Stranger Magicks: A System of Quirky Magick Merits

With each use, magick changes the mage…
Mage: the Ascension wants magick to be a continuous process of the mage changing the world with magick and the magick of the world changing the mage. Outside of Resonance, Paradox, and Quiet, we don’t have much a system to reflect this faster change, until now!

…so shouldn’t the system reflect that?
Stranger Magicks provides a system to rapidly change and tweak how a mage does their magick. Esoteric Experience fuels Mysterial Merits which let a mage use Matter to heal, sense the Resonance of Tass by touch, and easily talk to ghosts, at least until the Tapestry shifts again!

Stranger Magicks outlines an addition to advancement system in Mage where characters experience magickal wonder or terror which provide fuel for temporary boosts. These boosts can instead be stored to receive small merits which change the character and their magick. Over time these merits change and a table may develop an experience economy more sophisticated than "I attended the session and roleplayed, gimme three XP."

Even if not taken as a whole, Stranger Magicks may provide inspiration for a new NPC, a custom Merit for a character, the parameters of an Umbrood or something odder still.

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