Welcome, just discovered UA, some questions

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  • MacTele
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    Welcome to All
    I’ve just discovered UA and planing a campaign but still waiting for the book. I plan to start at street level and then ascend 🙂 But i have a little problem with passions of characters. Do they have to choose one of the “magick” passions to become adepts in the future ?? For example someone who would choose Religion or Pleasure, would he/she be able to become adept then ??

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  • Insect King
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    Nope. Passions are about survival mechanisms and social conditioning.

    It’s your Obsession that needs to be tweaked for magick. Your Obsession does not need to be directly associated with sorcery allowing oblique interpretation.

    Your Obsession skill needs to be your adept magick skill.

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  • MacTele
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    Can You tell me pls how does magic is strong ?? What adept or Avatar can perform ?? And what are the costs of magic ??

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  • Insect King
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    It ranges but it is also a question of how long is a piece of string?

    Adepts have wider, more versatile magick, while avatars have a very narrow set of unchanging magickal abilities.

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  • MacTele
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    Yes but what is the power of it ?? I mean: fireballs ?? fly ?? or rather subtle things like curses or blessings?? Can You give me an example ??

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  • Insect King
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    It’s subtler than Lightning Bolts and instead of fireballs people can be slashed by words that cut their faces or smacked by magic missile beer bottles.

    Every school that has a Blast ability has their own unique effect or effects.

    Most blasts do the same damage as hand-to-hand fighting.

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  • LOW Guppy
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    Magic in UA comes from metaphysical friction generated by an underlying paradox which the adept believes in. Sacrificing to that paradox generates “charges” for them of Minor, Significant or Major power, which they use to cast formula spells of their “school” or affect their Random Magick Domain (also defined by the school).

    The fact that they need to believe in a paradox makes all adepts clinically insane, though some are more functional than others in “normal” society.

    Adepts embody a character archetype, which is generally easier to get ones’ head around.

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