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Player Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Alternate Priestess Art?
« on: October 04, 2015, 09:48:31 PM »
Ok so I found an old topic about this and I think most of what I have to say has already been said HERE and brilliantly by RingKichard.

The only thing I may have to add is that I don't want the images my niece, and maybe someday a daughter or son, is growing up surrounded by to reinforce the idea that women are meant to be on display and owe it to the world to conform to someone else's standard of beauty as worth.  As well as images of men who are clothed in a much more utilitarian way and, emphasizing that men's worth is about the actions and choices they make.  That's a toxic dichotomy.

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Player Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Alternate Priestess Art?
« on: October 04, 2015, 11:15:15 AM »
Quote from: Sailor Vulcan on October 04, 2015, 07:48:48 AM
This topic has been discussed at length on countless threads on this forum.
Has it?  Thank goodness, I just did a cursory search and didn't turn anything up.  I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Quote from: Sailor Vulcan on October 04, 2015, 07:48:48 AM
While some of the players like the artwork as it is, I think we all agree that it's still sexist.
Oh good.  Again, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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Player Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Alternate Priestess Art?
« on: October 04, 2015, 06:06:01 AM »
Quote from: Schwenkgott on October 04, 2015, 03:40:11 AM
Another art for the orc Warlord too please: I'm offended by his huge biceps!  ::)

Cmon! It's a fantasy game that tries to open you a door to _escape_ your normal world with all its limitations of cultural thinking. You just have to walk through.
It's not like the priestress is wearing a bikini right?

"I don't have an issue with that, so obviously no one does and it's not actually a problem so I'm going to make light of what you just said in order to belittle your post and get you to stop talking about it."

I brought this up because I sincerely have an issue with this.  I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't be so dismissive.  I've been an avid fantasy fan since I was a kid and I want to pass on this love of fantasy to my niece and nephews, but I find it an issue to do so without also passively teaching them that women, as a matter of course, are treated different visually.

Like I said, most of the artwork depicting women in Mage Wars is explainable for culture (Johktari garb is only present in the Beastmaster, so all her people could dress that way, Druid is clothed in leaves, Royal Archer and angels are minor characters) but when it comes to the Priestess we have an example of what their vestments look like on a man and he's completely covered up, so it's really hard to give an explanation that's not, "Well most men like to see women's skin, so that why she looks like that."

That's why I appreciate the new artwork for the Dawnbreaker's Chosen.  Her armor is actually practical looking, and without the stupid breast separation that is usually present in such artwork and is, historically speaking, stupid because it would direct the force of a strike right to her sternum.

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Player Feedback and Suggestions / Alternate Priestess Art?
« on: October 04, 2015, 02:38:47 AM »
Would it be possible to issue new artwork for the Priestess that isn't as revealing?  There's an issue with the different representations of the women in Mage Wars as opposed to the men, but they can usually be explained as cultural differences, but it's a little harder to explain to my little niece why the vestments of the Priestess are so revealing when the Priest who is wearing very similar vestments is so much more covered up.  As far as I knew Asyra also isn't a god of love or fertility or anything like that?

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Re: Mowgli Build Beastmaster
« on: October 02, 2015, 01:06:23 PM »
We actually have Druid v Necromancer already, am I not using something from there that I should?  Also, this is not a swarm build.

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Re: Mowgli Build Beastmaster
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:39:36 AM »
What expansion would you guys recommend for this build?  Both my husband and I want to get Conquest of Kumanjaro because he plays a Priestess and I play a Beastmaster.  Anything else that would be good, besides Academy?

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World and Lore / Re: Official MW Lore: Sistarra, the Grand Academy of Magic
« on: October 01, 2015, 09:24:19 PM »
Sartorial studies and aesthetic magery. The most fabulous of magic classes!  ;D

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Re: Mowgli Build Beastmaster
« on: September 30, 2015, 01:50:36 PM »
Does Academy have a Rank 1 Reptile?  Because being able to QC my Armor +2 would be very nice.

Edit:  Ooh, Darkfenne Asp, come here my pretty!

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Re: Mowgli Build Beastmaster
« on: September 30, 2015, 10:46:43 AM »
Huh ... you know I couldn't find it after going back a few pages, but after going back a dozen pages or so, I think my build is basically a variation of SilverClawGrizzly's Straywood Warrior.

I'm pretty sure I was going to not drop any Mana Flowers in favor of just going full aggro.

Possibly ...

(19)Kinship(11)>Kinship(3)
(12)Altar of the Iron Guard(8 )>Bitterwood Fox(3)
(12)FD Something Depending*(10)>Emerald Tegu(1)

At which point I will have +2 Melee, +2 Armor, a Fox on the attack and a Tegu Guarding me in my zone.  Hopefully I will be able to start spamming melee attacks, so I start saving Mana every turn.  If they Guard with something I can always QC a Feral Bobcat and gain both a Guard in my zone and Elusive to ignore guard.

*Could be a Bear Strength for later, Cobra Reflexes, or Eagle Wings, depending on what I need.  This could also possibly be a Leather Boots.  Alternately if it looks like they're gearing up for a bigger hit, I could save the mana by skipping the QC and make the Tegu a Pet, which will make a nasty Guard with a 5 dice counterstrike, 4 armor, and 11 health.

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Mowgli Build Beastmaster
« on: September 29, 2015, 11:41:55 PM »
Looking for some critique and advice on a spellbook.  It's for local play and not OCTGN, so I'm limited to the expansions I've bought (Core, Tome 1, DvN) and random promos from GenCon (Altar of the Iron Guard, Acid Blast, Bloodthirsty Strike).  Sorry for the unformatted nature of this spellbook, the builder wouldn't let me put in some of the promos I have.

Battle Fury   1
Bloodthirsty Strike   1
Dispel   2
Dissolve   2
Force Push   2
Heal   1
Knockdown   1
Minor Heal   1
Perfect Strike   1
Piercing Strike   2
Purge Magic   1
Rouse the Beast   1
Seeking Dispel   2
Teleport   1
Bearskin   1
Gauntlets of Strength   1
Leather Boots   1
Mage Staff   1
Mage Wand   1
Regrowth Belt   1
Bear Strength   1
Cheetah Speed   1
Cobra Reflexes   1
Eagle Wings   2
Harmonize   1
Jinx   2
Mongoose Agility   1
Nullify   4
Rhino Hide   1
Bitterwood Fox   4
Cervere, The Forest Shadow   1
Emerald Tegu   1
Fellella   1
Feral Bobcat   2
Spitting Raptor   1
Steelclaw Grizzly   1
Thunderift Falcon   1
Altar of the Iron Guard   1
Animal Kinship   2
Mana Flower   2
Tanglevine   4
Wall of Thorns   3
Acid Ball   2
Acid Blast   1

Anyway, the main tactic is to plop down two Animal Kinships (I would use more is I had them) so that a canine is also the equivalent of a Bear Strength, a reptile is the equivalent of a Rhino Hide, a cat also doubles as a Mongoose Agility, and a bear is the equivalent of two Colossus Belts.  Only these buffs can't be dispelled or dissolved.  Then the Straywood Beastmaster aka Mowgli and a few friends (Fox, Bobcat, and Raptor for the Melee, Elusive, and Armor) go aggro on the other mage.

The rest of the book is there for reacting to enemy tactics.  Equipment and Enchantments to enhance the main tactic and make Mowgli even more intimidating, Fellella summoned if needed to manage Enchantments (possibly Jinx/Nullify if up against Dispel/Dissolve).  Bagheera (Cervere) and Baloo (Grizzly) are available as bigs depending on what is necessary, up against someone likely to use Daze/Stun/Corrode, I'd summon the bear to give me Tough -4 for example.  Various command incantations to make the mage's hits even more nasty, stuck in a Mage Wand if it's worth repeating.

What do you guys think?

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Spellbook Design and Construction / Re: Weighted Training Clothes - Gencon 2015 Championship Spellbook
« on: September 24, 2015, 12:50:27 PM »
Wow, great post, very exciting to read! How do you think your Jinx strategy would translate to one of the Nature mages using [mwcard=MW1C13] Fellella, Pixie Familiar[/mwcard] to Jinx?

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