From server@wizards.com Tue Oct 19 05:27:44 1993 Received: from walker.u.washington.edu by mail.nada.kth.se (5.61-bind 1.4+ida/nada-mx-1.0) id AA25021; Tue, 19 Oct 93 05:27:42 +0100 Received: from ginkgo.omnigroup.com by walker.u.washington.edu (5.65/UW-NDC Revision: 2.29 ) id AA25236; Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:24:44 -0700 Received: from tapir.wizards.com by omnigroup.com (NX5.67d/NX3.0M) id AA05492; Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:24:40 -0700 Received: by wizards.com (NX5.67d/NX3.0M) id AA10031; Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:24:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:24:39 -0700 Message-Id: <9310181923.AA13602@netcom5.netcom.com> Comment: Mailing list for "Mage: the Ascension" Originator: mage-l@wizards.com Errors-To: netsec@wizards.com Reply-To: mage-l@wizards.com Sender: mage-l@wizards.com Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: jsnead@netcom.com (John R. Snead) To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Some ideas for/about mage Status: RO Hi folks, I just heard about, and subscribed to the list. Well, first off, the question of healing in Mage is an interesting one. Given the rules, No Mage can start with the ability to heal others, and you need Life 3 to heal yourself, so, Mages are MUCH more vulnerable to damage than Kindred or Garou, who have healing as one of their primary abilities. I've found you have to play Mages much more cautiously than either of the others. Oh, also, here is a proposal for a Mage supplement my co-author and I sent to White Wolf a while back. (No word form them yet, but they liked our previous stuff, so hopefully it was not sent in vain). Anyway, now that I have access to lots of other intersted folks, any ideas, flames, feedback or wahtever on it.... The purpose of the book would be to describe a class of spirit is associated directly with the life of human beings through their desires, thoughts, and dreams. Many of these spirits would be Hobgoblins produced by Mages in Quiet. Others would be Hobgoblins produced accidentally by untrained Orphan Mages. Some of these Hobgoblins achieve a fully independant existance, some outlast their creators. Mortals have many names for these spirits: incubi, succubi, doppelgangers. The general term we would use, and the working title of the book, would be "Daemon". Daemons would fall into one of three categories. The first are the creations of artists: writers, painters, musicians, many would be the creations of Mages of the Cult of Ecstasy. These daemons feed on the energy of creativity and art. An artist of unusual ability who has an Awakened Avatar may generate an extraordinarily compelling, "realistic" character. If given enough spiritual energy (from the artist, or possibly from fans of the artist or the character), the character may become real and enter the mortal world. The second category are doubles of human beings. These feed on the energy of wishes and daydreams. They may be seperately created Hobgoblins which for some reason attach themselves to certain mortals, or certain mortals with partially Awakened Avatars may have the power to generate a spiritual double of themselves. The doubles originally exist independently of their human hosts, who may not be aware of them. Doubles act out the dreams of their hosts, doing things their hosts are afraid to do or would like to do but cannot. Eventually, the host usually becomes aware of the double's existence, and the two may integrate into a single being with powers and characteristics of both the double and the host. The third category are incubi and succubi. Incubi and succubi feed on the energy of sex and desire. Once again, Mages of the Cult of Ecstasy are often their creators. These spirits respond to mortals whose needs (not merely sexual) are not met by their fellow human beings. Such a spirit becomes the living fantasy of their mortal host: the demon lover, the perfect parent, the invisible friend, the mysterious teacher. Incubi/succubi (one spirit may take both male and female forms) may take solid form and produce children in association with a mortal. These children are half-human, half-spirit, and have unique abilities and limitations of their own. The proposed book would include types of spirit suitable for use as player characters as well as types only appropriate as non-player characters. The book would be divided into descriptive material on the daemons, complete rules for generating and running daemon characters, including new supernatural abilities, limits, and methods of gaining and losing spiritual energy (all daemons feed on the energy of creation just as vampires feed on blood-the rules would be similar), adventure seeds, and a sample scenario. The scenario is a mystery/horror adventure involving the player characters in an isolated location where, unknown to them, a very unusual spirit is reaching for a place in the mortal world. Thanks everyone, take care -John