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Thinking about the rumours again, and the more I think about it the more I feel that games could really benefit from more of this stuff.

I’ve been playing Ars Magica recently, and have been banigng my had against a brick wall trying to work out what on gods green earth actually goes into a Mentem Summa.

Examples of things that exist IC are good

They’re extremely useful for a number of reasons.

Firstly, most importantly, and I cannot stress this enough, they give a feel for the game. They let the PCs know the kind of setting they’re letting themselves in for. It’s the kind of place where people talk like this. Its the kind of place where this sort of thing could be true. This is massivly massively important because it allows players and GMs alike to get to grips with the setting

Secondly they give you cool flavourful nuggets to slip into conversation with random NPCs (no no no, the Reserve is like a Galactic Hyperlibrary which exists in n dimensional metaspace and can only be reached through the proper meditations)

Thirdly they’re just plain amusing to read, and readabiloity is an important part of any book

I say ahve them arrested and thrown in gaol.

Unlike some games, UA doesn’t assume that just being an occultist lets you off the hook when it comes to mundane concerns like the law.

Plus it gets the Kleptos out of your hair

“for example, professional sports in the United States must be one of the best-documented passtimes in the history of western civilisation, and yet we have NO IDEA who Ascended to the role of the MVP”

Fame is not nessecarily a key element of Ascension. Odds are that the MVP ascended from a relatively minor area of the sporting world. Perhaps it was a local company softball champion or even a high school sports star who brought much needed attention to their otherwise failing school

I’m guessing this is one of those “no canon answer” questions, but personally I’m quite enamoured of the therory that whoever it was replaed the earlier Archetype of the Perfect Knight