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Re: [World of Darkness] Mage question

Okis. I do not see things the same way, but I must said that your idea
sounds logical and good looking.
Perhaps the problem is how my players present the ideas: "I go to the
supermarket and buy a big box of bullets and a cheap gun to enchant"
sounds bad for me". If the same player said "that he took his old gun
and that he plans when enchanting it to fire it close range so it could
look coincidental when his gun do aggravated damage" it will sound a lot
better to me.
If my Akashiks players say to me that they want to enchant their fist to
do aggravated damage but no more than one point hitting from the side so
the damage look like a burn punch, it will be good for me. Well, I will
post that for them.

Thanks again
Paco aka Paqito

Chris Thomas wrote:

> MaGnUs: are you sure that it is not vulgar?. I have Akashik Brothers
> kicking agravatted, is that vulgar??. Do you have any reference.
> I said to my players that I take enchanting terrible damage dealing
> weapons as coincidental when doing agravated damage. But I said that
> enchanting small knifes, .22 guns and kicks for agravated damage is
> asking for paradox. Was I wrong?.
>
>
> I think of things cinematically. What does the damage -=look=- like?
>
> 1 - Bashing Damage: Skin largely in-tact - deformation of bones, bruising
> 2 - Lethal Damage: Skin broken, open wounds.
> 3 - Aggravated Damage: Skin broken, charred, and otherwise
> "aggravated" beyond normal lethal damage.
>
> A kick normally does bashing damage. Making it do aggravated damage
> is weird as hell. How often do you see people's flesh blister and
> burn from a punch?
>
> It's a little odd with a knife too -- but it could be made
> coincidental with the application of some particularly scary looking
> poison. "This blade is coated in the necrotic venom of the Brown
> Recluse spider, painstakingly extracted by a crack biological research
> group over at the university"
>
> With a gun it's not all that hard. Incendiary bullets should do
> aggravated damage to everyone. Technically speaking a phosphorus
> tracer will ruin someone's whole day and should do at least a little
> aggravated damage. Now they're expensive as hell and give away your
> position, but it's a *burning bullet* for Christ's sake. Its not
> -=that=- much of a stretch, under cinematic rules, to argue that
> tracers do *all* of their damage as aggravated damage. They sure as
> hell look scary.
>
> A particularly clever storyteller might even argue that point-blank
> gun-fire should do at least some aggravated damage - particularly for
> large caliber weapons - due to the hot gas and flames that make up the
> muzzle flash.
>
>
> --
> Best,
>
>
> Chris Thomas




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I had a nasty discussion with one of my players about how Prime 2 works. The last time I asked a question here, no one answered, it is the las post yet. But I...
jorge Armando Gascon
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Aug 28, 2007
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Buddy, I didn't see this question before, or else I would have answered. You know I love Mage... at least Ascension. I say she can affect more than one bullet,...
MaGnUs
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Aug 29, 2007
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Thanks for the quick answers. Well my decision was that the player can add Correspondence to affect more than one weapon/bullet or Matter to enchant the...
jorge Armando Gascon
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Aug 29, 2007
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... Again, as per the rules, you can do it just with Prime 2, and using successes to allocate for amount of bullets and duration of effect. But it's your call....
MaGnUs
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Aug 30, 2007
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Thanks for the quick answer. I posted, in the forum we use for our groups, long clarifications about how I use the rules. The idea about enchanting the gun is...
Jorge Gascon
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Aug 29, 2007
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Okis. I do not see things the same way, but I must said that your idea sounds logical and good looking. Perhaps the problem is how my players present the...
Jorge Gascon
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Aug 29, 2007
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... That's exactly the point about M: TA, what I love, and what makes it so complicated sometimes: it's all about what the character believes, and it's all...
MaGnUs
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Aug 30, 2007
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I dont know MAGE that well but I am inclined to agree with you. Bullets just aren't capable of causing aggravated damage unless they are silver bullets used ...
Harold Robbins
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Aug 29, 2007
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... Exactly, you don't know Mage :> (NOTICE THE SMILEY!), because if you did, you'd know that with Prime 2, you can enchant a weapon to cause agg damage, it's...
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