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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 6354793" data-attributes="member: 27252">Mage kinda went out of fashion after the 1990s, but it remains probably in my personal Top 3 RPGs I have ever played and is my favourite of the OWoD games. I played it with an ongoing campaign for about 6 years.In it’s time, it was totally inspiring. The 20th anniversary is not a reprint, but a full update to the 21st Century and consolidation of all previous material into a whopping 500+ page tomb. It follows the same format and design goals of 20th Anniversary Vampire and Werewolf, and has been funded on Kickstarter (the second highest Tabletop RPG to be funded on that site after Exalted 3rd Edition). Mage was controversial in it’s time for a variety of reasons, but has real brio if you enjoy New-Agey philosophy and creative input into magical systems and self expression. The Storyteller system was a tad clunky in the original game, but it got tidied up in follow on editions and will probably be quite polished by the time of the 20th Anniversary edition release. It’s gameplay, in retrospect, is really an alternative take on modern superheroes - but with an overlaying premise of conflicting paradigms being able to bend reality - like Champions but more intone with ‘deep fantasy’ sensibilities. I never really felt it meshed that well with the rest of the WoD games, although some may argue otherwise. It has an inherent flexibility towards playing many diverse genres, however, because of the genuine creative openness in character and magical paradigm design. This openness may have contributed towards some of the bitter edition wars in it’s latter years, as gamers argued about it’s overriding themes and mood. It was quite hard to establish a central  core theme as to what the game was actually about. In all, if you like provocative modern fantasy, thought The Matrix or Pi or Donnie Darko were cool and didn’t find yourself wincing at the theories proposed in What the Bleep Do We Know?…..you’re going to like Mage.</blockquote>

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