GURPS M:tA

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by lugaid

You'll notice that I haven't talked about the Technocracy (I'd probably just give them access to higher TL items) or two of the Traditions. That's because I just don't understand either the Cult of Ecstasy or the Euthanatos very well. I never did read their Tradition splatbooks, and they aren't well described in the original rules. Can anyone shed any light on those? Or, if you just have any comments on the idea in general, or better ways to do these or the Technocracy, feel free to chime in.

The Euthanatos are not anything like murder addicts, they are the mages of Fate. They have terrible knowledge and the responciblity of that knowledge. They know that if A doesn't die by 2PM all of A's future incarnations will be ruined. A will live a thousand lives of misery and bring disaster to millions. On the other hand, if A dies by torture before 2PM then A lives a hundred joyful lives, achieves full enlightenment, brings joy, hope, and liberty, to billions, and becomes a bodhisatva. This is a horrible burden of responcibility.

The Ecstatics want to liberate everyone now. They just want to be careful about it. They believe that the path of joy and wonder is the road to the liberation of all souls in the universe. They get that they need to be careful, but they want to keep the path to spiritual freedom always availible for as many as possible.