>Funny, that. Mage is one of my all-time favorite systems, and I can't
>help but glance through Revised and be -angry-.

I'm pissed mostly because Mage Revised basically says, "Oh, sorry, these guys were powerful and actually had a hope of winning, so we have to gut them now. So, um, the Technocracy won, and True Magick no longer works like it used to, and we're going to stop putting that 'k' on the end that drives home the distinction between willworkers and everyone else. Oh, and we're going to contradict that by making hedge mages more powerful, even though the paradigm that allowed them to do what little they could do is gone, and putting them on even footing with True Mages, which goes against the whole original point of Mage." Like I said in another thread, the revised editions of Mage and Sorcerer were really just the new line editor wanking on about what he didn't like about Phil Brucato's work. No, thanks.

> If I wanted a game
>where everyone I knew was on the brink of disaster, running panicked
>from a totally unbeatable, invincible foe, I'd friggin' play Paranoia.
>I never could stand that game...and Mage Revised makes me just as
>angry.

I always enjoyed Paranoia, because it was totally, insanely, ridiculously over the top and completely tongue-in-cheek. It's also a great way to scare gaming newbies.

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