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

- Brian O'Blivion, "Videodrome" (1983)

MAGE THEMED MEDIA:

BOOKS: Harry Potter Series (Traditions), Anything by William Gibson (Technocracy/VA's), Day of the Jackal (Euthanatos)

MOVIES (Traditions): Lord of Illusions, The Absent Minded Professor [SoE], Son Of Flubber [SoE], Weird Science [SoE], Real Genius [SoE], Back To The Future I-III [SoE], Creator [SoE], Boondock Saints I & II (Euthanatos), Se7en (Euthanatos), The Dead Zone (Euthanatos), Thunderheart (Dreamspeakers), The Cell [Quiet], Kissed [Euthanatos], The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [SoE], Night of the Comet [The Red Star]

MOVIES (Technocracy, Virtual Adepts): The Matrix I-III, Men In Black I-II, Minority Report, Blade Runner [Replicants/Constructs], Videodrome, Hackers, The Net, Blue Thunder, War Games,  Lawnmower Man, X-Men [Progenitors], Gattaca, Terminator I-III ,  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within [Void Engineers]

MUSIC: "Police State" by Birmingham 6 [Technocracy], "The Becoming" by Nine Inch Nails, "Secret Agent Man" or "Mr. DNA" by Devo [Technocracy], Anything by Kraftwerk [Technocracy - Iteration X]

POETRY:

TELEVISION: Mission Impossible [Technocracy], X-Files [Technocracy], Max Headroom [Technocracy/VA's], Without A Trace [Technocracy - NWO], C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigation)  [Technocracy]

THEATER:

VIDEO GAMES:  Ninja Gaiden [Akashic Brotherhood], Deus Ex Series [Technocracy], Resident Evil [Corporate Conspiracy/Technocracy]

LINKS TO 2.0 MAGE RELATED WEB SITES:

Conner MacManus: Now you will receive us. 
Murphy MacManus: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry. 
Conner MacManus: We do not want your tired and sick. 
Murphy MacManus: It is your corrupt we claim. 
Conner MacManus: It is your evil that will be sought by us. 
Murphy MacManus: With every breath, we shall hunt them down. 
Conner MacManus: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies. 
Murphy MacManus: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace. 
Conner MacManus: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost. 
Murphy MacManus: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, in to true corruption, into our domain. 
Conner MacManus: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it. 
Murphy MacManus: And we will send you to whatever god you wish. 

-- "Boondock Saints I" by Troy Duffy (1999)

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