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Mage: The Ascension is a roleplaying game based in the World of Darkness. Mage explores modern-day willworkers shaping reality in a world where most of humanity doesn't believe in magic.

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Can attributes be permanently increased via magic?

Yes and No at the same time. Yes, in case of shifting attributes around: Life 3 allows to easily increase one physical attribute - for the cost of reducing another by the same ammount. This is "fre …
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Does magic that quickens healing help with damage dealt by Heart's Blood?

No, it precludes any and all magic You found the exact correct spot. It says clearly, that you can not use magic to fix the pattern damage you did to yourself by spending your health levels as a repla …
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Does using magick to reversing aging accrue permanent paradox?

There's a fine line between reversing age and just halting aging or considerably slowing it to extend the lifetime. Aging backward Aging backward is a Time-Life-Magick effect and is very vulgar. This …
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Are there any known methods for a Mage to strengthen their avatar?

Talk to your Storyteller Avatar is a background. To raise a background, you need to talk to your GM, and they decide what you need to do to raise the background. As mentioned earlier under the Backgr …
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Is there a drawback to using Heart's blood rote repeatedly?

It's always Pattern Damage and with Heart's Blood has never been Bashing damage The rote does not do bashing damage and never did, it has always done damage to the underlying pattern and always had sp …
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How do I adjust combat encounters for a solo PC?

Before reading further ask yourself: is combat really needed? First of all, Mage the Ascension, and thus Sorcerer, is not a combat-oriented game. It is not D&D. It doesn't use a map, it uses "theatre …
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How does Mage travel between different realms?

Welcome to Mage, where you may need multiple books for all the realms. One of the best resources is the good old Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds (BtB:BoW), which actually had some access rules …
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Are there any records of a child born from Mages possessing strange quirks or mystical powers?

It depends on your definition of born The most strange mages are sometimes not the traditions, but the technocrats. Among them, biomodding, aka "organic enhancement" is a well-honored tradition, espec …
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Raise the Dead rote

Vampire Have Path of Bones •• Apprentice’s Brooms. Raise Zombies. Mage I found 3 canon rotes that create undead servants. Spending Quintessence is not mandatory, but might make it easier. Reanimation …
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What happens when a Co-Location copy is harmed or dies?

Based on Core Rules alone, with Co-location you get harmed or die C4 M1 makes you be in two places at once. Your body is in both places in the same position, doing the same thing with this combo. It's …
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Passing through solid objects

Correspondence 3 Don't do anything to the wall, just rip open space on one side and on the other, connect the two and step through the wormhole. M20 p.513 & M20 HDYDT p.79: Gates and Portals Correspon …
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Can we ignore or keep playing after the Apocalypse and keep canon?

Even when the books came out, the end was "choose the outcome you want" First of all, the various books about the end of the World of Darkness were always optional. They never forced anyone to play th …
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How is a character's health determined?

In all WoD products, all characters have 7 states of damage, that are all on the character sheets: Bruised Hurt Injured Wounded Mauled Crippled Incapacitated Technically there's also a 0th and 9th l …
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Can Laham mages learn Demon Lores?

Lore (X) is an available skill... ...if you can find a source to learn from. The "Lore" Knowledge is one of the many, many secondary knowledge abilities you might have, and is detailed in the core boo …
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What are prerequisites for casting a buff spell with on/off functionality?

Not like you want... When it's off the permanent Paradox point from the buff (if applicable in the first place) is gone. No. Only a spell that doesn't remain at all will not incur a permanent parado …
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