Here’s a story / example of play from my Mage/Tarot hack. The story is a little dry here, but I’m mainly trying to demonstrate how a character would be defined, and what the mechanics would look like in practice. Note that there exists a mapping of Tarot Arcana to fictional elements in Mage. Also, the [...]
I’m working on a hack now that combines White Wolf’s Mage: the Awakening setting with a Tarot-driven set of mechanics, taking advantage of the Tarot imagery already built into the setting. I’m trying to maintain some mechanical similarities to the White Wolf system, while cutting out the bits I’m not as interested in (and of [...]
In response to a quote taken more-or-less in context, and in reference to a discussion of the importance of fantasy in entertainment:
“Almost all the well-adjusted people I know never read.”
To be “well-adjusted” is to have adapted to the reality of your world. The question is: do you match the consensus of the world you live [...]
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