Do istej miery aj je. Odkedy sa zrusil stat a zavladla anarchia, tak sa postavenie obyvatelstva o dost zlepsilo. To, ze to zlepsenie je horsie, nez sa mame my, je irelevantne. Oni si polepsili, oproti tomu, co tam mali predtym. To se medle znacne mylite, ten “kontext” dekani naopak velmi relevantny. Na dnesnim Menhetnu se Vam ankap bude provozovat znacne obtizneji nez na starem dobrem Vajld Vestu.

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To nie je pravda. A o tom, zda zbytek jsou blbci A to nam jak zmineno i v teto bibli stale chybi tech 10 procent a vesmes zrejme dost zasadnich, pce jinak bych to precik uz davno pochopil. Urzu samozrejme s nejakejma posukama hodlat nesrovnavam, nicmene nektere prvky jsou podezrele znacne. Zbytecne axiomy, chybne predpoklady, ignorovani reality, nepredikovatelnost vysledku, neoveritelnost, mlzici newspeak, nekorektni formulace, dogmata, booleovska logika, generalisace.

Jiste, ne vsude; jen tam, kde je to potreba. No a LBNL – o vire se nediskutuje. Priznivcem zustanu, ale mozek si zatim prece jen ponecham vlastni.

Ale teda rozebirani se mnou muze byt ponekud obtizne. Ja mam spatnou tu Co znamena trzne, to presne nevim, ale urazi me to znacne. Ale anzto je to z desatera, jiste ma kazdy definici nastudovanou. Naopak tedy o ni poprosim ja Vas. Lidi se chovaji trzne. V ankape by platili obaja rovnako. Hele, ze Vy si tady ze me tropite? Jestli linearne, tak je ten Vas dotaz na palicu totalne. Nebo teda fakt nectete.

Jste-li zklaman, lituji; mne to ocitovane pripada padne dostatecne. Jedna myslenka byla primo pozadovana ovsem Vy ctete linearne, ja vim. Ruzny vyklad ano, jak se zrovna hodi – o tom prece pisu. Kam jste me videl mirit, to netusim. Jste-li tu od toho, pak klidne presvedcujte. Ze nemate mozek zcela vymyty, bude jen k dobru. Naopak, jak chcete Vy. Snad krasna, ale zcela nerealna utopie, odporujici lidske prirosenosti.

I teoreticky absolutne nestabilni, pricemz za cenu znacnych ztrat zkolabuje nejspis v neco jeste horsiho nez stat, byt i ten soucasny. Temer jiste zdrzeni obecneho pokroku, spise propad a degenerace.

Cileni na ankap dava prostor statnimu svinstvu.

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V dnesnych USA je to preto, lebo ich zdravotnictvo nema absolutne nic spolocne s volnym trhom. Ad pripad moslimov – mozno prave existencia statu sposobila, ze moslimovia vyvrazduju vacsinu. Nebyt statov, nikto by do moslimskych krajin neliezol, nebombardoval civilistov a nesnazil sa nanucovat tam svoju demokraciu.

Cekkani, Vy jste mi nejak uklouz a ja kdesi vys marne siju do p. Mam za to, ze Urza to spis formuluje jako smenu dobrovolnou a oboustranne vyhodnou. S propracovanym kruhovym aparatem vyhodnosti. To je medle ono nz chovani trzni. Prestoze je jakysi obecny duvod doprat vyhodnost smeny i druhe strane, mnohem silnejsi je duvod doprat vyhod sobe.

V extremu za cenu libovolnych ztrat protistrany. To je zase chovani lidske.

Tim, ze se spolecnost ano, ti slabi brani chovani druhemu, se zvysuje jeji bohatstvi vodota uzitek ci co. Stat je v tomto pripade zrejme oblibeny multitool. A trch si fklidu trzi. Tento dusledek je podporen pozorovanim: Statisticky, rekl bych, bude celkovy soucet dobra u transakci oboustranne vyhodnych vetsi nez goxota tech, z nichz jedna strana vyjde s holym zadkem, pripadne nevyjde vubec.

U takto originalni myslenky jsem se ale nekde prehlednout mohl, cekaani jiste. Inu, kdybych to psal Vam, patrne bych smajlika pridal. Na druhou stranu, zenu pod rouskou noci bacit kyjem a odvleci si ji do vlastni sluje – jakkoli to jiste normalne fungovalo – mi moc trzni neprijde.

Ale pred zrakem tlupy, jo tam uz musel kazdy Kopcem pustit onacejsi chlup. U me dobry; kdyby byl komunikacni problem, uz davno klnu a sproste Vam nadavam. Tak pomalu a analogicky. Vyberte jedno sude cislo a pojdme je rozebrat. Argument v tom hledate skutecne marne. Mluvil jsem o Vasi citaci z meho postu.

A napsal to jako prase, to zas jo. Desatero je v prenesenem smyslu soubor zakladnich pravidel.

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Na poctu nebyva basirovano, vetsinou ale nejaka existuji. Oficialne je neznam taky, patri godoota do tech Urzou utajovanych deseti procent. Postizenym vsak byva prislusne desatero znamo.

Neprustrelny argument by Vam snad mohl stacit jeden, Vy lisaku, ale ani to zatim neslibuju. Ale par jich tady zrovna testuju. Neni prechod, neprirosena, nestabilni, spatne koncici, degresivni, etatisticka. Dyk jste to vsechno zrovna kopiroval!

Tlupova zvizatka si na hierarchii potrpi. Studii nemam, oci ano. Prirosene a spravne nejsou synonyma. Nejsou-li sily zcela vyrovnane coz je predstava absurdnisilnejsi zerou slabsi, cimz dale sili.

Vyse zminene pozirani se v realu muze projevi treba jako obcanska valka. Zatim bych za ni asi nemenil.

Nevim, z jake dejinne sire se na to divate, ale zasadni veci jako treba rec, kolo, ohen, fet nebo zabijeni z pleziru asi fakt ne. Lec tato doba prostych muzu z lidu je uz jaksi pryc. Smajlika registruji, ale i tak je fascinujici myslenkova konstrukce.

Pan Vostal tu uz byl? Aa, uz ho vidim. Tak to znovu opisovat netreba, ten se vcera nemylil. Stat na ni samozrejme vidi. Respektive – at se nemusite dlouho trapit – prinejmensim by na ni videl, pokud by vycnivala.

Tudiz autocenzurne nevycnica a probiha hezky trzne. Btw, sousedska vypomoc je nejaka trzni smena? To to tedy berete hodne volne.

Pak se Vam tam jiste vejde i charita ci desatky a potazmo i flastry, dane a ostatni elpasa. To zni nejak podezrele Neni nad exaktni a podlozene informace.

Tak at to mame cele: Yet it costs dollars in Mexico. Mexican anti-venom is just tequila in a syringe. Tak jasne, Silvestr Vas ponekud omlouva, ale zase pozor, aby Vam to pak nezustalo.

Znate to, jak na Novy rok, tak po cely rok. I pres libovolne promile je snad evidentni, ze muzete-li si nastavit jakoukoliv cenu, pak je regulace malo. Ja myslim, ze bez statu by to bolo extremne tazke, a skor nemozne.

Ano, v prostredi regulovanom statom, kde sa nan kazdy spolieha. Dalej by existovali nezavisle autority, ktore by overovali tvrdenia, ktore poskodzuju inych atd. Bez statu by boli ludia daleko obozretnejsi a rozhladenejsi. Ano, v manipulacii s ludmi, co sa od malicka spoliehaju na stat to staci.

The Ascension is an “epic storytelling game of reality on the brink” created by White Wolf and set in the Old World of Darkness. Unlike most of White Wolf’s World of Darkness gamelines, Mage centered not on stereotypical horror movie monsters mostlybut on the force of “magic” and the various people who practice it, from mad scientists to angry druids to stereotypical old men in beards and pointy hats, all of whom can do cool stuff by punching reality in the balls.

The innate problems of being a White Wolf game aside namely, the design team’s obvious sympathy with the 90’s-counterculture vs. You’re an arrogant dick who got a hold of God’s power tools! Now what’s stopping you from Wingardiam Leviosaing some skirts and summoning succubi to worship your tiny manhood?

Well, while magic is cool, it only works well when no one can see you do it. Like all awesome things, the moment you try to show off to impress your friends, it backfires on you. Since reality functions on Consensus whatever is believed by the most people is “true” in MtAand since doing most magic involves at least swimming against the currents of reality a little, flagrantly breaking the laws of what is commonly believed to be possible generates something called “Paradox.

The moment an “awakened” Mage tries to throw a fireball in front of a “sleeper” an average personbad things happen. Backlash allows your GM to work out their sadistic streak and protect their special NPC at the same time, turning a fireball of plot derailment into an exploding lighter that sets your character on fire. On a good day. On a bad day, all of your character’s futuristic prosthetic organs fail when an NPC so much as glances at them.

Then they explode and set your character on fire. Paradox backlash wasn’t as severe during periods where superstition and belief in the supernatural were more common, but became increasingly difficult for mages as technomages pushed their own form of Enlightened Science on the masses as being “true”.

To avoid Paradox, mages and technocrats develop methods to avoid the effect. Of course, a fireball in public would be Paradox rich as hell unless humanity collectively believes humans can cast fireballs at willbut it would be far less dangerous if, say, said mage caused a gas main underneath their enemy to explode whether or not there was actually a gas main to blow up is immaterial.

The closer their magic is to consensual physics, the easier it is for your average person to rationalize, the less chance Paradox is invoked. As opposed to the mystical practices of most mages, the technomages of the Technocracy practice Enlightened Science magic with a digipunk coat of paint. The Technocracy has terminator robots and spaceships, proton guns that melt your face, bio-engineered superhumans, and cyborgs. It’s likewise important to note that the Technocracy has carefully groomed society to believe in their type of magic as being possible – and so, most of their effects can easily pass as not supernatural with magic that causes Paradox being strictly punished.

Said technologies, however, would NOT work in the hands of a non-Awakened, such as a nanobot-rich healing canister that would be used by a Progenitor easily. Non-awakened Technocracy personnel think it’s a fingerprint system so reality isn’t threatened.

So basically Awakened people stretch the limits of existence without making it too obvious. To make a long story very short, Mage is extremely complex and difficult to understand. The game relies on some basic knowledge of Occultism and metaphysics, and likewise requires a good deal of creativity that isn’t present in games like Vampire: The rules are often criticized for being simultaneously OP as shit in crossover games once he or she gets to about Arete 3, an individual mage of equivalent “level” will, one-on-one, reliably curb stomp any other supernatural in the oWoD gameline if they can get the first shot off, and can, depending on the opponent, give whole teams of other types of PC a run for their moneyfrustrating to manage virtually anything can be too “cool” to avoid Paradox in public, and the rules aren’t great at examining different levels of “acceptance”and possessed of intensely, artificially complex mechanics For those of you not up on your game design, complexity and depth are two different things.

The difficulty often begins right at character generation, since newly Awakened mages are almost always incapable of grasping their capacity to bend reality. They’re forced to fit their newfound powers into methodologies and belief systems that help them rationalize what they’re able to do. This is called a “Paradigm” – and is by far one of the most difficult character creation experiences you can come across in table-top gaming.

A paradigm is not only a belief system but also delves into your character’s backstory and psyche – you have to craft an entire, logical reason for your character to be able to do magic. Maybe they’re a Wiccan who believes they’re chosen by the Goddess, or a devout nun who practices humble miracles on behalf of the Lord, or a strung-out hippie who believes they can see beyond reality and time when they listen to the Grateful Dead; it’s a fair bit deeper than just picking a nature and a demeanor.

Crafting this “reason” for their magic likewise brings with it the process they use to cast their magic. While someone who believes themselves a hermetic mage may chant in Latin and have specially prepared ritual circles, ,age nun example above would have her rosary beads and meaningful passages from the Bible to make her magic.

The concept and Paradigm of a mage naturally flow into the process of their magic. While having your character be a member of a Tradition discussed below helps with figuring a lot of this out, you more often end up with people tossing aside interesting characters to just play easy-to-make Neo-Pagans.

So, once you have all that bullshit figured out, how do you start casting spells? Magic in Mage is different from other systems in that you aren’t assigned pre-created spells that you can cast – but rather a mix of “rotes” tried and technocraxy magical effects that are a bit easier to cast and “spontaneous magic” whatever you BS in the moment. You use “spheres” designated segments of reality that your mage has studied as your guideline of what you can and can’t do.

Spheres provide rough outlines of the areas they govern, and how many dots are required to do certain things within them.

The Technocracy – Old WoD Mage

Spheres are discussed in depth below, but a rough approximation would be this: Sister Agatha, our Nun, is focused in the Life sphere, granting her power over bodies, biology and anything alive. Agatha has two Dots in the Life sphere, so she has the ability to sense all the various aspects of life – age, sex, health, race, ascnsion – anything related to its biology and anatomy. Since she has two Dots, she can also gently encourage the plants in her garden to grow strong and healthy, and heal herself when she gets hurt.

But, Agatha can’t heal other people quite yet – as this requires three Dots in the sphere. Actually using magic in the moment is a game of artful bullshit. Mage is a game about bending rules – be they the rules of reality, or even of the game system. Much of the nit-and-grit is left nebulous, so that it can be tue advantage of by creative players. A player needs to figure out what they want to do, what spheres they intend to do it with, and how they’re going to get away with it without getting their teeth tecnocracy in by Paradox.

Not every act of magic will cause paradox, especially if a player technicracy creative and can soothe the ego of their overeager GM. Multiple different effects can be accomplished by using different combinations of Spheres – it ultimately boils down to how creatively a player has their mage perform it and how creatively the player rationalizes the magic to the Technocracyy.

Mage: The Ascension – 1d4chan

If we use Sister Agatha as an example again, she’s going up in the world with three whole dots in the Life Sphere, now! So, she’s started healing the sick and lame. When she wants to heal someone, she goes through the same ritual: Blood might be staunched, pain from a sprained limb eased, a fever might ebb. But, something like a broken bone might just heal faster since that’s much easier to believe than it just healing immediately.

Odds are, this sounds really fucking arcane to you pun intended. That’s because it is, and while some people may love it, you most likely do not! Thus, any player who wants to play Mage: And if your players are running to the “Generally Unplayable Role-Play System” to get away from the rules, that’s how you can tell you’ve got a special level of rough on your hands.

Nowadays, the most common choice is to back-port the nWoD Mage: The Awakening rules via the Mage Translation Guide. Both keep the basic idea of not using magic in public and stuff but aren’t quite as blunt and over-complicated about it. There’s a reason why Mage is the game that you love to read all the awesome fluff of but never quite get a group together to play. Mages have rankings in each sphere, from one sensing some aspects of the sphere without changing anything to five doing mostly anything with it.

All of them are awesome in their own ways, and most factions are particularly good with at least one of them. Controls space and distance. You can detect stuff at distance, teleport yourself and others extra bonus points if mag manage to teleport a vampire into the Sunpunch people or simply pull levers at a distance, warp bullets around, stack people onto themselvesmake several copies of yourselfand even create planes.

Entropy controls luck, fate, odds, and well, entropy. At the highest levels, you can even affect thought and ideas with entropy. Yes, you can make ideas grow outdated. Awesome sphere is awesome. Also, enjoy your Jhor. Forces is about controlling energy, that is fire, cold, lightning, kinetic energy, gravity, radiation, and light. Even the nuclear forces at high levels.

Forces is hilarious and varied, and while being the prime offensive Sphere it has also lots of varied effects. At first, you can only control a small amount of Forces, but then you can transform energies into each other.

Control over living beings. The quintessential druid sphere. Includes tschnocracy, but ALSO ripping people in half, physical transformations you can transform into your inner magd animal if you wantand physical augmentations.

Very mmage, you can give yourself winged flight, gills, super-strength, poison bite, regeneration, immortality or whatever. Also, you can turn others into cancerous masses of still-living flesh if you really want At high levels, you can create life feel free to cackle maniacally and make as many references to Frankenstein as you canand permanently transform into stuff.

Ever wanted to be a dragon? Only bad thing with this sphere is that at low levels of control if you transform into animals, you can start to change mentally into an animal. How many furries sacension in the White Wolf team at that point? Well, apart from the inherent potential for yiffthis sphere is really pretty cool and you can do manly ascnsion with technoccracy.

Control over all inanimate matter.

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You can transform matter into other matter, change the properties of matter yup, trapping enemies in solidified airor simply create matter from nothing. Or just change air into rocks and let them fall. You can also use telekinesis with this sphere, which means technocray kinds of lulz when someone has a gun and it tecunocracy inappropriately pointed and you pull the trigger with Matter.

Summon fighter planes out of thin air? Go on, man, if you have the skill to create a fighter plane, this sphere is crazy. And then you can remote control it with tfchnocracy same sphere! Also good for turning vampires technnocracy lawn chairs, since they’re inanimate matter. What you see is what you get: At high levels, you can create minds total combo with high-level Life for that Dr. Alternatively, cast it on a broom and get sentient broom familiarsor project yourself astrally since you aren’t going through the Umbra it isn’t Spirit.

Very, very good for shenanigans. However, it only controls humans and animals, not spirits Werewolves, fae, etc.