Mage 40K: Episode 4: Let My People Go!

A bunch of gamers become powerful wizards (see Mage Storytime) and then get dragged into the 40K universe to fix it.
In this episode, we offer everyone solutions. Simple as that.

[@hpph7133]

Most of what I first learned about MtA is from the Alfabusa/Ogre Poppenang folks and sporadic reading of the fan wikias for WoD but then I listened to your first Mage Story Time at it provided some context for ideas I never considered for that game. I definitely learned how paradox works when you explained the marauder Mario character. I think I didn't realize the first story time series was a battle report from actual games. So now I'm wondering what type of roll challenges you're demanding of your players but with a large enough cooperative party, it sounds like at least one person will enough dots filled for a specific skill to save the whole party.
I'm also guessing that they're playing as high end near or already ascended Magi, too. I got the impression that a fully ascended Mage would be far in advance of Big E but Big E has the benefit of being the oldest "living" human psyker if we're using the TTS lore (I'd still like to believe Big E is the result of the shaman resurrection but am intrigued by the idea he's actually a Dark Age tech intelligence indistinguishable from a human) and maybe that is enough for how he browbeat the party into working for him? I'll need to relisten.
I might be listening to too many elven fans who point out that the Eldar are also powerful psykers, the oldest of whom are millions of years older than Big E as well (implication more powerful as well), though I did hear that Farseers just eventually turn into stone over time. Oh gosh, what if a member of the group tried to get smart and just brought a fully petrified Farseer to the Emperor and he just demands to know what he can do with this oversized paper weight

[@Dr_Ryan_Johnson]

I'm glad you're enjoying the series. We are mostly at 3 dots of Arete right now, and will be leveling up after the next video. As for the difficulties, I generally place it around 7 or 8 for most magical roles (because magic does exist somewhat in the 40K universe). But I'm definitely more of a "rule of cool" storyteller than anything else. Plus, we have some very clever players, so between all of us we can usually BS something.