Character Generation/Mage

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

Faction should be Traditions, Technocracy, Wyrm (for Malfean Nephandi), Nephandi (for other Nephandi), or None
Tradition mages may also set Type (e.g. Reality Hacker)
Technocrats may also set Methodology (e.g. Genegineer)
Nephandi must set Type = Infernalist, Malfean, or K'llashaa
- Non-Nephandi with Faction = Wyrm (e.g. BSD kinfolk) should set a +note to that effect
- Non-Nephandi infernalists should set Type = Infernalist but Faction = something else, and also set a +note
- See house rules for context

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.)
List of specialty spheres by Tradition / Convention

Backgrounds:

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

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