More rules edits! To summarize: you have (Size + Resilience/2) health levels, they work like in nWoD (so counting backwards from Incap, -3, -2, -1), you have a Dying level after Incap, if you blow through it or end the scene in it you die. (Though self-resurrection is not entirely impossible in Mage, now that I think about it...). Soak is Resilience/2.
Also, base difficulty for Spheres is (Sphere - 1) - this was a balance edit I had to make earlier and then forgot about because it is unfortunately unintuititive. It does mean that we can just take most modifiers and difficulties from the book wholesale, once you replace target numbers with successes and whatnot. (They are approximately equal as long as you spend most of your time around 10 dice, which we generally do.)
Lastly, clarified Barriers, you can in fact blast through a Barrier with a single powerful Effect.
While I'm at it, though, we should probably decide which city we're in. It's surprisingly cosmetic at the moment - most of my current plans will work pretty well in any major city in the world - but I imagine that will change shortly as I elaborate. Obvious answers to me: Kyoto, London, New York, Los Angeles.
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