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[Therian]

Sounds like some pretty good story fodder. What 1e book were they in?...

[Therian]

Oh? What are those? I may have missed some preview that mentioned them....

[Therian]

Basing this off what I've been seeing for The Realm, which I've also been waiting hard for, Signs will probably have to go in for one last White Wolf approval before it they get the .pdf ready. I'm guessing more like June 5th or 12th. Hope I'm wrong though because I am READY for this book. So looking forward to seeing:

• Active mage sign broken down by Path and Arcana
• Boons for Supernal entities
• Obligations
• Expanded Nimbus info
• What characters can requisition from Orders and Consiliums
• Basically all of the Manifest Supernal and Awakening chapters
• Honestly everything else previewed

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[Therian]

How does the Outward and Inward eye +2 Reach effect interact with Scrying magic? Would a mage be able to see back into a one way Scrying window?

[Therian]

I'm super excited to get this book as well. That Mage Sight excerpt has been incredibly helpful for my game so far. Can't wait to see the other parts of it.

[Therian]

Is Diplomat's Protection from the 1E Silver Ladder book still doable under the new rules or has something changed that would make it not really work anymore.

[Therian]

So is it always tied to defense? And does the fact that Time is necessary for really fast objects mean something about the control? And the scale effects the object as well as the amount of subjects you can give the ability to? I guess I’m still a little puzzled. I wish the actual term subject was in there instead of mage....

[Therian]

Here’s a weird one: Turn Momentum is fairly clear about how it works but why it works like that is a little hard for me to wrap my head around based on most other spells. A player was trying to cast it on the whole cabal but it basically says the subject of the spell are the objects moving. But then it seems like it can only be objects moving towards the mage casting the spell. Does anyone have a good explanation of what this spell is actually doing?

[Therian]

Does peripheral mage sight pick up on ongoing effects like an active spell, or only when a spell is being cast?

[Therian]

Nice anecdote! I really like the description of the Mystery Initiations and actually played through my Mysterium player's Mysteriorum Arche last week. (Poor sacrificial bull). Fluff and crunch with it all is pretty easy to reconcile except in cases where someone gets Egregore 5 and has Status 1....

[Therian]

I think this may be the disconnect I was having with the rotes. They are definitely great, but it doesn't seem like it's necessarily something you would have to hunt down to cast the particular spell....

[Therian]

So I’ve been reading the Mysterium book in my effort to better understand the order and I was hoping some Mage vets could help me understand a few things.

First, in a more general question, it seems like the exploration to find new rotes and spells is something that mages delve into. Maybe since I haven’t played 1e I may be missing something, but it seems like maybe some spells and rotes were exclusive to some orders or have to be discovered. But in 2e it seems relatively simple to make rotes and new spells. Was that different in 1e or am I overlooking some emergent element...

[Therian]

Question: If a player uses manages to put themselves in a position where they could gain a title in a Consilium but don’t have the experience to buy the level of status necessary, how would you treat it? Particularly if it’s a Silver Laddr character who could potentially use that status in their Lex Magica merit. Curious how it’s been addressed in others games.

[Therian]

I picked up one of the Contagion Scout rewards. Hopefully someone will get the other one and give it another boost.