[Spoiler] Mage:the Awakening

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The sea of time grows murky as one approaches the distant past. Ruins, artifacts, cave paintings—all this evidence of history tells an incomplete tale. Even master mages cannot part the curtains of time so far back to see what truly occurred. The magical orders have a mythology about their beginnings, the legend of a fallen civilization and a war for the throne of reality. The names for that civilization are many, most of them lost over the years, but even the Sleeping know one of them and seek evidence of its truth: Atlantis.

In the far distant past, mortals suffered at the whim of monsters, hunted by spirits and preyed upon by bloodthirsty revenants. Beset by creatures stronger than they, culled by howling beasts whenever they migrated into territories whose borders they couldn't possibly perceive, mortals found it nigh impossible to advance above their need for survival, to envision ways of living outside of fear.

Then came the dragon dreams. Certain mortals, in lands scattered far and wide, began to dream of an island, a lonely land jutting from a windswept sea far from any known coast. A spire rose from the center of the isle, pointing at the pole star; it seemed to the dreamers that this was the axis of the world, the pole upon which the bowl of the sky turned. And upon this pole, at its apex, nested the dragons.

In the dreams, these great worms of legend would rise up into the winds, one by one, circle the spire with their beating leathern wings, and set off toward the infinite horizon, to places the dreamers could not imagine. No other creature stirred on the isle and no spirit hunted there; no being dared intrude upon the dragons' lair. As the dreams progressed, the dreamers came to realize that the dragons never returned. Each night, another dragon would leave, so that the remaining numbers grew small. Finally, the last dragon took wing and glided away, to the west, never again to be seen. The dreams continued to come, but now the isle was empty; nothing moved there. For many nights the dreamers saw the isle, abandoned and forlorn, and knew that it waited for them. The island had called to them, compelling them, seeking new inhabitants.

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Scritto da: THOTH the wise 09/08/2005 21.29
Scusate se posto doppio ma ho esaminato una demo di Mage: the awakening e devo dirvi che fondamentalmente non mi dispiace. Il sistema è quello del nuovo WoD, ma i poteri sono sempre i soliti: sono felice di comunicarvi che gli Arcanos non sono altro che le Sfere 2: la Vendetta. Con un piccolo appunto, per quello che ho potuto vedere io (i primi due livelli di ogni arcanos) l'utilità degli Arcana è stata ripartita meglio, è stato spezzato la tirannia di potere della sfera Prima (si infilava dappertutto, come il prezzemolo) ed è stata scissa la sfera dell'Entropia in Fato e Morte. molti lacchezzi che prima necessitavano della Prima, ora si fanno e basta, bisogna solo spendere Mana (arrrrggggg, datemi una palude, una montagna...).
Ah, che le sfere ora si chiamano Arcanos (plurale Arcana) lo supevate gia vero.

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With about 40 fans in attendance, staff from White Wolf spoke to us a bit about the new release for the new WoD. This is the 3rd core book to be released and it is supposedly the furthest by comparison to the old version of the game.

They have claimed that the old Mage seemed to be about mortals with uber psi powers instead of actually being about magic and spells… this has been changed. They also eliminated the inherent conflict between technology and magic to make the game more “mortal friendly”.

Other changes include Paradox being stricter and structured, characters are better defined and slightly de-powered to work better in the WoD, Mana was added as a new expendable trait, improvised/covert/vulgar magic has all been reworked and an entire new back story stemming from Atlantis. As you can see, there is a lot about the game that has changed.

The current strategy for WW is to release 6 Vampire books, 6 Werewolf books, 6 Mage books and 6 “other” books in the coming year. The other books will be source books for cities and places through out the WoD. They are releasing a new game next year, but would not go into any details OTHER than to say that it is a game that they haven’t released in the past.

The upcoming releases include: “Boston Unveiled”, “Sanctums & Sigils”, “Legacies Sublime”, “Guardians of the Veil”, “Tome of the Watchtower”, “Chicago”, “Secrets of the Ruined Temple”, “ Reign of the Exarches”, Mage Dice, and new storyteller’s screen. All of these products are designed to flesh out and expand the new game through 2006.

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