10-01-2017, 10:46 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: M:tA chantries
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I've never liked Merits and Flaws; I find the "buying dots" structure elegant, and having a bolt-on addition that doesn't work that way is unappealing. Both my Mage campaigns have used "negative backgrounds" with values reckoned in negative dots, such as Enemy or Obligation. So I would want either to have a background worth dots for owning real estate, or to fit that into an existing background.
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10-02-2017, 01:56 AM | #12 |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Re: M:tA chantries
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Chantries provide
If you are going to proceed without using Book of the Chantry... I'd suggest each dot be used to provide 2-3 dots in subcategories above, which get resolved much like similar backgrounds. I would consider having them each get 3 tokens per dot, and each, one token at a time, puts one token on a component of their choice... Book of the Chantry drives its construction based upon disadvantages paying for the advantages... for example, location inside a town is 10 points more to build with. Many are in the 5 to 10 point range. |
10-02-2017, 07:22 AM | #13 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: M:tA chantries
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Easy access to the other planes seems to be at least partly included in Node. Reduced Paradox magic seems to be Sanctum. Research lab can be included in Sanctum. Research library is Library. Nodes are Node. Guardians might be Allies or even a Mentor. I hesitate to include those, as the rules seem to say that they are to be bought separately. That leaves fortifications and security systems; wards, which I think would be set up by casting spells of protection; communications, which are either mundane or magical, with transplanar communications involving opening portals to the spirit realm, most easily done at a Node; and flunkies.
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10-02-2017, 04:06 PM | #14 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Taking Nodes, Library, or Sanctum personally are just that, personally. Others cannot use them, or do so at penalty. A chantry's ratings can protect all inside it. A personal node is not easily accessed by by others. A chantry node is a shared resource, one which might have been used by others in the chantry. And probably much easier to access. |
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10-05-2017, 09:58 AM | #15 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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