I'm looking to augmet my live Ascension Nova playtest group with a live group assembled over IRC or Skype. The characters would be a group of young Traditionalists who have just survived the Avatar Storm and are now looking to establish themselves in the NYC area. Interested parties are referred to the Ascension Nova Wiki for the AN Mage ( Read more... )

Please come and check out Ascension Nova, a project for bring Mage: The Ascension into the NWoD world and rules set. Our ongoing project is aimed at bringing the intensity, guerilla warfare and cosmic questions of Mage: The Ascension into the sreamlined, adult and foreboding New World of Darkness setting. Reality is subjective, the Ascension War ( Read more... )

(crossposted from journal) I'm trying to pick out some of the essential elements of the Mage world which tend to be understated in the books and missed by new players. This a mix of interpreted canon and some wild speculation, and most of what I'm putting here has been in scattered discussions from a few forums. I'd like to form a more coherent ( Read more... )

I'm running a Mage: the Ascension game that follows pretty closely to the "Judgment" storyline in the Ascension book. However, at the end of the story, I am planning for the discovery of the tenth sphere* to change reality into the world described in Mage: the Awakening. The PCs will be the only ones who notice anything is different ( Read more... )

So, the game was set in New Orleans, and you might recall that I ran a Mage game set there once before. The characters:

• Alanzau (Mysterium, Paper Krewe): An Adept of Death, but a Master of Life, Alanzau knows many of the dark secrets of New Orleans, including a gateway to the sample Atlantean temple that the Boston cabal found.
  
• Isis (Mysterium): ( Read more... )

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=462463

Check it out if you have time. This is a game I play in and she ST is looking for a bit of advice and since I can't give it (cause I'm playing) I prod people that don't suck (ie you folk).

that is all.

Tonight was the final chapter in my Mage: The Awakening chronicle, "Murder in the Pines." Before the write-up, a few thoughts on how this compared to my other one, Gloria MundiFirst off, there wasn't the same reliance on Dream. Sure, they used it, especially once Whim got involved, but it wasn't the hint machine that it was in Boston ( Read more... )

Last time, which was quite a while ago, the characters had just learned a group of three Proximi and a mage had been ambushed near the Ohio/Indiana border as they were going to Chicago to collect Red Jester to clear up this whole "who's the Hierarch" thing. Three - the mage and two Proximi - had been killed, and one Proximus was missing. The cabal ( Read more... )

The characters, recall, had just learned where Aaron Murphy was...but he knew that they knew. They started discussing their options and trying to figure out how to approach him. They figured that getting the werewolves on their side might be good, so Asmodeus scryed him - nothing. Added Death - nothing. Added Spirit to see beyond the Gauntlet, and ( Read more... )

So, WW has posted a new Mage Bundle at RPGnow this week ( Read more... )