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[maryshelly]

I am just trying to understand combat and how tiers work using the sample characters at the end of the book.

If the Legion member attacks, he will roll 11 dice and probably have a weapon with an enhancement of +2, so probably getting about 5 or 6 successes. He must overcome the defence of Queen Flare of 4 leaving 2 successes, which must then be used to overcome her armour which is Soft Armor 2 which means that both successes must be used to cause 1 damage...

...which she will immediately regenerate. She will then use her blast and roll 15 dice which gives 5 successes,...

[maryshelly]

Also, Mage society is like Academia, as Henry Kissinger said "...the fights are so vicious, because the stakes were so low..."

[maryshelly]

I would also imagine that, as Mages descend into Hubris and their obsessions get more intense, their is more possibility for them to clash due to how that Hubris plays out. I believe that one of the central tenents of Mage is "Power Corrupts" and as they get more powerful they become more mad....

[maryshelly]

Even though the Pentacle orders try to present a united front, there seems to be a lot of conflict between the orders (or even within the orders). Looking into the politics of the orders in both Boston Unveiled and World of Darkness Chicago, there seems to be power struggles between mages which can get quite bloody and sometimes spill into all out war. The Guardians of the Veil sometimes butt heads with the Free Council and there are times that the Mysterium might get into conflict with other orders to jockey for position within a City. The Silver Ladder seems to be the order which will try...