Character Generation/Mage

Choose Concept, Tradition (Convention for Technocrats), Essence, Nature, Demeanor

• Faction should be Traditions, Technocracy, Wyrm (for Nephandi), or None
• Tradition mages may also set Type (e.g. Reality Hacker)
• Technocrats may also set Methodology (e.g. Genegineer)

Set +notes for paradigm and foci

• If someone ICly asked you how you perform magick, and you answered honestly and reasonably completely, what would you say?
• Guide to the Traditions pages 58-65 has suggestions
• Nephandi: Why do you believe the world should be destroyed?

Stat	Baseline	Freebies per additional dot
Attributes	1 in each + 7/5/3	5
Abilities	13/9/5	2
Spheres	6	7
Backgrounds	7	1
Arete	1	4 (max total 3)
Willpower	5	1
Quintessence	equal to Avatar	+4 dots per freebie (requires Prime sphere, max total 20) (not replaced once spent)
Freebies	15

Spheres:

• Tradition mages should allocate at least one of the six dots to their Tradition's specialty sphere.
• Hollow Ones and Orphans still get a total of 6 dots baseline. (MtA 90: "Some Orphans, especially Hollow Ones, have no specialty sphere." Emphasis added.)

• Familiar Companion stats

Select Resonance Trait(s)

• Essence = Dynamic: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Dynamic
• Essence = Pattern: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Static
• Essence = Primordial: at least one Resonance Trait should be of type Entropic
• Essence = Questing: Resonance Trait(s) can be any of the above types
• Your Resonance Trait should not literally be "Dynamic", it should be a more specific adjective whose type is Dynamic (or whatever) - see above link for examples