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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 894338" data-attributes="member: 8158">I loved the setting for Mage: The Ascension. I've always felt they should've sued the makers of the Matrix. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But the system is not so good. Most of the players that I tried to recruit found the classes (i.e. traditions) rather dull and failed to fit desirable player archetypes. Even worse, there's nothing to distinguish one tradition from the next other than a single dot in one of the nine spheres. There was a stat called arete that was pretty much unnecessary since it could have been represented using other stats, and limiting since players only started with one, maybe two dots. You start the game unable to perform more than the most rudimentary parlor tricks. Pretty sad when you're trying to face off against men-in-black who can pop high-tech gatling guns out of their bodies.Yet another setting that could benefit from a d20 treatment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 894338, member: 8158"] I loved the setting for Mage: The Ascension. I've always felt they should've sued the makers of the Matrix. :) But the system is not so good. Most of the players that I tried to recruit found the classes (i.e. traditions) rather dull and failed to fit desirable player archetypes. Even worse, there's nothing to distinguish one tradition from the next other than a single dot in one of the nine spheres. There was a stat called arete that was pretty much unnecessary since it could have been represented using other stats, and limiting since players only started with one, maybe two dots. You start the game unable to perform more than the most rudimentary parlor tricks. Pretty sad when you're trying to face off against men-in-black who can pop high-tech gatling guns out of their bodies. Yet another setting that could benefit from a d20 treatment. [/QUOTE]

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