Questions tagged [quintessence]
In Mage: the Ascension, quintessence is the substance that makes a thing "real" or "actual."
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Is there a drawback to using Heart's blood rote repeatedly?
In the Mage Revised edition there is a rote called Heart's blood a mage can use with Prime 1 sphere. It reads as such.
The Mage can sacrifice their health for Quintessence,
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Without Avatar, can I spend Quintessence in any way to cast spells?
I'm reading Mage: The Ascension (I believe it's second edition). The description of the Avatar background says that "the rank of Avatar also represents the limit of Quintessence points that a ...
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Can people generate quintessence through prayer?
I have been thinking about various quintessence sources and I was thinking on how a mage could reliably generate quintessence on a weekly basis without a node. The idea I came up with was a pastorship....
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How can a mage gain quintessence besides gathering at a node?
In M20 there doesn't appear to be many given methods for recharging quintessence beyond finding a wellspring or finding some tass. (Unless you are at prime 5 in which case you can just make nodes ...
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Detecting Magick use by using the Prime Sphere
I have a Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition game running and one of the players played a game of Mage the Ascension Second Edition before that with a different Storyteller.
In that ...
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At which point does growing plants require quintessence?
In Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition, you need quintessence to create things from nothing.
With the life sphere 3 dots (+ prime 2 dots), you can create simple life (including plants) with a ...
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What level of Prime is required to use Tass?
I'm confused about what level of Prime is required to use Tass in the Mage 20th Anniversary Edition rules.
In the main rulebook the following statements are made:
M20 Rulebook:
p 332: "To absorb ...
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Spending Quintessence per Turn
I got the Dark Ages: Mage rulebook and it seems to have a confusing rule regarding the spending of Quintessence. In page 99 it says:
Assuming a caster can spend up to three points of Quintessence ...
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Usage of Prime Sphere M20
We started an M20 campaign and I created a character that focuses on Prime and Life Spheres. Life is a very useful sphere and can have many good effects on its own. Prime on the other hand seems a ...
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How does the Prime Sphere affect gaining and storing Quintessence in M20?
The rules on Quintessence seem a bit all over the place in Mage 20th Anniversary so I wanted to clarify a few things, on how the various Prime ranks affect the way a Mage can deal with Quintessence. ...
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Crafting Charms
Can anyone clarify the following holes in crafting consumable charms?
How many if any crafting successes are required to make them? It is normally 30+ for a permanent artifact.
How much quintessence ...
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