[UA] Ars Hermetica

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Saul Peers
> Sent: Saturday, 13 April 2002 8:48 AM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: [UA] Ars Hermetica
>
>
> Hmmm... Idea.
>
> What would you guys think about moving ArM forward about a
> thousand years to
> today?

You'd get the Ars Modernica project?

> We could use UA as a base, with each Technique and Form
> taken as a
> skill, but added together for purposes of casting a specific spell.
> Example: Big Red of House Flambeau wants to burn down a house.
> He combines
> his Creo score of 23% with his Ignem score of 45% for a total of 68%...
> perhaps we could throw in a Hermetic Magic score that would add
> to those as
> well.
>
> The books do say that Hermetic magic is loosing it's umph...

Not anymore - we got rid of that waning magic shite when White Wolf sold the
game.  It kept it for its World of Insufficient Clarity line, but in ArM4 -
the new One True Edition, the Tremere vampires are dead, baby, and Doisettep
was never in Thailand.

I did try to sneak in Issac Asimov's Second Foundation into my new book, but
my second editor caught me and pulled it.  No need for it.

> The
> Houses of
> Heremes compeating with younger and hungrier magicians in the
> modern world
> could make an awesome saga.  What do you think?

I agree with this last bit, but what source od these yong magi draw from?
They are just pre-hermetic ferals come again?  Have you, by the way, seen
the latest for Ars Magica?  "The Mysteries" is a great book, and is
mechanically useful for this sort of thing.



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