So far I have played 2 sessions of OWOD: Mage the Ascension and have loved every minute of it... but my story teller keeps telling me that I can go bigger then just slightly pushing the odds of things, inducing mechanical failure, hexing and blessing during combats or action sequences...

This has left me with the last remaining option. Devise Gambits, and roulettes, but in actual play they will most likely turn into games of speed chess.


Stats:
Physical: Strength 1, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social: Appearance 2, Manipulation 3, Charisma 3
Mental: Intelligence 4, Wits 4, Perception 2

Spheres: Mind 1, Time 2 ,Prime 1, Entropy 3, Correspondence 1

Skills: Drive 1, Etiquette 2, Firearms 1, Meditation 1, Stealth 2
Talents: Alertness 3, Awareness 1, Dodge 3, Expression 2, Leadership 1, Subterfuge 3
Knowledge: Academics 2, Enigmas 2, Investigation 1, Law 1, Occult 2, Computer 1

Basically the above makes for a character that can not only predict the future, but change it to fit his needs...

Qualities:
Witch Hunted, Hunted [Technocracy], Compulsion I [Gambling], Sphere Locked [Mind], Bard's Tongue
Fairy Affinity, Eidetic Memory, Lightning Calculator, Light Sleeper II

Friends:
Anthony Micheal: MMA Fighter with Time 3, Life 3
Kat: A botanist with Firearms 3, Correspondence 3, Life 3
Tyler: A soldier with Correspondence 3, Forces 3
Tinkerbell: My Fairy familiar/Ace in the hole, Forces 4

What sort of Xanatos Gambits did you set up?

Unfortunately since I have posted, the group we have not played mage....

Right now we are being conscripted to do some work for a more powerful mage in exchange for protection. Right now we are being demonstrated the protection when three SUV full of technocracy goons showed up, and we were given access to an armory of automatic weapons.

Right now, things are wrapping up... "Luckily" the Life/Time Mage summoned a paradox demon by expelling 11 points of paradox (He rolled "good" and was shot a lot by paradox inducing guns)... normally this would not be a huge deal but the story teller had a character sheet for this demon...

It looked like a school child (think hit-girl during Kick Ass) but I saw it to be an 8ft tall demon because I scry'd the future. Needless to say we left off at:

I am currently 80 feet up in the air, invisible thanks to my familiar. The familiar and the life/time mage have been blessed with 3 hits (They need effectively 4s)

The life/time mage is back on his feet and is going toe to toe with the demon.

Our host transformed with life and prime into a monster.

The Forces/Corr. has ported himself to the armory to patch himself up

The Corr./Life mage is dragging the Matter/Corr. mage into the mansion after he fell into the quite.

The Goons, whose numbers have been whittled thanks to our resistance, have turned their attention from a handful of rogue mages to the demon that is wrecking the place.

For some reason, everyone will remember it as I caused everything...