This is a general interest check/the beginnings of collecting payers for a Mage the Ascension 20th Anniversary game. I am looking to run a classic city-based game that is semi-sandbox. I would like players who can get into exploring what it is to live their character's lives as Mages just as much as they can enjoy a conflict with the denizens of the World of Darkness. I have a slightly more real-world feel game in mind that is just as likely to involve going to a city council meeting to convince folks to save a neighborhood as it is magickal battles against Hit Marks every five minutes. I would like to run regular shorter games, maybe about 3 hours a pop every other week and sometimes a week in between depending on availability. I am leaning towards weeknights currently. I like to run for smaller groups (3 to 5 max), but am inclined to collect a few extra members to keep each session full and insulate against drop outs. I am also fine with players sitting sessions out. I hope to run these as brief short stories within the broader setting, some of which link together into longer arcs, but not every story needs to be about the same group of mages. I plan to try and get this rolling in the next 2 to 4 weeks (not a huge rush). Let me know if you're interested. I plan to place it in Portland (based on a PbP game I run), and I am going to focus it around the Cascade Campus of Portland Community College primarily. Here is a little intro blurb for the game: Portland, Oregon. I could think of worse cities to live in. Portland is for dreamers and artists, a place where creative minds and believers of things most don’t believe congregate. I’ll take that any day over the greedy prosperity of Seattle. We can sometimes even work our subtler arts out in the open and the Black Hats and Mirror Shades are often too busy sipping local roasted beans or malted barley to notice or care. Portland has relatively mild crime, free of the violent poverty and the mother-effing vampire psychopaths of a place like Detroit. Yeah, it’s a pretty nice town. Of course, it’s not that effing nice. Portland is full of BS. A once beautifully weird burg, the city is now overrun by yuppy hipsters touting their fashionable naturalism as thick as a sheet of velum. Sure, the nature hikes are nice until some mad wolf-man tears your head off for peeing on his ancestor’s something or other. It may look like we don’t have the corrupt and controlling bureaucracy that other cities have, but some days I might prefer a politician who seems as shady as he is instead of one that will shoot you a Birkenstocked-smile and shake your hand at a rainy BBQ just to turn around and sell your neighborhood to the latest wealthy developer in the name of sterilized progress and kicking the heroin attics out. The city is changing. She’s losing her soul, and while the symptoms may not be as overtly ugly as in some other places, they are still unsavory and they are there. To make matters worse we the young of the Traditions have lost our masters, lost behind the Avatar Storm, stuck in the Horizon, all while the Rouge Council and Control call for renewed aggression between the Techno-idiocy and ourselves. Through it all we have to make some kind of life, some kind of stable peace, and if we want to keep our Awakened-Souls, above all we have got to Keep Portland Weird .
