M:tA, Mage the Awsome or Awful?
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:48 pm
Well, it is not the game I actually participated, I'm only silent watcher who just get some time-to-time logs, but still...
Beginning of the story: On of the players a play with suddenly started to tell us that he is playing MtA. He was quite excited last few months, I bet he had a hard on during his games. However, first of all he made one critical failure. He start spamming other my player about "how awesome MtA is" and she hates fishnet-systems like MtA. Second, he started to boast that he have truly epic adventures and unlike DnD we are playing together they HAVE NO OFFTOPIC (I have to admit that offtopics are frequent on our games). This "truly epic" statements surprised my MtA-hating player because playing 19th level fullcaster who is a nobleborn princess and also a cardinal, not mentioning her maxed Charisma earned her title of the most beautiful woman in the whole world she wondered. So we both united to watch epic adventures, may be we had something to learn from this.
So goes the story.
"Epic" MtA is actually campaign which is played for more than two years if I'm correct. We found out that one friend of mine participated in this campaign some long time ago - but he ran away and was deeply shocked by something. Furthermore, the only constant player in this campaign is actually my "epic-no-offtopic" player, other players are running away by unknown reasons (I don't know them personally to ask). And once they had WtA Garu shaman in their party who suddenly have to get along with freaky mages (I think Garu player ran away because he was constantly abused by fishnet-magic-system usage by ST).
Grind-grind-grind
Playing more than a two years his "epic" character have reached.. Arete 4. Yes, he started from Arete 3. Yes, he got Arete 4 not so long time ago. Another two years and he might be able to reach arete 5. But there is one simple thing: ST uses bunch of goddamn masters and Archmage (6+ dots) Elminsters to buff party and send them on quest. Buffs are required because otherwise system is quite lethal, and PC cannot buff themselves on a decent level.
Also they up-to-st-ignore Paradox rules, which means that running around and throwing fireballs is ok if you sucked ST cock (and you reaped apart by paradox if you wronged his girlfriend). And technocracy are incompetent dumbasses who cannot do a thing with mage-freaks running on streets and throwing a fireballs.
So what we have seen from moment we got our attention on their games.
Party met some npc with surname from retarded anime. Some NPC archmage (better than you guy who can kill all PC in half of action) tries to attack this anime-npc and suddenly get fucked up, I doubt any dices were rolled actually. Yes, old as world "Awesome NPC who easily defeats npcs who easily beat the party". And then party got quest from etherites to got essence of Abaddon so that they can build some spaceship to explore umbra.
Suddenly ST declared, that because people tend to be atheistic in the modern world Demons are actually weak, and even Earthbound Dukes do not have 6+ dots (I have to remind you that "peoples do not believe in magic so it causes paradox" rule was brutally discarded, and there is lots of 6+ archmages. May be this ST have hard times with logical thinking).
So the party goes to Abaddon, Awesome Better-than-better-than-party-npc NPC dead-locks (no dice are actually rolled I fear) gimped Abaddon and allows PC to do some dirty health damage work (actually this npc could easily defeat abbadon and PC if they suddenly joined forces).
They get gimped abaddon essence and etherites build spaceship. Abaddon is gimp but yes, his essence was required. No, corrupted essence of bane/demon do not cause some unpleasant effects.
After this "epic-no-offtopic" PC is informed that because he delivered final blow against impotent abaddon, forces of hell will hunt him.. to make him ruler of 7th circle of hell. Weakling abaddon ruled 7th circle of hell so anyone who defeats him is to be next ruler. No, demons do not want to start fighting each other so the winner will declare himself the boss, they want the one who removed last health level (not the Awesome NPC who actually defeated abaddon) from abaddon's reliquary.
Then he informed that he have the way to drive hordes of hell from his trail - he have to steal some sword from museum in Berlin and ask some fantasy writer about how to use this sword.
That's all for now.
And I'm still wondering, is defeating nerfed Demon with help of overpowered better-than-you-ever-be anime-surname NPC is epic or what?
Beginning of the story: On of the players a play with suddenly started to tell us that he is playing MtA. He was quite excited last few months, I bet he had a hard on during his games. However, first of all he made one critical failure. He start spamming other my player about "how awesome MtA is" and she hates fishnet-systems like MtA. Second, he started to boast that he have truly epic adventures and unlike DnD we are playing together they HAVE NO OFFTOPIC (I have to admit that offtopics are frequent on our games). This "truly epic" statements surprised my MtA-hating player because playing 19th level fullcaster who is a nobleborn princess and also a cardinal, not mentioning her maxed Charisma earned her title of the most beautiful woman in the whole world she wondered. So we both united to watch epic adventures, may be we had something to learn from this.
So goes the story.
"Epic" MtA is actually campaign which is played for more than two years if I'm correct. We found out that one friend of mine participated in this campaign some long time ago - but he ran away and was deeply shocked by something. Furthermore, the only constant player in this campaign is actually my "epic-no-offtopic" player, other players are running away by unknown reasons (I don't know them personally to ask). And once they had WtA Garu shaman in their party who suddenly have to get along with freaky mages (I think Garu player ran away because he was constantly abused by fishnet-magic-system usage by ST).
Grind-grind-grind
Playing more than a two years his "epic" character have reached.. Arete 4. Yes, he started from Arete 3. Yes, he got Arete 4 not so long time ago. Another two years and he might be able to reach arete 5. But there is one simple thing: ST uses bunch of goddamn masters and Archmage (6+ dots) Elminsters to buff party and send them on quest. Buffs are required because otherwise system is quite lethal, and PC cannot buff themselves on a decent level.
Also they up-to-st-ignore Paradox rules, which means that running around and throwing fireballs is ok if you sucked ST cock (and you reaped apart by paradox if you wronged his girlfriend). And technocracy are incompetent dumbasses who cannot do a thing with mage-freaks running on streets and throwing a fireballs.
So what we have seen from moment we got our attention on their games.
Party met some npc with surname from retarded anime. Some NPC archmage (better than you guy who can kill all PC in half of action) tries to attack this anime-npc and suddenly get fucked up, I doubt any dices were rolled actually. Yes, old as world "Awesome NPC who easily defeats npcs who easily beat the party". And then party got quest from etherites to got essence of Abaddon so that they can build some spaceship to explore umbra.
Suddenly ST declared, that because people tend to be atheistic in the modern world Demons are actually weak, and even Earthbound Dukes do not have 6+ dots (I have to remind you that "peoples do not believe in magic so it causes paradox" rule was brutally discarded, and there is lots of 6+ archmages. May be this ST have hard times with logical thinking).
So the party goes to Abaddon, Awesome Better-than-better-than-party-npc NPC dead-locks (no dice are actually rolled I fear) gimped Abaddon and allows PC to do some dirty health damage work (actually this npc could easily defeat abbadon and PC if they suddenly joined forces).
They get gimped abaddon essence and etherites build spaceship. Abaddon is gimp but yes, his essence was required. No, corrupted essence of bane/demon do not cause some unpleasant effects.
After this "epic-no-offtopic" PC is informed that because he delivered final blow against impotent abaddon, forces of hell will hunt him.. to make him ruler of 7th circle of hell. Weakling abaddon ruled 7th circle of hell so anyone who defeats him is to be next ruler. No, demons do not want to start fighting each other so the winner will declare himself the boss, they want the one who removed last health level (not the Awesome NPC who actually defeated abaddon) from abaddon's reliquary.
Then he informed that he have the way to drive hordes of hell from his trail - he have to steal some sword from museum in Berlin and ask some fantasy writer about how to use this sword.
That's all for now.
And I'm still wondering, is defeating nerfed Demon with help of overpowered better-than-you-ever-be anime-surname NPC is epic or what?