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From: Scott
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Subject: Yo!
Date sent: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:45:50 -0700
I have read your Advanced Magick system, and I am incorporating it
into my stories. Well done! You clarified points that were seriously
lacking in the original and 2nd edition systems. The format was bad when
Idownloaded it, so I brought it into Word, and reformatted the entire
30-some pages. It looks much better, now.
There's no real point to this, other than to say "thank you" for the
time spent on what is becoming a very useful tool for me and mine. If
you need anything, let me know. I feel that I owe you one.
Regards,
Scott
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From: "Joe Murphy (Broin)"
To:
Subject: Re: Package Deals and Information.
Date sent: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:41:55 +0100
Now if you'd actually thought about it, you'd have sent these 2 great posts
on separate days, rather than overloading us with so many useful and
thought-provoking ideas. Tch.
Next time, please come up with a better schedule. =)
Thanks!
---
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin@dial.pipex.com
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Date sent: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:24:41 -0700
Send reply to: "Discussion of White Wolf's World of Darkness"
From: Eric Tolle
Subject: Re: Data, Information, & Spheres.
To: MAGE-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
blake1001@TECHNOLOGIST.COM wrote:
(delete)
>Thus, Correspondence, which deals with both spacial relationships and relationships among things, is the sphere that encompasses the manipulation of data and information.
>
> Which is as it should be, since it's the speciality sphere of the Virtual Adepts.
Have I mentioned you're brilliant recently?
...
And oddly enough, in the Digital Web, the playground of the VAs,
Correspondence is enhanced-nice. I might require specific
additional spheres depending on the storage format of the data,
but for dealing with raw information, Correspondence should do
it. Otherwise, why would the VAs deal with it?
Y'know, this sort of paradigm examination is the sort of stuff that
_should_ have been in the VA Tradbook. Or any of the
splatbooks. Explaining how the mages of a given tradition operate.
--
Eric Tolle schaduw@silcom.com
Information does not want to be free. Information wants to be
folded, spindled, mutilated, and used to make funky children's
party hats.
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From: "Jahry"
Subject: Re: MAGE: A little Chow Yun Fat action.
Date: 24 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf,alt.games.whitewolf.mage
Blake - nice job :) Very interesting, and I'll definitely be printing that
lot off....but, I see a preponderence of Time 3 just for the extra actions.
In my view, there are lots of ways of giving a Mage multiple actions.
Don't let our WoD cousins the Garou and Vampire win before the fights even
begun :)RegardsJahry
"We may be mortal but we're the ones who make the rules. Don't push me - or
the rules may call for a 'Lawn-Chair Time Out'...."
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From: jayv@ux6.cso.uiuc.edu (verkuilen john v)
Subject: Re: MAGE: A little Chow Yun Fat action.
Date: 24 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf,alt.games.whitewolf.mage
Blake writes:
>> Others? (I'm sure I'll think of a few later but a day of data
>analysis has
>> crisped my brain.)
>Wow, do I know exactly how you feel. ;)
About having one's brain crisped? Yeah, well. Such is life in the big city.
>Here's more than a few, not all of them serious:
Thanks much. I think I'll print them out.
Jay
--
J. Verkuilen jayv@uiuc.edu
"Ambiguity... the Devil's Volleyball." --Emo Phillips
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From: lastarchmage@oocities.com (Travis Marcum)
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Subject: Re: Blake's Challenge: anything you can do...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:50:09 GMT
I was awed by this example. I don't think it could have been
put better. :c)
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To: blake1001@TECHNOLOGIST.COM
From: "Joe Murphy (Broin)" broin@dial.pipex.com
Subject: Re: [M:tA]Foci, Merits & Flaws [long]
Wow.
Thankyou. =)
The next time I run a Mage game, I'll use your articles... and hopefully,
next time, the game will *work*. =)
Joe.
---
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin@dial.pipex.com
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Re: Mage: Resolving Foci
From: MDF
Date: 1998/09/28
Forums: alt.games.whitewolf.mage, alt.games.whitewolf
In article <6upa1p$kld$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, blake1001@technologist.com wrote:
> I've decided to try to take a broader look at the idea of overcoming
> dependence on foci. Instead of just abandoning or retaining a
> focus for a given sphere, the mage can choose one of several ways
> to 'Resolve' the focus, based on his aproach to the Metaphysic of
> Magick:
This is really well thought out. The effort you have obviously put
into it shows. I may consider using something close to this in my games.
Well done, blake.
MDF
--
"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
-----Jack Kerouac
PLEASE remove the word "ANTISPAM" from my e-mail address to reply directly.
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Subject: Re: Martial Arts for ST (repost, edited & formatted a bit better)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:02:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Stevil the Parakeet Shaman
To: blake1001@technologist.com
This stuff is awesome. Very good work. Send this into Zanzibar's web
page right now! :)
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Subject: Re: Martial Arts.
Date: 21 Aug 1998 00:00:00 GMT
From: gagge6@hem1.passagen.se (Johan Grahnen)
Organization: Gerbil Anti-Defamation League
Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:55:21 GMT, blake1001@technologist.com
jumped up and exclaimed:
>In article <35de51d8.2903771@nntpserver.swip.net>,
> gagge6@hem1.passagen.se (Johan Grahnen) wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:44:33 GMT, blake1001@technologist.com jumped up
>> and exclaimed:
>> >In article <35DADEB4.716E@earthlink.net>,
>> > stofkillers@earthlink.net wrote:
>> >Well, I've been messing around with the idea for a while....
>>
>>
>> You know, this sounds exactly like the Martial Arts rules for Kult.
>> You didn't happen to model it on those, did you?
>What I was trying to accomplish:
>
>- Put in Martial Arts without making Brawling useless or being too increadibly
>gross. (ie. try not to be Do)
>- Make it generic enough to model a variety of styles. (not like WoD:Combat)
>- Make it compatible with the current combat system (again, not like WoD:C)
You seemed to have done the three above pretty well.
>- Don't make all martial artists automatically identical (again, not like Do)
>- Keep it simple (probably failed on that count)
It looked somewhat complicated, yes. This, however, is not really A
Bad Thing, IMHO. YMMV, though.
>- Don't have Martial Arts doing what should be Akashick Magick (I finally
>figured that was a line for the ST to draw, so I included Advanced and
>'Legendary' techniques, which are really about on par with Hedge Magick,
>at least).
This Legendary stuff sounds about right for any game that doesn't have
much to do with Mage/Akashicks. With those, it'd look a _wee_ bit
suspicious.
To finish: This thing is really good. If I finally come around the
ST'ing Vampire/Mage, I'll probably use it.
--
Johan Grahnen (with an acute e)
gagge6@hem1.passagen.se ICQ: 16669920
"I mean what woman, if approached by God, wouldn't agree to carry God's
child? Well, except for Hawk, I mean" - Mark Loy
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Subject: wonderful site
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 04:17:33 -0400
From: Exiguus DeBartolo
To: blake1001@technologist.com
[Neotrace v2.31 [Unregistered] Initialized on IP: 208.13.4.131]
[attempting smtp on port: 80]
connect successful...
congratulations
not that it matters but I for one, am impressed with your web page.
truth be told: if you could possibly add more...
by all means, please do.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the V-depts
your site will be recommended, if not required reading material within my community.
Exiguus
[End transmission]
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Subject: Your and your Page
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:14:27 -0400
From: SGZ
Organization: Dead Poets
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Wow. How many times need I say it? Too many.
I am currently crafting a VA, and I must say that I have
not yet finished the VA Trad. Book [and I may not worry overlong
about it]. I now have enough to start her creation.
I have been trolling alt.games.whitewolf as well as the
Mage group, and have really gotten a superior "view" of Mage
from you [Bruce Baugh helped also, but I pestered him more for
Wraith.]
Wow. THIS is what I was thinking when I first started
considering Samantha as a character. She will really fit in my
Chronicle now. The Vamps will not be happy that their electronic
empires are so fragile...
Hehehehehe.
Seriously, I had no problem with VAs as presented by WW,
but I know a few computer geeks that pale in comparison to people
out in the "real world" [a term applied gingerly now]; and from
what I gather, Samantha would feel at home in your sector.
Now, you have some really interesting rotes in here -
how would I translate them into 2nd edition without causing blood
to flow out my ears?
Wow.
Steve
Gabriel in a.g.v.t.m
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Subject: RE: How to start a Mage story...
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:16:42 -0400
From: "Chris"
To:
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!
This is probably the most exhaustive reply I've received
to that post. The information is very helpful. BTW, I
dropped by your web site too. It looks great!
- Chris
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Subject: Re: Mages Abandoning Foci (Was:MISCELANEOUS WHITE WOLF QUESTIONS)
From: jlheinig@aol.com (JLHeinig)
Date: 1998/05/02
Message-ID: <1998050201441200.VAA03459@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf
[snip Merits and Flaws of Dogmatic and Paradigm Flexibility]
Excellent work. I plan to incorporate these into the next Mage
game that I run.
Regards,
Jess Heinig
Kindred of the East developer
WWGS
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Subject: Re: Help with an alt. MAGE setting
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 20:01:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Stunt Borg
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Haven't been able to post for a few days. Just wanted to say that
your alternate mage setting, some of the Technocracy things, the
Mystic/Mechanist thread and merits, and the rote house rules you
posted have all been uber-cool.
Paul Lowe Hlavacek
has been using the 'save' option rather a lot today
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Subject: Re: A million places in a million worlds
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:11:40 GMT
From: brucebaugh@mindspring.com (Bruce Baugh)
Organization: Orgotek
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Beautiful diagram! I laughed out loud. But it's "true".
--
Bruce Baugh, brucebaugh@mindspring.com
Et in Tela Ego: http://brucebaugh.home.mindspring.com
New science fiction by S.M. Stirling, rolegaming, writers' tools
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Subject: Re: Explaining Mage to New Players
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 19:04:41 GMT
From: killershrike@nestofthorns.cnchst.com
To: blake1001@technologist.com
On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 17:15:37 -0600, in alt.games.whitewolf.mage you
wrote:
>In article <34fd93be.0@newsread1.dircon.co.uk>,
> "Ed Francis" wrote:
>OK, I'm going to start off very concise, and then elaborate on things
>until I realize I'm rambling.... just cut it at some point... ;)
etc
Well done blake. Do you mind if I print and save this for future use?
I haven't been able to phrase such a consise explanation; I tend to
overwhelm with possibilities and loose sight of the basic concept. :)
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Subject: Your Vampire Bygone Idea - Wish I'd thought of it!
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:13:32 EST
From: WeaverSpwn
To: Blake1001@technologist.com
I read your idea for the new Vampire clan/bloodline. I REALLY liked it.
It will fit quite well into my werewolf campaign that I am running. Several
of my player characters in the game really hate Mages. Oh, this will be sooo
cool! My mind is literally whirling with ideas.
I sent you this e-mail to say thank - you for such an obviously well
thought out idea. How long did you actually play test it ? From the looks of
it, I can only conclude that you must have tested out the idea at some point.
It's too well put together.
Anyway, that's my comments for this e-mail. I would like to trade ideas
on the Mage magick system with you, if you have the time, and are willing to
do so.
Let me know if this is possible. Again, many thanks.
Later,
(Storyteller) WeaverSpwn
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Subject: Vampire Bygone
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:33:54 -0500 (EST)
From: David L Heyes
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Dear Sir or Ma'am,
I read you Vampire Bygone on BJ Zanzibar's world of darkness
and....
I LOVED IT!!!
I'm a mage centered WW player myself, and it was a very satisfying read.
Dave Heyes
dlw@student.umass.edu
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and by the number:
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Subject: Re: Vampires in Mage ...
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 20:55:40 -0500
From: adamrlee@aol.com (AdamRLee)
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf
>
>I think your best bet is to do a simple, 1930's Vampire as
>a Bygone, something like this:
>
>
That kicked ass. Might even be a good entity to put in a Vampire game as a
wierd strain.
Adam
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Subject: Re: The Metaphysics of Correspondence...(sorta IC)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:01:59 -0800
From: Noah Nelson
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Blake, when was the last time someone told you you rocked?
'Cause you do, my man, you do.
The Coxmage
coxmage@sfsu.edu
visit "The Weekly Wizard" at http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~coxmage/
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Subject: Re: Structured Paradox
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:34:39 GMT
From: Russel Ennis
To: blake1001@technologist.com
In article <882313446.417071113@dejanews.com> you wrote:
: I hope at least a few folks are taking the trouble to read it...
: I'd really like some feedback... :)
I just skimmed most of it (I have a thesis to finish), but it seemed a
very well thought out system. I particularly liked the way it fits in
most other supernatural powers.
: Examples forthcoming in a day or few... when I've collected some
: feedback and made any changes/additions that seem like a good idea,
: I'll put it up on the Web somewhere.
I'd definitely be interested in reading it. Eventually. Back to the
grindstone...
Russ
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Subject: VA Page
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 03:07:47 +0000
From: "Aris 'Raven'"
Organization: Horizon Inc.
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Checked your page through a link you left on my graffiti wall recently.
I like the code-like format lots. May I stick a permanent link to that
in my Links page?
Pathway
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Subject: Re: Links
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 22:23:01 -0500 (EST)
From: DARIN TERWILLIGER
To: Blake
I know I have seen your Site... I LOVE it... How would you like to to make
the VA site for our pages Or at least Allow me to use that style format
for our VA pages...
Darin Terwilliger
s003dlt@discover.wright.edu
:)
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Subject: Like your page check out mine.
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:38:14 -0800
From: logan
Reply-To: bonisagius@oocities.com
To: blake1001@technologist.com
Thought I'd just tell you that I like the layout of your page. I did
something similar on my mage page. The Url is below. check it out. I
would appreciate your input.
--
http://users.clarkston.com/logan/mage.htm
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