Mage/Rules

Arcana

Per Mage: the Awakening 2.0 pg84, when raising your common arcana to 5 or your inferior arcana to 3+ you will need to find a mentor to tutor you in the practices you are attempting to learn. Log the scene and submit it to staff along with your XP spend. Once your XP spend is approved, the teacher may claim a standard beat and the student may claim an arcane one.

Arcane Beats: In addition to the reasons covered on pg83 of Mage: the Awakening 2.0, you may claim an Arcane Beat when you log a teaching scene as the student. (The teacher may claim a standard beat.)
Beat Tracker: Arcane XP changes the format of your beat tracker somewhat. Please submit your mage beats as follows:

Focused Arcana Raises: You may immediately claim 1 whole Arcane Experience point upon raising a Focused Arcana of your Legacy. Note: Focused Arcana are Ruling Arcana of your Path that your Legacy likewise has as a Ruling Arcana. The doubling up of the benefit nets you 1 Arcane Experience point when you raise it after having joined your Legacy. This does not apply simply to raising your Legacy's Ruling Arcana unless it is also a Ruling Arcana of your Path.
Plot Beats: If you are claiming a beat for an ST'd scene, a PrP, or other plot related reward you may claim the beat as an Arcane Beat so long as the scene somehow touched on mystical matters.
XP Limit: You may not earn more than 3xp in beats per month, regardless if they are Arcane Beats or Standard Beats. You may forego claiming a beat if you'd rather earn a beat of the other type later. That beat is then lost, leaving room for you to still gain another later. If you find you are earning way more of one beat type than another, that may be a clue to spend more time pursuing other matters ICly.

You may treat your start XP as functionally both arcane XP and standard XP, purchasing with your character creation allotment whatever stats are permitted, arcane or otherwise. Once you enter play, you will have to earn your pools separately.

Merits such as Good Time Management and Patient, or any other non-supernatural merit which impacts extended rolls in general do not apply to Ritual Casting times. Your Gnosis is always the determining speed factor. Ritual Casting is not an extended roll.

We do not use the term "cabal" on this game. The term we use is "cadres". For similar reasons, we do not call them covens, nor circles: simply cadres. Please get used to saying Cadres. It has always been Cadres, ICly. This isn't a local peculiarity. It's just a word we're not using. Feel free to DM DadHoc if you'd like the explanation.

Daily Meditation: Daily Meditation adds +2 to your rolls to resist Wisdom Degeneration. Meditating on high concepts and the Supernal is a fantastic way to bulwark your Wisdom. The roll for your meditation must be made prior to your degeneration check. You may not reroll a failure.