- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio; Limited edition (Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 156504438X
- ISBN-13: 978-1565044388
- Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 22.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Mage: the Ascension is a role-playing game based on the idea that reality is defined by what you believe in. If everyone believed they could fly, everyone would fly. If everyone believed you could burn petrol in complex metal machines in order to propel yourself along the ground at speed, then you could. The world is as it is because almost everyone agrees on many of the things that make it up - air, animals, cars, planes, computers, etc. Everything is like this to protect it from the universe outside Earth; the force behind 6 billion minds in agreement is powerful to say the least. What if you could run things your own way though? If you used that ability to define reality in you own manner? The Mages are the few amongst us who realise that we still have the power to define our world as we wish, we don't have to accept what everyone else gives us. They are the ones who still believe in magic, though a subtler kind than the fireballs and lightning of old. If a Mage sneezes a fireball from his nose Consensual Reality says 'that doesn't happen' and so it probably won’t. If a Mage causes a leaky gas pipe to explode _just_ as his enemies walk past it, well ... leaky gas pipes _do_ explode, so the Mage might get away with it. But then, everyone wants to do magic their own way and a war over whose way is best ensues. Mage: the Ascension is a game of subtlety and philosophy, of this war to try and define the ultimate reality as you see it without it blowing up in your face. It _can_ be played as a system for a frag-fest, but there remains that depth for those who want it.
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i personally think mage as the most interesting and amazing rpg ever made.
the basic assumption is: you are a mage, an "awakened" and in you hand there is the potential for changing the world, literally or not. with well defined yet open backgrounds taken from different cultural sources you have the occasion to portray one of such "mages" which confront themselves with the staticness of our present world, with different ideals. apart from this one of the fanciest ideas is that your magic works accordingly to your own vision of the world ("paradigma") so you decide what and why you're working miracles and in which way you affect reality. the one and only problem is that reality strikes back, trying to push out what doesn't standardize to the "consesus" (the common vision of the world as shared by the mass of "sleepers" - let's say normal humans), so your magic could do almost everything but you have to do it in a subtle way. as someone rightly said "phenomenal cosmic powers - itty bitty living space". all of this in a solid philosophical framework that stretches from morality, religion, pop culture to the foundation of reality itself. surely more complex than D&D but also an occasion to a different, more mature (and entertaining) experience.
the basic assumption is: you are a mage, an "awakened" and in you hand there is the potential for changing the world, literally or not. with well defined yet open backgrounds taken from different cultural sources you have the occasion to portray one of such "mages" which confront themselves with the staticness of our present world, with different ideals. apart from this one of the fanciest ideas is that your magic works accordingly to your own vision of the world ("paradigma") so you decide what and why you're working miracles and in which way you affect reality. the one and only problem is that reality strikes back, trying to push out what doesn't standardize to the "consesus" (the common vision of the world as shared by the mass of "sleepers" - let's say normal humans), so your magic could do almost everything but you have to do it in a subtle way. as someone rightly said "phenomenal cosmic powers - itty bitty living space". all of this in a solid philosophical framework that stretches from morality, religion, pop culture to the foundation of reality itself. surely more complex than D&D but also an occasion to a different, more mature (and entertaining) experience.
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NOT Awakening
It's a good RPG, like all the old World of Darkness, but Vampire, Werewolf and Changling beat it. Please ignore the review below me, Mage : The Awakening is a different game, part... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2008 by Liam W. Smith
No... this really ISN'T the main rulebook,
"Mage: The Ascension" (ISBN 1565044053) is the main rulebook, though this item listing ISN'T that book. This is some cards. Read more
Published on 30 May 2007 by J. Konya
This is the original!
Contrary the another reviewer, this IS the main rulebook - an intriguing game that pays off what you put into it. If you're a casual roleplayer, forget it. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2006 by Greycat
Interesting
This is *not* the Mage: the Ascension rule book. There is a very smallleaflet in the packet, but that is all. Read more
Published on 28 April 2004
Grate , if a littel complex
On the hole it is a grate game , if like me you like the thought of using magic to bag a viampire or two with lightning blasts or fireballs from your hands , or working with them... Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2001 by Mr. W. M. cross
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