| From: | Aristotle antithesis@**********.com |
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| Subject: | Magical SOTA? |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:28:33 -0400 |
SR1: The Mana rises and magic is possible.
GR1: Advances in magical SOTA
SR2: Some advances in magic, and the rules for it. SOTA still going up.
GR2: GR1 NOW obsolete, things found within are NOW updated. hence SOTA.
Awakenings: SOTA going up even further.
SR3: Some minor SOTA advancements. GR2 and Awakenings not obsolete.
MItS: Both Awakenings and GR2 now obsolete. Things found in those books
have NOW been affected by SOTA.
</Aristotle>
<Nexx> ...However, by that logic, the Carib League (formed in part due to
the power of houngans) didn't exist until 2057, because Awakenings was the
first place to deal with Voodoo. Given that most of the magical
traditions of the world are assumed to suddenly start working once the
Awakening happens, they all of a sudden radically changed form in 2057.
And that doesn't even begin to cover beings like Dragons and IEs, who
would have the 4th Age's knowledge of magic to work from, placing them far
above the SOTA curve, since they already know how to operate more
effectively at the higher mana levels.
</Nexx>
Well then.. and please understand I am only stating my point of view, and
I don't have nearly the SR background that most of you do. I believe that
the items/rules in The Grimoire, Awakenings, and MitS don't just suddenly
hit the scene and that is how magic works all of a sudden. They introduce
the magics that PLAYERS may access at the time that those magics start
becoming more available on the streets. Voodoo (or Vodu) had probably been
being practiced by a small percentage of the world in 2050. It isn't SOTA
that it is now all of a sudden there. It is SOTA because others now
understand it. Magics available to IE's and Dragons isn't being published.
Players don't need to see those magics as they can not have them.
*shrug* this is JUST an opinion,
Travis "Aristotle" Heldibridle
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