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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiberius" data-source="post: 2069453" data-attributes="member: 1376">I love Mage.  It was my favorite WW game for many years, until I picked up Exalted about a year and a half ago.  Having found this thread late, many of the other posters made the points I would have.  For my part, I recommend mixing the setting from Second Edition with the magic system from Revised, if you can.  The 2E setting is much richer, IMO, as the designers took steps in 3E to attempt to limit the game to Earth and its Near Umbra, getting rid of many of the really cool aspects of the setting in the process.Also remember that, like most WW books, it was written with a subjective point of view.  The portions of the book that go on about the Technocracy being evil, faceless, soul-deadening imaginationless automata are more or less the <s>Superstitionists'</s> Traditionalists' sour grapes.  <s>Our</s>The Technocracy's view is that they seek to protect humanity from the supernaturals who prey upon the unwary and those would would reduce Humanity to the status of serf, sacrifice, or worse while bringing the benefits of Enlightened Science to the world.  The game only really works when all the players and the ST are familiar with the rules.  Tossing people in with insufficent preparation does a disservice to the more complex aspects of the game.  I find one of the more problematic aspects of character definition to be getting people to come up with their own paradigm under which their magic functions.  If you have any Hermetics in the group, bringing a philosophy minor wouldn't be out of line. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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