Mage Translation Guide
Jun. 6th, 2013 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroSome people like Mage: The Ascension. Some people like Mage: The Awakening. Some people want to switch back and forth or build crazy hybrid systems. This book is for them.
Clocking in at 70 pages, this is a broad but fairly shallow look at the differences between the two generations of Mage and how to reconcile them, depending on what you’re going for. I actually found it put a bunch of things in a simple, understandable way that the core books were rather florid about, which is useful. It’s intended to be practical, which it is. That said, it’s not a strictly necessary book—most of the translations are common sense if you’re familiar with both systems, and the really interesting part—reconciling the cosmologies to each other—kind get short-shifted.
Since this is the first print-on-demand book I’ve purchased through DrivethruRPG, I figure I should comment on that, too. The paper stock is a bit thinner, but the cover and binding are comparable to my original WoD printed paperbacks. There’s nothing on the spine, and I don’t know if that’s standard or just because it’s a relatively thin book. I think the big thing that recommends it is that it’s in color, for basically the same cover price we paid for the old black and white books. I’m excited to see how that comes out when my copy of Mummy: The Curse arrives.
Overall: If nothing else, I’m just glad they’re putting out new Classic World of Darkness material. I can’t wait to see what they do with an updated Technocracy and Virtual Adepts when technology has advance over two decades. When the Mage 20th Anniversary Kickstarter goes up, you can bet I’ll be in on that.)
Clocking in at 70 pages, this is a broad but fairly shallow look at the differences between the two generations of Mage and how to reconcile them, depending on what you’re going for. I actually found it put a bunch of things in a simple, understandable way that the core books were rather florid about, which is useful. It’s intended to be practical, which it is. That said, it’s not a strictly necessary book—most of the translations are common sense if you’re familiar with both systems, and the really interesting part—reconciling the cosmologies to each other—kind get short-shifted.
Since this is the first print-on-demand book I’ve purchased through DrivethruRPG, I figure I should comment on that, too. The paper stock is a bit thinner, but the cover and binding are comparable to my original WoD printed paperbacks. There’s nothing on the spine, and I don’t know if that’s standard or just because it’s a relatively thin book. I think the big thing that recommends it is that it’s in color, for basically the same cover price we paid for the old black and white books. I’m excited to see how that comes out when my copy of Mummy: The Curse arrives.
Overall: If nothing else, I’m just glad they’re putting out new Classic World of Darkness material. I can’t wait to see what they do with an updated Technocracy and Virtual Adepts when technology has advance over two decades. When the Mage 20th Anniversary Kickstarter goes up, you can bet I’ll be in on that.)
