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First for Mage Supremacy

Is there any OWoD news from gencon?

Yeah it's shit and buy more CofD

Reminder:
If you want a piss off a magefag, remind them a mage can't pick a Demon out of a crowd.

Manga and Anime

Once the X5 lines are released from nuWW, I expect OPP to lose all the oWOD/X20 licenses.

We've been through this already.

Here we go.

>If you want a piss off a magefag, remind them a mage can't pick a Demon out of a crowd.

That's debatable, but if there's an issue, simply incinerate the entire crowd. They're only Sleepers and inferior supernaturals that aren't even "people."

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No go over it twenty billion times because it doesn't actually matter, because we're not playing either game, but love to shitpost endlessly

>I expect OPP to lose all the oWOD/X20 licenses.
Why would they stop 'publishing' books when all it takes to store them is some ones and zeroes on a server? Pulling the licences from OPP is like throwing away free money. They might want to maintain purity, but I doubt they'd just stop making the 20th line of books when they still sell.

Yes. Brochure lists the following forthcoming OWOD books:
Ghost Hunters
Prince's Gambit (simplified V20)
V20: Beckett's Jyhad Diary
W20: Changing Ways (player's guide type thing?)
M20: Victorian Mage
M20: Rich Bastard's Guide to Magick (aka Phil Brucato hates the wealthy)
Wr20
Wr20: Book of Oblivion (pace yourselves faggots, how about releasing Wraith first)
C20
C20: Anthology
C20: Guide to Freeholds
C20: Quickstart
C20: Kithbook: Boggan
C20: Immortal Eyes 4
C20: You'll Buy Anything You Fucking Otherkyn Faggots

I actually do play mage but all our stories is about mage enforcers whose job is to kill unruly supernaturals including other mages. It's fun as fuck thinking of creative ways to annihilate vampires with fate or life spells

>This bait again
new bait please this is stale

Describe and stat your favorite Supernal entity from your games.

Rocky
Supernal exarch of rock stuff
Rank 10
Influences: Hard stuff
Bane: soft stuff

What's the worst story in the CofD fiction anthologies? So far I'd have to say "Open Carry."

What was that one about and why did you find it weak?

Dude what? How is that bait?

>Bane: soft stuff
A black guy named Apollo

Bait's Bait
>MUH METABAIT
see I reversed the green text that makes it's meta. Seriously no one cares

Gun control, and it was lazy caricatures with little connection to Mage. Might have gotten away with it as a WtA story with banes though. Author: Matthew McFarland.

Same collection also had The Tahmanawis Stick, similar but a lesser offender, and even better suited to WtA. Muh ecoterrorism basically.

Honestly, Supernal entities don't seem like a very fertile area to mine. Astral entities, Ghosts and Spirits just seem to have more character to me.

That's the one about gun-owners getting possessed into committing mass shootings. It was a little heavy-handed.

I don't know if enough people have read all the CofD anthologies for this topic to really flourish. I get the impression that most people have just read DaveB's contribution to the Beast Anthology, which to be fair is a really fun story.

Some of the werewolf ones are good.

The beautiful thing about Apocalypse is it's made for this kind of thing. If this is what WW/OP writers want to write, they should do it for Apocalypse where it fits.

One of the best Mage 2e stories was actually hidden away in the Beast Fiction Anthology.

The story was "Premeditation" by DaveB. It was about a Beast, Mage and Changing Breed crossover, and their antics in the Astral to kill another Beast. The Mage was a Mastigos Silver Ladder named Halcyon, and he was the perfect mage arrogant asshole who knew everything, and had no hesitation reminding people of his obvious superiority.

I read a mage one with people being possessed to go off and shoot people, and they go to the gun range.

Was that Open Carry?

I actually thought that was okay because the witch was a cute. Plus at the end of the day it wasn't the fault of the gun owners, so it isn't like it made them out to be bad.

The people using the range would have been responsible gun owners, if it wasn't for a jerk spirit messing that up.

>Supernal entities don't seem like a very fertile area to mine. Astral entities, Ghosts and Spirits just seem to have more character to me

Supernal entities don't matter until a mage needs to cast a magical effect that is beyond his capabilities or breaks the magic rules, and he needs help.

I think that was Open Carry, yes.

Chris Allen wrote a pretty good one for the Forsaken anthology.

One of the best parts of Premeditation was DaveB pissing on beasts when he had Hal accuse the beast of be little more than a Goetic claimed (and sin-eaters as ghost claimed).

Dave is true to his word that he considers all splats assholes by nature, mages and otherwise.

I hope Chris becomes the new Forsaken developer. I think the problem might be that he doesn't have the time and inclination for such an undertaking.

I read that story. Was a little boring, really. Mostly because the tension between the beast chick and the mage dude felt forced and silly.

Also the cat chick was pointless.

It'll be one of the new regulars, pay attention to whose getting on more books. Danielle Lauzon's on the fast track to full VtR dev, and it looks like Meagan Fitzgerald is taking on CtL once corebook's out. Dunno who'll get WtF but it'll probably be someone like that.

Isn't he the Hunter: The Vigil guy?

No, you're thinking of Chuck Wendig, who developed Hunter 1e.

Then what the hell did Allen do? I remember him writing something good.

Alright, semi serious question here.
So in the world/worlds of the various game lines, its generally accepted that, while by and large the masses have no clue about the supernatural things that go on behind the scenes, there are people here and there who either had a strange encounter once or even major parts of the true supernatural world. Given that, and given that things have been this way as far back as human history goes, how much freaky porn do you think you can find on the internet of supernatural stuff?

...

About as much as you can right now.
Except there are probably more guro fans.

So like always, darkest timeline.

He's mostly written for Forsaken. Among others, he wrote the Gift and Rite section of the new corebook and the Lodge section of The Pack.

We have vampire and furry porn now. I doubt much would change in the CofD, except any porn with real supernaturals would be quickly quashed for "copyright violations" or somesuch.

Probably easier to leave it up in this modern age, and just pretend it is photoshop/cg.

I think the only thing that would change is that Pornhub would add a category for "bloody money shot"

"We're about to film the finish, stick this blade up your dick"

>roll for frenzy

fucking topkek shit. never change. meanwhile, i'm thinking of malks posting shitty memes. because only the batshit crazies and the sewer rats would do that sort of thing.

Music Video on X cards
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I'm trying to actually stomach all of Mummy. So here I go with the first impressions.

Opening story: Why not a sexy fem-mummy? Get it together Walter, you watching the guy's shriveled raisins or something?

Also, yeah the Mummy is stronk, but he was somehow deceived in where to find the relic, and ended up at a fake?

Intro, Theme, Mood:
Just try to get me not to imagine Brendan Frasier, JUST TRY!

Man, they really put their neck out for this game eh? Too bad there.

"Welcome to Mummy: the Curse. Mummies are lame. Now let's begin."

Lexicon: I honestly thing this is as far as I made it last time. Because jesus christ this lexicon page makes Mage's lexicon page seem intuitive and clear.

So little of the words here seem or sound like what they are. It is almost intimidating in how overdone it seems. Which is a shame, because when you read it all, there is a sense that there is something interesting underneath it all. But at once, I look and thing 'I'm totally going to confuse ab and ba, at least 100 times'.

90% of the magic words in that game start with an S, making them even harder to distinguish.

For user's records:
Sekhem
Sesha-Hebsu
Shen'iatu
Shuankhsen
sheut
Sickness
Sothic Turn
Su-Menet
Sybaris

Yeah, there are too many.

Is that even half of them? What about:
Sadikh
scarab
sutra
sahu
Sekhiru
Ser-Kheru
Ser-Tihu
Seq-Qesu
Shet-Kheru

It isn't sorcery without an S

I just grabbed what was on the Lexicon page.

Yes, on top of everything else, the Lexicon section is incomplete.

Lol a mummy can literally call out an Archmasters name and kill her instantly

Yeah, until Dave said "No, that's not how it works."

Oh yeah forgot about that. Fuck that guy he didn't even write mummy so I am keeping it as is

Dave wrote for every gameline except Hunter, you turd nugget.

Writing a chapter isn't writing the whole book fanboy. I doubt he even wrote the chapter on utterances anyway.

Mummies as written don't have to have inactive periods. Worse rules quality control than Geist.

lol ok, keep using something that didn't make any sense out of pure hatred for Mage.

Nope, go thread the crossover section of whatever dark era had them both.

How does it not make sense? You utter the true name of a supernatural and they die plain and simple

It doesn't make any sense with Archmages, as they function quite differently.

Because while a trick like that would work for a Master, Archmasters are effectively immortal. It'd be like trying to use that power on Luna or one of the True Fae.

It wouldn't work on an Archmage. it would work on lesser Mages, assuming they got a good roll.

It's not an 'instant win' ability by any means.

Wait wait. Archmasters aren't Exarchs, they haven't ascended or anything. They can fight godlike beings, but they aren't yet gods themselves. They still live in the material right?

So why wouldn't an Utterance work on them? They aren't beyond having a true name.

Yeah but Mage unmaking and aggravated damage dealing unraveling spells are

only 1 fucking person has even read mummy, what fucking trick is this?

BECAUSE DAVE BROOKSHAW FUCKING SAID SO MUMMYFAG

That particular utterance like most utterances doesn't have a roll. It just succeeds because the mummy decree so.

Have we found another trigger for mage players?

Feedback requested on character sheet for the Slender Man:

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>tfw my Kindred has a newly awakened Obrimos at the 2nd level of Vinculum

We found that one a while ago user

That's stupid since Mages can easily dehook themselves off of vitae addiction

Wait, doesn't drinking from a mage kill a vampire?

Or was that just huff and puff from the story of the Tremere?

Yeah because a Mage that just awakened is going to instantly know everything about the world

Some things are pure instinctual and being able to break blood bonds is one of them retarded vampfag

>delusional mage poster thinks they are completely undefeatable

vinculum is feeding blood to someone not feeding off of someone

Duh, my bad.

It's no problem. 3 levels of blood bonding. 3rd level is pointless

I never said mages were unbeatable. I just said that bloodbonding won't work on the Wise unless they want it

Breaking a blood bind is not instinctual last I knew. Please post evidence to the contrary.

Yes and no, if you can actually get a blood bond to work on a solo mage it would work, but should a fellow mage ever find out what your doing, he could pretty easily remove the bond and ruin the rest of (very short) unlife.

Well V5 is back to using 9 attributes instead of 3.

And they have put zero thought into how paths or elder powers are going to work.

They are still sucking the collective girlcock of the tranny community.

And they still think their hunger system is good

>Archmasters
>They still live in the material right?

Actually, no. Archmasters are an entirely separate (super)splat that don't live by the same rules.

Archmasters exist as their Golden Road, and project themselves out into the material. This is similar to how regular mages exist in the material and project themselves into the Astral. You cannot just disintegrate their projection, and expect them to be out of action for millennia. That's not how a Golden Road works.

Also note that Dave not only was an author on Mummy, but actually wrote the *official* Mummy / Mage crossover rules in Dark Eras Companion. You might consider Dave King Magefag, but when it comes to Mummy/Mage rules issues, his word is law.

In fact, a lot of the 1e (Mummy) and pre-2e Mage CofD material just doesn't work with the new Mage rules. Some of the Hunter tactics are the worst offenders (e.g., the lobotomy maneuver that actually cannot stop a mage from using magic).

These issues are one of the reasons why Dave is careful about crossover advice concerning soon or unreleased material (although as he often writes critical section of these books and/or speaks with their developers, Mage consistency is often built-in).

>Yeah because a Mage that just awakened is going to instantly know everything about the world

Not necessarily, but that free dot of Occult and Order training and resources sure as shit is going to mention major issues with vampires, a high-population, major splat.

No, there is indeed a roll to affect another Template.

What about Dave's comments seem 'careful'?

>Breaking a blood bind is not instinctual last I knew

It would probably depend on the mage's Arcana spread.

However, a bound mage would be quickly noticed among the more experienced members of the Wise in the Consilium or Seer Ministry. The reaction would not bode well for the local leech population.

Oh thank god. I thought there were going to be pumpkins in that picture.

I don't think Kindred are the type to ever loudly announce their machinations or make it obvious..

And if that poster does in fact have a mage under their characters Thrall, could their pet mage just use magic to hide the blood bind?

To be fair, i would think that 1 dot would just mean knowing vampires exist and not all that much about they're biology.

>V5

I think nuWW needs to bring over Phil Brucato to help with V5 mechanics and setting. Phil's obviously a natural at such things.

Of course, someone new will then have to develop M20. The fans will understand the sacrifice...