(n)WoD Mage Traditions as Inspiration

[CottbusFiles]

Hello Gamernation Dresden Files RPG Board,

did any of you use the traditions from Mage The Ascencion/Awakening as an inspiration for your wizard character? I find them to be quite interesting and easy to import into the Dresdenverse. OF course not as a whole group but using the concept and stealing from it is quite possibyl. (okay, you shouldn't try to be a virtual adept...)

Furthermore, your character could be a RPG-Geek and a wizard and make a conscious choice to represent that character from his favourite rpg.

[Ricky]

I made a focussed practitioner based on the Taftani from owod. He had ritual(summoning) and channelling(fire). He specialised in summoning jinn.

[computerking]

The Stodgiest of the Old Guard types in the White Council strike me as Order of Hermes... Very Order of Hermes. Even Ancient Mai, with her Old Eastern  Elements seems like one of the subsets of the OoH to me. However, Every time I think of Rodriguez with his magic Gauntlet and Devil-May-Care attitude, I think of the Virtual Adepts. Most Non-mortal witches (Like the Hecatean Hags, and to a lesser extent Jenny Greenteeth) remind me of Verbena, and I'm waiting for a subculture of Wizards to start following and protecting Ivy, seeing her as an avatar of the Akashic Record.

[arthurfallz]

I don't for any new characters I make, but as I port NPCs into new games I run, there are elements I try to retool to fit the Dresdenverse. Most of the Mage: The Awakening NPCs I've used work well as either White Council wizards (if they were Silver Ladder, Adamantine Arrows, Mysterium or Guardians of the Veil), or independent practitioners / focused practitioners (if they were s/e or Free Council).

Classic Mage is a little easier to convert over, aside from the the techno-traditions and the Technocracy. Most of them are just cultural influences to magic, which is a lot of how Classic Mage ended up working ("we all use the same Nine Spheres, but approach them differently). Interestingly, when I read Harry's constant dialogue of how magic is life, I keep thinking of the Verbenna.