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[Caedus]

If I were to make the Sorcerer's into a full template I would take the rule of three idea and elevate it. They have open rites, closed rites, and to make them a full template again I would give them a third power to complete the theme.

[Caedus]

I happened to reread Chronicles of Darkness The Dark Eras Companion and I happened on something very interesting.

"The sorcerers described by these systems ultimately represent a half-lost, degenerate tradition. In the time of Irem, sorcerers enjoyed instruction and Sekhem from Shan’iatu princes, mastering mighty spells and the ability to help their masters reliably and more swiftly produce relics. There might once have been some form of greater sorcerer that conferred a true supernatural template, but those days are long passed from this world. Even if it was to be rediscovered...

[Caedus]

I read in Oak, Ash, and Thorn that one could make a bargain with an Archmage. I started pondering what kind of court contracts one could imagine coming from a bargain with a supernal entity or an archmage.

[Caedus]

Now to be fair it is not the specific words that I mind it's the amount of jargon. It's not the word Yantra that I mind, but more the amount of jargon that awakening throws at you in a pretty messily laid out book. Yantra/Instruments/Chains, Mudra, Praxis, Rote, Attainment, Legacy Attainment(which is completely different from normal attainments), Supernal, Gulmoth, Acamoth, all the different supernal entities, temporal sympathy, sympathy yantra, sympathetic link, withstanding, goetia, all the different words in regards to the astral, the three different types of mage sight, the various kinds...

[Caedus]

I really want to like Mage the Awakening, but what has been the biggest obstacle for me and my players when trying to use it is twofold: the layout of the corebook, and the incredibly cumbersome terminology. *eyes Yantras, Mudras, and so on*. I think Awakening would have benefited from using less...pretentious terminology to explain what is otherwise rather simple concepts.

[Caedus]

I am necrothreading but I didn't see if you responded. I am about to plan a Mage the Awakening game and I wondered what kind of crown/prelacy The Gate would give....