(Pan)Demonic

Mage: The Awakening, Open Development

Hello once again!

Legacies is currently ranked in first place on last week’s poll, with roughly two-thirds of the vote. Unfortunately, we’ve hit a particularly busy time behind the scenes, with multiple books requiring sustained attention, so I don’t have time to take the couple of hours necessary to explain the new Legacy mechanics for you. I’ll get to it as soon as I can.

We had a pretty good run of weekly updates, and I want to keep the ball rolling. Fortunately, this kind of crunch time has been prepared for: Previous blogs haven’t covered everything about their topics, and we have lots more examples to show you.

The first draft of the Acanthus Path writeup from the new edition seemed to go down a treat, and the other Paths were by far the most-requested spoiler at GenCon. The next Path in alphabetical order would be the Mastigos, so I’ve put it up on Google Drive.

Before you read, I must stress once again that these are first drafts. We tinkered a bit with the Path formatting since we showed you the Acanthus, and added the Art notes for the signiature characters. We have three more passes at this material – once by me in redlines, then a second go at it by the writer, then me again – before the book goes to editorial and art direction. It can and will change between this draft and the finished corebook.

The author of Mastigos, like all the Paths, was “Mage Freelancing Quarterback” Malcolm Sheppard.

And here’s the link.

Link to Mastigos Preview

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But wait! That’s not all!

We’ve got to the point (now you know about the Paradox and Yantras systems) that I can happily show you spells. As we’re having a Mastigos-themed blog, here’s a Mind spell.

Terrorize (Mind ••••)

Practice: Unraveling

Primary Spell Factor: Duration

Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Expression, Medicine

The mage’s generates an overwhelming sense of fear and dread in her victim, draining his strength and will to live. The victim may resist this spell’s effect with his Resolve. The victim suffers from the Insensate Tilt for the duration of the spell, or until resolved by being attacked.

+ 1 Reach The mage inflicts the Broken Condition instead.