Strife in Lake Superior - Reboot OOC

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Note: This game contains a Fan Template, Princess: The Hopeful, which will be the main focus of this game alongside Mages. We're using the Vocation version, btw.

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The city of Breezeton, Wisconsin, has seen better days. Once a flourishing center of manufacturing and processing, the Recession and the outsourcing of work to China has seen jobs lost and poverty rise, all the while as the city's remaining sources of support, the high-tech Lake University of Technology, and the Breezeton Association of Dairy Farmers, find themselves at odds. The Lake University sees the Association as a front for bigots, while the latter sees the Lake as out-of-touch elitists.

This polarization has been exploited by the Mayor, Eugene Fitzhue, who grants the Lake University the power to declare itself a 'safe space' one moment, then publicly condemns said University as a threat to public decency the next. All the while, he establishes a 'Neighborhood Watch' that is his private militia in all but name, as well as a network of surveillance cameras to 'monitor for crime'. And of course, there are rumors that he is taking money from both major factions of the city...

In all this, you are ordinary people who live ordinary lives, but as a crisis approaches, your destiny is changed. The Light, a force of Love and Hope, gives half of you the power to change the way things are, while the other half of your band sees through the veil separating the Supernal from the Fallen. Half of you are now Princesses (or Princes); the other half, Mages. Despite differences in power, you are still friends, bound by mutual respect and love.

And you will change this town.

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Basically, this is a game based on crossing over Mage: The Awakening, with Princess: The Hopeful, a splat based on Magical Girls and Boys (Think Madoka, plus the darker moments of Nanoha and Sailor Moon Crystal instead of Pretty Cure, though). You get 5 extra XP you can use for your characters (Princess or Mage). Orokos.com will be used for rolls, while this thread will be used for character storage.

Note: We are using the Vocation version of Princess.

House Rule: Non-Mage Supernaturals can use their Supernatural Tolerance stat (Inner Light for Princesses) instead of Resolve, Composure, or Stamina when Withstanding a Spell.

House Rule 2: Exceptional Successes no longer ignore Withstand; just reduce it by -1 to bring it in line with +1 primary spell factor.

House Rule 3: XP gained in the game is shared with the entire party; Arcane and Luminous Beats are also interchangeable. Newbies get the extra XP as well.

House Rule 4: Instead of buying individual Charms in your dice pool, you now buy the Charm trees themselves. That means that you can get all Govern 3 Charms by putting 3 Charm Dots in Govern 3. To counterbalance this, you now have to pay 3/4 Experience Dots for new Charm Tree Dots and have your Charm Dots reduced to 8; three of which must be put in your Affinity Charms.

House Rule 5: In the premises of Breezeton and in that area only, Mage Magic is normally more easily dispelled and degrades more quickly. In essence, all attempts to dispel most Mage Magic get a +2 bonus and most Mages cannot use spells with a Duration of more than 1 day.

House Rule 6: Mage buffs are limited to up to a +5 Bonus.

House Rule 7: Shadow Flesh (Death 4), no longer provides immunity to Non-Mage/Non-Supernal Magic.

PS: No discussion of IRL politics, per the site rules. The subject matter of the RP is a bit political, but I expect any debate to be in-game only...

IMPORTANT: A Note on Crossover: It’s unavoidable in crossover games, especially those involving Mage: The Awakening (among a couple others), that balance issues will happen. While Princess’ expanded access to Charms in this chronicle will hopefully level the playing field some, in the end it is essential that players be willing and able to roll with any remaining power disparities and, especially, to share the spotlight even when they don’t need to. If you doubt your ability to do that, this is not the right game for you.
 
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