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100 Books to Find on a Mage’s Bookshelf
Publisher: White Wolf
by DSC T. G. C. _. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/25/2021 15:47:08

100 Books to Find on a Mage's Shelf is a short book that list 100 different book titles with short descriptions that could be places in a mage's library. The Tabletop Gaming Club loved this booklet, finding the titles useful for coming up with names for books for flavor text. We recommend this product, but we must comment on the layout... this book could have benefited by being a couple of pages larger. Each entry kind of runs into the next... no spacing between entries. This made it a little hard to skim quickly during a game.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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100 Books to Find on a Mage’s Bookshelf
Publisher: White Wolf
by Henry O. C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/22/2020 12:33:52

“100 Books to Find on a Mage’s Bookshelf” is a 7-page document, of which four pages are stuffed to bursting with content. It outlines, like the title says, 100 books you can drag-and-drop into your Mage chronicle. There are a handful of books on this list which could easily be modified or expanded to become a major item in a chronicle because of a secret it might contain.

Writing There are small errors throughout the document, and some of the descriptions are a little confusing the first time you read them, but when you get a sense of the writing, it becomes easy to pick out how a sentence is meant to be read. There are also issues with the punctuation in places, but all these errors are easily overlooked when the content itself hooks you, which it definitely did for me.

Content There is a fine, almost shallow kind of depth in this work. Whilst the books’ descriptions are short, there are some interesting things noted in them. An example includes nr. 98 which mentions that, whilst the book attempts to define the Umbra by religious views held by its author, it outright ignores and dismisses certain contradictions that don’t fit within those views. There are many small touches, either to the contents or the authors, of a nature which makes you think that the author originally wrote up much more for each fictional book than what is given in the document.

Potential Use This piece would work well for a Storyteller looking to use mystery and lore-gathering as part of their Mage chronicle. As the title says, there are 100 fictional books to use, and if you only used one per story, that is still 100 stories which could use one of these books to further the plot or create a divergence.

Conclusion All in all, for the size (4 densely-packed pages of game material) and price ($1.25) of this piece, it packs a LOT of bang for the buck-and-a-quarter. I would recommend this product to any Mage Storyteller who has a dollar to spare.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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100 Books to Find on a Mage’s Bookshelf
Publisher: White Wolf
by Charles S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/07/2019 22:34:16

This is a nice little book describing 100 books that a mage could have on their shelf. The books are fairly sparsely defined with a title, author and a very brief description. They are good for a bit of flavor and could act as the basic version of a grmoire. the biggest criticism I have is that the text is handling a two-page spread as a single page, which makes it more awkward to read.



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I thought that template didn't seem to be working right. I've uploaded a new version that should fix it, although I may upload another version again at a later point, as I wasn't entirely happy with this one.
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