
Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages: Mage
Mage: The Podcast
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How to Set Tone in a Game
The players are to be killed by the vampires they are visiting as a peace offering from the order of hermies can they fight their way out. next is a section on tone this is not the same as theme which is more about ideas or issues you want to feature in your game tone is like mood in that it is about feelings and impressions. instead of offering six tones it offers six subjects where you can set the tone although it isn't explained well. each of the six headings has a fiction piece to serve as an example of focusing a scene of your game on an element i think it could have been handled better without fiction plain talk from the author is helpful in a storyteller
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