My house rules are based on the Mage 2nd edition rule set with one or two minor changes to account for the format (PBEM) and to cope with the pre/post Avatar Winds story arc.

Game mechanics such as noting that an action caused two health levels of damage, are important but shouldn't get in the way of the game. Or said another way: they shouldn't break up the readers flow.

To actually play the game there are a number of tools that players must familiarise themselves with. They are:

The following presents an overview for how posts to the game boards should be made:

The following short stories (or scene descriptions) are the teasers I sent out to get people interested in the game. They introduce The Stranger and describe how he rescues three of the characters.

All stories must start somewhere, this one starts with a man bringing together a collection of seemingly unrelated individuals. The place is New York City, but it is just a place - any place would have done. The individuals are all dead, or rather they would have been had the man not saved them.

The man, this stranger, understandably feels that he is owed a rather large debt of service and he knows just the way for them to repay it...