jarandhel

So, I had an evil character concept for Mage today:

An Amish VirtualAdept.

I really hope nobody just snarked whatever they were drinking all over their hardware...

Seriously, though, I think it could work. The Digital Web in Mage is reachable not just via computers, but Astrally as well. Kid could have grown up Amish but always had machines talking to him. He'd have a big thing for the concept of "appropriate technology", treat machines a lot like living things (a "horse whisperer" type for tech), visit the digital web in trances/dreams, maybe even have something computer-like built out of an old manual typewriter and a few other things that works purely via magic. Not sure if that would push it too far towards the Sons of Ether though. But I really think that with enough thought and planning, this character would be possible to pull off. And hell... most of the Pow-Wow system of magic that is practiced in the Pennsylvania Dutch areas is based off of principles of Correspondence. I'm not going to play him anytime soon, but I could... someday. :)